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  1. Science Future

    June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Visit www.summerscience.org.uk/ July 6–10 Growers and researchers gather in Romania, for the European Association for Potato Research’s four-day congress. Visit www.eapr2008-brasov.com August 1 Total solar eclipse visible in parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China. Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html SN Onlinenew.sciencenews.org

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  2. Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation

    Comment from David Applegate, chair of the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction and senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S.Geological Survey.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Nabbing suspicious SNPs

    Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.

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  4. Space

    Sizing up black holes

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