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5 September 2008Vol 321, Issue 5894, Pages 1268-1374 Table of Contents
- Scientific Publishing Standards
* News of the Week
- PLANT SCIENCE: China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative
- MATHFEST 2008: Shapeshifting Made Easy
* News Focus:
- LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
* Books:
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended August 29, 2008.
* Perspectives:
- GENETICS: Enhancing Gene Regulation
- BIOCHEMISTRY: An Enzyme Assembly Line
- MICROBIOLOGY: How to Infect a Mimivirus
- PHYSICS: An End to the Drought of Quantum Spin Liquids
* Research Article:
- The Crystal Structure of a Mammalian Fatty Acid Synthase
- Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus

29 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5893, Pages 1117-1256 Table of Contents
* News of the Week
- CELL BIOLOGY: Biologists Change One Cell Type Directly Into Another
- RESEARCH FUNDING: Research Downturn
- GENETICS: First Gene for Severe Dry Macular Degeneration
* Letters:
- China's Energy Policy Comes at a Price
- From Darwinism to Evolutionary Biology
* Books:
A listing of books received at Science during the week ended August 22, 2008.
* Perspectives
- PLANT SCIENCE: The "Invisible Hand" of Floral Chemistry
- BIOCHEMISTRY: Opening the Molecular Floodgates
- CHEMISTRY: A Catalytic Foothold for Fluorocarbon Reactions

22 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5892, Pages 1016-1103, Table of Contents
* News of the Week
- GENOMICS: 'Simple' Animal's Genome Proves Unexpectedly Complex
- U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION: Departments Scramble to Find Math Education Faculty
* News Focus:
- CLIMATE SCIENCE: Turbulent Times for Climate Model
- NANOTECHNOLOGY: Can High-Speed Tests Sort Out Which Nanomaterials Are Safe?
* Books
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended August 15, 2008.
* Policy Forum:
- ECOLOGY: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System
* Perspectives
- CHEMISTRY: Soluble Allotropes of Main-Group Elements
- ECOLOGY: A Matter of Timing - The cues used by birds and other species to trigger reproduction determine how successfully they can respond to climate change
- PLANT SCIENCE: Using Tobacco to Treat Cancer

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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.

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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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23 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5879, Pages 981-1096: Table of Contents

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Special Issue: Microbial Ecology

In the 23 May 2008 issue, Science and its online companion Science Signaling explore the stunning diversity and dynamics of the microbial universe. In Science, News stories look at the hidden microbial world inside sponges and ongoing efforts to classify microbes with respect to their environments, while Review articles discuss the microbial processes that drive earth's biogeochemical cycles and approaches to understanding the distribution of microbial taxa and their traits. In Science Signaling, Perspectives explore how different plant pathogens use similar signaling molecules in distinct ways, how gut microbes dampen the host immune response, and how mast cells use extracellular traps to kill microbes.

* Editorial

-Microbes in the Energy Grid

* News of the Week

- SICHUAN DISASTER: Landslides, Flooding Pose Threats as Experts Survey Quake's Impact

- RESEARCH FUNDING: Australia's New Science Budget Gets a Mixed Review

- GLOBAL WARMING: Hurricanes Won't Go Wild, According to Climate Models

- CLIMATE CHANGE: Polar Bear Listing Opens Door to New Lawsuits

- CLIMATE CHANGE: The Threat to the World's Plants

- MICROBIOLOGY: Bacteria Are Picky About Their Homes on Human Skin

* News Focus

- ENGINEERING: The End of an Intellectual Dark Age?

- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: All That Makes Fungus Gardens Grow

- ASTROPHYSICS: GLAST Mission Prepares to Explore the Extremes of Cosmic Violence

* Letters

- Free Access to Landsat Imagery

- Science Education: Should Facts Come First?

* Books et al.

- EVOLUTION: Hard Facts About Soft Animals

- Books Received: A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 16, 2008.

* Perspectives

- BIOCHEMISTRY: SNO Removal

- OCEAN SCIENCE: Marine Calcifiers in a High-CO2 Ocean

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Stronger, Tougher Steels

- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Slicing and Dicing for Small RNAs

* Brevia

- Extending the Sub-Sea-Floor Biosphere

* Research articles

- Virus Population Dynamics and Acquired Virus Resistance in Natural Microbial Communities

- Regulated Protein Denitrosylation by Cytosolic and Mitochondrial Thioredoxins

* Reports

- Structural Diversity of Sodium

- Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

- Anticorrelated Seismic Velocity Anomalies from Post-Perovskite in the Lowermost Mantle

- Endogenous siRNAs Derived from Transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila Somatic Cells

- The Serine Protease TMPRSS6 Is Required to Sense Iron Deficiency

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16 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5878, Pages 845-954

* News of the Week

- LATIN AMERICA: Price Is the Main Barrier to Wider Use of Papillomavirus Vaccine

- ITALY: A Plea for 'Transparent' Funding

A furor over political meddling in grants for stem cell research in Italy has erupted into a broad protest about favoritism and the lack of peer review in deciding who receives national science funding.

* News Focus

- ENTOMOLOGY: A Mosquito Goes Global

- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Layers Within Layers Hint at a Wobbly Martian Climate

- CHEMISTRY: Click Chemistry Clicks Along

Researchers seeking new ways to forge molecules are saving steps and effort by adapting high-yield reactions to fill a variety of needs.

- PHYSICS: The Hot Question: How New Are the New Superconductors?

* Letters

- Financing Tropical Forest Preservation

* Books et al.

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 9, 2008.

* Perspectives

- CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS: Integrating Circadian Timekeeping with Cellular Physiology

- PLANT SCIENCE: Plant Stress Profiles

- CHEMISTRY: The Changing Shapes of Molecules

- GEOCHEMISTRY: The Origin of Alkaline Lavas

- CHEMISTRY: To Be or Not to Be Localized

The hole created by emission of a core electron in a diatomic molecule resides in an entangled state.

- BIOPHYSICS: The Intrigue of the Interface

* Brevia

- The Energetic Cost of Climbing in Primates

* Reports

- Measuring Picosecond Isomerization Kinetics via Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy

- Genome-Scale Proteomics Reveals Arabidopsis thaliana Gene Models and Proteome Dynamics

- Early Forebrain Wiring: Genetic Dissection Using Conditional Celsr3 Mutant Mice

* Technical Comments:

- Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"

- Response to Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"

9 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5877, Pages 713-815

* News of the Week

- GENOMICS: Genome Speaks to Transitional Nature of Monotremes

* News Focus

- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Into the Wild: Reintroduced Animals Face Daunting Odds

* Books et al.

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 2, 2008.

* Policy Forum

- PUBLIC HEALTH: Reassessing HIV Prevention

* Perspectives

- PHYSICS: Designer Atomic Nuclei

- ECOLOGY: How the Sahara Became Dry

- AIDS/HIV: A STEP into Darkness or Light?

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Tinkering with Acellular Division

- BIOGEOCHEMISTRY: News About Nitrogen

* Reviews

- Toward an AIDS Vaccine

* Research Article

- Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

A climate record from lake sediments in Chad shows that the Sahara changed gradually from a tropical ecosystem to a desert, not abruptly as implied by Atlantic dust layers

* Reports

- Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot

- Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage

- Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America

- Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

- Regulation of the Cellular Heat Shock Response in Caenorhabditis elegans by Thermosensory Neurons

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2 May 2008Vol 320, Issue 5876, Pages 569-700: Table of Contents
* News of the Week
- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Flawed, Review Panel Finds
- GLOBAL WARMING: Mother Nature Cools the Greenhouse, but Hotter Times Still Lie Ahead
- PALEOECOLOGY: Fossils Help Figure Out Food Webs Old and New
* News Focus
- NEIL TUROK PROFILE: Wishing for an African Einstein
- NEIL TUROK PROFILE: An African Showcase for Math Studies
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING: Tuberculosis Jumped From Humans to Cows, Not Vice Versa
* Books
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 25, 2008
* Policy Forum
- ECONOMICS: Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict
* Immunology
- IMMUNOLOGY: How Frustration Leads to Inflammation
- CHEMISTRY: Synchronized Self-Assembly
- ECOLOGY: How Reefs Respond to Mass Coral Spawning
- PHYSICS: A Unified Picture of Laser Physics
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Paradox of Silent Heterochromatin
* Review
- Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle
* Reports
- Strong Interactions in Multimode Random Lasers
- Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits
- Marine Polyphosphate: A Key Player in Geologic Phosphorus Sequestration
- Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans
- In Vivo Imaging of Membrane-Associated Glycans in Developing Zebrafish

- A Haptoglobin-Hemoglobin Receptor Conveys Innate Immunity to Trypanosoma brucei in Humans. A lipoprotein in human blood protects against an African parasite by binding to a parasite receptor and triggering uptake of the lipoprotein, which contains a toxic component

25 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5875, Pages 421-551, Special Issue: Plant Genomes
Table of Contents
* News
- GM Crops: A World View
- Tough Lessons From Golden Rice
- Is the Drought Over for Pharming?
- Sowing the Seeds for High-Energy Plants
* Perspectives
- Genome-Enabled Approaches Shed New Light on Plant Metabolism
- Genomic Plasticity and the Diversity of Polyploid Plants
- Selection on Major Components of Angiosperm Genomes
- Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes
- The Epigenetic Landscape of Plants
- Extending Genomics to Natural Communities and Ecosystems
- From Genotype to Phenotype: Systems Biology Meets Natural Variation
* News of the Week
- CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: New Superconductors Propel Chinese Physicists to Forefront
- GEOCHEMISTRY: Two Geologic Clocks Finally Keeping the Same Time
* News Focus
- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: A Renowned Field Station Rises From the Ashes
* Books
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 18, 2008
* Policy Forum
- ECOLOGY: Harvesting Data from Genetically Engineered Crops
* Education Forum
- LEARNING THEORY: The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math
* Perspectives
- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Identifying Ancient Asteroids
- CELL BIOLOGY: A One-Sided Signal
- CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Crucible
- CELL BIOLOGY: RNA Metabolism and Oncogenesis
* Research Article
- Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History

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The latest from Science Online Magazine: 18 April 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5874, Pages 285-389

* Editorial:

- New Career Paths for Scientists

* News of the week:

- CLIMATE CHANGE: IPCC Tunes Up for Its Next Report Aiming for Better, Timely Results

- GLACIOLOGY: Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly

- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Croatian Editors Fight With Medical School Over Journal's Fate

- REGULATORY SCIENCE: Changes to EPA Toxicology--Speed or Delay?

* News Focus:

- ENERGY: The Greening of Synfuels

- OCEANOGRAPHY: Watery Echoes Give Clues to the Past and Future of the Seas

- VIROLOGY: Mapmaker for the World of Influenza

- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS: The Mad Dash to Make Light Crystals

* Letters:

- Coral Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change
- Freshwater Forcing: Will History Repeat Itself?
* Books:
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 18, 2008.
* Policy Forum:
- ECOLOGY: Agriculture at a Crossroads
* Perspectives:
- MATHEMATICS: Frustration in Complexity
- GEOSCIENCE: Natural Complexity
- APPLIED PHYSICS: Graphene Nanoelectronics
- CELL SIGNALING: Wnt Moves Beyond the Canon
- MUSIC THEORY: Geometrical Music Theory
* Brevia:
- The Movement of Aquatic Mercury Through Terrestrial Food Webs
* Research Article:
- Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World
* Reports:
- Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene Quantum Dots
- The Chemical Genomic Portrait of Yeast: Uncovering a Phenotype for All Genes

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11 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5873, Pages 151-250

* News of the Week

- ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: New Rules on Saving Wetlands Push the Limits of the Science

- MEDICINE: Drug Bestows Radiation Resistance on Mice and Monkeys

- PLANETARY GEOLOGY: An Early Big Hit to Mars May Have Scarred the Planet for Life

- APPLIED PHYSICS: At Mixed Odds, Racetrack Memory Charges From Gate

* News Focus

- PLANT GENETICS: The Blue Revolution, Drop by Drop, Gene by Gene

- PLANT GENETICS: Getting to the Root of Drought Responses

* Letters

- Vegetation's Role in Coastal Protection

- Soil Erosion: Data Say C Sink

* Books

- ECOLOGY: Return to Natural History

- MATHEMATICS: Connecting the Dots

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 11, 2008

* Perspectives

- GEOCHEMISTRY: Toward New Uses for Hematite

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Anatomy of a Fungal Polyketide Synthase

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Zooming Into Live Cells

- RETROSPECTIVE: Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

* Brevia

- Amplification of Cretaceous Warmth by Biological Cloud Feedbacks

* Reports

- Impact of Artificial Reservoir Water Impoundment on Global Sea Level

- Linked Reactivity at Mineral-Water Interfaces Through Bulk Crystal Conduction

- Convergence of Campylobacter Species: Implications for Bacterial Evolution

4 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5872, Pages 15-120

* News of the week

- AIDS RESEARCH: Review of Vaccine Failure Prompts a Return to Basics

- MICROBIOLOGY: Germs Take a Bite Out of Antibiotics

* News Focus

- CANCER BIOLOGY: All in the Stroma: Cancer's Cosa Nostra

- AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING: Magnetic Measurements Hint at Toastier Superconductivity

- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Puzzling Over a Steller Whodunit

* Letters

- Conserving Top Predators in Ecosystems

- The Role of Fisheries-Induced Evolution

* Perspectives

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Toward Understanding Self-Splicing

- CLIMATE: Blooms Like It Hot

* Brevia

- Bats Limit Arthropods and Herbivory in a Tropical Forest

* Reports

- Revealing Magnetic Interactions from Single-Atom Magnetization Curves

- The Electrical Conductivity of Post-Perovskite in Earth's D'' Layer

- Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

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28 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5871, Pages 1715-1882 : Special Issue: Gene Regulation

* News

- MicroRNAs Make Big Impression in Disease After Disease

* Perspectives

- Multilevel Regulation of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs

- Gene Regulation in the Third Dimension

* News of the Week

- GLOBAL CHANGE: Roads, Ports, Rails Aren't Ready for Changing Climate, Says Report

- CLIMATE CHANGE: Study Fingers Soot as a Major Player in Global Warming

- BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY: Smart Birds Lend a Beak for Food

- ACADEMIC RESEARCH: Saudi Start-Up Hopes Grants Will Buy Time

* News Focus

- ENERGY: Weighing the Climate Risks of an Untapped Fossil Fuel

- LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Cooking Up the Solar System From the Right Ingredients

- LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: New Piece of the Solar System Puzzle Fits In

* Policy Forum

- PLANETARY SCIENCE: The Planet Debate Continues

* Perspectives

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Multitasking in Tissues and Materials

- PHYSICS: A Milestone in Time Keeping

- ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Recording Earth's Vital Signs

- BIOCHEMISTRY: A Postgenomic Visual Icon

* Reports

- Magnetar-Like Emission from the Young Pulsar in Kes 75

- Self-Assembly of Large and Small Molecules into Hierarchically Ordered Sacs and Membranes

- Rule Learning by Rats

21 March 2008,Vol 319, Issue 5870, Pages 1585-1696

* News of the Week

- DNA DATA: Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance

- BIOMEDICAL PATENTS: Wisconsin Stem Cell Patents Upheld

- ECOLOGY: Showdown Looms Over a Biological Treasure Trove

* News Focus

- RINDERPEST: Driven to Extinction

- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: Protein Structure Initiative: Phase 3 or Phase Out

- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: Researchers Hone Their Homology Tools

* Books et al.

- PALEONTOLOGY: Rise and Demise of Ghostly Animals

* Perspectives

- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY: Rethinking Ozone Production

- GEOCHEMISTRY: Are Volcanic Gases Serial Killers?

* Reviews

- Nanominerals, Mineral Nanoparticles, and Earth Systems

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14 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5869, Pages 1453-1551 (Click on the TITLE for full-text)

* News of the Week

- SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Two Papers From Korean Lab Found to Lack 'Scientific Truth'

- DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Proposed Frog Ban Makes a Splash

- EDUCATION: Spanish Scientists Question Accreditation Plan

- INNOVATION: U.K.'s Royal Society Ventures Into Funding Start-Up Companies

* News Focus

- AGRICULTURE: Dueling Visions for a Hungry World

- COMPUTER SCIENCE: Cryptologists Cook Up Some Hash for New 'Bake-Off'

- COMPUTER SCIENCE: Hash of the Future?

* Letters

- Going Public with the Scientific Process

* Books et al.

- COMMUNICATING SCIENCE: Fresh Renderings of Physics

- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: On Ends and Means

* Perspectives

- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Observing Our Origins

- SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: Customized Signaling Circuits

- PHYSICS: This Coincidence Cannot Be Accidental

* Brevia

- Predators Induce Cloning in Echinoderm Larvae

* Reports

- Energy Gaps and Kohn Anomalies in Elemental Superconductors

- The Chlorine Isotope Composition of Earth's Mantle

- Caribbean Reef Development Was Independent of Coral Diversity over 28 Million Years

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 29th February & 7th March 2008. Please note, that I select only some of the titles. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues.

7 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5868, Pages 1303-1414
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* News of the Week
- NATURAL DISASTERS: Ecologists Report Huge Storm Losses in China's Forests
- PHYSICS: Test of Hawking's Prediction on the Horizon With Mock 'White Hole'
- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Electron Shadow Hints at Invisible Rings Around a Moon
* News Focus
- NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS: Preparing for Doomsday
- PALEONTOLOGY: Experts Find No Evidence for a Mammoth-Killer Impact
- PLANT SCIENCES: Corn Genomics Pops Wide Open
* Letters
- Editorial Expression of Concern
- Rewarding Reviewers
- Rating Reviewers
- Preventing Inequity in International Research
* Books et al.
- COMPUTERS: News from Avatar Editors
* Perspectives
- GEOLOGY: Canyon Cutting on a Grand Time Scale
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: A Tail Tale for U
- OCEANS: On Phytoplankton Trends
- COMPUTER SCIENCE: Science 2.0
* Brevia
- Dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a Foraging Cue for Reef Fishes
* Research Articles
- Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics

* Reports

- Fiber-Optical Analog of the Event Horizon

- Age and Evolution of the Grand Canyon Revealed by U-Pb Dating of Water Table-Type Speleothems

- TOPLESS Mediates Auxin-Dependent Transcriptional Repression During Arabidopsis Embryogenesis

29 February 2008Vol 319, Issue 5867, Pages 1157-1268

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5867/index.dtl

Special issue: Quantum matter

* Perspectives

- Quantum Gases

- Quantum Liquids

- Quantum Critical Electron Systems: The Uncharted Sign Worlds

* News of the Week

- SCIENCE EDUCATION: Florida Standards Support Evolution--With a Twist

- PEER REVIEW: NIH Urged to Focus on New Ideas, New Applicants

- SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Chemist Found Responsible for Ethical Breaches

- ANNETTE SCHAVAN INTERVIEW: German Science Takes an International View

* News Focus

- RESEARCH FUNDING: Are Epigeneticists Ready for Big Science?

- ATOMIC PHYSICS: Insights Flow From Ultracold Atoms That Mimic Superconductors

- PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Rocking the Cradle of Humanity

* Books et al.

- EVOLUTION: Happening Now, Outdoors

* Education Forum

- INQUIRY LEARNING: Integrating Content Detail and Critical Reasoning by Peer Review

* Perspectives

- CELL BIOLOGY: No ESCRTs for Exosomes

- PHYSICS: Complexity in Fusion Plasmas

- CHEMISTRY: An Enlightening Structure-Function Relationship

- CHEMISTRY: Getting Specific About Specific Ion Effects

* Brevia

- Ubiquity of Biological Ice Nucleators in Snowfall

* Reports

- Proton Radiography of Inertial Fusion Implosions

- Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

- Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

- Leading-Edge Vortex Improves Lift in Slow-Flying Bats

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 15th & 22nd of February 2008. Please note, that I select only some of the titles. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues.

22 February 2008Vol 319, Issue 5866, Pages 1005-1123

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* News of the Week

- SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: Harvard Faculty Votes to Make Open Access Its Default Mode

- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Lawmakers Claim Great Lakes Report Was 'Suppressed'

- AIDS RESEARCH: Microbicide Fails to Protect Against HIV

- SPECIES CONSERVATION: Tigers in Decline, Indian Survey Finds

- AAAS ANNUAL MEETING: How Human Intelligence Evolved--Is It Science or 'Paleofantasy'?

* News Focus

- EDUCATION: A New Bottom Line For School Science

- EVOLUTION: Crossing the Divide

- GEOLOGY: Japan's Ocean Drilling Vessel Debuts to Rave Reviews

* Letters

- The Legitimacy of Genetic Ancestry Tests

- Soil Erosion: A Carbon Sink or Source?

* Perspectives

- CANCER: A Skin Cancer Virus?

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: The Cutting Edge of Plasma Etching

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Bioinspired Structural Materials

* Brevia

- Juvenile Hormone Regulates Butterfly Larval Pattern Switches

* Reports

- Bioinspired Design and Assembly of Platelet Reinforced Polymer Films

- Atomic-Scale Chemical Imaging of Composition and Bonding by Aberration-Corrected Microscopy

- Extending Earthquakes' Reach Through Cascading

- Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

* Technical Comments

- Comment on "International Conservation Policy Delivers Benefits for Birds in Europe"

15 February 2008Vol 319, Issue 5865, Pages 873-969

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5865/index.dtl

* News of the Week

- ASTRONOMY: Alien Planetary System Looks a Lot Like Home

- ECOLOGY: Senate Bill Would Scale Up Forest Restoration

- GLOBAL WARMING: Another Side to the Climate-Cloud Conundrum Finally Revealed

* News Focus

- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Wolves at the Door of a More Dangerous World

- CHEMISTRY: Framework Materials Grab CO2 and Researchers' Attention

- DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS: In South Africa, XDR TB and HIV Prove a Deadly Combination

- DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS: Research Project Mimics TB Transmission

- JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETING: Number Theorists' Big Cover-Up Proves Harder Than It Looks

* Letters

- Climate Change: A Titanic Challenge

- A Nobel Lesson: The Grant Behind the Prize

- Making Sense of Scrambled Genomes

* Policy Forum

- TOXICOLOGY: Transforming Environmental Health Protection
* Perspectives
- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Making Strong Fibers
- ECOLOGY: Green with Complexity
* Reports
- Electron-Driven Acid-Base Chemistry: Proton Transfer from Hydrogen Chloride to Ammonia
- Rogue Mantle Helium and Neon
- A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems
- Effects of Predator Hunting Mode on Grassland Ecosystem Function
- The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning
* Technical Comments
- Comment on "The Latitudinal Gradient in Recent Speciation and Extinction Rates of Birds and Mammals"