A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

Search for rare nuclear decay would test whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle.

Astronomer Joan Schmelz talks about what needs to change in the wake of the Marcy case.

Workshop explores facilities to give neuroscience access to high-tech tools.

Cellular droplets promote vital biochemistry-but may dangerously solidify

Industry uneasy at European Food Safety Authority pledge to make data underlying its decisions public.

Germany completes the epic construction of the reactor designed in hell. Its tortuous shape may point the way forward for fusion.

Defying expectations, cataract surgery in Indian children is endowing them with vision-and shedding light on how the brain learns to see.

A provocative theory takes readers on a journey through the cosmos

Practical tools for crafting compelling scientific narratives

A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 16 October 2015.

Mature science reveals opportunities for policy progress

A single ligand-activated protein triggers the assembly of an entire inflammasome [Also see Research Article by Hu et al. and Report by Zhang et al.]

A condensed matter system exhibits an effect usually associated with particle physics [Also see Report by Xiong et al.]

Can science and policy catch up with practice?

Release of CO induces ultrafast collective motions in myoglobin [Also see Report by Barends et al.]

DNA sequences from a coal-bed reservoir show that methane can be generated by unexpected microbes [Also see Report by Evans et al.]

Sperm-specific calcineurin is a novel fertility and contraceptive target [Also see Report by Miyata et al.]

How can modelers restore confidence in systems and computational biology?

There is still no consensus on the toxicity of nanomaterials

An autocatalytic self-propagating mechanism drives activation of the NLRC4 inflammasome. [Also see Perspective by Liu and Xiao]

Arf1 and HIV-1 Nef play interconnected roles to remodel the inner AP-1 layer of the clathrin coat.

An autocatalytic self-propagating mechanism drives activation of the NLRC4 inflammasome. [Also see Perspective by Liu and Xiao]

An electric-double-layer technique is used to induce clean two-dimensional superconductivity in the layered insulator ZrNCl.

Transport measurements in a magnetic field indicate the breaking of chiral symmetry. [Also see Perspective by Burkov]

The electron paramagnetic signal of individual iron atoms on an oxide surface is probed with a scanning tunneling microscope.

Ultrafast optics can directly probe the electric-field vacuum fluctuations.

Stellar oscillations can be used to measure magnetic fields in the core of red giant stars.

Plant tissue organization is maintained at all formative steps during root growth by the same set of transcription factors.

Individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer's navigate differently in a virtual environment.

Two reconstructed archaeal genomes reveal that methane metabolism is more diverse than anticipated. [Also see Perspective by Lloyd]

Hydration of pollen activates a mechanosensory channel as the plasma membrane stretches.

Inhibiting the function of a protein involved in sperm maturation may help in the development of future male contraceptives. [Also see Perspective by Castaneda and Matzuk]

Time-resolved crystallography at an x-ray laser reveals ultrafast structural changes in myoglobin upon ligand dissociation. [Also see Perspective by Neutze]

Singlet oxygen accumulation marks severely stressed chloroplasts for degradation.

A lupus-associated autoantigen binds Alu endogenous retroelements and regulates type I interferon cytokine production.

On this week's show: What treating blindness in India can tell us about the brain and a roundup of daily news stories.

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