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  • EDITORIAL:

    Education Is Not a Race

    • Deborah Stipek
    Science 24 June 2011: 1481.[DOI:10.1126/science.1209339]
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  • Science Podcast

    Science 24 June 2011: 1585.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1585-b]

    The show includes dinosaur body temperatures, how infants infer causality, improved battery technologies, and more.

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  • New Products

    Science 24 June 2011: 1585.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1585-a]

    A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.

News of the Week

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  • This Week's Section

    Science 24 June 2011: 1488-1490.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1488-a]

  • Around the World

    Science 24 June 2011: 1488.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1488-b]

    In science news around the world this week, the U.K. has abandoned DNA and isotope testing of asylum seekers, a fungal disease blamed for the disappearance of amphibians around the world has reached the border of one of Central America's largest remaining wilderness areas, the Arabian oryx has come back from the brink of extinction, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the "nuisance" argument against power plant emissions, and Japan's "K Computer" is now the fastest supercomputer in the world.

  • Newsmakers

    Science 24 June 2011: 1489.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1489-a]

    This week's Newsmakers are pediatric neurologist and geneticist Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine, who has won this year's Gruber Prize in Neuroscience; materials scientist, applied physicist, and entrepreneur John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who has won the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2011; and six Iowa Girl Scouts who have been awarded $20,000 from the X PRIZE Foundation to help obtain a patent on their original design for a prosthetic hand device.

  • Random Sample

    Science 24 June 2011: 1489-1490.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1489-c]

    The First World Cell Race, to be held in July, will pit hundreds of types of cells against each other to find out which are the fastest. And this week's numbers quantify NASA's costs of closing out the space shuttle program, brain injuries in Asterix comics, and academic institutions that have formed research collaborations with brain teaser Web site Lumosity.

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News & Analysis

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  • Biosecurity

    Panel Selects Most Dangerous Select Agents

    • Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
    Science 24 June 2011: 1491-1492.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1491]

    Last week, a federal panel called for tightening security measures on a select group of select agents and loosening research restrictions on others.

  • Biomedicine

    NIH's Secondhand Shop for Tried-and-Tested Drugs

    • Jocelyn Kaiser
    Science 24 June 2011: 1492.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1492]

    A new project by the National Institutes of Health aims to persuade drug companies to open up their troves of abandoned drugs to academics, who would look for new uses.

  • Lunar Science

    Apollo Physicist Launches Noisy Dustup Over Old Moon Data

    • Lucas Laursen
    Science 24 June 2011: 1493.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1493]

    The floating dust believed to explain the lunar horizon glow may have been interference from heaters on nearby instruments, according to a new analysis.

News Focus

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  • Technology

    Getting There

    • Robert F. Service
    Science 24 June 2011: 1494-1496.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1494]

    Better batteries paved the way for half-decent electric cars. Making improved versions viable for the mass market will depend on a suite of advanced battery technologies now in labs around the globe.

  • Technology

    Battery FAQs

    • Robert F. Service
    Science 24 June 2011: 1495.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1495]

    Science answers some frequently asked questions about batteries.

  • Biotechnology

    Lab-on-a-Chip Maker Looks to Put Hong Kong on Biotech Map

    • Richard Stone
    Science 24 June 2011: 1497.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1497]

    Better known for business acumen than scientific smarts, Hong Kong is betting on biotech as a new "pillar industry"; a novel biochip suggests it's on the right track.

  • Profile: Ogobara Doumbo

    Mali Researcher Shows How to Reverse Brain Drain

    • David A. Taylor
    Science 24 June 2011: 1498-1499.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1498]

    Relying mainly on homegrown talent, Doumbo leads a network in Mali that does state-of-the-art studies of mosquito genetics, tracks drug resistance, and tests new vaccines.

Letters

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  • Dolphin Research: Continue Captivity

    • Marilee Menard
    Science 24 June 2011: 1501.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1501-a]

  • Dolphin Research: Educating the Public

    • Diana Reiss
    Science 24 June 2011: 1501.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1501-b]

  • Effects of Creating Order from Chaos

    • William Vaughan
    Science 24 June 2011: 1501-1502.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1501-c]

  • Effects of Creating Order from Chaos—Response

    • Siegwart Lindenberg and
    • Diederik A. Stapel
    Science 24 June 2011: 1502-1503.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1502]

  • Science Festivals Open Doors

    • Livio Riboli-Sasco and
    • Leila Perié
    Science 24 June 2011: 1503.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1503-a]

  • Corrections and Clarifications

    Science 24 June 2011: 1503.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1503-b]

Books et al.

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  • Physics

    Let's Be Fysiksists Again

    • Matthew Wisnioski
    Science 24 June 2011: 1504-1505.[DOI:10.1126/science.1207618]

    Examining the exploits and influences of Berkeley's "Fundamental Fysiks Group" from the 1970s, Kaiser argues that its members' work helped lay the grounds for recent advances in quantum information.

  • Browsings

    Science 24 June 2011: 1505.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1505-a]

  • Books Received

    Science 24 June 2011: 1505.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1505-b]

    A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 17 June 2011.

Essays on Science and Society

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  • SPORE* Series Winner

    Computational Experiments for Science Education

    • Charles Xie,
    • Robert Tinker,
    • Barbara Tinker,
    • Amy Pallant,
    • Daniel Damelin,
    • and Boris Berenfeld
    Science 24 June 2011: 1516-1517.[DOI:10.1126/science.1197314]

    Computational experiments based on solving fundamental physics equations bring authentic science to the classroom.

Education Forum

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  • Education

    Mathematics Teachers' Subtle, Complex Disciplinary Knowledge

    • Brent Davis
    Science 24 June 2011: 1506-1507.[DOI:10.1126/science.1193541]

    Development of tacit skills, such as use of analogies and metaphors, should receive more attention in preparing math teachers.

Perspectives

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  • Physiology

    Synthetic Physiology

    • Brian Y. Chow and
    • Edward S. Boyden
    Science 24 June 2011: 1508-1509.[DOI:10.1126/science.1208555]

    A marriage of optogenetics and synthetic biology could open the door to diverse applications, from animal models of disease to diagnostics and therapies.

  • Planetary Science

    The Earth and the Sun

    • Robert N. Clayton
    Science 24 June 2011: 1509-1510.[DOI:10.1126/science.1206965]

    Sample collection by the Genesis spacecraft reveals the isotopic composition of elements in the solar system.

  • Molecular Biology

    A New Twist for Topoisomerase

    • Susana M. Cerritelli,
    • Hyongi Chon,
    • and Robert J. Crouch
    Science 24 June 2011: 1510-1511.[DOI:10.1126/science.1208450]

    Topoisomerase 1 attacks on ribonucleotides in DNA leads to 2– to 5–base pair deletions.

  • Neuroscience

    Attention—Voluntary Control of Brain Cells

    • Pieter R. Roelfsema
    Science 24 June 2011: 1512-1513.[DOI:10.1126/science.1208564]

    Monkeys are able to increase and decrease the activity of single neurons involved in vision.

  • Physics

    The Limits of Ordinary Matter

    • Berndt Müller
    Science 24 June 2011: 1513-1514.[DOI:10.1126/science.1207995]

    The temperature at which quarks escape the confines of protons and neutrons has been determined from high-energy particle collision data.

  • Ecology

    Why Did You Lévy?

    • Daniel Grünbaum
    Science 24 June 2011: 1514-1515.[DOI:10.1126/science.1208445]

    Mussels in intertidal beds use random movement behaviors to optimize formation of patches to balance feeding and mortality.

Association Affairs

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Review

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  • Human Fatty Liver Disease: Old Questions and New Insights

    • Jonathan C. Cohen,
    • Jay D. Horton,
    • and Helen H. Hobbs
    Science 24 June 2011: 1519-1523.[DOI:10.1126/science.1204265]

Brevia

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Research Articles

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  • Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics

    • Sourendu Gupta,
    • Xiaofeng Luo,
    • Bedangadas Mohanty,
    • Hans Georg Ritter,
    • and Nu Xu
    Science 24 June 2011: 1525-1528.[DOI:10.1126/science.1204621]

    The temperature scale for the breakdown of protons and neutrons can be determined from high-energy ion collisions and calculations.

  • The Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Sun Inferred from Captured Solar Wind

    • K. D. McKeegan,
    • A. P. A. Kallio,
    • V. S. Heber,
    • G. Jarzebinski,
    • P. H. Mao,
    • C. D. Coath,
    • T. Kunihiro,
    • R. C. Wiens,
    • J. E. Nordholt,
    • R. W. Moses, Jr.,
    • D. B. Reisenfeld,
    • A. J. G. Jurewicz,
    • and D. S. Burnett
    Science 24 June 2011: 1528-1532.[DOI:10.1126/science.1204636]

    The Sun is highly enriched in the most abundant isotope of oxygen, oxygen-16, relative to most other planetary materials.

  • A 15N-Poor Isotopic Composition for the Solar System As Shown by Genesis Solar Wind Samples

    • B. Marty,
    • M. Chaussidon,
    • R. C. Wiens,
    • A. J. G. Jurewicz,
    • and D. S. Burnett
    Science 24 June 2011: 1533-1536.[DOI:10.1126/science.1204656]

    The solar atmosphere is about 40% enriched in the heavy nitrogen-15 isotope compared with the Sun and Jupiter.

Reports

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  • Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene

    • Yanwu Zhu,
    • Shanthi Murali,
    • Meryl D. Stoller,
    • K. J. Ganesh,
    • Weiwei Cai,
    • Paulo J. Ferreira,
    • Adam Pirkle,
    • Robert M. Wallace,
    • Katie A. Cychosz,
    • Matthias Thommes,
    • Dong Su,
    • Eric A. Stach,
    • and Rodney S. Ruoff
    Science 24 June 2011: 1537-1541.Published online 12 May 2011 [DOI:10.1126/science.1200770]

    Activated microwave-exfoliated graphite oxide combined with an ionic liquid can be used to make an enhanced capacitor.

  • Disorder-Enhanced Transport in Photonic Quasicrystals

    • Liad Levi,
    • Mikael Rechtsman,
    • Barak Freedman,
    • Tal Schwartz,
    • Ofer Manela,
    • and Mordechai Segev
    Science 24 June 2011: 1541-1544.Published online 12 May 2011 [DOI:10.1126/science.1202977]

    Optical interference in a photorefractive crystal is used to study light propagation in a controlled disordered system.

  • Net Oxidative Addition of C(sp3)-F Bonds to Iridium via Initial C-H Bond Activation

    • Jongwook Choi,
    • David Y. Wang,
    • Sabuj Kundu,
    • Yuriy Choliy,
    • Thomas J. Emge,
    • Karsten Krogh-Jespersen,
    • and Alan S. Goldman
    Science 24 June 2011: 1545-1548.[DOI:10.1126/science.1200514]

    An unusual mechanism to cleave carbon-fluorine bonds may facilitate more efficient transformations of fluorocarbons.

  • Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation

    • Romain Guilbaud,
    • Ian B. Butler,
    • and Rob M. Ellam
    Science 24 June 2011: 1548-1551.[DOI:10.1126/science.1202924]

    Iron isotope signatures may not differentiate abiotic and biological processes in sediments.

  • Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity

    • Monique de Jager,
    • Franz J. Weissing,
    • Peter M. J. Herman,
    • Bart A. Nolet,
    • and Johan van de Koppel
    Science 24 June 2011: 1551-1553.[DOI:10.1126/science.1201187]

    Animals’ movements may not only respond to the environment, but may also shape it, and thus affect fitness.

  • Gametogenesis Eliminates Age-Induced Cellular Damage and Resets Life Span in Yeast

    • Elçin Ünal,
    • Benyam Kinde,
    • and Angelika Amon
    Science 24 June 2011: 1554-1557.[DOI:10.1126/science.1204349]

    When yeast commits to sex, reversal of age-induced cellular damage rejuvenates its life span.

  • A Cell Cycle Phosphoproteome of the Yeast Centrosome

    • Jamie M. Keck,
    • Michele H. Jones,
    • Catherine C. L. Wong,
    • Jonathan Binkley,
    • Daici Chen,
    • Sue L. Jaspersen,
    • Eric P. Holinger,
    • Tao Xu,
    • Mario Niepel,
    • Michael P. Rout,
    • Jackie Vogel,
    • Arend Sidow,
    • John R. Yates III,
    • and Mark Winey
    Science 24 June 2011: 1557-1561.[DOI:10.1126/science.1205193]

    Phosphorylation of the yeast centrosome reveals sites of regulation and predicts complex regulation of mammalian centrosomes.

  • Mutagenic Processing of Ribonucleotides in DNA by Yeast Topoisomerase I

    • Nayun Kim,
    • Shar-yin N. Huang,
    • Jessica S. Williams,
    • Yue C. Li,
    • Alan B. Clark,
    • Jang-Eun Cho,
    • Thomas A. Kunkel,
    • Yves Pommier,
    • and Sue Jinks-Robertson
    Science 24 June 2011: 1561-1564.[DOI:10.1126/science.1205016]

    An enzyme that removes supercoils from DNA can cause mutations when RNA bases accidentally get incorporated into the DNA.

  • A Synthetic Optogenetic Transcription Device Enhances Blood-Glucose Homeostasis in Mice

    • Haifeng Ye,
    • Marie Daoud-El Baba,
    • Ren-Wang Peng,
    • and Martin Fussenegger
    Science 24 June 2011: 1565-1568.[DOI:10.1126/science.1203535]

    An implanted device using blue-light–triggered expression of the glucagon-like peptide 1 attenuates diabetes in mice.

  • Selective Attention from Voluntary Control of Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex

    • Robert J. Schafer and
    • Tirin Moore
    Science 24 June 2011: 1568-1571.Published online 26 May 2011 [DOI:10.1126/science.1199892]

    The activity of neurons with both visual and motor properties in the frontal eye field can be controlled voluntarily.

  • Inducing Sleep by Remote Control Facilitates Memory Consolidation in Drosophila

    • Jeffrey M. Donlea,
    • Matthew S. Thimgan,
    • Yasuko Suzuki,
    • Laura Gottschalk,
    • and Paul J. Shaw
    Science 24 June 2011: 1571-1576.[DOI:10.1126/science.1202249]

    Inducing sleep in flies reverses deficits in long-term memory caused by social enrichment.

  • Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis: Structural Evidence in Drosophila

    • Daniel Bushey,
    • Giulio Tononi,
    • and Chiara Cirelli
    Science 24 June 2011: 1576-1581.[DOI:10.1126/science.1202839]

    Flies’ need for sleep depends on how many synapses are formed while awake.

From the AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services

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  • Business Office Feature

    LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Does This Taste Funny?

    • Jeffrey M. Perkel
    Science 24 June 2011: 1582-1584.[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1582]
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