This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 20 January 2006: 299.
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Editorial:
Acts of God?

Donald Kennedy
Science 20 January 2006: 303.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 20 January 2006: 311.
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NEW PRODUCTS

Science 20 January 2006: 399.
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News of the Week

AVIAN INFLUENZA: Amid Mayhem in Turkey, Experts See New Chances for Research

Martin Enserink
Science 20 January 2006: 314-315.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: WHO Proposes Plan to Stop Pandemic in Its Tracks

Dennis Normile
Science 20 January 2006: 315-316.
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COSMOLOGY: Astronomers Push and Pull Over Dark Energy's Role in Cosmos

Robert Irion
Science 20 January 2006: 316.
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PSYCHOLOGY: Hunter-Gatherers Grasp Geometry

Constance Holden
Science 20 January 2006: 317.
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NONPROLIFERATION: India Struggles to Put Its Nuclear House in Order

Richard Stone
Science 20 January 2006: 318-319.
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CNRS SHAKEUP: France's Basic Science Agency Hopes New Lineup Will Resolve Crisis

Barbara Casassus
Science 20 January 2006: 319.
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SOUTH KOREAN SCIENCE: Armed With Cash, Institute Chief Launches an Education 'Blitzkrieg'

Richard Stone
Science 20 January 2006: 321.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Hwang Aftereffects Reverberate at Journals

Jennifer Couzin, Constance Holden, and Sei Chong
Science 20 January 2006: 321.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

DRUG DEVELOPMENT: Drugs Inspired by a Drug

Jean Marx
Science 20 January 2006: 322-325.
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ARCHAEOLOGY: Rising Water Poses Threat to Egypt's Antiquities

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 January 2006: 326-327.
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ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeological Pharaoh Sets Determined Course for Egypt

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 January 2006: 326-327.
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BIOMEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAMS: NIH Told to Get Serious About Giving Minorities a Hand

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 January 2006: 328-329.
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BIOMEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAMS: Will This Bridge Take Me to the Lab?

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 January 2006: 329.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING: Sea Slug Inks Its Way to Safety

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 January 2006: 330-331.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING: Was Lucy's a Fighting Family? Look at Her Legs

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 January 2006: 330.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING: Water Launches Spores Like a Rocket

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 January 2006: 331.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING: Crab, Raccoon Play Tag Team Against Turtle

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 January 2006: 331.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 20 January 2006: 335.
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 Editorial Retraction

Donald Kennedy
Science 20 January 2006: 335.
Published online 12 January 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1124926] (in Science Express Letters)
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 Madison and Climate Change Policy

Jonathan B. Wiener, Richard B. Stewart, James K. Hammitt, Jean-Charles Hourcade;, David G. Victor, Joshua C. House, and Sarah Joy
Science 20 January 2006: 335-336.
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 Advising on Publication

Stewart Simonson
Science 20 January 2006: 336-337.
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 HIV Prevention in Adolescents

Rose E. Frisch
Science 20 January 2006: 337.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

CHEMISTRY: Light Scattered by Air

Gerald R. Van Hecke
Science 20 January 2006: 338-339.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Linking Neurons and Ethics

Xavier Bosch
Science 20 January 2006: 339.
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Books Received

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Policy Forum

PLANETARY SCIENCE: Risks in Space from Orbiting Debris

J.-C. Liou and N. L. Johnson
Science 20 January 2006: 340-341.
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY: Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora

Alexander Tomasz
Science 20 January 2006: 342-343.
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CELL BIOLOGY: Serving Up a Plate of Chromosomes

Rebecca Heald
Science 20 January 2006: 343-344.
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APPLIED PHYSICS: Helical Spin Order on the Move

Franco Nori and Akira Tonomura
Science 20 January 2006: 344-345.
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ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Nucleosynthesis in Binary Stars

C. Simon Jeffery, Christopher A. Tout, and John C. Lattanzio
Science 20 January 2006: 345-346.
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Review

The Impact of Structural Genomics: Expectations and Outcomes

John-Marc Chandonia and Steven E. Brenner
Science 20 January 2006: 347-351.
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Brevia

Post-Wildfire Logging Hinders Regeneration and Increases Fire Risk

D. C. Donato, J. B. Fontaine, J. L. Campbell, W. D. Robinson, J. B. Kauffman, and B. E. Law
Science 20 January 2006: 352.
Published online 5 January 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1122855] (in Science Express Brevia)
Unexpectedly, by disturbing the soil, salvage logging after a fire in a Douglas fir forest reduced conifer seedling regeneration by 73 percent and also added kindling to the forest floor. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Phospholipid Nonwoven Electrospun Membranes

Matthew G. McKee, John M. Layman, Matthew P. Cashion, and Timothy E. Long
Science 20 January 2006: 353-355.
Electrospinning, used to form thin polymer fibers, can be applied to concentrated solutions of phospholipids to form fibers and membranes in a single step. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Covalently Bridging Gaps in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Conducting Molecules

Xuefeng Guo, Joshua P. Small, Jennifer E. Klare, Yiliang Wang, Meninder S. Purewal, Iris W. Tam, Byung Hee Hong, Robert Caldwell, Limin Huang, Stephen O'Brien, Jiaming Yan, Ronald Breslow, Shalom J. Wind, James Hone, Philip Kim, and Colin Nuckolls
Science 20 January 2006: 356-359.
Precise cutting of single-wall nanotubes yields an electrode tip that reacts to form a single-molecule bridge, providing a robust electronic contact for, for example, a tiny pH meter. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Real-Space Observation of Helical Spin Order

Masaya Uchida, Yoshinori Onose, Yoshio Matsui, and Yoshinori Tokura
Science 20 January 2006: 359-361.
Lorentz microscopy shows that helical spin order groups of electronic spins oriented in a helix in different crystallographic layers is greatly influenced by defects in a crystal. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Solvent-Free Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Aldehydes Using Au-Pd/TiO₂ Catalysts

Dan I. Enache, Jennifer K. Edwards, Philip Landon, Benjamin Solsona-Espriu, Albert F. Carley, Andrew A. Herzing, Masashi Watanabe, Christopher J. Kiely, David W. Knight, and Graham J. Hutchings
Science 20 January 2006: 362-365.
Gold-palladium nanocrystals on titanium dioxide efficiently catalyze aldehyde synthesis from primary alcohols, an important class of industrial reactions. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Internal Rotation and Spin Conversion of CH₃OH in Solid para-Hydrogen

Yuan-Pern Lee, Yu-Jong Wu, R. M. Lees, Li-Hong Xu, and Jon T. Hougen
Science 20 January 2006: 365-368.
Methanol in a para-hydrogen matrix can still undergo internal torsion, revealing spin conversions that are obscured in more complex gas-phase spectra. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Formation of Glaciers on Mars by Atmospheric Precipitation at High Obliquity

F. Forget, R. M. Haberle, F. Montmessin, B. Levrard, and J. W. Head
Science 20 January 2006: 368-371.
Climate simulations show that when Mars' axis was tilted by 45° in the recent past, water ice glaciers could have formed on the flanks of Mars' large volcanoes where glacial deposits are now seen. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

South-Seeking Magnetotactic Bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere

Sheri L. Simmons, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Katrina J. Edwards
Science 20 January 2006: 371-374.
It has been assumed that marine bacteria in the northern hemisphere all swim toward magnetic north, but blooms of south-seeking ones are actually mixed in. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Sampling the Antibiotic Resistome

Vanessa M. D'Costa, Katherine M. McGrann, Donald W. Hughes, and Gerard D. Wright
Science 20 January 2006: 374-377.
Of 480 bacterial strains isolated from diverse soil samples, each was resistant to at least seven antibiotics and some to as many as 20. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Vaccinia Virus-Induced Cell Motility Requires F11L-Mediated Inhibition of RhoA Signaling

Ferran Valderrama, João V. Cordeiro, Sibylle Schleich, Friedrich Frischknecht, and Michael Way
Science 20 January 2006: 377-381.
Vaccinia virus causes infected cells to migrate and alters their adhesion properties by rearranging the actin cytoskeleton. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Core Knowledge of Geometry in an Amazonian Indigene Group

Stanislas Dehaene, Véronique Izard, Pierre Pica, and Elizabeth Spelke
Science 20 January 2006: 381-384.
Children and adults of an indigenous group from Amazonia use geometrical concepts despite the lack of specific words to describe them. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Molecular Framework for Plant Regeneration

Jian Xu, Hugo Hofhuis, Renze Heidstra, Michael Sauer, Jirí Friml, and Ben Scheres
Science 20 January 2006: 385-388.
After a plant is wounded, flow of a growth factor in plant roots is disrupted, causing differentiation of cells that then redirect the growth factor to trigger regeneration. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Chromosomes Can Congress to the Metaphase Plate Before Biorientation

Tarun M. Kapoor, Michael A. Lampson, Polla Hergert, Lisa Cameron, Daniela Cimini, E. D. Salmon, Bruce F. McEwen, and Alexey Khodjakov
Science 20 January 2006: 388-391.
During mitosis, duplicated chromosomes pulled by a fiber toward one pole of the cell move back to the middle by hitching a ride on a fiber of an already-positioned chromosome set. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA

Hendrik N. Poinar, Carsten Schwarz, Ji Qi, Beth Shapiro, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Bernard Buigues, Alexei Tikhonov, Daniel H. Huson, Lynn P. Tomsho, Alexander Auch, Markus Rampp, Webb Miller, and Stephan C. Schuster
Science 20 January 2006: 392-394.
Published online 20 December 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1123360] (in Science Express Reports)
Recovery and sequencing of large amounts to mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from an 18,000-year-old mammoth support the evolution of mammoths from elephants about 6 million years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Methylation of tRNA^Asp by the DNA Methyltransferase Homolog Dnmt2

Mary Grace Goll, Finn Kirpekar, Keith A. Maggert, Jeffrey A. Yoder, Chih-Lin Hsieh, Xiaoyu Zhang, Kent G. Golic, Steven E. Jacobsen, and Timothy H. Bestor
Science 20 January 2006: 395-398.
A methyltransferase widely thought to add methyl groups to DNA actually covalently methylates transfer RNA. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|