Australia's aggressive efforts to stop HIV's spread via injecting drugs averted a catastrophe.

Increasing prevalence in Australia's men who have sex with men raises questions about treatment as prevention.

Data vacuum despite improved surveillance.

A community gathers to watch a video about HIV's impact on a local family and meet the star.

No clear mechanism explains how removing a foreskin protects men from HIV, but traditional penile cutting in Papua New Guinea may help clarify.

Sex and drugs rock Health Minister Mboi's reign.

A top researcher and advocate pushes for change.

A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

Anthropologists worry about the threat from novel infections and conflicts with other tribes.

Gases from medical isotope plants can mimic the signature of a bomb, but makers say they will cut emissions.

Scientists threaten to boycott the Human Brain Project.

Nationwide water transfer scheme could aid farming, but critics fear ecological havoc.

Researchers consider killing off a claimed common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans.

The spread of an emerging disease from its forest stronghold is sounding alarm bells in India.

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

Gene expression patterns of open-ocean microbes are tightly coupled. [Also see Report by Ottesen et al.]

A successful infection is determined in part by how close a viral genome is to an ideal sequence. [Also see Research Article by Carlson et al.]

Thermally induced structural changes in a thin polymer film could be resolved with picosecond time resolution. [Also see Report by Gulde et al.]

Optical measurements may help reveal the secrets of exotic superconductivity and manipulate the pair condensate. [Also see Report by Schemm et al.]

How bacteria “flip” carbohydrate precursors across the cytoplasmic membrane. [Also see Report by Sham et al.]

New drugs to cure hepatitis C should be made available at low costs in developing countries

Where are the protons in heme protein catalysis? [Also see Report by Casadei et al.]

Latently HIV-infected cells driven to proliferate may raise a further challenge for eradication strategies. [Also see Research Article by Maldarelli et al.]

Concern is rising about widespread contamination of the marine environment by microplastics.

An analysis of discordant couples reveals that transmitted HIV-1 viruses are typically the most evolutionarily fit. [Also see Perspective by Joseph and Swanstrom]

Where HIV integrates into the host genome contributes to viral persistence and the expansion of infected cells. [Also see Perspective by Margolis and Bushman]

Asymmetric plasma flows on the night side of Earth are regulated by magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.

Some of the phenomenology of cuprate superconductors is recreated in strontium iridate surface-doped with potassium.

Optical measurements elucidate the nature of superconductivity in an exotic compound. [Also see Perspective by van der Marel and Sawatzky]

The sensitivity of neutron scattering to proton locations clarifies the acid/base chemistry of a biochemical oxidation. [Also see Perspective by Groves and Boaz]

A method for estimating the uncertainty of calculated properties in density functional theory is introduced.

Time-resolved low-energy electron diffraction resolves picosecond structural dynamics in a polymer-graphene bilayer. [Also see Perspective by Nibbering]

Earthquakes that occur hundreds of kilometers below the surface may have more than one rupture mechanism.

Multispecies’ daily waves of gene transcription are observed in open ocean microplankton. [Also see Perspective by Armbrust]

How do theoretical predictions of individual fiscal behaviors match up against real-world, real-time data?

Mutational analysis of tumor cells isolated from the blood of cancer patients may help optimize treatment selection.

The identity of the final essential component of the bacterial peptidoglycan biogenesis pathway is elucidated. [Also see Perspective by Young]

Genetic oscillations, their changing spatial pattern, and tissue shortening direct the rhythm of sequential body segmentation.

On this week's show: A sea of plastic bits and a roundup of stories from our daily news site.

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