Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

13 June 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5882, Pages 1392-1524: Special Issue: Forests in Flux
* News
- A Second Chance for Rainforest Biodiversity
- Critical Time for African Rainforests: As threats to the Congo Basin's vast forests grow, scientists race to sharpen assessments and stem destruction.
- Letting 1000 Forests Bloom: China's biodiversity to recover from decades of clear-cutting, but threats still loom
* Perspectives
- Forests of the Past: A Window to Future Changes
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Global Land-Use Implications
- Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
- Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands
* Review
- Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests
* Special Feature:
- SCIENCE CAREERS: Sustaining Forests in a Changing World
- SCIENCE CAREERS: Measuring the Impact of Invasive Plants
- SCIENCE CAREERS: An Adventurous Physicist
* News of the Week
- FUSION RESEARCH: Design Changes Will Increase ITER Reactor's Cost
- GEOLOGY: Two Years On, a Mud Volcano Still Rages--and Bewilders
- GEOLOGY: Unstoppable
- WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE: Scientists Race Against the Clock to Gauge Landslide Risk
- ECOSYSTEMS: Have Desert Researchers Discovered a Hidden Loop in the Carbon Cycle?
- ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Climate Change Bill Dies, But the Energy Remains
* Letters
- Biofuels: Waste Not Want Not
- Biofuels: Too Soon to Give Up
- Biofuels: Think Outside the Cornfield
- Biofuels: Putting Current Practices in Perspective
* Books et al.
- REGULATORY POLICY: Reforming Cost-Benefit Calculations
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended June 6, 2008.
* Perspectives
- BIOCHEMISTRY: How Enzymes Work
- BIOCHEMISTRY: How Do Proteins Interact?
- DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Sex and Poison in the Dark: A protein complex moves in and out of the nucleus in response to light, associating with proteins that control fungal development and metabolism.
* Reports
- Regulation of Hepatic Lipogenesis by the Transcription Factor XBP1
- Animal Versus Wind Dispersal and the Robustness of Tree Species to Deforestation
6 June 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5881, Pages 1257-1366
* Editorial
- Broadband Internet for Africa
* News of the Week
- UNIVERSITIES: Breaking With Tradition, France Picks Future Elite Schools
- ECOLOGY: Seaweed Invader Elicits Angst in India
- GENOMICS: Read All About It--The First Female Genome! Or Is It?
- GEOCHEMISTRY: The Andes Popped Up by Losing Their Deep-Seated Rocky Load
* News Focus
- UNMASKING THE INDUS
* Letters
- The Emerging World of Wikis
- Science 2.0: Not So New? will address questions of human interaction that "cannot be studied adequately in laboratory conditions," because "the interaction among variables undermines the validity of reductionist methods." Instead, data for analysis must be "collected in real settings."
* Books et al.
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 30, 2008.
* Policy Forum
- OCEAN SCIENCE: Under-Resourced, Under Threat: A coherent global vision is needed to better determine the impacts of climate change on marine systems.
* Perspectives
- ECOLOGY: Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals: Tropical animals may be particularly vulnerable to climate warming.
- SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: The Scale of Prediction: A predictive model for a biological system requires capturing the network of environmental factors that affect system responses.
- PHYSICS: Improving Correlations Despite Particle Loss
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Refined View of the Ends
- APPLIED PHYSICS: Going with (or Against) the Flow
* Reports
- The Aftershock Signature of Supershear Earthquakes
- The Transcriptional Landscape of the Yeast Genome Defined by RNA Sequencing
30 May 2008,Vol 320, Issue 5880, Pages 1117-1244
* News Focus
- ANTARCTICA: Freeze-Dried Findings Support a Tale of Two Ancient Climates
- MEDICINE: Nothing Rotten About Hydrogen Sulfide's Medical Promise
* Books et al.
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 23, 2008.
* Education Forum
- DIVERSITY: Culture, Gender, and Math
* Perspectives
- ASTRONOMY: A Blast from the Past
- IMMUNOLOGY: Immunity Benefits from a Little Suppression
* Review
- How We See Ourselves and How We See Others: Have you ever attended a long and technical lecture and seen yourself as easily distracted while thinking that everyone else seemed thoroughly engaged?
* Brevia
- Ecosystem Feedbacks and Nitrogen Fixation in Boreal Forests
* Research Articles
- Widespread Translational Inhibition by Plant miRNAs and siRNAs
- Coordination of Early Protective Immunity to Viral Infection by Regulatory T Cells

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