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Science RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Saturn's Secrets Probed | A Fair Society | At Sixes and Sevens | Ferrous Shape Memory Alloy | Taming Turbulence | Small Is Beautiful | Messy Mountain Meandering | Sperm Wars | Diversity Gradients | Puberty Impairs Plasticity | Dancing with AMPARs | Cycle Entrainment | Dying by Design | Partial View | Oceanic Nitrogen Fixation...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Geology: Tracking the Deluge | Chemistry: Corralling Peptides | Virology: Weathering Influenza | Evolution: Polar Bear, Polar Bear | Infectious Disease: Grounding Mosquitoes for Dengue Control | Cell Biology: Familial Ties in the Nucleus | Materials Science: Mass Transit... Random Samples - Elephant Camp Swept Away | Big Prize for Gene Sequencers | Isles of Abundance | Three Q's... [Editorial] Science-Based Health Care - Author: Chen Zhu... [News of the Week] Fusion: Budget Red Tape in Europe Brings New Delay to ITER - The projected start of the ITER fusion reactor in France looks set to slip by another 10 months. The new completion date is now November 2019.Author: Daniel Clery... [News of the Week] Anthrax Investigation: Silicon Mystery Endures in Solved Anthrax Case - Scientists say there is clear evidence that the high levels of silicon found in the anthrax used in the 2001 letter attacks came not from anything added to "weaponize" the anthrax spores but from the culture in which the spores were grown. So why did the mailed anthrax have such a high proportion of spores with a silicon signature in comparison to most other anthrax samples?Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [News of the Week] Psychiatry: Beyond DSM: Seeking a Brain-Based Classification of Mental Illness - Harnessing knowledge gained from modern research in neuroscience and genetics to improve the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders was a major impetus for undertaking a revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).Author: Greg Miller... [News of the Week] National Science Foundation: Budget Shortfall Could Derail Plans for Underground Lab - A tight budget and unanticipated safety problems are threatening to kill plans to convert an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota into a $750 million deep underground science and engineering laboratory.Authors: Adrian Cho, Lauren Schenkman... [News of the Week] U.S. Science Policy: MIT Engineering Dean Tapped to Head NSF - The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Subra Suresh, is in line to become the next director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Science has learned.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News of the Week] India: Hardy Cotton-Munching Pests Are Latest Blow to GM Crops - Monsanto has revealed that a common insect pest has developed resistance to its flagship genetically modified (GM) product in India. Monsanto claims that the finding "is the first case of field-relevant resistance to Cry1Ac products, anywhere in the world."Author: Pallava Bagla... [News of the Week] 2010 Budget: China Amasses War Chest to Confront Its Environmental Nightmares - In a nod to rising public expectations, China's government work plan for 2010, rolled out last week at the country's two major annual political powwows, puts the environment front and center.Authors: Hao Xin, Richard Stone... [News of the Week] 2010 Budget: Fresh Momentum for China's Science Juggernaut - Science won high praise and a hefty budget boost at last week's meetings of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Central government spending on science and technology is slated to rise 8% to $24 billion in 2010.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site - ScienceNOW reported this week that psychopaths may be hypersensitive to rewards, which may create a pathological drive for money, sex, and status; a proposed carbon-capture method could poison oceans; a way to finger criminals from their skin bacteria; and the successful identification of the memory a person is recalling by analyzing their brain activity; among other stories.... [News of the Week] Research Funding: Polish Science Reforms Bring Fear and Hope - The Polish Parliament this month began voting on legislation creating a new national agency charged with distributing competitive grants for frontier research.Author: Elisabeth Pain... [News of the Week] Evolution: Male Rivalry Extends to Sperm in Female Reproductive Tract - Two papers published by Science this week, one on work in ants and bees and the other on work in fruit flies, demonstrate that sperm competition between males continues even after the sperm enters the female.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog - ScienceInsider reported this week that congressional supporters of stem cell research have introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order, which lifted restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers, among other stories.... [News Focus] Climate Change: The Nile Delta's Sinking Future - Climate change and damming the Nile are threatening Egypt's agricultural oasis. Author: John Bohannon... [News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Lucky Glimpses of a Weirdly Wetter Moon - At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, scientists flying a ground-penetrating radar on India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter reported a distinctive radar signature from the interiors but not the surroundings of more than 40 small craters in the north polar region, suggesting ice.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Coaxing Out Another Taste of the Sun - At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, team members of the Genesis mission, which returned atomic bits of the sun and thus samples of the solar system's primordial material, confirmed their measurement of the isotopic composition of the solar wind's oxygen and reported an isotopic composition for solar-wind nitrogen.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Spirit Is Willing, Though Weak - At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, there was talk of resurrecting the Spirit rover, which has been stuck since January, or at least a realistic prospect of a return to limited mobility. NASA missions are indeed hard to kill.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Snapshots From the Meeting - Snapshots from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference include the discovery of its first candidate bits of mineral born around distant stars and considerable progress in making sense of the odd shape of the moon.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [Letter] Unlocking the Door to Better Cybersecurity - Author: Angus K. Y. Wong... [Letter] Unlocking the Door to Better Cybersecurity?Response - Authors: William A. Wulf, Anita K. Jones... [Letter] Chilean Scientists Rally After Quake - Author: Guillaume Duménil... [Letter] Salmon Swimming Against Multiple Threats - Author: Bruce Wright... [Letter] Planning for Biodiversity in Future Climates - Author: Luke P. Shoo... [Letter] Planning for Biodiversity in Future Climates?Response - Authors: Oscar Venter, William F. Laurance, Takuya Iwamura, Kerrie A. Wilson, Richard A. Fuller, Hugh P. Possingham... [Letter] Is the Message from Athens Being Heard? - Authors: Ronny Merken, Faidra Bazigou, Nico Koedam... [Book Review] Science Practice: Sailing on an Ocean of 0s and 1s - This set of essays from researchers and computer scientists describes the prospects and possibilities of data-intensive science.Author: James P. Collins... [Book Review] Computers and Society: Programming to Forget - Mayer-Schönberger explores a range of concerns arising from the fact that information technology makes us less able to forget our pasts.Author: William Dutton... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 12 March 2010.... [Policy Forum] Ecology: China, India, and the Environment - Cooperation between China and India can curtail biodiversity loss, mitigate climate change, and reduce deforestation.Authors: Kamaljit S. Bawa, Lian Pin Koh, Tien Ming Lee, Jianguo Liu, P. S. Ramakrishnan, Douglas W. Yu, Ya-ping Zhang, Peter H. Raven... [Perspective] Chemistry: Setting the Trap for Reactive Resonances - A combined quantum mechanical calculation and molecular beam study has succeeded in detecting elusive metastable quantum states.Author: Stuart C. Althorpe... [Perspective] Plant Science: Phenology Under Global Warming - In most temperate tree species, phenological events such as flowering and autumnal cessation of growth are not primarily controlled by temperature.Authors: Christian Körner, David Basler... [Perspective] Applied Physics: Controlling Turbulence - Injecting a fluid jet into a pipe at an optimized location can control the development of turbulent flow.Author: Beverley J. McKeon... [Perspective] Neuroscience: AMPA Receptors?Another Twist? - A protein expressed in brain controls the plasticity of synaptic transmission by regulating the properties of a neurotransmitter receptor.Authors: Mark Farrant, Stuart G. Cull-Candy... [Perspective] Physics: Toward Organic All-Optical Switching - A sophisticated molecular design method yields an organic material for possible application in high-speed, all-optical communication.Authors: Saif A. Haque, Jenny Nelson... [Perspective] Behavior: Fairness in Modern Society - What features of a society motivate individuals to behave fairly?Author: Karla Hoff... [Perspective] Materials Science: Expanding the Repertoire of Shape Memory Alloys - An iron alloy may open up new applications for strong materials that are also capable of large reversible shape changes.Authors: Ji Ma, Ibrahim Karaman... [Review] An Evolving View of Saturn?s Dynamic Rings - Authors: J. N. Cuzzi, J. A. Burns, S. Charnoz, R. N. Clark, J. E. Colwell, L. Dones, L. W. Esposito, G. Filacchione, R. G. French, M. M. Hedman, S. Kempf, E. A. Marouf, C. D. Murray, P. D. Nicholson, C. C. Porco, J. Schmidt, M. R. Showalter, L. J. Spilker, J. N. Spitale, R. Srama, M. Srem?evi?, M. S. Tiscareno, J. Weiss... [Review] Saturn: Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Magnetosphere - Authors: Tamas I. Gombosi, Andrew P. Ingersoll... [Research Article] Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment - The origins of modern social norms and behaviors may be found in the evolution of institutions.Authors: Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, John Ziker... [Report] Design of Polymethine Dyes with Large Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities and Loss Figures of Merit - Nonlinear optical materials are designed and characterized for potential applications in all-optical switching.Authors: Joel M. Hales, Jonathan Matichak, Stephen Barlow, Shino Ohira, Kada Yesudas, Jean-Luc Brédas, Joseph W. Perry, Seth R. Marder... [Report] Ferrous Polycrystalline Shape-Memory Alloy Showing Huge Superelasticity - A shape-memory alloy has been prepared with high mechanical energy absorption capability and reversible magnetization change.Authors: Y. Tanaka, Y. Himuro, R. Kainuma, Y. Sutou, T. Omori, K. Ishida... [Report] Eliminating Turbulence in Spatially Intermittent Flows - Injection of jets of water is used to control the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in pipes.Authors: Björn Hof, Alberto de Lozar, Marc Avila, Xiaoyun Tu, Tobias M. Schneider... [Report] Microcavity Laser Oscillating in a Circuit-Based Resonator - An ultrasmall laser is fabricated from conventional electronic components combined with an amplifying medium.Authors: Christoph Walther, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist... [Report] The Climatic Signature of Incised River Meanders - Typhoon frequency and bedrock strength influence river meandering in mountain environments.Authors: Colin P. Stark, Jonathan R. Barbour, Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Hattanji, Niels Hovius, Hongey Chen, Ching-Weei Lin, Ming-Jame Horng, Kai-Qin Xu, Yukitoshi Fukahata... [Report] Transition-State Spectroscopy of Partial Wave Resonances in the F + HD Reaction - Spectroscopy can distinguish the reaction paths in a collision between an atom and a diatomic system.Authors: Wenrui Dong, Chunlei Xiao, Tao Wang, Dongxu Dai, Xueming Yang, Dong H. Zhang... [Report] Mechanosensitive Self-Replication Driven by Self-Organization - The type of mechanical agitation applied to a solution influences which of two molecular products dominate.Authors: Jacqui M. A. Carnall, Christopher A. Waudby, Ana M. Belenguer, Marc C. A. Stuart, Jérôme J.-P. Peyralans, Sijbren Otto... [Report] Seminal Fluid Mediates Ejaculate Competition in Social Insects - Substances produced by rival male social insects destroy sperm, and females produce compounds to counteract sperm loss.Authors: Susanne P. A. den Boer, Boris Baer, Jacobus J. Boomsma... [Report] Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton - Highest diversity occurs in physically dynamic mid-latitude zones, and lowest diversity and highest biomass occur toward the poles.Authors: Andrew D. Barton, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Glenn Flierl, Jason Bragg, Michael J. Follows... [Report] Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain - Nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific Ocean is partitioned among several microbe species with distinct ecophysiologies.Authors: Pia H. Moisander, Roxanne A. Beinart, Ian Hewson, Angelicque E. White, Kenneth S. Johnson, Craig A. Carlson, Joseph P. Montoya, Jonathan P. Zehr... [Report] A Critical Role for ?4?? GABAA Receptors in Shaping Learning Deficits at Puberty in Mice - Learning incapacity observed during puberty is related to receptor location in the hippocampus.Authors: Hui Shen, Nicole Sabaliauskas, Ang Sherpa, André A. Fenton, Armin Stelzer, Chiye Aoki, Sheryl S. Smith... [Report] CKAMP44: A Brain-Specific Protein Attenuating Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus - A synaptic protein that regulates postsynaptic AMPA receptor responses has been cloned and functionally characterized.Authors: Jakob von Engelhardt, Volker Mack, Rolf Sprengel, Netta Kavenstock, Ka Wan Li, Yael Stern-Bach, August B. Smit, Peter H. Seeburg, Hannah Monyer... [Report] Circadian Gating of the Cell Cycle Revealed in Single Cyanobacterial Cells - Modeling and observation of cyanobacteria show entrainment of the cell cycle by their biological clock.Authors: Qiong Yang, Bernardo F. Pando, Guogang Dong, Susan S. Golden, Alexander van Oudenaarden... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes the biology behind learning deficits at puberty, a 3D invisibility cloak, and the Nile delta's sinking future.... 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