The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

Learning from Natural Disasters

Brooks Hanson
Science 20 May 2005: 1125.
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Viewpoint

A Flying Start, Then a Slow Slip

Roger Bilham
Science 20 May 2005: 1126-1127.
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Research Articles

The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004

Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Charles J. Ammon, Meredith Nettles, Steven N. Ward, Richard C. Aster, Susan L. Beck, Susan L. Bilek, Michael R. Brudzinski, Rhett Butler, Heather R. DeShon, Göran Ekström, Kenji Satake, and Stuart Sipkin
Science 20 May 2005: 1127-1133.
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Rupture Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

Charles J. Ammon, Chen Ji, Hong-Kie Thio, David Robinson, Sidao Ni, Vala Hjorleifsdottir, Hiroo Kanamori, Thorne Lay, Shamita Das, Don Helmberger, Gene Ichinose, Jascha Polet, and David Wald
Science 20 May 2005: 1133-1139.
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Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

Jeffrey Park, Teh-Ru Alex Song, Jeroen Tromp, Emile Okal, Seth Stein, Genevieve Roult, Eric Clevede, Gabi Laske, Hiroo Kanamori, Peter Davis, Jon Berger, Carla Braitenberg, Michel Van Camp, Xiang'e Lei, Heping Sun, Houze Xu, and Severine Rosat
Science 20 May 2005: 1139-1144.
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Report

Periodically Triggered Seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, After the Sumatra Earthquake

Michael West, John J. Sánchez, and Stephen R. McNutt
Science 20 May 2005: 1144-1146.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Wanted: Better Benchmarks

John H. Marburger III
Science 20 May 2005: 1087.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 New Products

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News of the Week

CELL BIOLOGY:
Korean Team Speeds Up Creation Of Cloned Human Stem Cells

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 May 2005: 1096-1097.
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COLLABORATIONS:
Japan Bars Indian Physicists From Lab

Dennis Normile
Science 20 May 2005: 1097.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Color-Changing Nanoparticles Offer A Golden Ruler for Molecules

Robert F. Service
Science 20 May 2005: 1099.
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NASA BUDGET:
Griffin Names Winners and Losers in Cost Squeeze

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 May 2005: 1100-1101.
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U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
Bunker Buster Shot Down in Opening Volley

Eli Kintisch
Science 20 May 2005: 1100.
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U.S. MILITARY FACILITIES:
Pathology Institute Hit in Base-Closing Plan

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 May 2005: 1101.
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HIGHER EDUCATION:
Harvard Pledges $50 Million To Boost Diversity on Campus

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 May 2005: 1102.
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GENOMIC MEDICINE:
Gene Sequence Study Takes a Stab at Personalized Medicine

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 May 2005: 1102.
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ECOLOGY:
Biologists Find New Species of African Monkey

Mary Beckman
Science 20 May 2005: 1103.
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PHYSICS:
Neutron Stars Could Test Quantum Effect

Charles Seife
Science 20 May 2005: 1103.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

Science 20 May 2005: 1110.
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News Focus

ASTRONOMY:
The Hunt for Stealth Galaxies

Robert Irion
Science 20 May 2005: 1104-1106.
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NONPROLIFERATION:
A Radioactive Ghost Town's Improbable New Life

Richard Stone
Science 20 May 2005: 1106-1107.
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BRUCE ALBERTS INTERVIEW:
Attention, Class: A Departing NAS President Speaks His Mind

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 May 2005: 1108.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 20 May 2005: 1112.
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 Meetings with Mentor

Judith B. Klotz
Science 20 May 2005: 1112.
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 Suction Feeding in Triassic Protorosaur?

David Peters;, Brigitte Demes, David W. Krause;, Michael LaBarbera, and Olivier Rieppel
Science 20 May 2005: 1112-1113.
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 Ancestry of Photic and Mechanic Sensation?

Bernd Fritzsch, Joram Piatigorsky;, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Gáspár Jékely, Keren Guy, Florian Raible, Joachim Wittbrodt, and Detlev Arendt
Science 20 May 2005: 1113-1114.
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Books et al.

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Clearing the View of Our Foundations

David Wengrow
Science 20 May 2005: 1115-1116.
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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND:
Seeing with the Mind's Eye

Phil Joyce
Science 20 May 2005: 1116.
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 Books Received

Science 20 May 2005: 1116.

Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
High- and Low-Cost Realities for Science and Society

Helga Nowotny
Science 20 May 2005: 1117-1118.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
Oxidative Stress and Cancer: A -Catenin Convergence

Bruce Bowerman
Science 20 May 2005: 1119-1120.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: The Interior of Mars

Yingwei Fei and Constance Bertka
Science 20 May 2005: 1120-1121.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Ignoratio Elenchi: Red Herrings in Stem Cell Research

Peter J. Quesenberry, Gerri Dooner, Mark Dooner, and Mehrdad Abedi
Science 20 May 2005: 1121-1122.
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PHYSICS:
Control at the Quantum Level

Thomas F. Krauss
Science 20 May 2005: 1122-1123.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Renewed Focus on Transfer RNA

Tina Daviter, Frank V. Murphy IV, and V. Ramakrishnan
Science 20 May 2005: 1123-1124.
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Brevia

A Cost of Long-Term Memory in Drosophila

Frederic Mery and Tadeusz J. Kawecki
Science 20 May 2005: 1148.
Fruit flies that experience long-term memory formation suffer an ecological cost in the form of quicker death when food and water are scarce. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Transcriptional Maps of 10 Human Chromosomes at 5-Nucleotide Resolution

Jill Cheng, Philipp Kapranov, Jorg Drenkow, Sujit Dike, Shane Brubaker, Sandeep Patel, Jeffrey Long, David Stern, Hari Tammana, Gregg Helt, Victor Sementchenko, Antonio Piccolboni, Stefan Bekiranov, Dione K. Bailey, Madhavan Ganesh, Srinka Ghosh, Ian Bell, Daniela S. Gerhard, and Thomas R. Gingeras
Science 20 May 2005: 1149-1154.
Published online 24 March 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1108625] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Fifteen percent of the human genome, an unexpectedly high proportion and larger than the fraction of DNA that codes for genes, seems to be transcribed into RNA. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Wet Electrons at the H₂O/TiO₂(110) Surface

Ken Onda, Bin Li, Jin Zhao, Kenneth D. Jordan, Jinlong Yang, and Hrvoje Petek
Science 20 May 2005: 1154-1158.
Widespread electron transfer reactions between oxides and water may be facilitated by a short-lived, low-energy electronic state in the surface water layer. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Deterministic Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Single Nanocavity Modes

Antonio Badolato, Kevin Hennessy, Mete Atatüre, Jan Dreiser, Evelyn Hu, Pierre M. Petroff, and Atac Imamoglu
Science 20 May 2005: 1158-1161.
Tuning an optical cavity in a photonic crystal to the properties of a nearby quantum dot allows fine control of the dynamics of this single-quantum system. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Highland Mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: A New Species of African Monkey

Trevor Jones, Carolyn L. Ehardt, Thomas M. Butynski, Tim R. B. Davenport, Noah E. Mpunga, Sophy J. Machaga, and Daniela W. De Luca
Science 20 May 2005: 1161-1164.
Two populations of a new primate species, likely numbering about 100 individuals in total, have been discovered in the mountains of southern Tanzania. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Functional Genomic Analysis of RNA Interference in C. elegans

John K. Kim, Harrison W. Gabel, Ravi S. Kamath, Muneesh Tewari, Amy Pasquinelli, Jean-François Rual, Scott Kennedy, Michael Dybbs, Nicolas Bertin, Joshua M. Kaplan, Marc Vidal, and Gary Ruvkun
Science 20 May 2005: 1164-1167.
Published online 24 March 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1109267] (in Science Express Reports)
A comprehensive screen for proteins involved in producing small RNAs that silence genes revealed more than 70 new genes in the worm. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Mutations in Col4a1 Cause Perinatal Cerebral Hemorrhage and Porencephaly

Douglas B. Gould, F. Campbell Phalan, Guido J. Breedveld, Saskia E. van Mil, Richard S. Smith, John C. Schimenti, Umberto Aguglia, Marjo S. van der Knaap, Peter Heutink, and Simon W. M. John
Science 20 May 2005: 1167-1171.
A mutation in a gene for collagen produces defects in the vasculature of the brain and thus causes cerebral hemorrhage and a neurodegenerative disease in mice and man. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Clonal Dominance of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Triggered by Retroviral Gene Marking

Olga Kustikova, Boris Fehse, Ute Modlich, Min Yang, Jochen Düllmann, Kenji Kamino, Nils von Neuhoff, Brigitte Schlegelberger, Zhixiong Li, and Christopher Baum
Science 20 May 2005: 1171-1174.
Inactivated RNA viruses inserted as markers into stem cells do not integrate randomly as assumed but selectively enhance the genes controlling cell survival. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Intracellular Fate of Salmonella Depends on the Recruitment of Kinesin

Emmanuel Boucrot, Thomas Henry, Jean-Paul Borg, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, and Stéphane Méresse
Science 20 May 2005: 1174-1178.
A bacterial pathogen seizes control of the host vacuole in which it resides by preventing a host molecular motor from moving to the vacuole and regulating its dynamics. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Active Role for tRNA in Decoding Beyond Codon:Anticodon Pairing

Luisa Cochella and Rachel Green
Science 20 May 2005: 1178-1180.
Transfer RNAs, in addition to carrying specific amino acids to the ribosome, ensure that the correct amino acids are incorporated into newly synthesized proteins. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Functional Interaction Between ß-Catenin and FOXO in Oxidative Stress Signaling

Marieke A. G. Essers, Lydia M. M. de Vries-Smits, Nick Barker, Paulien E. Polderman, Boudewijn M. T. Burgering, and Hendrik C. Korswagen
Science 20 May 2005: 1181-1184.
A signaling molecule implicated in cancer and development unexpectedly interacts with a transcription factor when a cell responds to oxidative stress. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus"

David Moreira and Purificación López-García
Science 20 May 2005: 1114.
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 Response to Comment on "The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus"

Hiroyuki Ogata, Chantal Abergel, Didier Raoult, and Jean-Michel Claverie
Science 20 May 2005: 1114.
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