This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 14 February 2003: 973.
|Full Text »

Editorial:
Public Engagement with Science

Alan I. Leshner
Science 14 February 2003: 977.
Summary »|   PDF »|  

Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 14 February 2003: 979.
|Full Text »

NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 14 February 2003: 989.
|Full Text »

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 14 February 2003: 1076-1078.

 Gordon Research Conferences

Science 14 February 2003: 1079-1097.

News of the Week

SCIENCE PUBLISHING:
The UPSIDE of Good Behavior: Make Your Data Freely Available

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 February 2003: 990.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

COSMOLOGY:
MAP Glimpses Universe's Rambunctious Childhood

Charles Seife
Science 14 February 2003: 991-993.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

GENE THERAPY:
RAC Hears a Plea for Resuming Trials, Despite Cancer Risk

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 February 2003: 991.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ASTRONOMY:
Institute Faulted on Attitudes Toward Women

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 2003: 993-994.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

RUSSIAN SCIENCE:
Academy Plucks Best Biophysicists From a Sea of Mediocrity

Andrei Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 14 February 2003: 994.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

RNA INTERFERENCE:
Mini RNA Molecules Shield Mouse Liver From Hepatitis

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 February 2003: 995.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

EUROPEAN UNION RESEARCH:
Ethics Group Gives Qualified Nod to Placebos

Gretchen Vogel
Science 14 February 2003: 995-997.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

AGRICULTURE:
Study Shows Richer Harvests Owe Much to Climate

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 February 2003: 997.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ScienceScope

Science 14 February 2003: 993.
|Full Text »

Random Samples

Science 14 February 2003: 1009.
|Full Text »

News Focus

SPACE SHUTTLE:
After Columbia, a New NASA?

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 2003: 998-1000.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

SPACE SHUTTLE:
Disaster Sets Off Science Scramble

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 2003: 999.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

SPACE SHUTTLE:
Columbia Disaster Underscores the Risky Nature of Risk Analysis

Charles Seife
Science 14 February 2003: 1001-1002.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

MEDICINE:
Tracing the Steps of Metastasis, Cancer's Menacing Ballet

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 February 2003: 1002-1006.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

MEDICINE:
A Clash Over Genes That Foretell Metastasis

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 February 2003: 1005.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

GENOMICS:
Tinker, Tailor: Can Venter Stitch Together a Genome From Scratch?

Carl Zimmer
Science 14 February 2003: 1006-1007.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 14 February 2003: 1013.
Summary »|   PDF »|  

 Caution in China over GM Crops

Chen Niu
Science 14 February 2003: 1013.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 More on the Animal Rights Debate

Crystal Miller-Spiegel; and Steven L. Teitelbaum
Science 14 February 2003: 1013.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Cerebral Hemorrhage and Amyloid-b

Craig S. Atwood, George Perry, Mark A. Smith;, M. Pfeifer, S. Boncristiano, L. Bondolfi, A. Stalder, T. Deller, M. Staufenbiel, P. M. Mathews, and M. Jucker
Science 14 February 2003: 1014.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 14 February 2003: 1014-1015.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Books et al.

MATHEMATICS:
Symbol of Perfect Proportions

Eli Maor
Science 14 February 2003: 1016.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

CLIMATE:
A Methane Trigger for Rapid Warming?

Gerald R. Dickens
Science 14 February 2003: 1017.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Books Received

Science 14 February 2003: 1017.

Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND THE LAW:
Patent Swords and Shields

Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Science 14 February 2003: 1018-1019.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

SCIENCE AND THE LAW:
Working Through the Patent Problem

John P. Walsh, Wesley M. Cohen, and Ashish Arora
Science 14 February 2003: 1021.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
A Measured Look at Neuronal Oxygen Consumption

John E. W. Mayhew
Science 14 February 2003: 1023-1024.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

BIOCHEMISTRY:
How Iron Activates O₂

Julie A. Kovacs
Science 14 February 2003: 1024-1025.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Imposing Specificity on Kinases

Mark Ptashne and Alexander Gann
Science 14 February 2003: 1025-1027.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

GEOSCIENCE:
Microbial Geoengineers

Lesley A. Warren and Mary E. Kauffman
Science 14 February 2003: 1027-1029.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Enhanced: Invisible Clues to New World Plant Domestication

Vaughn M. Bryant
Science 14 February 2003: 1029-1030.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

IMMUNOLOGY:
Regulating the Regulators

Fiona Powrie and Kevin J. Maloy
Science 14 February 2003: 1030-1031.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Brevia

 Climate and Management Contributions to Recent Trends in U.S. Agricultural Yields

David B. Lobell and Gregory P. Asner
Science 14 February 2003: 1032.
Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Toll Pathway-Dependent Blockade of CD4⁺CD25⁺ T Cell-Mediated Suppression by Dendritic Cells

Chandrashekhar Pasare and Ruslan Medzhitov
Science 14 February 2003: 1033-1036.
Published online 16 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1078231] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Nonheme Fe(IV)O Complex

Jan-Uwe Rohde, Jun-Hee In, Mi Hee Lim, William W. Brennessel, Michael R. Bukowski, Audria Stubna, Eckard Münck, Wonwoo Nam, and Lawrence Que, Jr.
Science 14 February 2003: 1037-1039.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Crystal Structure of Naphthalene Dioxygenase: Side-on Binding of Dioxygen to Iron

Andreas Karlsson, Juanito V. Parales, Rebecca E. Parales, David T. Gibson, Hans Eklund, and S. Ramaswamy
Science 14 February 2003: 1039-1042.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Carbon Nanotube Flow Sensors

Shankar Ghosh, A. K. Sood, and N. Kumar
Science 14 February 2003: 1042-1044.
Published online 16 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1079080] (in Science Express Reports)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Low-Noise Current Amplifier Based on Mesoscopic Josephson Junction

J. Delahaye, J. Hassel, R. Lindell, M. Sillanpää, M. Paalanen, H. Seppä, and P. Hakonen
Science 14 February 2003: 1045-1048.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Exposed Water Ice Discovered near the South Pole of Mars

Timothy N. Titus, Hugh H. Kieffer, and Phillip R. Christensen
Science 14 February 2003: 1048-1051.
Published online 5 December 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1080497] (in Science Express Reports)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

A Sublimation Model for Martian South Polar Ice Features

Shane Byrne and Andrew P. Ingersoll
Science 14 February 2003: 1051-1053.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Phytolith Evidence for Early Holocene Cucurbita Domestication in Southwest Ecuador

Dolores R. Piperno and Karen E. Stothert
Science 14 February 2003: 1054-1057.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Control of Regulatory T Cell Development by the Transcription Factor Foxp3

Shohei Hori, Takashi Nomura, and Shimon Sakaguchi
Science 14 February 2003: 1057-1061.
Published online 9 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1079490] (in Science Express Reports)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Rewiring MAP Kinase Pathways Using Alternative Scaffold Assembly Mechanisms

Sang-Hyun Park, Ali Zarrinpar, and Wendell A. Lim
Science 14 February 2003: 1061-1064.
Published online 2 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076979] (in Science Express Reports)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

DNA Damage-Induced Replication Fork Regression and Processing in Escherichia coli

Justin Courcelle, Janet R. Donaldson, Kin-Hoe Chow, and Charmain T. Courcelle
Science 14 February 2003: 1064-1067.
Published online 23 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1081328] (in Science Express Reports)
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Taming of a Poison: Biosynthesis of the NiFe-Hydrogenase Cyanide Ligands

Stefanie Reissmann, Elisabeth Hochleitner, Haofan Wang, Athanasios Paschos, Friedrich Lottspeich, Richard S. Glass, and August Böck
Science 14 February 2003: 1067-1070.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Single-Neuron Activity and Tissue Oxygenation in the Cerebral Cortex

Jeffrey K. Thompson, Matthew R. Peterson, and Ralph D. Freeman
Science 14 February 2003: 1070-1072.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Contrast Tuning in Auditory Cortex

Dennis L. Barbour and Xiaoqin Wang
Science 14 February 2003: 1073-1075.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests"

Philip M. Fearnside and William F. Laurance
Science 14 February 2003: 1015.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Response to Comment on "Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests"

Hugh D. Eva, Frédéric Achard, Hans-Jürgen Stibig, and Philippe Mayaux
Science 14 February 2003: 1015.
Full Text »|   PDF »|