A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

Researchers say fracking threatens hundreds of early Pueblo sites and endangers future excavations.

Science at risk in ownership quarrel over Antarctic base.

As of 14 September, no U.S. labs will be conducting invasive studies on chimps.

Critics uneasy at industry role in environmental monitoring.

Many administrative tasks are just part of the job.

Some dietary supplements are spiked with drugs. Pieter Cohen is out to expose the hazards.

Conservation scientist M. Sanjayan prepares to anchor PBS's first live nature program.

Economist Anthony Atkinson proposes ambitious policies for combating inequality.

A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 14 August 2015.

Is there a foundation of agreement among experts about risk?

Forest crises demand regulation and certification reform

Effects of human hunting and fishing differ fundamentally from those of other predators [Also see Report by Darimont et al.]

Fundamental questions about dark matter and dark energy are probed in laboratory experiments [Also see Reports by Hamilton et al. and XENON Collaboration]

A plant defense hormone shapes the root microbiome [Also see Report by Lebeis et al.]

Membrane voltage connects lipid organization to cell proliferation [Also see Report by Zhou et al.]

A comprehensive strategy to control HCV infection must include a vaccine

Disorder and interactions are tuned to induce nonergodic behavior in an atomic system in a one-dimensional optical lattice.

Genetic variation within ancient and extant Native American populations informs on their migration into the Americas.

Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques are used to simulate the dynamics of dipolar interactions.

Cold atom experiments can constrain proposed theories of dark energy. [Also see Perspective by Schmiedmayer and Abele]

Results from the XENON100 underground detector set limits on some proposed candidates for dark matter. [Also see Perspective by Schmiedmayer and Abele]

A general model for consumer-resource interactions integrates previous purpose-built models.

Human predators do not mimic the behavior of natural predators. [Also see Perspective by Worm]

Bacteria that are endosymbiotic with the plant root respond to changes in the plant’s signaling status. [Also see Perspective by Haney and Ausubel]

The parasitic weed Striga has given up the secret of its key receptor.

Altered splicing of a splicing regulator activates brain-specific alternative splicing.

Changing the voltage across the plasma membrane causes clustering of a small guanosine triphosphatase. [Also see Perspective by Accardi]

A transcription factor activates gene expression by dramatically changing the shape of promotor DNA.

A regulatory protein factor in bacteria ensures that RNA polymerase stays switched off until it receives the signal to go.

On this week's show: Human superpredators and a roundup of daily news stories.

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