SALARY SURVEY: U.S. Life Scientists Report Rising Salaries and High Job Satisfaction

Jim Austin
Science 3 November 2006: 842-847.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Salary Survey

Donald Kennedy
Science 3 November 2006: 725.
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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

NASA SPACE SCIENCE: Hubble Gets a Green Light, With Other Missions on Hold

Andrew Lawler
Science 3 November 2006: 736.
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U.S. POLITICS: Scientists Look to Missouri to Show the Way on Stem Cells

Eli Kintisch
Science 3 November 2006: 737-739.
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RESEARCH FUNDING: Olympics-Level Costs Upset Plan to Move U.K. Biomedical Institute

Eliot Marshall
Science 3 November 2006: 740.
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NIH Rules Rile Scientists, Survey Finds

JOCELYN KAISER
Science 3 November 2006: 740.
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GENETICS: Small RNAs Reveal an Activating Side

KEN GARBER
Science 3 November 2006: 741-742.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: New H5N1 Strain Emerges in Southern China

Dennis Normile
Science 3 November 2006: 742.
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BIOTERRORISM AGENTS: U.S. Panel Wants Security Rules Applied to Genomes, Not Pathogens

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 3 November 2006: 743.
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AIDS RESEARCH: Center Puts Hold on Mangabey Experiments

Jon Cohen
Science 3 November 2006: 743-745.
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ECOLOGY: Global Loss of Biodiversity Harming Ocean Bounty

Erik Stokstad
Science 3 November 2006: 745.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: The Carnivore Comeback

Martin Enserink and Gretchen Vogel
Science 3 November 2006: 746-749.
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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: On the Brink

Gretchen Vogel
Science 3 November 2006: 749.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE: Japanese Latecomer Joins Race To Build a Hard X-ray Laser

Dennis Normile
Science 3 November 2006: 751-752.
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U.S. RESEARCH POLICY: Congress Cancels Contentious Program to Bolster Industry

Eli Kintisch
Science 3 November 2006: 752-753.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 How Protected Are Coral Reefs?

Anthony Ricciardi;, Stephen C. Jameson;, Ed McManus, Charles Besançon, Tim Johnson;, Mark Spalding, Graeme Kelleher, Timothy Boucher, Lucy Fish;, Camilo Mora, Serge Andréfouët, Mark J. Costello, Christine Kranenburg, Audrey Rollo, John Veron, Kevin J. Gaston, and Ransom A. Myers
Science 3 November 2006: 757-760.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

AGRICULTURE: Chewing on the Food Chain

David L. Katz
Science 3 November 2006: 762-763.
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PLANT ECOLOGY: A Field Trip Through Diversity

Sara Alexander
Science 3 November 2006: 763.
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Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE: An Ambitious, Centrist Approach to Global Warming Legislation

David D. Doniger, Antonia V. Herzog, and Daniel A. Lashof
Science 3 November 2006: 764-765.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY: Nuclear Pore Complex Models Gel

Brian Burke
Science 3 November 2006: 766-767.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE: Polymers in the Pore

Michael Elbaum
Science 3 November 2006: 766-767.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE: Colloidal Encounters: A Matter of Attraction

Daan Frenkel
Science 3 November 2006: 768-769.
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PHYSICS: Beyond the Particle in the Box

Lars Walldén
Science 3 November 2006: 769-770.
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ECOLOGY: A Renaissance in the Study of Abundance

Brian J. McGill
Science 3 November 2006: 770-772.
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ASTRONOMY: Radio Traces of Cosmic Shock Waves

Torsten A. Enßlin
Science 3 November 2006: 772-773.
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BIOMEDICINE: Enhanced: Life, the Universe, and Body Temperature

Clifford B. Saper
Science 3 November 2006: 773-774.
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Reviews

A Century of Alzheimer's Disease

Michel Goedert and Maria Grazia Spillantini
Science 3 November 2006: 777-781.
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100 Years and Counting: Prospects for Defeating Alzheimer's Disease

Erik D. Roberson and Lennart Mucke
Science 3 November 2006: 781-784.
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Brevia

Accelerated Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Humans

Shyam Prabhakar, James P. Noonan, Svante Pääbo, and Edward M. Rubin
Science 3 November 2006: 786.
The human genome contains conserved noncoding sequences that have evolved quickly and are located near neuronal genes, suggesting a role in cognition. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, J. Emmett Duffy, Carl Folke, Benjamin S. Halpern, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Heike K. Lotze, Fiorenza Micheli, Stephen R. Palumbi, Enric Sala, Kimberley A. Selkoe, John J. Stachowicz, and Reg Watson
Science 3 November 2006: 787-790.
An extensive meta-analysis of data from 32 studies shows that loss of marine biodiversity is increasingly impairing the health of the oceans, yet these trends may still be reversible. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Giant Ringlike Radio Structures Around Galaxy Cluster Abell 3376

Joydeep Bagchi, Florence Durret, Gastão B. Lima Neto, and Surajit Paul
Science 3 November 2006: 791-794.
Giant radio arcs around a galaxy cluster may mark sites at which cosmological shock waves are organizing galactic matter into filaments and generating cosmic rays. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Imaging the Sublimation Dynamics of Colloidal Crystallites

J. R. Savage, D. W. Blair, A. J. Levine, R. A. Guyer, and A. D. Dinsmore
Science 3 November 2006: 795-798.
Upon rapid heating, colloidal crystals sublimate slowly until they reach a critical size, then suddenly melt and dissolve into a gas; proteins and glasses may behave similarly. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Pattern Formation and Shape Changes in Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels

Victor V. Yashin and Anna C. Balazs
Science 3 November 2006: 798-801.
A model shows how oscillating chemical reactions affect the shape and volume of a polymer gel confined in two dimensions, yielding a rich variety of structures. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Renewable Hydrogen from Nonvolatile Fuels by Reactive Flash Volatilization

J. R. Salge, B. J. Dreyer, P. J. Dauenhauer, and L. D. Schmidt
Science 3 November 2006: 801-804.
Heavy fuels sprayed onto hot catalysts as fine droplets in the presence of oxygen fully react to form hydrogen without waste carbon, which normally poisons the catalysts. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Coherent Electronic Fringe Structure in Incommensurate Silver-Silicon Quantum Wells

N. J. Speer, S.-J. Tang, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
Science 3 November 2006: 804-806.
Band bending allows quantum well states in atomically smooth silver films to interfere with valance band states in a silicon substrate and create additional electronic features. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Solar Nebula Heterogeneity in p-Process Samarium and Neodymium Isotopes

Rasmus Andreasen and Mukul Sharma
Science 3 November 2006: 806-809.
Published online 5 October 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131708] (in Science Express Reports)
Isotope ratios in primitive meteorites vary and differ from Earth's measured value, implying patchiness in the solar nebula originating from two stellar sources. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Barium Isotopes in Chondritic Meteorites: Implications for Planetary Reservoir Models

Michael C. Ranen and Stein B. Jacobsen
Science 3 November 2006: 809-812.
Published online 5 October 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1132595] (in Science Express Reports)
Barium isotope variations in chondritic meteorites suggest that they originated in a patch of the protosolar nebula that was enriched in supernova-derived material. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity

Bill Shipley, Denis Vile, and Éric Garnier
Science 3 November 2006: 812-814.
Published online 5 October 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131344] (in Science Express Reports)
A quantitative model based on plant traits can predict with more than 90 percent success the changes in species abundance that follow abandonment of agricultural sites in southern France. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

FG-Rich Repeats of Nuclear Pore Proteins Form a Three-Dimensional Meshwork with Hydrogel-Like Properties

Steffen Frey, Ralf P. Richter, and Dirk Görlich
Science 3 November 2006: 815-817.
The sieve-like mesh within the pores in the nuclear membrane is a reversible protein hydrogel, with hydrophobic bridges connecting polypeptide chains. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Protrudin Induces Neurite Formation by Directional Membrane Trafficking

Michiko Shirane and Keiichi I. Nakayama
Science 3 November 2006: 818-821.
Nerve growth factor promotes extension of neurites by local phosphorylation of a newly described protein that then promotes membrane trafficking. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Where Water Is Oxidized to Dioxygen: Structure of the Photosynthetic Mn₄Ca Cluster

Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Kenneth Sauer, Matthew J. Latimer, Yulia Pushkar, Jacek Biesiadka, Bernhard Loll, Wolfram Saenger, Johannes Messinger, Athina Zouni, and Vittal K. Yachandra
Science 3 November 2006: 821-825.
X-ray absorption spectrometry and available crystal structures begin to resolve the structure for the metal cluster that catalyzes oxidation of water during photosynthesis. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Transgenic Mice with a Reduced Core Body Temperature Have an Increased Life Span

Bruno Conti, Manuel Sanchez-Alavez, Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer, Maria Concetta Morale, Jacinta Lucero, Sara Brownell, Veronique Fabre, Salvador Huitron-Resendiz, Steven Henriksen, Eric P. Zorrilla, Luis de Lecea, and Tamas Bartfai
Science 3 November 2006: 825-828.
Transgenic mice engineered to have a 0.5°C reduction in their core body temperature live about 15 percent longer than their wild-type littermates. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex

Daria Knoch, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Kaspar Meyer, Valerie Treyer, and Ernst Fehr
Science 3 November 2006: 829-832.
Published online 5 October 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1129156] (in Science Express Reports)
Inhibition of a high-level brain region reduces an individual's ability to suppress selfish desires and produce generous acts. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Polarity Protein Par-3 Directly Interacts with p75^NTR to Regulate Myelination

Jonah R. Chan, Christine Jolicoeur, Junji Yamauchi, Jimmy Elliott, James P. Fawcett, Benjamin K. Ng, and Michel Cayouette
Science 3 November 2006: 832-836.
A cell polarity protein aids myelin formation at the junction between certain glial cells and axons by recruiting a growth factor receptor. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "Rapid Uplift of the Altiplano Revealed Through ¹³C-¹⁸O Bonds in Paleosol Carbonates"

T. Sempere, A. Hartley, and P. Roperch
Science 3 November 2006: 760.
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Response to Comment on "Rapid Uplift of the Altiplano Revealed Through ¹³C-¹⁸O Bonds in Paleosol Carbonates"

John Eiler, Carmala Garzione, and Prosenjit Ghosh
Science 3 November 2006: 760.
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