This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Nature in the Metropolis

Peter Crane and Ann Kinzig
Science 27 May 2005: 1225.
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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

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 New Products

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News of the Week

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Genetic Analyses Suggest Bird Flu Virus Is Evolving

Dennis Normile
Science 27 May 2005: 1234-1235.
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TOXICOLOGY:
House Would Foil Human Pesticide Studies

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 May 2005: 1234.
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SMALLPOX:
WHA Gives Yellow Light for Variola Studies

Martin Enserink
Science 27 May 2005: 1235.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Voyager 1 Crosses a New Frontier and May Save Itself From Termination

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 May 2005: 1237-1238.
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NUMBER THEORY:
Third Time Proves Charm for Prime-Gap Theorem

Barry Cipra
Science 27 May 2005: 1238.
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SOCIOLOGY:
Controversial Study Suggests Seeing Gun Violence Promotes It

Constance Holden
Science 27 May 2005: 1239-1240.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Plant Hormone's Long-Sought Receptor Found

Dan Ferber
Science 27 May 2005: 1240.
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2006 BUDGET:
Physics Research Gets a Boost and a Warning From Its Funders

Charles Seife
Science 27 May 2005: 1241.
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SCIENCE AND THE LAW:
Butler Gets Break on Pending Appeal

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 May 2005: 1241-1243.
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FRENCH SCIENCE:
Cracks in the Monolith: CNRS Begins a Long-Awaited Reform

Barbara Casassus
Science 27 May 2005: 1243.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NATIONAL LABS:
A Bidding War for Los Alamos

Eli Kintisch
Science 27 May 2005: 1244-1245.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Comet Crackup Will Spur Science, Whatever the Result

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 May 2005: 1247.
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CANCER:
Encouraging Results for Second-Generation Antiangiogenesis Drugs

Jean Marx
Science 27 May 2005: 1248-1249.
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ASTRONOMY:
Turbulent Orion Nebula Shows a Flare for the Dramatic

Robert Irion
Science 27 May 2005: 1249-1250.
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ECOLOGY:
Israeli Controversy Blossoms Over Protecting Gilboa Iris

Eli Kintisch
Science 27 May 2005: 1251.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 The Future of Farming and Conservation

John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto;, Rhys E. Green, Stephen J. Cornell, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, and Andrew Balmford
Science 27 May 2005: 1257-1258.
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 Fossil Horses and Rate of Evolution

Krishna R. Dronamraju; and Bruce J. MacFadden
Science 27 May 2005: 1258.
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 HIV and Smallpox

Rob A. Gruters, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus;, David Nolan, Ian James, and Simon Mallal
Science 27 May 2005: 1258-1259.
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 How Similar Are Poxviruses?

Roman Mezencev and Kay Mereish
Science 27 May 2005: 1259-1260.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Sifting Myths for Truths About Our World

Abigail A. Baird
Science 27 May 2005: 1261-1262.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
One Cause for All Confabulations?

Armin Schnider
Science 27 May 2005: 1262.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

Enhanced: ENVIRONMENT:
The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting

Evan Mills
Science 27 May 2005: 1263-1264.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
The Link Between Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts

Brian Schmidt
Science 27 May 2005: 1265-1266.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Lessons in Rational Drug Design for Protein Kinases

Natalie G. Ahn and Katheryn A. Resing
Science 27 May 2005: 1266-1267.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
When Do Rocks Become Oil?

Bruce F. Schaefer
Science 27 May 2005: 1267-1268.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Designing Superhard Materials

Richard B. Kaner, John J. Gilman, and Sarah H. Tolbert
Science 27 May 2005: 1268-1269.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Hamiltonian Medicine: Why the Social Lives of Pathogens Matter

Kevin R. Foster
Science 27 May 2005: 1269-1270.
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Review

Solid-State Light Sources Getting Smart

E. Fred Schubert and Jong Kyu Kim
Science 27 May 2005: 1274-1278.
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Brevia

High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy with a Portable Single-Sided Sensor

Juan Perlo, Vasiliki Demas, Federico Casanova, Carlos A. Meriles, Jeffrey Reimer, Alexander Pines, and Bernhard Blümich
Science 27 May 2005: 1279.
Published online 7 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1108944] (in Science Express Brevia)
A nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is adapted for use in the field by compensating for the variation in the field produced by a one-sided probe. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Bottom-Up Ecosystem Trophic Dynamics Determine Fish Production in the Northeast Pacific

Daniel M. Ware and Richard E. Thomson
Science 27 May 2005: 1280-1284.
Published online 21 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1109049] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Satellite imaging of chlorophyll shows that local areas with more phytoplankton in the ocean off nort hwestern North America also contain larger fish populations. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

An Asymmetric Energetic Type Ic Supernova Viewed Off-Axis, and a Link to Gamma Ray Bursts

Paolo A. Mazzali, Koji S. Kawabata, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Alexei V. Filippenko, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Stefano Benetti, Elena Pian, Jinsong Deng, Nozomu Tominaga, Youichi Ohyama, Masanori Iye, Ryan J. Foley, Thomas Matheson, Lifan Wang, and Avishay Gal-Yam
Science 27 May 2005: 1284-1287.
Observations of supernova SN2003jd suggest a strongly aspherical explosion that could have produced gamma ray bursts. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Scaling in the Time Domain: Universal Dynamics of Order Fluctuations in Fe₃Al

Cristian Mocuta, Harald Reichert, Klaus Mecke, Helmut Dosch, and Michael Drakopoulos
Science 27 May 2005: 1287-1291.
Published online 21 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1110001] (in Science Express Reports)
Focusing a brilliant x-ray beam on a small sample spot allows imaging of how atomic order fluctuates in a crystal during a phase transition. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Amalthea's Density Is Less Than That of Water

John D. Anderson, Torrence V. Johnson, Gerald Schubert, Sami Asmar, Robert A. Jacobson, Douglas Johnston, Eunice L. Lau, George Lewis, William B. Moore, Anthony Taylor, Peter C. Thomas, and Gudrun Weinwurm
Science 27 May 2005: 1291-1293.
Jupiter's small inner moon Amalthea seems to be mostly porous ice, implying that it formed in a cold region of space and was later captured by the giant planet. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Direct Radiometric Dating of Hydrocarbon Deposits Using Rhenium-Osmium Isotopes

David Selby and Robert A. Creaser
Science 27 May 2005: 1293-1295.
Rhenium-osmium dating in oil reveals when petroleum migrates to a reserve and shows that the giant Alberta oil sands formed 112 million years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Simultaneous Inhibition and Redistribution of Spontaneous Light Emission in Photonic Crystals

Masayuki Fujita, Shigeki Takahashi, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takashi Asano, and Susumu Noda
Science 27 May 2005: 1296-1298.
A two-dimensional photonic crystal combined with high refractive index material can simultaneously inhibit and redistribute spontaneous light emission from selected defects in the photonic crystal. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Identifying Vibrations That Destabilize Crystals and Characterize the Glassy State

G. N. Greaves, F. Meneau, O. Majérus, D. G. Jones, and J. Taylor
Science 27 May 2005: 1299-1302.
A structural origin for the low-frequency boson mode in glasses has been identified from a vibrational study of an amorphized zeolite. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

The Importance of Threading Dislocations on the Motion of Domain Boundaries in Thin Films

Farid El Gabaly, Wai Li W. Ling, Kevin F. McCarty, and Juan de la Figuera
Science 27 May 2005: 1303-1305.
Direct observations show that grain boundaries move unevenly but in preferred directions in a thin film until they become fixed, in part by atomic defects. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Microbial Arsenic Cycle in a Salt-Saturated, Extreme Environment

Ronald S. Oremland, Thomas R. Kulp, Jodi Switzer Blum, Shelley E. Hoeft, Shaun Baesman, Laurence G. Miller, and John F. Stolz
Science 27 May 2005: 1305-1308.
Using only inorganic electron donors, an anaerobic bacterium helps drive a full biogeochemical cycle of arsenic in highly contaminated Searle's Lake, California. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Physical Limits and Design Principles for Plant and Fungal Movements

Jan M. Skotheim and L. Mahadevan
Science 27 May 2005: 1308-1310.
Movement in plants leads to insights into how hydraulically driven systems operate. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Effects of Artificial Selection on the Maize Genome

Stephen I. Wright, Irie Vroh Bi, Steve G. Schroeder, Masanori Yamasaki, John F. Doebley, Michael D. McMullen, and Brandon S. Gaut
Science 27 May 2005: 1310-1314.
The early domestication of maize from the wild grass teosinte selected genes that affect the plant's growth habit, many of which are also now agriculturally important loci. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Resting Microglial Cells Are Highly Dynamic Surveillants of Brain Parenchyma in Vivo

Axel Nimmerjahn, Frank Kirchhoff, and Fritjof Helmchen
Science 27 May 2005: 1314-1318.
Published online 14 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1110647] (in Science Express Reports)
Imaging of resident immune cells in the living mouse brain reveals that they are always in motion, continuously sending out processes and protuberances and reacting quickly to damage by sealing off the injured area. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Bioinformatics-Based Design of Selective, Irreversible Kinase Inhibitors

Michael S. Cohen, Chao Zhang, Kevan M. Shokat, and Jack Taunton
Science 27 May 2005: 1318-1321.
Analysis of the apparently similar catalytic sites of two ubiquitous enzymes enables the design of small molecules that inhibit only one of them, and therefore may be useful as targeted drugs. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Global Topology Analysis of the Escherichia coli Inner Membrane Proteome

Daniel O. Daley, Mikaela Rapp, Erik Granseth, Karin Melén, David Drew, and Gunnar von Heijne
Science 27 May 2005: 1321-1323.
Visible markers attached to one end of each membrane protein facilitate its assignment as facing the cytoplasm or the periplasm. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior

Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer, Robert T. Brennan, and Felton J. Earls
Science 27 May 2005: 1323-1326.
If adolescents are exposed to firearm violence, the odds increase that they will perpetrate violence within a few years. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "The Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Experience of Regret"

David M. Eagleman
Science 27 May 2005: 1260.
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 Response to Comment on "The Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Experience of Regret"

Giorgio Coricelli, Nathalie Camille, Pascale Pradat-Diehl, Jean-René Duhamel, and Angela Sirigu
Science 27 May 2005: 1260.
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