This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 22 August 2003: 1013.
|Full Text »

Editorial:
Human ES Cells in Europe

Peter Gruss
Science 22 August 2003: 1017.
Summary »|   PDF »|  

Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 22 August 2003: 1019.
|Full Text »

NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 22 August 2003: 1025.
|Full Text »

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 22 August 2003: 1111.

News of the Week

HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Showdown Looms for Reigning Particle-Physics Theory

Charles Seife
Science 22 August 2003: 1026.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Visa Delay Foils Chinese Delegation

Charles Seife and Ding Yimin
Science 22 August 2003: 1026.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE:
WHO Advises Kicking the Livestock Antibiotic Habit

Dan Ferber
Science 22 August 2003: 1027.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ASTRONOMY:
Panel Says NASA Should Consider Extending Hubble's Life

Robert Irion
Science 22 August 2003: 1029.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

WORKFORCE DIVERSITY:
NSF, Academics Told to Act As If They Mean It

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 22 August 2003: 1030-1031.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

WORKFORCE DIVERSITY:
The BEST Programs in Academia

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 22 August 2003: 1030.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Civets Back on China's Menu

Dennis Normile and Ding Yimin
Science 22 August 2003: 1031.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

INDIA:
Mission Approved to Orbit Moon by 2008

Pallava Bagla
Science 22 August 2003: 1033.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ECOLOGY:
Lean Winters Hinder Birds' Summertime Breeding Efforts

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 22 August 2003: 1033.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ScienceScope

Science 22 August 2003: 1029.
|Full Text »

Random Samples

Science 22 August 2003: 1042.
|Full Text »

News Focus

OCEAN EXPLORATION:
Deep-Sea Mountaineering

David Malakoff
Science 22 August 2003: 1034-1037.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

OCEAN EXPLORATION:
Bringing 'em Back Alive

David Malakoff
Science 22 August 2003: 1036.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Eons of a Cold, Dry, Dusty Mars

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 August 2003: 1037-1038.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

GENETIC PRIVACY:
Japan Guidelines Under Fire After Protest Halts Study

Dennis Normile
Science 22 August 2003: 1039.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

BIOINFORMATICS:
Gene Counters Struggle to Get the Right Answer

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 August 2003: 1040-1041.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 22 August 2003: 1045.
Summary »|   PDF »|  

 Gender Bias and Ida Noddack

Ernest B. Hook; and Naomi Oreskes
Science 22 August 2003: 1045-1046.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Reliability of Satellite Data Sets

John R. Christy, Roy W. Spencer;, B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, G. A. Meehl, M. F. Wehner, C. Mears, M. Schabel, F. J. Wentz, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, T. Bettge, W. M. Washington, K. E. Taylor, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, and C. Doutriaux
Science 22 August 2003: 1046-1049.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Books et al.

HIGHER EDUCATION:
On Over-Weighting the Bottom Line

David Baltimore
Science 22 August 2003: 1050-1051.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

PHILOSOPHY AND BIOLOGY:
A Bridgewater Treatise for the 21st Century

Robert T. Pennock
Science 22 August 2003: 1051.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Books Received

Science 22 August 2003: 1051.

Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Enhanced: University Licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act

Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby
Science 22 August 2003: 1052.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Perspectives

TRANSCRIPTION:
Histones Face the FACT

Jesper Q. Svejstrup
Science 22 August 2003: 1053-1055.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

ASTRONOMY:
Galactic Encounters

Rosemary Wyse
Science 22 August 2003: 1055-1057.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

PHYSICS:
Sensing Electrons on the Edge

Gerard H. Lander
Science 22 August 2003: 1057-1059.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

GEOPHYSICS:
Hotspots Come Unstuck

Joann Stock
Science 22 August 2003: 1059-1060.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

RNAi Extends Its Reach

Marjori Matzke and Antonius J. M. Matzke
Science 22 August 2003: 1060-1061.
Summary »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Brevia

 A Mule Cloned from Fetal Cells by Nuclear Transfer

Gordon L. Woods, Kenneth L. White, Dirk K. Vanderwall, Guang-Peng Li, Kenneth I. Aston, Thomas D. Bunch, Lora N. Meerdo, and Barry J. Pate
Science 22 August 2003: 1063.
Published online 29 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086743] (in Science Express Brevia)
A mule, an animal that is incapable of reproducing naturally, has been successfully cloned. Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

The Emperor Seamounts: Southward Motion of the Hawaiian Hotspot Plume in Earth's Mantle

John A. Tarduno, Robert A. Duncan, David W. Scholl, Rory D. Cottrell, Bernhard Steinberger, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Bryan C. Kerr, Clive R. Neal, Fred A. Frey, Masayuki Torii, and Claire Carvallo
Science 22 August 2003: 1064-1069.
Published online 24 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086442] (in Science Express Research Articles)
The orientation of Earth's past magnetic field captured in seamounts in the northern Pacific Ocean implies that the hotspot under Hawaii was not stationary as previously thought, but migrated south 80 to 40 million years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Hairpin RNAs and Retrotransposon LTRs Effect RNAi and Chromatin-Based Gene Silencing

Vera Schramke and Robin Allshire
Science 22 August 2003: 1069-1074.
Published online 17 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086870] (in Science Express Research Articles)
In fission yeast, small RNAs can act on complementary sequences of DNA to inactivate the surrounding patch of chromatin. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Coherent Spin Transfer Between Molecularly Bridged Quantum Dots

Min Ouyang and David D. Awschalom
Science 22 August 2003: 1074-1078.
Published online 31 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086963] (in Science Express Reports)
Electron spin can be transferred from quantum dot to quantum dot through connecting benzene rings, even at room temperature, providing a way to transfer quantum information in a device. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Phonon Dispersions of fcc -Plutonium-Gallium by Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Joe Wong, Michael Krisch, Daniel L. Farber, Florent Occelli, Adam J. Schwartz, Tai-C. Chiang, Mark Wall, Carl Boro, and Ruqing Xu
Science 22 August 2003: 1078-1080.
Inelastic x-ray scattering reveals the vibrational energy of the plutonium lattice, explaining many of its unusual chemical properties. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Measurement-Induced Relative-Position Localization Through Entanglement

A. V. Rau, J. A. Dunningham, and K. Burnett
Science 22 August 2003: 1081-1084.
A thought experiment on the interference and scattering of light shows how entanglement of the quantum states of two particles can lead to the classical view of a fixed position. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Spectroscopic Identification of Carbonate Minerals in the Martian Dust

Joshua L. Bandfield, Timothy D. Glotch, and Philip R. Christensen
Science 22 August 2003: 1084-1087.
Data from Mars Global Surveyor reveal that magnesium carbonate dust is widespread on Mars and may have been a sink for carbon dioxide in the martian atmosphere. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Tidally Controlled Stick-Slip Discharge of a West Antarctic Ice

Robert A. Bindschadler, Matt A. King, Richard B. Alley, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Laurence Padman
Science 22 August 2003: 1087-1089.
Flow of an Antarctic ice stream abruptly waxes and wanes in response to daily tides, implying that the forces pushing and resisting it are delicately balanced. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

FACT Facilitates Transcription-Dependent Nucleosome Alteration

Rimma Belotserkovskaya, Sangtaek Oh, Vladimir A. Bondarenko, George Orphanides, Vasily M. Studitsky, and Danny Reinberg
Science 22 August 2003: 1090-1093.
A protein complex necessary for transcription elongation of genes packaged into chromatin can both add and remove histones from DNA. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Tracking FACT and the RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complex Through Chromatin in Vivo

Abbie Saunders, Janis Werner, Erik D. Andrulis, Takahiro Nakayama, Susumu Hirose, Danny Reinberg, and John T. Lis
Science 22 August 2003: 1094-1096.
A complex of proteins is associated with one class of Drosophila genes while they are being transcribed, but not with those genes coding for ribosomal RNA. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Transcription Elongation Factors Repress Transcription Initiation from Cryptic Sites

Craig D. Kaplan, Lisa Laprade, and Fred Winston
Science 22 August 2003: 1096-1099.
Specialized nuclear proteins keep genes packaged in chromatin while they are copied into messenger RNA, preventing aberrant RNA copies from forming. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Helicobacter pylori Vacuolating Cytotoxin Inhibits T Lymphocyte Activation

Bettina Gebert, Wolfgang Fischer, Evelyn Weiss, Reinhard Hoffmann, and Rainer Haas
Science 22 August 2003: 1099-1102.
The gut pathogen responsible for ulcers and some gastric cancers directly suppresses immune cells, probably contributing to the persistence of the infection. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Stability of Retrieved Memory: Inverse Correlation with Trace Dominance

Mark Eisenberg, Tali Kobilo, Diego E. Berman, and Yadin Dudai
Science 22 August 2003: 1102-1104.
Unexpectedly, a stronger memory is more easily disrupted by protein synthesis inhibitors than a weaker one. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Encoding Predictive Reward Value in Human Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex

Jay A. Gottfried, John O'Doherty, and Raymond J. Dolan
Science 22 August 2003: 1104-1107.
The value that people put on a particular visual cue is encoded in two distinct regions of the brain. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

SIR1, an Upstream Component in Auxin Signaling Identified by Chemical Genetics

Yunde Zhao, Xinhua Dai, Helen E. Blackwell, Stuart L. Schreiber, and Joanne Chory
Science 22 August 2003: 1107-1110.
Published online 31 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1084161] (in Science Express Reports)
A compound that mimics actions of the plant hormone auxin leads to identification of a new protein that may be partly responsible for that hormone's rapid action. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "High Abrasion Resistance with Sparse Mineralization: Copper Biomineral in Worm Jaws"

Robert M. S. Schofield and Michael H. Nesson
Science 22 August 2003: 1049.
Full Text »|   PDF »|  

 Response to Comment on "High Abrasion Resistance with Sparse Mineralization: Copper Biomineral in Worm Jaws"

Helga C. Lichtenegger, Thomas Schöberl, Michael H. Bartl, Herbert Waite, and Galen D. Stucky
Science 22 August 2003: 1049.
Full Text »|   PDF »|