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11 April 2014 Volume 344, Issue 6180


In this week's issue:


Research Summaries


Editor summaries of this week's papers.

Highlights of the recent literature.


Editorial




News of The Week


In science news around the world, a new biomedical "golden triangle" dubbed MedCity launches in London, NASA suspends scientific collaborations with Russia, pro-life groups in Europe launch a new attack against E.U. funding for stem cell research, and more.


Science talks with Saudi prince and science enthusiast Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdul-aziz Al-Saud about archaeology and Arabia's prehistoric past. And a bird flu scientist-turned-member of the Italian Parliament is allegedly under investigation for trafficking in flu viruses.


A new exhibit on pterosaurs at New York City's American Museum of Natural History features life-size models of the largest and smallest known species of the flying reptiles, an interactive flying pterosaur exhibit, and even a trading card game.




News & Analysis


Conservation Biology

Scientists in Spain are trying to revive the Pyrenean ibex by cloning cells from the last living animal, which died in 2000.


Planetary Science

Researchers running six NASA planetary science missions are competing for funds to keep their spacecraft alive.


Infectious Disease

As health workers struggle to contain the Ebola virus that has already killed more than 100 people, scientists are searching for clues about where the outbreak came from.


Seismology

An unpublished report concludes that increased activity in a nearby oil field may have played a role in a pair of deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2012.


Neglected Tropical Diseases

With a simple new tool available, yaws has joined the disease eradication hit list.



News Focus


Scientists have come up with a gallery of rogues to explain an epidemic of kidney disease in Central America. But the culprit has stayed one step ahead.


Starting in the 1950s, researchers hunted for the cause of an unusual chronic kidney disease afflicting farming communities in the Balkans. It took a mishap with Chinese herbal medicine in Belgium and the dogged sleuthing of molecular epidemiologists to arrive at the culprit.



Letters



Books et al.


Biogeography

De Queiroz argues for the importance of oceans as biogeographic highways as well as barriers.


Exhibition

Through 22 "interventions," Blanco illuminates links between natural history and art from the Prado's collection.


A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 04 April 2014.



Education Forum


Education Technology

Automated guidance on essays and drawings can improve learning in precollege and college courses.



Perspectives


Neuroscience

A critical period of plasticity allows neuronal circuitry of the mammalian olfactory system to develop. [Also see Reports by Ma et al. and Tsai and Barnea]


Botany

The endosperm acts as a signaling hub to orchestrate developmental processes in the Arabidopsis seed. [Also see Research Article by Costa et al.]


Astronomy

Recent studies of gamma-ray beams emitted from rotating neutron stars are providing a better understanding of the mechanism underlying pulsars.


Physics

An ensemble of 40 ultracold atoms forms an entangled state when just one of the atoms is excited. [Also see Report by Haas et al.]


Materials Science

Tough elastomers are created by adapting an approach previously used for hydrogels. [Also see Report by Ducrot et al.]

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Association Affairs



Reviews



Research Articles


Within plant seeds, signaling functions from the endosperm regulate development of the embryonic plant suspensor. [Also see Perspective by Bayer]


Event-triggered, three-dimensional high-speed videography and automated tracking of flies reveal how they avoid being swatted.



Reports


A 35-femtosecond laser pulse causes the dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2 to enter a stable phase not present in the equilibrium phase diagram.


A small ensemble of ultracold atoms in a chip trap has been used to realize a collective entangled state. [Also see Perspective by Widera]


Models of star formation are better constrained through an empirical assessment of galactic density structures.


Network elastomers based on hydrogel structures show increased toughness through the incorporation of sacrificial bonds. [Also see Perspective by Gong]


Blocking two crucial repair factors prevents DNA repair during mitosis, saving the cell from catastrophic chromosome fusions.


Development in the mouse olfactory system changes how axons find their way. [Also see Perspective by Cheetham and Belluscio]


Development in the mouse olfactory system changes how axons find their way. [Also see Perspective by Cheetham and Belluscio]


Evolutionary rates are phylogenetically correlated with how germ cells are specified.


Mitochondria lacking a Parkinson’s disease–associated kinase harbor a functionally important phosphorylation defect.


Guilt by association helps identify the chemogenomic signatures of compounds targeting yeast genes.



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New Products


A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.



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