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Remission is seen as a more realistic goal.

Studies suggest that atoll islands will rise in step with a rising sea.

Stanford researchers unable to replicate findings linking immune response to sleep disorder.

Lacking vital medical supplies, doctors struggle to treat resurgent diseases.

Green groups criticize current adviser—and her office.

New industry-sponsored study rules out any link between Italian earthquakes and oil production.

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is about to orbit and then land on one of the solar system's most mysterious objects.

The most daring moment of the Rosetta mission will come when mission leaders plan to drop the Philae lander to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

More capable than once thought, the cellular structure known as the nucleolus may be a target for treating diseases.

A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 25 July 2014.

Where you manufacture changes what you get

Sustained size reduction was essential for the origin of birds and avian flight [Also see Report by Lee et al.]

Diamond-based quantum teleportation works every time [Also see Research Article by Pfaff et al.]

DNA damage in ancient genomes may provide insight into past regulatory changes in humans and other species

Persistent pain changes a neural circuit and reduces willingness to work for food [Also see Research Article by Schwartz et al.]

Pulsations from young stars provide a new chronometer for stellar evolution [Also see Report by Zwintz et al.]

A Turing network controls the periodic pattern of fingers and toes during development [Also see Report by Raspopovic et al.]

Cellular signals during helminth infections can skew the immune response to favor viral spreading [Also see Reports by Reese et al. and Osborne et al.]

Tumor genomes are peppered with mobile repeat sequences that carry along adjacent DNA when they insert into new genomic sites.

A quantum state can now be teleported unconditionally between diamond defects 3 meters apart. [Also see Perspective by Atatüre and Morton]

The effort mice are willing to put into obtaining a reward is decreased in inflammatory and neuropathic models of pain. [Also see Perspective by Fields]

Optimizing the growth conditions of the perovskite layer and interlayer carrier transport boosts solar cell efficiency.

Synergy at a metal-oxide interface generates highly active catalysts for carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol.

On this week's show: Novae as a source of gamma rays and a roundup of stories from our daily news site.

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