Many of those with exceptional spatial abilities are being missed in most science talent searches, claimed a psychologist at a workshop last week on innovation by the National Science Foundation's National Science Board.

At an emergency meeting in Vientiane last month, researchers hammered out a set of measures that, if implemented within the next year, could give the saola, a rare ungulate no scientist has ever glimpsed in the wild, a shot at survival.

This year, the newly elected Democratic Party has responsibility for finalizing the budget of the Japanese education ministry—and no one knows how R&D will fare.