Science Magazine ~ 11 September 2009 Vol 325, Issue 5946, Pages 1305-1460 | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:44
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This Week in ScienceEditor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 11 September 2009: 1315.
Editorial:
Redefining Cancer ResearchBruce Alberts
Science 11 September 2009: 1319.
Editors' ChoiceHighlights of the recent literature.
Science 11 September 2009: 1320.
| Science PodcastScience 11 September 2009: 1409.
The show includes the transmissibility of swine-origin influenza, the genetic complexity underlying beach mouse adaptation, and more.New ProductsScience 11 September 2009: 1409.
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers. News of the WeekBiomedical Research
VA Pulls the Plug on Disputed Study of Gulf War IllnessEliot Marshall
Science 11 September 2009: 1324-1325.
A lavishly funded health study of veterans from the first Gulf War—favored by the U.S. Congress but viewed with skepticism by many scientists—hit a wall in August when its funder, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, pulled outNewsmaker Interview
Firefighters 'Worked Like Demons' to Save ObservatoryYudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 11 September 2009: 1325.
Harold McAlister, the director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, shared the panic and the relief over the heroic firefighting campaign that saved the facility from the Los Angeles wildfires in a phone conversation with Science on 4 September. Physics
Tests Show Moon Not Quite as Strange as Some Physicists Had HopedAdrian Cho
Science 11 September 2009: 1327.
The moon isn't made of green cheese and almost certainly doesn't harbor hypothetical particles called "strangelets," an analysis of lunar soil has shown. ScienceNOW.org
From Science's Online Daily News SiteScience 11 September 2009: 1327.
Highlights from ScienceNOW this week include studies showing that when we eat may be just as important as what we eat, pigeons use wing noise to warn the flock about approaching enemies, backup copies of genes help evolution move forward, and a mosquito may complicate malaria control. S Public Health
A Race Against Time to Vaccinate Against Novel H1N1 VirusJon Cohen
Science 11 September 2009: 1328-1329.
On 24 August, the White House released a report about the swine flu pandemic from a group of prominent scientists commissioned by U.S. President Barack Obama that made a stir because it highlighted a "plausible scenario" that the novel H1N1 virus could infect up to half the U.S. population in the next 6 months and kill as many as 90,000 people, most of them young. Archaeology
Clothes Make the (Hu) ManMichael Balter
Science 11 September 2009: 1329.
Discoveries at a cave in the Republic of Georgia, reported on page 1359 of this week's issue of Science, suggest that humans acquired the skill to weave plant fibers into textiles more than 30,000 years ago. ScienceInsider
From the Science Policy BlogScience 11 September 2009: 1329.
ScienceInsider this week reported on a prominent prostate cancer researcher who has been sued for allegedly making false claims about a prostate cancer biomarker, NOAA's plan to allow offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico, and other stories. Random SamplesScience 11 September 2009: 1323.
News FocusEvolutionary Biology
How Beach Life Favors Blond MiceElizabeth Pennisi
Science 11 September 2009: 1330-1333.
Hopi Hoekstra, a young evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, has been tackling the genetic complexity of a classic case of adaptation in mice.Evolutionary Biology
Melding Mammals and Molecules to Track EvolutionElizabeth Pennisi
Science 11 September 2009: 1332.
Harvard University evolutionary biologist Hopi Hoekstra's first college summer job—as a tick target for researchers assessing where and when hikers were most susceptible to attacks by Lyme disease–transmitting ticks—made her itch for more fieldwork and, eventually, a life as a biologist. Environmental Management
Science Lags on Saving the Arctic From Oil SpillsMichael Torrice
Science 11 September 2009: 1335.
The U.S. government is being accused of failing to design and carry out needed research. Materials Science
As China's Rare Earth R&D Becomes Ever More Rarefied, Others TrembleRichard Stone
Science 11 September 2009: 1336-1337.
China owns a virtual monopoly on production of rare earth elements used in a wide range of high-tech devices, and it is catching up fast on applications. Letters User Feedback Shapes Internet ProgressShesen Guo
Science 11 September 2009: 1338.
Introductory Biology: Let's Train LecturersFrank Heppner
Science 11 September 2009: 1338.
Introductory Biology: Top-Down TeachingVin LoPresti
Science 11 September 2009: 1338-1339.
Purposeful Learning with Drug RepurposingJeffrey H. Toney, Jeffry I. Fasick, Sonal Singh, Chris Beyrer, and David J. Sullivan, Jr.
Science 11 September 2009: 1339-1340.
Taking Educational Research to SchoolMark S. Seidenberg
Science 11 September 2009: 1340.
United States Acting to Conserve Tuna StocksDavid A. Balton
Science 11 September 2009: 1340-1341.
Corrections and ClarificationsScience 11 September 2009: 1341.
Books et al.Oceans
A Critical Course ChangeKai M. A. Chan, Edward J. Gregr, and Sarah Klain
Science 11 September 2009: 1342-1343.
The contributors describe and discuss the application of ecosystem-based management to coastal and ocean systems. Higher Education
Addressing the Graduation GapRichard C. Atkinson and Saul Geiser
Science 11 September 2009: 1343-1344.
The authors consider why more than 40% of the students who enter U.S. four-year colleges fail to graduate and what can be done to reduce that number. BrowsingsScience 11 September 2009: 1344.
Books ReceivedScience 11 September 2009: 1344.
A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 04 September 2009. Policy ForumEnvironment
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing InstitutionsBrian Walker, Scott Barrett, Stephen Polasky, Victor Galaz, Carl Folke, Gustav Engstrom, Frank Ackerman, Ken Arrow, Stephen Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Gretchen Daily, Paul Ehrlich, Terry Hughes, Nils Kautsky, Simon Levin, Karl-Goran Maler, Jason Shogren, Jeff Vincent, Tasos Xepapadeas, and Aart de Zeeuw
Science 11 September 2009: 1345-1346.
Navigating global changes requires a coevolving set of collaborative, global institutions. PerspectivesAstronomy
Cosmology at a CrossroadsCharles L. Bennett
Science 11 September 2009: 1347-1348.
With the standard model of cosmology in place, explanations are needed for its ingredients: dark matter, the apparent vacuum energy, and inflation. Physics
The Thermodynamics of Quantum Critical PointsZachary Fisk
Science 11 September 2009: 1348-1349.
Thermodynamic signatures have been obtained for phase transitions that occur as temperatures approach absolute zero. Neuroscience
Low-Cost Travel in NeuronsPierre J. Magistretti
Science 11 September 2009: 1349-1351.
Biochemistry
The Molecular Basis of Nacre FormationNils Kroger
Science 11 September 2009: 1351-1352.
Published online 13 August 2009 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1177055] (in Science Express Perspectives)
A protein complex guides the process of nacre formation in mollusk shells. Genetics
MITEs—The Ultimate ParasitesJosefa Gonzalez and Dmitri Petrov
Science 11 September 2009: 1352-1353.
How do genomic parasites called MITEs accumulate in large numbers in plant genomes? Neuroscience
Went Fishing, Caught a SnakeDies Meijer
Science 11 September 2009: 1353-1354.
A sinuous receptor links cAMP signaling to myelin formation by Schwann cells in the vertebrate nervous system. ReviewEcological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate ChangeEric Post, Mads C. Forchhammer, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Terry V. Callaghan, Torben R. Christensen, Bo Elberling, Anthony D. Fox, Olivier Gilg, David S. Hik, Toke T. Hoye, Rolf A. Ims, Erik Jeppesen, David R. Klein, Jesper Madsen, A. David McGuire, Soren Rysgaard, Daniel E. Schindler, Ian Stirling, Mikkel P. Tamstorf, Nichola
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