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15 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5891, Pages 888-986 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Geomagnetic Substorm Trigger
Small RNAs Provide Bacterial Defense
Ironing Out Ancient Ocean Chemistry
Neutrophil-Assisted Parasite Infection

News of the Week: CLIMATE PREDICTION; APPLIED PHYSICS; HIV/AIDS. News Focus: GLOBAL WARMING: Climate Change Hot Spots Mapped Across the United States. A listing of books received at Science during the week ended August 8, 2008. Perspectives: IMMUNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; PLANETARY SCIENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OCEAN SCIENCE. Reviews: Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

8 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5890, Pages 741-859 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Special Issue:Challenges in Theoretical Chemistry
Trust and Borderline Personality Disorder
The Birth of Planetary Systems
Symporter Structure Solved

News of the Week: AIR QUALITY; STEM CELLS; PLANETARY SCIENCE. News Focus: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. A listing of books received at Science during the week ended August 8, 2008. Perspectives: IMMUNOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; ECOLOGY; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY.

1 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5889, Pages 597-728 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Modeling Star Formation
Splice Factor Identified
Rapid Greenland Climate Change
Insights into Cytokine Signaling

News of the Week: CHEMISTRY; SCIENCE AT THE OLYMPICS. News Focus: CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES;A listing of books received at Science during the week ended July 25, 2008. Perspectives: IMMUNOLOGY: A Splicing Switch for T Cells; CELL SIGNALING; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE: Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate. Review: Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity.

25 July 2008Vol 321, Issue 5888, Pages 461-578 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Special Issue: HIV/AIDS—Follow the Money
Entangled Beams and Images
RNA Interference in the Nucleus
Ocean Cooling and Ordovician Biodiversity

News of the Week: AIDS VACCINE RESEARCH; SCIENCE IN JAPAN; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE: Lessons of Disasters Past Could Guide Sichuan's Revival; A listing of books received at Science during the week ended July 18, 2008. Perspectives: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: PHYSICS; BIOCHEMISTRY;

18 July 2008Vol 321, Issue 5887, Pages 313-423 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Special Issue: Drug Resistance (Trench Warfare in a Battle With TB, etc.)
Improved X-ray Imaging
Vertebrate Vocalization Origins
Extent of the Younger Dryas

News of the Week: RESEARCH ETHICS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY: Caribbean Megaeruptions Drove a Global Ocean Crisis;SOCIOLOGY: Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online. News Focus: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; GENETICS; ACOUSTICS '08. Letters: Conservations; A listing of books received at Science during the week ended July 11, 2008. Policy Forum: ECOLOGY: Assisted Colonization and Rapid Climate Change. Perspectives: CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE: A Hotter Greenhouse? DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; APPLIED PHYSICS;

11 July 2008Vol 321, Issue 5886, Pages 172-276 Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Genetic Clues to Autism
Slab Avalanche Trigger
How Bacteria Recognize Self
Prelude to a Supernova

News focus is: UNIVERSITY RESEARCH: Steering Harvard Toward Collaborative Science; EVOLUTION: Modernizing the Modern Synthesis. Letters: Biofuels. A listing of books received at Science during the week ended July 4, 2008. Review: Enzymes Without Borders

4 July 2008Vol 321, Issue 5885, Pages 12-144 : Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Special Issue: MESSENGER
Spatial Representation in the Hippocampus
Transistor Nanofilms
Population Growth in Protected Areas

News focus: CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; MARINE BIOLOGY; APPLIED PHYSICS; A listing of books received at Science during the week ended June 27, 2008. Research article: Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates. Reports: Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges - 45 countries in Africa and Latin America

20 June 2008Vol 320, Issue 5883, Pages 1559-1659: Table of Contents

Issue Highlights
Elevation Changes in Antarctica
Imaging Astrocyte Activity
Iron Isotope Fractionation in Magma
Molecular Flagellum Clutch

News Focus: GEOPHYSICS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE NANOTECH 2008; A listing of books received at Science during the week ended June 13, 2008. Perspectives: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; APPLIED PHYSICS.