The World of Undergraduate Education

Many Voices, One Message

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 6 July 2007: 63.
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News

Keeping Score

Science 6 July 2007: 64-65.
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AUSTRALIA: 'A Crisis in Student Quantity and Quality'

John Bohannon
Science 6 July 2007: 66.
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UNITED STATES: 'This Is the Front Line ... Where I Can Really Make a Difference'

Elizabeth Culotta
Science 6 July 2007: 67.
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UNITED KINGDOM: 'Much of What We Were Doing Didn't Work'

Daniel Clery
Science 6 July 2007: 68.
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FRANCE: Opening Up to the Rest of the World

Martin Enserink
Science 6 July 2007: 69.
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BRAZIL: 'I Do Not Make a Distinction Between Teaching and Research'

Marcelo Leite
Science 6 July 2007: 70-71.
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RUSSIA: 'The Teacher Is Still the Central Figure'

Bryon MacWilliams
Science 6 July 2007: 70-71.
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SOUTH AFRICA: 'I Wish ... I Could Give [Them All] Computers'

Robert Koenig
Science 6 July 2007: 72.
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AUSTRIA: 'Can't Have a Career... Without English'

John Bohannon
Science 6 July 2007: 73.
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INDIA: Beyond Islands of Excellence

Pallava Bagla
Science 6 July 2007: 74-75.
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CHINA: 'It's Important to Ask Students To Do Some Work on Their Own'

Dennis Normile
Science 6 July 2007: 74-75.
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SOUTH KOREA: 'A Strong Voice' For Course Reform

Richard Stone
Science 6 July 2007: 76.
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JAPAN: Spreading Knowledge of Science and Technology

Dennis Normile
Science 6 July 2007: 77.
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Straight Talk About STEM Education

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 6 July 2007: 78-81.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science Teaching Roundup

Donald Kennedy
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

GOVERNMENT ETHICS: Supersized Lab Draws Fire at NIH's Environmental Institute

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 6 July 2007: 26.
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GENOMICS: Sea Anemone Provides a New View of Animal Evolution

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 6 July 2007: 27.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Another Global Warming Icon Comes Under Attack

Richard A. Kerr
Science 6 July 2007: 28-29.
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SCIENCE POLICY: Science Gets New Home in U.K. Government

Daniel Clery
Science 6 July 2007: 28.
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ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS: A Road Map for European Facilities

Daniel Clery
Science 6 July 2007: 29.
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SCIENCE POLICY: Egypt Plans a Shakeup of Research Programs

Robert Koenig
Science 6 July 2007: 30.
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HOMELAND SECURITY: NASA Lab Workers Decry New Security Checks

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 6 July 2007: 31.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

DARK MATTER: Racing to Capture Darkness

Adrian Cho and Richard Stone
Science 6 July 2007: 32-34.
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MICROBIAL ECOLOGY: The Dark and Mushy Side of A Frozen Continent

Mason Inman
Science 6 July 2007: 35-36.
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PROFILE: ESKE WILLERSLEV: Ancient DNA's Intrepid Explorer

Andrew Curry
Science 6 July 2007: 36-37.
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GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION: In Hyperbolic Space, Size Matters

Barry Cipra
Science 6 July 2007: 38.
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GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION: Pricey Proof Keeps Gaining Support

Barry Cipra
Science 6 July 2007: 38.
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GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION: Bizarre Pool Shots Spiral to Infinity

Barry Cipra
Science 6 July 2007: 39.
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GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION: That's Not Some Knot Sum!

Barry Cipra
Science 6 July 2007: 39.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 6 July 2007: 41.
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 A World Without Mangroves?

N. C. Duke, J.-O. Meynecke, S. Dittmann, A. M. Ellison, K. Anger, U. Berger, S. Cannicci, K. Diele, K. C. Ewel, C. D. Field, N. Koedam, S. Y. Lee, C. Marchand, I. Nordhaus, and F. Dahdouh-Guebas
Science 6 July 2007: 41-42.
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 Supporting Undergraduate Research

Farhan Ali, Nafisa M. Jadavji, Willie Chuin Hong Ong, Kaushal Raj Pandey, Alexander Nikolich Patananan, Harsha Kiran Prabhala, and Christine Hong-Ting Yang
Science 6 July 2007: 42.
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 Isoprene, Cloud Droplets, and Phytoplankton

Oliver W. Wingenter;, N. Meskhidze, and A. Nenes
Science 6 July 2007: 42-43.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE: The Hippocampus Review

Terrence J. Sejnowski
Science 6 July 2007: 44-45.
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: Devoted to Dogs

Elaine A. Ostrander
Science 6 July 2007: 45.
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Books Received

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Policy Forum

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS: Willingness to Donate Frozen Embryos for Stem Cell Research

Anne Drapkin Lyerly and Ruth R. Faden
Science 6 July 2007: 46-47.
Published online 21 June 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1145067] (in Science Express Policy Forum)
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Perspectives

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Shape Matters

Martin van Hecke
Science 6 July 2007: 49-50.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Remembering the Subtle Differences

David M. Bannerman and Rolf Sprengel
Science 6 July 2007: 50-51.
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CANCER: Sex, Cytokines, and Cancer

Toby Lawrence, Thorsten Hageman, and Frances Balkwill
Science 6 July 2007: 51-52.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE: Virtually Trustworthy

Judith Donath
Science 6 July 2007: 53-54.
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CHEMISTRY: Shining Light on the Rapidly Evolving Structure of Water

Andrei Tokmakoff
Science 6 July 2007: 54-55.
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APPLIED PHYSICS: The Power to Set You Free

Will Stewart
Science 6 July 2007: 55-56.
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RETROSPECTIVE: Robert W. Cahn (1924-2007) and David Turnbull (1915-2007)

Roger Doherty
Science 6 July 2007: 56-57.
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Review

Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems

Anthony R. Ives and Stephen R. Carpenter
Science 6 July 2007: 58-62.
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Brevia

Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?

Matthias R. Mehl, Simine Vazire, Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, Richard B. Slatcher, and James W. Pennebaker
Science 6 July 2007: 82.
Contrary to popular wisdom, male and female college students speak the same number of words daily--about 15,000. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances

André Kurs, Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, J. D. Joannopoulos, Peter Fisher, and Marin Soljacic
Science 6 July 2007: 83-86.
Published online 7 June 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1143254] (in Science Express Research Articles)
The magnetic resonance between two induction coils can be used to power a remote device through space over a distance of 2 meters. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

Nicholas H. Putnam, Mansi Srivastava, Uffe Hellsten, Bill Dirks, Jarrod Chapman, Asaf Salamov, Astrid Terry, Harris Shapiro, Erika Lindquist, Vladimir V. Kapitonov, Jerzy Jurka, Grigory Genikhovich, Igor V. Grigoriev, Susan M. Lucas, Robert E. Steele, John R. Finnerty, Ulrich Technau, Mark Q. Martindale, and Daniel S. Rokhsar
Science 6 July 2007: 86-94.
The Cnidaria genome is more similar to that of vertebrates than flies or worms, suggesting that the common ancestor of multicellular animals was unexpectedly complex. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Dentate Gyrus NMDA Receptors Mediate Rapid Pattern Separation in the Hippocampal Network

Thomas J. McHugh, Matthew W. Jones, Jennifer J. Quinn, Nina Balthasar, Roberto Coppari, Joel K. Elmquist, Bradford B. Lowell, Michael S. Fanselow, Matthew A. Wilson, and Susumu Tonegawa
Science 6 July 2007: 94-99.
Published online 7 June 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1140263] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Rats are able to distinguish a new environment from a similar one because of distinct patterns of synaptic strengthening in the dentate gyrus. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Identification of Active Edge Sites for Electrochemical H₂ Evolution from MoS₂ Nanocatalysts

Thomas F. Jaramillo, Kristina P. Jørgensen, Jacob Bonde, Jane H. Nielsen, Sebastian Horch, and Ib Chorkendorff
Science 6 July 2007: 100-102.
Hydrogen evolution correlates with the edge length of triangular MoS₂ nanoparticles, revealing the active site of this potential alternative to precious metal catalysts. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Understanding Reactivity at Very Low Temperatures: The Reactions of Oxygen Atoms with Alkenes

Hassan Sabbah, Ludovic Biennier, Ian R. Sims, Yuri Georgievskii, Stephen J. Klippenstein, and Ian W. M. Smith
Science 6 July 2007: 102-105.
A low-energy rearrangement of transition states can explain the unusually rapid reaction of simple molecules at very low temperatures, like those occurring in astronomical clouds. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic

Vijay Narayan, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Narayanan Menon
Science 6 July 2007: 105-108.
The collective two-dimensional motion of vibrated copper rods, constrained only by particle-particle contact, shows similarities to flocking and swarming behavior in animals and bacteria. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Trench-Parallel Anisotropy Produced by Foundering of Arc Lower Crust

Mark D. Behn, Greg Hirth, and Peter B. Kelemen
Science 6 July 2007: 108-111.
Simulations suggest that an enigmatic seismic signature of the mantle underlying volcanic arcs may be explained by sinking of the lower crust. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland

Eske Willerslev, Enrico Cappellini, Wouter Boomsma, Rasmus Nielsen, Martin B. Hebsgaard, Tina B. Brand, Michael Hofreiter, Michael Bunce, Hendrik N. Poinar, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Sigfus Johnsen, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Ole Bennike, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Roger Nathan, Simon Armitage, Cees-Jan de Hoog, Vasily Alfimov, Marcus Christl, Juerg Beer, Raimund Muscheler, Joel Barker, Martin Sharp, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, James Haile, Pierre Taberlet, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Antonella Casoli, Elisa Campani, and Matthew J. Collins
Science 6 July 2007: 111-114.
DNA sequences from organic material near the bottom of an ice core imply that a conifer forest covered southern Greenland hundreds of thousands of years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption

Michael Petraglia, Ravi Korisettar, Nicole Boivin, Christopher Clarkson, Peter Ditchfield, Sacha Jones, Jinu Koshy, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Clive Oppenheimer, David Pyle, Richard Roberts, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Lee Arnold, and Kevin White
Science 6 July 2007: 114-116.
A site in southern India shows that local human populations persisted through the cataclysmic Toba volcanic eruption 77,000 years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Buddenbrockia Is a Cnidarian Worm

Eva Jiménez-Guri, Hervé Philippe, Beth Okamura, and Peter W. H. Holland
Science 6 July 2007: 116-118.
Protein sequences indicate that a strange worm discovered over a century ago is actually a cnidarian, a finding that challenges views on body plan evolution. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Genetic Properties Influencing the Evolvability of Gene Expression

Christian R. Landry, Bernardo Lemos, Scott A. Rifkin, W. J. Dickinson, and Daniel L. Hartl
Science 6 July 2007: 118-121.
Published online 24 May 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1140247] (in Science Express Reports)
The expression levels of genes regulated by certain nearby elements or by many distant elements evolve particularly rapidly. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Gender Disparity in Liver Cancer Due to Sex Differences in MyD88-Dependent IL-6 Production

Willscott E. Naugler, Toshiharu Sakurai, Sunhwa Kim, Shin Maeda, KyoungHyun Kim, Ahmed M. Elsharkawy, and Michael Karin
Science 6 July 2007: 121-124.
The greater production of an inflammatory cytokine in male mice explains their higher susceptibility to liver cancer. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Regulation of Spontaneous Intestinal Tumorigenesis Through the Adaptor Protein MyD88

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum and Ruslan Medzhitov
Science 6 July 2007: 124-127.
In mice, an innate immune signaling pathway controls the expression of several key genes that influence tumor development in the intestine. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Yeast DNA Polymerase Participates in Leading-Strand DNA Replication

Zachary F. Pursell, Isabelle Isoz, Else-Britt Lundström, Erik Johansson, and Thomas A. Kunkel
Science 6 July 2007: 127-130.
DNA polymerase ε_is the elusive enzyme that replicates the leading strand of DNA in the 5′ to 3′ direction. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Host Resistance to Lung Infection Mediated by Major Vault Protein in Epithelial Cells

Michael P. Kowalski, Anne Dubouix-Bourandy, Milan Bajmoczi, David E. Golan, Tanweer Zaidi, Yamara S. Coutinho-Sledge, Melanie P. Gygi, Steven P. Gygi, Erik A. C. Wiemer, and Gerald B. Pier
Science 6 July 2007: 130-132.
A protein in vaults, a cellular ribonucleoprotein, is necessary for lung epithelial cells to deal with a bacterial infection common in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought"

Sam J. Gilbert, Iroise Dumontheil, Jon S. Simons, Chris D. Frith, and Paul W. Burgess
Science 6 July 2007: 43.
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Response to Comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought"

Malia F. Mason, Michael I. Norton, John D. Van Horn, Daniel M. Wegner, Scott T. Grafton, and C. Neil Macrae
Science 6 July 2007: 43.
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