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[News of the Week] Around the World
[News & Analysis] Neuroscience: How to Build a Dream-Reading Machine
[News Focus] Japan Disaster: Cooling a Hot Zone
[Report] Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Report] The Biological Underpinnings of Namib Desert Fairy Circles
[News & Analysis] Paleontology: Dramatic Fossils Suggest Early Birds Were Biplanes
[Report] Evidence for Two Distinct Populations of Type Ia Supernovae
[Research Article] Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees
[Perspective] Cell Biology: Unconventional Secretion, Unconventional Solutions
[Association Affairs] AAAS News and Notes
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 22 March Show
[Report] Molecular Basis of Age-Dependent Vernalization in Cardamine flexuosa
[News Focus] Mr. Borucki's Lonely Road to the Light
[Report] Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis
[Report] Networks of bZIP Protein-Protein Interactions Diversified Over a Billion Years of Evolution
[Report] Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone
This Week in Science
[Report] Ultrafast Tryptophan-to-Heme Electron Transfer in Myoglobins Revealed by UV 2D Spectroscopy
[Review] Impact of Shale Gas Development on Regional Water Quality
[Letter] Shark Mislabeling Threatens Biodiversity
[Report] Geometric Catalysis of Membrane Fission Driven by Flexible Dynamin Rings
[News & Analysis] U.S. Science Policy: Bill Would Set New Rules for Choosing NSF Grants
[Editorial] A Fond Farewell
[Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Students as Collaborators in Systems Biology Research
Findings
[Technical Comment] Comment on “ApoE-Directed Therapeutics Rapidly Clear β-Amyloid and Reverse Deficits in AD Mouse Models”
[News & Analysis] NASA: Planetary Scientists Casting Doubt on Feasibility of Plan to Corral Asteroid
Findings
[News Focus] From Cosmic Dawn To Milkomeda, And Beyond
[Perspective] Atmosphere: Leads and Lags at the End of the Last Ice Age
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Special Issue Perspective] A Business View on U.S. Education
[News of the Week] Random Sample
[News & Analysis] Neuroscience: NFL Kicks Off Brain Injury Research Effort
[Editorial] Impact Factor Distortions
[Report] Spreading Depression Triggers Headache by Activating Neuronal Panx1 Channels
[Special Issue Review] Outside the Pipeline: Reimagining Science Education for Nonscientists
[News & Analysis] Paleoanthropology: A Human Smile and Funny Walk for Australopithecus sediba
[Report] The Structural Basis of ZMPSTE24-Dependent Laminopathies
[Special Issue Review] Professional Development for Science Teachers
[News of the Week] Random Samples
[Perspective] Cell Biology: A Sweet Send-Off
[Perspective] Evolution: With a Little Help from Prokaryotes
[News & Analysis] NOAA: Warning Issued for Looming Data Gap From Fleet of Weather Satellites
[Technical Comment] Comment on “ApoE-Directed Therapeutics Rapidly Clear β-Amyloid and Reverse Deficits in AD Mouse Models”
[Books et al.] Books Received
[News & Analysis] Science Community: Austrian Academy of Sciences Faces Its Nazi History
[News Focus] A Floating Lab Explores the Fringes of Science and Gastronomy
[News & Analysis] Archaeology: Archaeologists Say the ‘Anthropocene’ Is Here—But It Began Long Ago
[Perspective] Geophysics: Melting Earth's Core
[Perspective] Biochemistry: A Protease for the Ages
[Perspective] Climate Change: Climate's Dark Forcings
[Letter] Strategy Behind Science Policy Decisions
[Research Article] Soft-Chemistry–Based Routes to Epitaxial α-Quartz Thin Films with Tunable Textures
[Research Article] Neurotransmitter Switching in the Adult Brain Regulates Behavior
[Perspective] Retrospective: François Jacob (1920–2013)
[News of the Week] AAAS Meeting
[News & Analysis] Infectious Diseases: Amid Heightened Concerns, New Name for Novel Coronavirus Emerges
[Special Issue Report] Mandibular Remains Support Taxonomic Validity of Australopithecus sediba
[Letter] Shale-Gas Plans Threaten China's Water Resources
[Report] Galvanic Replacement Reactions in Metal Oxide Nanocrystals
[News of the Week] Random Samples
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Policy Forum] Point-Counterpoint: Ethics and Genomic Incidental Findings
[News & Analysis] Science Debate: Scientists Clash Swords Over Future of GM Food Crops in India
[Introduction to Special Issue] Introduction: Plenty of Challenges for All
[Report] Lorentz Meets Fano in Spectral Line Shapes: A Universal Phase and Its Laser Control
[Letter] The Buzz
[News & Analysis] Zoology: International Arbiter of Animal Names Faces Financial Woes
[News & Analysis] Planetary Science: Life Could Have Thrived on Mars, but Did It? Curiosity Still Has No Clue
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 15 March Show
Findings
[Perspective] Chemistry: A New Twist on Cooperative Catalysis
[Perspective] Neuroscience: Heterochronic Genes Turn Back the Clock in Old Neurons
Findings
[Perspective] Neuroscience: What the Bomb Said About the Brain
[Report] Cell Death from Antibiotics Without the Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species
[Perspective] Astronomy: A Trap for Planet Formation
[Perspective] Neuroscience: The Brain Activity Map
[Report] Density Triggers Maternal Hormones That Increase Adaptive Offspring Growth in a Wild Mammal
[News & Analysis] Latin America: In Quest for Synchrotron, Brazil Tests Homespun Ingenuity a Second Time
[Book Review] Evolution: What Led to Metazoa's Big Bang?
[Perspective] Neuroscience: Why Adults Need New Brain Cells
[Perspective] Developmental Biology: Programmed Cell Death in Neuronal Development
[Special Issue Review] Topological Quantum Computation—From Basic Concepts to First Experiments
[Review] Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces
[News & Analysis] Dual Use Research: Australian Researchers Rattled by Export Control Law
[Book Review] Biography: Nature's True Self
[Letter] Geoengineering: Guidance Exists
[News & Analysis] Neuroscience: Brain Project Draws Presidential Interest, but Mixed Reactions
[Research Article] A Neural Circuit for Memory Specificity and Generalization
[Letter] Geoengineering: Perilous Particles
[News Focus] Dead or Alive?
[News Focus] Food Science: Following the Flavor
[News & Analysis] Biology of Genomes: Long Noncoding RNAs May Alter Chromosome's 3D Structure
[News Focus] Mysteries of Development
[News & Analysis] U.S. Science Policy: What It Means for Agencies to Be Under the Sequester
[Perspective] Developmental Biology: Deserts and Waves in Gene Expression
[Technical Comment] Comment on “Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage”
[Report] Heterogeneous Differentiation Patterns of Individual CD8+ T Cells
[Report] Structural Basis for Kinesin-1:Cargo Recognition
[Letter] Rhino Poaching: Unique Challenges
[Letter] Little Emperors Pose Behavioral Challenges
[Letter] The True Challenge of Giant Marine Reserves
[Policy Forum] Research Priorities: The NIH BRAIN Initiative
[Research Article] Using the Earth as a Polarized Electron Source to Search for Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions
[Report] Mechanisms of Age-Dependent Response to Winter Temperature in Perennial Flowering of Arabis alpina
[News & Analysis] Animal Cognition: Can Animals Envision the Future? Scientists Spar Over New Data
[Business Office Feature] Science Webinar Series: Live Cell Imaging: The Future for Discoveries
[Report] 3D Computational Imaging with Single-Pixel Detectors
[Perspective] Planetary Science: Probing an Extrasolar Planet
[Perspective] Immunology: Antigen Processing Takes a New Direction
[Report] Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot
[Special Issue Review] Cancer Pharmacogenomics: Early Promise, But Concerted Effort Needed
[Books et al.] Books Received
[Perspective] Neuroscience: Circuit Logic of Avoidance and Attraction
[Perspective] Geophysics: Characterizing Giant Landslides
[News & Analysis] HIV/AIDS: Early Treatment May Have Cured Infant of HIV Infection
[Review] The Continuing Challenge of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Neural Tube Defects
[Technical Response] Response to Comments on “Drosophila Dosage Compensation Involves Enhanced Pol II Recruitment to Male X-Linked Promoters”
[Book Review] Philosophy of Science: A Flawed Challenge Worth Pondering
[News Focus] Tohoku Disaster: Insistence on Gathering Real Data Confirms Low Radiation Exposures
[Letter] Japan's Lagging Gender Equality
[Perspective] Immunology: An Interferon Paradox
This Week in Science
[Report] Hind Wings in Basal Birds and the Evolution of Leg Feathers
[Letter] Rhino Poaching: Supply and Demand Uncertain
[Book Review] Conservation Biology: A Wild Life
New Products
[Perspective] Virology: Our Viral Inheritance
[News of the Week] Newsmakers
[Business Office Feature] Business Office Feature: LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Not Your PI's Western Blot
Editors' Choice
[Review] Bacterial Subversion of Host Innate Immune Pathways

Nature.com: Research

Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye
Aegilops tauschii draft genome sequence reveals a gene repertoire for wheat adaptation
Palaeontology: Tubular worms from the Burgess Shale
Phosphatidylserine receptor BAI1 and apoptotic cells as new promoters of myoblast fusion
Materials science: When two is better than one
Sodium content as a predictor of the advanced evolution of globular cluster stars
Particle physics: Minimalism triumphant
Antibiotic treatment expands the resistance reservoir and ecological network of the phage metagenome
Accelerated gene evolution through replication–transcription conflicts
A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet
Lamin A/C and emerin regulate MKL1–SRF activity by modulating actin dynamics
Bartels & Selkoe reply
Complex systems: Spatial signatures of resilience
Generation of electron Airy beams
A pathogenic picornavirus acquires an envelope by hijacking cellular membranes
Enantiomer-specific detection of chiral molecules via microwave spectroscopy
Globally networked risks and how to respond
Classical command of quantum systems
Climate science: Plant a tree, but tend it well
Materials science: Porosity in a single crystal
Rev-Erbs repress macrophage gene expression by inhibiting enhancer-directed transcription
The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies
Cancer: Stress mixes chromosomes
Biochemistry: Sirtuin on a high-fat diet
Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling
Virology: Phages hijack a host's defence
The sarcolipin-bound calcium pump stabilizes calcium sites exposed to the cytoplasm
Imaging: Magnetic bacteria on a diamond plate
Astrophysics: A glimpse inside a magnetar
Garrouste et al. reply
A syringe-like injection mechanism in Photorhabdus luminescens toxins
Colossal injection of catalyst atoms into silicon nanowires
Structure of active β-arrestin-1 bound to a G-protein-coupled receptor phosphopeptide
Crystal structure of a nitrate/nitrite exchanger
A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds
Is the ocean food provision index biased?
Crystal structure of a folate energy-coupling factor transporter from Lactobacillus brevis
Molecular biology: Circles reshape the RNA world
Conservation: Spare our restored soil
Structural basis of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase inhibition
Landscape of the PARKIN-dependent ubiquitylome in response to mitochondrial depolarization
Optical devices: Seeing the world through an insect's eyes
Metallurgy: Iron production electrified
Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins
Sema3A regulates bone-mass accrual through sensory innervations
Climatic control of bedrock river incision
Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
MicroRNA-34a regulates cardiac ageing and function
Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting
Changes in global nitrogen cycling during the Holocene epoch
Nutrition: When guests turn hostile
Ovarian surface epithelium at the junction area contains a cancer-prone stem cell niche
Stem Cells: A unifying theory for the crypt
Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning
Synthetic biology: It's an analog world
Evolutionary genomics: Detecting selection
The role of epistasis in protein evolution
Solid-state physics: Single spins in silicon see the light
50 & 100 Years Ago
Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains
Malaria: The vector as protector
Argon isotopic composition of Archaean atmosphere probes early Earth geodynamics
Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease
Halpern et al. reply

Science News

Sciencemag.org

[Perspective] Behavior: Animal Conformists
New Products
[Technical Comment] Comment on “ApoE-Directed Therapeutics Rapidly Clear β-Amyloid and Reverse Deficits in AD Mouse Models”

Nature.com: Research

Palaeontology: Tubular worms from the Burgess Shale
50 & 100 Years Ago
Evidence for sympathetic vibrational cooling of translationally cold molecules

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