2004 Visualization Challenge

2004 Visualization Challenge

Curt Suplee and Monica Bradford
Science 24 September 2004: 1903.
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News

2004 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Photography

David Grimm
Science 24 September 2004: 1904.
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2004 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Illustration

David Grimm
Science 24 September 2004: 1905.
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2004 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Informational Graphics

David Grimm
Science 24 September 2004: 1906.
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2004 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Multimedia--Interactive

David Grimm
Science 24 September 2004: 1906.
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2004 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Multimedia--Noninteractive

David Grimm
Science 24 September 2004: 1907.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science and the Bush Administration

David Baltimore
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 24 September 2004: 1925.

 New Products

Science 24 September 2004: 1977.
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News of the Week

SPACE SCIENCE:
Rising Cost of Shuttle and Hubble Could Break NASA Budget

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 September 2004: 1882-1883.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
President Reverses Course, Taps Bement as Director

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 24 September 2004: 1883.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Oldest Human Femur Wades Into Controversy

Ann Gibbons
Science 24 September 2004: 1885.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Scientist Pleads Guilty of Receiving Illegally Imported Avian Flu Virus

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 24 September 2004: 1886.
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DOE LABS:
Firing Draws Protest at Los Alamos

David Malakoff and Charles Seife
Science 24 September 2004: 1886.
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EUROPEAN PATENTS:
Stem Cell Claims Face Legal Hurdles

Gretchen Vogel
Science 24 September 2004: 1887.
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SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC:
Heaven or Hellhole? Islands' Destinies Were Shaped by Geography

Erik Stokstad
Science 24 September 2004: 1889.
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RUSSIAN SCIENCE:
Academicians React Angrily to Draft Reform Plan

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 24 September 2004: 1889.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

VACCINES:
Rotavirus Vaccines' Second Chance

Leslie Roberts
Science 24 September 2004: 1890-1893.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
China Clamps Down on Mining to Preserve Cambrian Site

Dennis Normile and Xiong Lei
Science 24 September 2004: 1893-1894.
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BIOENGINEERING:
Biology and the Inkjets

Joe Alper
Science 24 September 2004: 1895.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Bit of Icy Antarctica Is Sliding Toward the Sea

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 September 2004: 1897.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION MEETING:
Reconstructing a Star's Demise, Bit by Exploded Bit

Robert Irion
Science 24 September 2004: 1898.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION MEETING:
X-ray Flares Size Up a Neutron Star

Robert Irion
Science 24 September 2004: 1898-1899.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION MEETING:
A Positron Map of the Sky

Robert Irion
Science 24 September 2004: 1899.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION MEETING:
Snapshots From the Meeting

Robert Irion
Science 24 September 2004: 1899.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 24 September 2004: 1909.
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 How Did the Horned Lizard Get Its Horns?

William R. Fouts;, John H. Christy;, Reuven Yosef;, Edmund D. Brodie, III, Kevin V. Young, and Edmund D. Brodie, Jr.
Science 24 September 2004: 1909-1910.
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 The Importance of Educating Girls

Barbara Herz
Science 24 September 2004: 1910-1911.
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 Future Global Warming Scenarios, Take 2

Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall
Science 24 September 2004: 1911-1912.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ECOLOGY:
A Checkered History

Chris D. Jiggins
Science 24 September 2004: 1913.
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INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY:
Lobster Tales

Esther Sternberg
Science 24 September 2004: 1914.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Globalization, Migration, and Latin American Ecosystems

T. Mitchell Aide and H. Ricardo Grau
Science 24 September 2004: 1915-1916.
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
Silent Heralds of Megathrust Earthquakes?

Alfred Hirn and Mireille Laigle
Science 24 September 2004: 1917-1918.
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BIOMEDICINE:
A Fresh Look at BSE

Bruce Chesebro
Science 24 September 2004: 1918-1921.
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PHYSICS:
Superfluidity in a Crystal?

Tony Leggett
Science 24 September 2004: 1921-1922.
Published online 2 September 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1103584] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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ECOLOGY:
Where Rivers Meet

Claude Gascon and Michael Leonard Smith
Science 24 September 2004: 1922-1923.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Smart Biomaterials

Daniel G. Anderson, Jason A. Burdick, and Robert Langer
Science 24 September 2004: 1923-1924.
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Review

Self-Organized Patchiness and Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems

Max Rietkerk, Stefan C. Dekker, Peter C. de Ruiter, and Johan van de Koppel
Science 24 September 2004: 1926-1929.
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Brevia

A Triassic Aquatic Protorosaur with an Extremely Long Neck

Chun Li, Olivier Rieppel, and Michael C. LaBarbera
Science 24 September 2004: 1931.
A Triassic protorosaur from China lived in water and had 25 vertebrae in its long neck, twice as many as other protorosaurs. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Solar Wind-Induced Atmospheric Erosion at Mars: First Results from ASPERA-3 on Mars Express

R. Lundin, S. Barabash, H. Andersson, M. Holmström, A. Grigoriev, M. Yamauchi, J.-A. Sauvaud, A. Fedorov, E. Budnik, J.-J. Thocaven, D. Winningham, R. Frahm, J. Scherrer, J. Sharber, K. Asamura, H. Hayakawa, A. Coates, D. R. Linder, C. Curtis, K. C. Hsieh, B. R. Sandel, M. Grande, M. Carter, D. H. Reading, H. Koskinen, E. Kallio, P. Riihela, W. Schmidt, T. Säles, J. Kozyra, N. Krupp, J. Woch, J. Luhmann, S. McKenna-Lawler, R. Cerulli-Irelli, S. Orsini, M. Maggi, A. Mura, A. Milillo, E. Roelof, D. Williams, S. Livi, P. Brandt, P. Wurz, and P. Bochsler
Science 24 September 2004: 1933-1936.
Observations from Mars Express show that the solar wind can penetrate deeply and irregularly into the martian atmosphere, ionizing gases and increasing their escape. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 1 Is a Critical bHLH Regulator of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis

Enamul Huq, Bassem Al-Sady, Matthew Hudson, Chanhong Kim, Klaus Apel, and Peter H. Quail
Science 24 September 2004: 1937-1941.
When plant seedlings break ground and are first exposed to light, a specific transcription factor is activated that initiates chlorophyll synthesis. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Observation of Superflow in Solid Helium

E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan
Science 24 September 2004: 1941-1944.
Published online 2 September 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1101501] (in Science Express Reports)
Superfluid-like behavior is observed for solid helium, indicating that a solid-phase Bose-Einstein condensate has been prepared. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Visualization of Dislocation Dynamics in Colloidal Crystals

Peter Schall, Itai Cohen, David A. Weitz, and Frans Spaepen
Science 24 September 2004: 1944-1948.
A colloidal structure built up of small silica balls can be used to mimic the dynamics of atomic defects in crystals. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Ice Flow Direction Change in Interior West Antarctica

Martin J. Siegert, Brian Welch, David Morse, Andreas Vieli, Donald D. Blankenship, Ian Joughin, Edward C. King, Gwendolyn J.-M. C. Leysinger Vieli, Antony J. Payne, and Robert Jacobel
Science 24 September 2004: 1948-1951.
Radar imaging of folded ice deep in the interior of the West Antarctic ice sheet implies that the center of the ice sheet flowed in a different direction during glacial times. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Fractionation of the Platinum-Group Elements During Mantle Melting

Conny Bockrath, Chris Ballhaus, and Astrid Holzheid
Science 24 September 2004: 1951-1953.
Trace metals are differentially incorporated into two sulfide phases when Earth's mantle melts, accounting for compositional differences between the mantle residue and crust formed from the melt. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Distance Communication Transfer of HIV Prevention Interventions to Service Providers

Jeffrey A. Kelly, Anton M. Somlai, Eric G. Benotsch, Timothy L. McAuliffe, Yuri A. Amirkhanian, Kevin D. Brown, L. Yvonne Stevenson, M. Isa Fernandez, Cheryl Sitzler, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Steven D. Pinkerton, Lance S. Weinhardt, and Karen M. Opgenorth
Science 24 September 2004: 1953-1955.
Use of a CD teaching tool helps health care providers in developing countries adopt new AIDS prevention programs more effectively than do previous methods. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands

Tim M. Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Richard P. Duncan, Karl L. Evans, and Kevin J. Gaston
Science 24 September 2004: 1955-1958.
Rodents, cats, and other small mammals introduced by modern humans outstrip all other factors in threatening endemic island bird populations with extinction. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Impact of United States Recreational Fisheries on Marine Fish Populations

Felicia C. Coleman, Will F. Figueira, Jeffrey S. Ueland, and Larry B. Crowder
Science 24 September 2004: 1958-1960.
Published online 26 August 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1100397] (in Science Express Reports)
Analysis of United States marine fisheries records shows that recreational fishing has been a significant, sometimes major, factor in the decline of several fish stocks. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Amazonian Ecology: Tributaries Enhance the Diversity of Electric Fishes

Cristina Cox Fernandes, Jeffrey Podos, and John G. Lundberg
Science 24 September 2004: 1960-1962.
The species diversity of electric fish in the Amazon River is greater downstream of the confluence of each of its tributaries. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Soma-Germ Line Competition for Lipid Phosphate Uptake Regulates Germ Cell Migration and Survival

A. D. Renault, Y. J. Sigal, A. J. Morris, and R. Lehmann
Science 24 September 2004: 1963-1966.
Published online 26 August 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1102421] (in Science Express Reports)
The hydrolysis and uptake of a lipid signaling molecule by somatic cells repels germ cells, but hydrolysis and uptake by germ cells themselves is required for their survival and migration. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Genomic Sequence of the Accidental Pathogen Legionella pneumophila

Minchen Chien, Irina Morozova, Shundi Shi, Huitao Sheng, Jing Chen, Shawn M. Gomez, Gifty Asamani, Kendra Hill, John Nuara, Marc Feder, Justin Rineer, Joseph J. Greenberg, Valeria Steshenko, Samantha H. Park, Baohui Zhao, Elita Teplitskaya, John R. Edwards, Sergey Pampou, Anthi Georghiou, I.-Chun Chou, William Iannuccilli, Michael E. Ulz, Dae H. Kim, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Curtis Goldsberry, Pavel Morozov, Stuart G. Fischer, Gil Segal, Xiaoyan Qu, Andrey Rzhetsky, Peisen Zhang, Eftihia Cayanis, Pieter J. De Jong, Jingyue Ju, Sergey Kalachikov, Howard A. Shuman, and James J. Russo
Science 24 September 2004: 1966-1968.
The genome of the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease contains more than 350 binding proteins and transporters, which may account for its abilities to resist eradication and to infect a wide variety of hosts. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Nitric Oxide Represses the Arabidopsis Floral Transition

Yikun He, Ru-Hang Tang, Yi Hao, Robert D. Stevens, Charles W. Cook, Sun M. Ahn, Liufang Jing, Zhongguang Yang, Longen Chen, Fangqing Guo, Fabio Fiorani, Robert B. Jackson, Nigel M. Crawford, and Zhen-Ming Pei
Science 24 September 2004: 1968-1971.
Production of the gas nitric oxide in plant cells is suppressed by internal cues and day length, releasing its inhibition of flowering. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Recycling Endosomes Supply AMPA Receptors for LTP

Mikyoung Park, Esther C. Penick, Jeffrey G. Edwards, Julie A. Kauer, and Michael D. Ehlers
Science 24 September 2004: 1972-1975.
The receptors added to strengthen synapses on neurons during learning come from a pool carried in recycled membranes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "Role of NMDA Receptor Subtypes in Governing the Direction of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity"

Dmitri A. Rusakov, Annalisa Scimemi, Matthew C. Walker, and Dimitri M. Kullmann
Science 24 September 2004: 1912.
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 Response to Comment on "Role of NMDA Receptor Subtypes in Governing the Direction of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity"

Tak Pan Wong, Lidong Liu, Morgan Sheng, and Yu Tian Wang
Science 24 September 2004: 1912.
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