2006 Visualization Challenge

Jeff Nesbit and Monica Bradford
Science 22 September 2006: 1729.
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2006 Visualization Challenge Winners

Rhitu Chatterjee
Science 22 September 2006: 1730-1735.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 22 September 2006: 1700.
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Editorial:
The Women's Health Initiative

Elizabeth G. Nabel
Science 22 September 2006: 1703.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 22 September 2006: 1709.
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NEW PRODUCTS

Science 22 September 2006: 1801.
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News of the Week

GENDER ISSUES: Universities Urged to Improve Hiring and Advancement of Women

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 September 2006: 1712.
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GEOLOGY: Katrina Study Stirs Debate on Coastal Restoration

Erik Stokstad
Science 22 September 2006: 1713.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS: Tracing the Transatlantic Spread of GM Rice

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 September 2006: 1714.
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BIOETHICS: Researchers Attack Newspaper Probe of Trials

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 22 September 2006: 1714.
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CLINICAL TRIALS: A Shot of Bone Marrow Can Help the Heart

Jennifer Couzin
Science 22 September 2006: 1715-1716.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Lucy's 'Child' Offers Rare Glimpse of an Ancient Toddler

Ann Gibbons
Science 22 September 2006: 1716.
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OCEAN SCIENCE: Creatures Great and Small Are Stirring the Ocean

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 September 2006: 1717.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

ARCHAEOLOGY: Mad About Pyramids

John Bohannon
Science 22 September 2006: 1718-1720.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE: Frustrations Mount Over China's High-Priced Hunt for Trophy Professors

Hao Xin
Science 22 September 2006: 1721-1723.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE: Many Overseas Chinese Researchers Find Coming Home a Revelation

Dennis Normile
Science 22 September 2006: 1722-1723.
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ORNITHOLOGY: The Pink Death: Die-Offs of the Lesser Flamingo Raise Concern

Robert Koenig
Science 22 September 2006: 1724-1725.
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MANTLE DYNAMICS: Rising Plumes in Earth's Mantle: Phantom or Real?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 September 2006: 1726.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 22 September 2006: 1737.
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 Debating the Cause of a Neurological Disorder

Mark W. Duncan and Ann M. Marini
Science 22 September 2006: 1737.
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 Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Effects in Kelp Forests

Michael S. Foster, Matthew S. Edwards, Daniel C. Reed, David R. Schiel, Richard C. Zimmerman;, Mark A. Steele, Stephen C. Schroeter, Robert C. Carpenter, David J. Kushner;, Benjamin S. Halpern, Karl Cottenie, and Bernardo R. Broitman
Science 22 September 2006: 1737-1739.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 22 September 2006: 1739.
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Books et al.

PUBLIC HEALTH: From Miasmas to Microbes

Hugh Pennington
Science 22 September 2006: 1740-1741.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Saving American Naturalists from Oblivion

Peder Anker
Science 22 September 2006: 1741.
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Books Received

Science 22 September 2006: 1741.
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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY: Adding Biofuels to the Invasive Species Fire?

S. Raghu, R. C. Anderson, C. C. Daehler, A. S. Davis, R. N. Wiedenmann, D. Simberloff, and R. N. Mack
Science 22 September 2006: 1742.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE: Enhanced: Meteorites and Their Parent Asteroids

Robert N. Clayton
Science 22 September 2006: 1743-1744.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Adam Finds an Exciting Mate

Solomon H. Snyder
Science 22 September 2006: 1744-1745.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Versatility of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes

Michael D. Been
Science 22 September 2006: 1745-1747.
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CHEMISTRY: A Pixellated Window on Chemistry in Solids

V. A. Apkarian
Science 22 September 2006: 1747-1748.
Published online 31 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1133024] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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GEOPHYSICS: Do Earthquakes Rupture Piece by Piece or All Together?

Chris Marone and Eliza Richardson
Science 22 September 2006: 1748-1749.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Little Molecules with Big Goals

Bert W. O'Malley
Science 22 September 2006: 1749-1750.
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Brevia

SUMO1 Haploinsufficiency Leads to Cleft Lip and Palate

Fowzan S. Alkuraya, Irfan Saadi, Jennifer J. Lund, Annick Turbe-Doan, Cynthia C. Morton, and Richard L. Maas
Science 22 September 2006: 1751.
A protein modification is important during development to promote appropriate palate formation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Structural Basis of glmS Ribozyme Activation by Glucosamine-6-Phosphate

Daniel J. Klein and Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré
Science 22 September 2006: 1752-1756.
A small-molecule coenzyme activates a ribozyme by binding to a preformed site where it participates in catalysis, not by allosteric regulation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Irreversible Organic Crystalline Chemistry Monitored in Real Time

Peter R. Poulin and Keith A. Nelson
Science 22 September 2006: 1756-1760.
Published online 31 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1127826] (in Science Express Reports)
A single-femtosecond laser pulse, rather than the usual destructive multiple pulses, yields the dissociation dynamics of delicate molecules such as crystalline I₃^- over time. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer

J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, C. Portet, P. Simon, and P. L. Taberna
Science 22 September 2006: 1760-1763.
Published online 17 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1132195] (in Science Express Reports)
Pores comparable in size to solvated anions and cations unexpectedly improve the capacitance in a carbon-based supercapacitor. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Oxygen Isotope Variation in Stony-Iron Meteorites

R. C. Greenwood, I. A. Franchi, A. Jambon, J. A. Barrat, and T. H. Burbine
Science 22 September 2006: 1763-1765.
Published online 24 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1128865] (in Science Express Reports)
Oxygen isotope measurements show that two similar groups of stony meteorites have different origins and that one likely comes from the asteroid Vesta. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Self-Healing Pulse-Like Shear Ruptures in the Laboratory

George Lykotrafitis, Ares J. Rosakis, and Guruswami Ravichandran
Science 22 September 2006: 1765-1768.
High-speed imaging and laser interferometry of experimental earthquakes show that ruptures propogate as self-healing cracks, which tend to pulse at slower speeds. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Observations of Biologically Generated Turbulence in a Coastal Inlet

Eric Kunze, John F. Dower, Ian Beveridge, Richard Dewey, and Kevin P. Bartlett
Science 22 September 2006: 1768-1770.
Turbulence generated by the ascent of krill in the water column at nightfall can increase mixing near the surface in inlets, bays, and perhaps the open ocean. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Solid Ammonium Sulfate Aerosols as Ice Nuclei: A Pathway for Cirrus Cloud Formation

J. P. D. Abbatt, S. Benz, D. J. Cziczo, Z. Kanji, U. Lohmann, and O. Möhler
Science 22 September 2006: 1770-1773.
Published online 31 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1129726] (in Science Express Reports)
Solid ammonium sulfate can form ice particles in cirrus clouds through heterogeneous processes not previously suspected. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Global Genetic Change Tracks Global Climate Warming in Drosophila subobscura

Joan Balanyá, Josep M. Oller, Raymond B. Huey, George W. Gilchrist, and Luis Serra
Science 22 September 2006: 1773-1775.
Published online 31 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131002] (in Science Express Reports)
On three continents, a low-latitude, natural genetic variant of the fruit fly is increasingly found at higher latitudes, paralleling climate warming over the past 25 years. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Waking Experience Affects Sleep Need in Drosophila

Indrani Ganguly-Fitzgerald, Jeff Donlea, and Paul J. Shaw
Science 22 September 2006: 1775-1781.
Drosophila sleep is disrupted by intense social interaction during the previous 5 days, a process that involves a number of learning and memory genes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Exogenous Induction of Cerebral ß-Amyloidogenesis Is Governed by Agent and Host

Melanie Meyer-Luehmann, Janaky Coomaraswamy, Tristan Bolmont, Stephan Kaeser, Claudia Schaefer, Ellen Kilger, Anton Neuenschwander, Dorothee Abramowski, Peter Frey, Anneliese L. Jaton, Jean-Marie Vigouret, Paolo Paganetti, Dominic M. Walsh, Paul M. Mathews, Jorge Ghiso, Matthias Staufenbiel, Lary C. Walker, and Mathias Jucker
Science 22 September 2006: 1781-1784.
Injecting transgenic mice with amyloid deposits from patients with Alzheimer's disease can induce similar deposits and pathology in their brains. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Therapy-Induced Acute Recruitment of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells to Tumors

Yuval Shaked, Alessia Ciarrocchi, Marcela Franco, Christina R. Lee, Shan Man, Alison M. Cheung, Daniel J. Hicklin, David Chaplin, F. Stuart Foster, Robert Benezra, and Robert S. Kerbel
Science 22 September 2006: 1785-1787.
Adding an antiangiogenic agent to certain anticancer drugs reduces their tendency to promote the formation of new blood vessels in tumors, improving their efficacy. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Genomewide Search for Ribozymes Reveals an HDV-Like Sequence in the Human CPEB3 Gene

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, Andrej Lupták, Alexander Litovchick, and Jack W. Szostak
Science 22 September 2006: 1788-1792.
Excision of a self-cleaving RNA in the human genome may have formed the similar hepatitis delta virus. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Epilepsy-Related Ligand/Receptor Complex LGI1 and ADAM22 Regulate Synaptic Transmission

Yuko Fukata, Hillel Adesnik, Tsuyoshi Iwanaga, David S. Bredt, Roger A. Nicoll, and Masaki Fukata
Science 22 September 2006: 1792-1795.
A complex of proteins that are linked to epilepsy syndromes functions at brain synapses and could provide a therapeutic target. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

PirB Restricts Ocular-Dominance Plasticity in Visual Cortex

Josh Syken, Tadzia GrandPre, Patrick O. Kanold, and Carla J. Shatz
Science 22 September 2006: 1795-1800.
Published online 17 August 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1128232] (in Science Express Reports)
A molecule that is usually thought of as a hallmark of the immune system interacts with a receptor in the brain to limit the plasticity of the visual system during development. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "A Keystone Mutualism Drives Pattern in a Power Function"

David Alonso and Mercedes Pascual
Science 22 September 2006: 1739.
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Comment on "A Keystone Mutualism Drives Pattern in a Power Function"

Salvador Pueyo and Roger Jovani
Science 22 September 2006: 1739.
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Response to Comments on "A Keystone Mutualism Drives Pattern in a Power Function"

John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto
Science 22 September 2006: 1739.
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