This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Why Care About HP?

Donald Kennedy
Science 27 October 2006: 565.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 27 October 2006: 571.
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Science Podcast

Science 27 October 2006: 667.
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NEW PRODUCTS

Science 27 October 2006: 667.
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News of the Week

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Lucy's Tour Abroad Sparks Protests

Ann Gibbons
Science 27 October 2006: 574-575.
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OCEAN DRILLING: Higher Costs, Accident Imperil Plans

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 27 October 2006: 577.
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GENETICS: Honey Bee Genome Illuminates Insect Evolution and Social Behavior

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 27 October 2006: 578-579.
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EUROPE: Dark-Horse Neutron Source Heads Belatedly Toward Starting Line

Daniel Clery
Science 27 October 2006: 580-581.
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SCIENCE AND BUSINESS: DeCODE Adds Plagiarism Allegation to Its Case

Eliot Marshall
Science 27 October 2006: 580.
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HUMAN RIGHTS: Scientists Urge Libya to Free Medics

John Bohannon
Science 27 October 2006: 581.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION: Restoring Yosemite's Twin

Erik Stokstad
Science 27 October 2006: 582-584.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION: Big Dams Ready for Teardown

Erik Stokstad
Science 27 October 2006: 584.
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GENETICS: Unraveling Pain's DNA

Jennifer Couzin
Science 27 October 2006: 585-586.
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PROFILE: DIOLA BAGAYOKO: Failure Is Not an Option for These Minority Students

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 27 October 2006: 587-588.
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AAS DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES: An Even Drier-Looking Moon

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 October 2006: 589.
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AAS DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES: Titan Lives--Geologically, at Least

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 October 2006: 589-590.
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AAS DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES: The Kuiper Belt Loses Some of Its Mystery

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 October 2006: 590.
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AAS DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES: Snapshots From the Meeting

Richard A. Kerr
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 27 October 2006: 592.
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 Editorial Expression of Concern

Donald Kennedy
Science 27 October 2006: 592.
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 On the Lack of Women in Academic Science

Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek;, Felisa A. Smith;, and George Gordon Roberts
Science 27 October 2006: 592-593.
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 Property Rights and Ocean Governance

Tracy Yandle;, Gail Osherenko, Oran R. Young, Larry B. Crowder, James A. Wilson, and Elliott A. Norse
Science 27 October 2006: 593-595.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE: The Humanistic and Religious Foundations of Deep Time

Naomi Oreskes
Science 27 October 2006: 596-597.
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PHYSICS: Teach the Controversy!

Aaron Pierce
Science 27 October 2006: 597-598.
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Books Received

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Education Forum

DIVERSITY: Enhanced: Gender Similarities in Mathematics and Science

Janet Shibley Hyde and Marcia C. Linn
Science 27 October 2006: 599-600.
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Perspectives

APPLIED PHYSICS: High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy

Paul K. Hansma, Georg Schitter, Georg E. Fantner, and Craig Prater
Science 27 October 2006: 601-602.
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BIOMEDICINE: Avoiding Collateral Damage in Alzheimer's Disease Treatment

Charles Glabe
Science 27 October 2006: 602-603.
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BIOCHEMISTRY: Directing Biosynthesis

Michael A. Fischbach and Christopher T. Walsh
Science 27 October 2006: 603-605.
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ASTRONOMY: Born with Flare

Charles Telesco
Science 27 October 2006: 605-606.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Charting Olfactory Maps

Catherine Dulac
Science 27 October 2006: 606-607.
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OCEANS: New Pieces for the Marine Sulfur Cycle Jigsaw

Gill Malin
Science 27 October 2006: 607-608.
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Association Affairs

AAAS News and Notes

Science 27 October 2006: 609.
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Review

The Economics of Information Security

Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore
Science 27 October 2006: 610-613.
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Brevia

A Fossil Bee from Early Cretaceous Burmese Amber

G. O. Poinar, Jr. and B. N. Danforth
Science 27 October 2006: 614.
A fossil bee carrying traces of pollen in 100-million-year-old amber shows that bees originated in the Cretaceous at a time of rapid diversification of angiosperms. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

BK_Ca-Cav Channel Complexes Mediate Rapid and Localized Ca²⁺-Activated K⁺ Signaling

Henrike Berkefeld, Claudia A. Sailer, Wolfgang Bildl, Volker Rohde, Jörg-Oliver Thumfart, Silke Eble, Norbert Klugbauer, Ellen Reisinger, Josef Bischofberger, Dominik Oliver, Hans-Günther Knaus, Uwe Schulte, and Bernd Fakler
Science 27 October 2006: 615-620.
Calcium channels are bound to potassium channels, allowing direct delivery of calcium to trigger potassium currents that control firing patterns and neurotransmitter release. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Anatomy of a Flaring Proto-Planetary Disk Around a Young Intermediate-Mass Star

Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Coralie Doucet, Eric Pantin, Emilie Habart, Gaspard Duchêne, François Ménard, Christophe Pinte, Sébastien Charnoz, and Jan-Willem Pel
Science 27 October 2006: 621-623.
Published online 28 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131436] (in Science Express Reports)
A star more massive than the Sun hosts a flaring disk of dust and gas, consistent with some models for the formation of disks. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Phase-Dependent Infrared Brightness of the Extrasolar Planet Andromedae b

Joseph Harrington, Brad M. Hansen, Statia H. Luszcz, Sara Seager, Drake Deming, Kristen Menou, James Y.-K. Cho, and L. Jeremy Richardson
Science 27 October 2006: 623-626.
Published online 12 October 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1133904] (in Science Express Reports)
An extrasolar planet orbiting rapidly around a nearby star shows hot day and cold night sides, implying that little horizontal energy transport occurs in its atmosphere. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Brownian Motion of an Ellipsoid

Y. Han, A. M. Alsayed, M. Nobili, J. Zhang, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
Science 27 October 2006: 626-630.
The Brownian motion of ellipsoid particles is initially anisotropic due to rotational and translational effects, in contrast to that of classically studied spheres. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

-Hydroxy and -Amino Acids Under Possible Hadean, Volcanic Origin-of-Life Conditions

Claudia Huber and Günter Wächtershäuser
Science 27 October 2006: 630-632.
Amino acids can form by hydration of CO and/or cyanide catalyzed by iron and nickel clusters under conditions that plausibly mimic volcanic vents on early Earth. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Interface Mobility from Interface Random Walk

Zachary T. Trautt, Moneesh Upmanyu, and Alain Karma
Science 27 October 2006: 632-635.
A simulation shows that impurities enhance the absolute mobility of a flat grain boundary, affecting the microstructure of materials, even with almost no driving force. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

X-ray–Induced Dissociation of H₂O and Formation of an O₂–H₂ Alloy at High Pressure

Wendy L. Mao, Ho-kwang Mao, Yue Meng, Peter J. Eng, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Yong Q. Cai, Jinfu Shu, and Russell J. Hemley
Science 27 October 2006: 636-638.
At high pressures, low-energy x-ray radiation causes water ice to dissociate to oxygen and hydrogen, which then form a stable solid alloy. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Colloid Transport of Plutonium in the Far-Field of the Mayak Production Association, Russia

Alexander P. Novikov, Stepan N. Kalmykov, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Rodney C. Ewing, François Horreard, Alex Merkulov, Sue B. Clark, Vladimir V. Tkachev, and Boris F. Myasoedov
Science 27 October 2006: 638-641.
A study at a nuclear weapons waste site in Russia shows that plutonium can be transported rapidly in groundwater, primarily via iron-oxide colloids. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Thrice Out of Africa: Ancient and Recent Expansions of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera

Charles W. Whitfield, Susanta K. Behura, Stewart H. Berlocher, Andrew G. Clark, J. Spencer Johnston, Walter S. Sheppard, Deborah R. Smith, Andrew V. Suarez, Daniel Weaver, and Neil D. Tsutsui
Science 27 October 2006: 642-645.
Gene diversity in European honey bees suggests that they emerged at least twice from Africa and that American killer bee populations arose from three distinct lineages. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Functional CpG Methylation System in a Social Insect

Ying Wang, Mireia Jorda, Peter L. Jones, Ryszard Maleszka, Xu Ling, Hugh M. Robertson, Craig A. Mizzen, Miguel A. Peinado, and Gene E. Robinson
Science 27 October 2006: 645-647.
The honey bee is the first insect shown to possess a functional, vertebrate-like DNA methylation system. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

From the Genome to the Proteome: Uncovering Peptides in the Apis Brain

Amanda B. Hummon, Timothy A. Richmond, Peter Verleyen, Geert Baggerman, Jurgen Huybrechts, Michael A. Ewing, Evy Vierstraete, Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas, Liliane Schoofs, Gene E. Robinson, and Jonathan V. Sweedler
Science 27 October 2006: 647-649.
The genome of the honey bee contains nearly 200 potential brain peptides, which may be important in regulating this insect's social behavior. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Bacterial Taxa That Limit Sulfur Flux from the Ocean

Erinn C. Howard, James R. Henriksen, Alison Buchan, Chris R. Reisch, Helmut Bürgmann, Rory Welsh, Wenying Ye, José M. González, Kimberly Mace, Samantha B. Joye, Ronald P. Kiene, William B. Whitman, and Mary Ann Moran
Science 27 October 2006: 649-652.
Cyanobacteria and diatoms assimilate some of the organic sulfur produced by other phytoplankton and thus prevent its release to the atmosphere where it would otherwise influence climate. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Uptake by Marine Phytoplankton

Maria Vila-Costa, Rafel Simó, Hyakubun Harada, Josep M. Gasol, Doris Slezak, and Ronald P. Kiene
Science 27 October 2006: 652-654.
Cyanobacteria and diatoms assimilate some of the organic sulfur produced by other phytoplankton and thus prevent its release to the atmosphere where it would otherwise influence climate. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Centrosome-Independent Role for -TuRC Proteins in the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

Hannah Müller, Marie-Laure Fogeron, Verena Lehmann, Hans Lehrach, and Bodo M. H. Lange
Science 27 October 2006: 654-657.
Centrosomal proteins are important for cell cycle progression, but their role does not require their presence in the centrosome itself. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Odorant Receptor–Derived cAMP Signals Direct Axonal Targeting

Takeshi Imai, Misao Suzuki, and Hitoshi Sakano
Science 27 October 2006: 657-661.
Published online 21 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131794] (in Science Express Reports)
The organization of the developing mouse olfactory bulb along the anterior-posterior axis is controlled by cyclic AMP signaling, which then affects gene expression. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Morphology in the Social Amoebas

Pauline Schaap, Thomas Winckler, Michaela Nelson, Elisa Alvarez-Curto, Barrie Elgie, Hiromitsu Hagiwara, James Cavender, Alicia Milano-Curto, Daniel E. Rozen, Theodor Dingermann, Rupert Mutzel, and Sandra L. Baldauf
Science 27 October 2006: 661-663.
Morphology is strikingly at odds with molecular data for classification of cellular slime molds, suggesting that a full revision of their phylogeny is needed. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Control of Peripheral Nerve Myelination by the ß-Secretase BACE1

Michael Willem, Alistair N. Garratt, Bozidar Novak, Martin Citron, Steve Kaufmann, Andrea Rittger, Bart DeStrooper, Paul Saftig, Carmen Birchmeier, and Christian Haass
Science 27 October 2006: 664-666.
Published online 21 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1132341] (in Science Express Reports)
An enzyme that cleaves the precursor of the amyloid peptide that accumulates in Alzheimer's disease unexpectedly also regulates the myelination of nerves. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "Preindustrial to Modern Interdecadal Variability in Coral Reef pH"

Richard J. Matear and Ben I. McNeil
Science 27 October 2006: 595.
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Response to Comment on "Preindustrial to Modern Interdecadal Variability in Coral Reef pH"

Carles Pelejero, Eva Calvo, Malcolm T. McCulloch, John F. Marshall, Michael K. Gagan, Janice M. Lough, and Bradley N. Opdyke
Science 27 October 2006: 595.
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