A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

A major resurgence of the virus in Angola leaves the world empty-handed.

With business booming, Colombia is planning to dredge a new shipping lane through surprisingly resilient coral reef.

After Islamic State retreats from city, talk of restoration.

Research by whistleblowers who exposed gay canvassing study finds same effect.

Design information can be pilfered from the sounds a printer makes.

Politics and budget pressure reshape science in Putin's Russia.

After 2 decades adrift, Russia's space scientists plan an ambitious set of missions.

Russia's takeover of Crimea has isolated scientists in the strategic peninsula.

Practical advice abounds in a faculty-focused guide to commercializing research

A new biography probes M. King Hubbert's controversial mid-century energy pronouncement

Standardized wear and durability testing is needed to advance the best materials

RNA regulatory elements are potential antibiotic targets and synthetic biology building blocks [Also see Research Article by Dar et al.]

Neutrophils may be cellular targets for cancer therapy

A brief conversation can have a lasting effect on prejudice [Also see Report by Broockman and Kalla]

Using data, selecting leaders, and changing rules

Direct measurements of protein folding paths agree with theoretical predictions [Also see Report by Neupane et al.]

Climatic changes 55.9 million years ago resemble those expected in the future

Melanoma cells show transcriptional heterogeneity.

Density matrix renormalization group calculations show that particle-hole symmetry is preserved in a half-filled Landau level.

A powerful technique is described for discovering riboswitches and attenuators that respond to previously unknown ligands. [Also see Perspective by Sommer and Suess]

A gas of magnetic erbium-168 atoms reveals effects of dipolar interactions on the superfluid-Mott insulator transition.

Semiconductor devices are constructed solely from a range of colloidal nanocrystals.

Prebiotic sugars, including ribose, can be made by irradiating simple ices under interstellar conditions.

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a two-dimensional magnet are consistent with deconfined quantum criticality with modified scaling.

Brain activation when performing activities can largely be understood from its distinctive anatomy and connectivity.

Asking voters to see the world from other people's eyes can alter their attitudes for quite a long time. [Also see Perspective by Paluck]

Weaknesses in cloud parameterizations may be causing global climate models to underestimate future warming.

Aberrant activation of the MYC gene helps tumor cells evade the immune response.

The process of borrowing a bacterial enzyme to control nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide concentrations in mammalian cells is discussed.

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA live on in modern day Melanesians.

Optical tweezers reveal how a protein and a DNA hairpin cross the barrier between the folded and unfolded states. [Also see Perspective by Wolynes]

Lymph node macrophages provide a physical barrier against tumor spread.

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