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- [News of the Week] Latin America: Chile's Earthquake May Set Back Research for Years
Scientists in Chile have lost years of research from last month's massive earthquake, which overturned microscopes, destroyed research labs, and took the life of a young marine biologist.
Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Antonio Regalado
- [News of the Week] Pharmacology: The Puzzling Rise and Fall of a Dark-Horse Alzheimer's Drug
The announcement last week that a closely watched phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease had failed to show a significant effect deals yet another demoralizing blow to patients, families, and caregivers.
Author: Greg Miller
- [News of the Week] Ecology: Severe Drought Puts Spotlight on Chinese Dams
Environmental groups in Thailand and elsewhere are laying at least part of the blame for low levels of the Lancang-Mekong River on China's doorstep. They claim that China's management of a series of dams on the Lancang River has aggravated the unfolding crisis.
Author: Richard Stone
- [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site
ScienceNOW reported this week on the results of our blogging contest at this year's AAAS meeting, a new hiding spot for HIV, genes for pain sensitivity, and a solution to the rangeland paradox, among other stories.
- [News of the Week] North Korea: New Tuberculosis Lab Hailed as Breakthrough in Health Diplomacy
Researchers from Stanford University and a consortium of nonprofit organizations have been working side by side with colleagues from the North Korean Ministry of Public Health to help set up the isolated nation's first laboratory capable of growing the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis and detecting drug-resistant strains.
Author: Richard Stone
- [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog
ScienceInsider reported this week that the H1N1 virus may have had less impact this winter than expected, but a new report from Hong Kong suggests that the virus in pigs has picked up genes from the human version, among other stories.
- [News of the Week] Psychiatry: APA Seeks to Overhaul Personality Disorder Diagnoses
A work group of the American Psychiatric Association is proposing revisions for personality disorders in the forthcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often referred to as psychiatry's bible.
Author: Constance Holden
- [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: A Civil Conversation About Animals in Research
Last week, neuroscientist Dario Ringach of the University of California, Los Angeles, spoke with Science about a recent panel discussion he co-organized on animal research and the resulting renewed attention he's gotten from animal-rights extremists after having given up primate research in 2006.
Author: Greg Miller
- [News of the Week] Scientific Publishing: Elsevier to Editor: Change Controversial Journal or Resign
The editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses—an oddity in the world of scientific publishing because it does not practice peer review—will apparently lose his job over the publication last summer of a paper that says HIV does not cause AIDS.
Author: Martin Enserink
- [News of the Week] Energy Research: Matchmaking Is Part of the Party as ARPA-E Marks Its First Birthday
Last week, 1700 politicians, scientists, industrialists, and investors attended a 3-day summit in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to mark the first anniversary of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy.
Author: Eli Kintisch
- [News Focus] On Rarity and Richness
Two researchers have taken a stab at explaining why oceans have far fewer species than terrestrial habitats.
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
- [News Focus] Physics: Ironing Out Consensus on the Iron-Based Superconductors
The emerging understanding of the 2-year-old materials could change physicists' views on the decades-old mystery of high-temperature superconductivity.
Author: Adrian Cho
- [News Focus] Space Science: NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data
Once forgotten or erased, 1960s-era satellite images are being salvaged from old equipment and proving valuable in climate and space science.
Author: Heather Pringle
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