In this week's issue:
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| Research Summaries |
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Editor summaries of this week's papers. Highlights of the recent literature.
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| Editorial |
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| In Brief |
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A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.
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| In Depth |
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Paleoanthropology Ann Gibbons Bizarre skeletons emerge from South African cave.
Medical Nanotechnology Robert F. Service Promise of cancer-seeking nanoparticles wins funding for research center.
Climate Change Eli Kintisch In Alaska, frozen debris lobes threaten a key lifeline.
Biosecurity Jon Cohen A new viral “backbone” could speed up production of influenza vaccines.
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Kai Kupferschmidt As head of the $29 billion Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar took the stage during the Ebola epidemic. Now, he wants to make the trust a world leader.
Robert F. Service Researchers are vying to use renewable energy to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it back into fuel.
Robert F. Service Economic barriers to solar fuels are driving research into making other chemicals from similar recipes.
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| Working Life |
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Malou Henriksen-Lacey and Juan J. Giner-Casares
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| Letters |
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Duane A. Peltzer et al. Ian Traniello Todd Dawson et al.
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| Books et al. |
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Aesthetics Giovanni Frazzetto A physicist and a philosopher contemplate the nature of beauty and the value of art.
Policy Megan R. Schwarzman Better living through (sustainable) chemistry
A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 04 September 2015.
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| Policy Forum |
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Climate Change Jonas Meckling et al. Green industrial policy builds support for carbon regulation
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Geophysics Roland Bürgmann Small earthquakes reveal low stress levels at megathrust zones and in surrounding crust [Also see Report by Hardebeck et al.]
Evolution Jonathan P. Zehr Are single-celled symbioses organelle evolution in action?
Climate S. E. Mikaloff-Fletcher Southern Ocean carbon uptake may have strengthened between 2002 and 2012, slowing climate change [Also see Report by Landschützer et al.]
Immunology John W. Schoggins Infected cells generate a factor that is incorporated into viruses and transferred to other cells [Also see Reports by Bridgeman et al. and Gentili et al.]
Plant Biochemistry Sarah E. O'Connor The genes required for synthesizing a plant-derived anticancer compound are identified [Also see Report by Lau and Sattely]
Quantum Mechanics Markus Arndt and Christian Brand The time dilation of gravity is mimicked with atomic clocks in magnetic fields [Also see Report by Margalit et al.]
Microbiome Edward J. van Opstal and Seth R. Bordenstein How should microbiome heritability be measured and interpreted?
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| Research Articles |
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Chuangye Yan et al. A high-resolution structure determined by electron microscopy provides insight into how the spliceosome functions.
Jing Hang et al. A high-resolution structure determined by electron microscopy provides insight into how the spliceosome functions.
Peter H. Sudmant et al. Copy-number variation reveals how selection affects the human genome across the globe.
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C. Janvier et al. States of a superconducting weak link are manipulated in a circuit quantum electrodynamics setup.
Nicola Poccia et al. In-plane current is used to induce a dynamical phase transition in an array of superconducting islands on a metallic surface.
Yair Margalit et al. A cloud of cold rubidium atoms is used to demonstrate clock interferometry. [Also see Perspective by Arndt and Brand]
Song Lin et al. A covalent lattice enhances the activity of a catalyst for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxideto carbon monoxide.
Jeanne L. Hardebeck Subduction zone faults are weak at depth, well-oriented for failure, and embedded in a low-stress environment. [Also see Perspective by Bürgmann]
Nathalie Dehorter et al. The transcriptional regulator Er81 is crucial for the normal differentiation of delay-type fast-spiking interneurons.
Peter Landschützer et al. Carbon uptake by the Southern Ocean has increased again after its slowdown in the 1990s. [Also see Perspective by Fletcher]
Warren Lau and Elizabeth S. Sattely A small woodland plant gives up its secrets for synthesizing a useful chemotherapeutic agent. [Also see Perspective by O'Connor]
A. Bridgeman et al. Viruses package an antiviral second messenger into virions, facilitating an immune response in newly infected cells. [Also see Perspective by Schoggins]
Matteo Gentili et al. Viruses package an antiviral second messenger into virions, facilitating an immune response in newly infected cells. [Also see Perspective by Schoggins]
Yuji Tanno et al. Interfering with a critical component of the chromosome segregation-and-pairing machinery may cause chromosome instability.
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| Podcast |
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On this week's show: How our genes influence our microbes and a roundup of daily news stories.
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| New Products |
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A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
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