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Probed But Not Perturbed >> | Insight into Silks | Tilting Toward Reaction | Devil in the Detail | Waiting to Exhale | Straining Graphene's Electronic States | Manufacturing Nanomaterials | Sinking in Slowly | Epithelial Cleft Formation | Toward Alkane Synthesis | Building the Heart | Another Cell Culprit in Prostate Cancer | Astrocytes, ATP, Brainstem, and Breathing | From Superfluid to Mott Insulator

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Editors' Choice

Archaeology: Tracing the Ancient Glass Trade | Psychology: Notes from Underground | Pharmacology: Partners in Pain Prevention | Physics: Squeezing Fermi Gases into Two Dimensions | Evolution: Growing Closer Together | Chemistry: Watching Rings Cycle | Neuroscience: Splicing Misdirects Migrants

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Random Samples

Foundling | Send in the Wasps | You're Funny, HAL | Map to the Future

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[Editorial] Reframing Science Standards

Author: Bruce Alberts

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[News of the Week] Archaeology: Copper Mine Threatens Ancient Monastery in Afghanistan

A Chinese company intends to blow up an ancient Buddhist monastery south of Kabul to make way for a massive copper mine. The plan has sparked outrage among Afghan and French archaeologists.

Author: Andrew Lawler

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[News of the Week] 2011 Budget: NSF Funding Request Faring Well in Congress

While the 2011 budget requests of other U.S. research agencies are struggling to stay afloat in choppy fiscal seas, so far the National Science Foundation's is sailing through Congress largely intact.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis

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[News of the Week] Volcanology: Is China's Riskiest Volcano Stirring Or Merely Biding Its Time?

Last month, a South Korean geologist declared that a 2744-meter-tall volcano on the border of China and North Korea is showing signs of waking from a century-long slumber. But Chinese volcanologists discount the threat and insist that the volcano is quiet.

Author: Richard Stone

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[News of the Week] High Energy Physics: Fermilab Physicists Don't See Higgs, Argue They Should Keep Looking

Quelling rumors, Fermilab physicists announced at the International Conference on High Energy Physics that they had not yet spotted a long-sought particle called the Higgs boson—although they have narrowed the range of its mass.

Author: Adrian Cho

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[News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog

ScienceInsider reported this week that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) declared the effort to pass a mandatory cap on comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions dead as he couldn't muster a bipartisan supermajority of 60 lawmakers, among other stories.

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[News of the Week] International Conference: Money Woes Cast Shadow Over HIV/AIDS, But Ray of Light in South Africa

At the 18th International AIDS Conference last week, the South African government—which from 1999 to 2008 had a president who questioned whether HIV even caused disease and a health minister who advocated lemons and garlic for treatment—declared that "Today, we are guided by science."

Author: Jon Cohen

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[News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site

ScienceNOW reported this week that a bacterium can bring leaves back from the dead; astronomers have vetted a new method for finding habitable planets—by testing it on Earth; and "locked-in" patients can communicate with the outside world through sniffing, thanks to a new technology; among other stories.

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[News Focus] Is Pharma Running Out of Brainy Ideas?

Recent cutbacks raise concerns about the future of drug development for nervous system disorders.

Author: Greg Miller

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[News Focus] Ecology: Europe Tries to Save Its Eels

New national efforts to save the European eel face political and scientific challenges.

Author: Gretchen Vogel

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[News Focus] Exploration: Making Smarter, Savvier Robots

What machines of the future really need to learn, say experts who plan to have them explore the far reaches of the solar system, is more independent behavior.

Author: Sam Kean

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[Letter] Immigration Law Jeopardizes University Collaboration

Authors: José Antonio de la Peña, Meredith Hay, Carlos Arámburo de la Hoz, Joaquin Ruiz

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[Letter] Graduate Education: The Future Is Now

Authors: William B. Russel, Suzanne Ortega

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[Letter] Sustainability: A Household Word

Author: Jianguo Liu

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[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications

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[Technical Comment] Comment on “Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton”

Author: Jef Huisman

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[Technical Response] Response to Comment on “Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton”

Authors: Andrew D. Barton, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Glenn Flierl, Jason Bragg, Michael J. Follows

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