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Table of Contents
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| Special Section |
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Introduction to Special Issue
Ian Osborne
Special Issue Review
A. Femius Koenderink et al.
Special Issue Review
J. B. Pendry et al.
Special Issue Review
I. A. Walmsley
Special Issue Review
Jianwei Miao et al.
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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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Michael Halpern and Michael Mann
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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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Seismology
Eric Hand and Priyanka Pulla
Rupture in quiet region of crust suggests Himalayan threat was underestimated.
Infectious Diseases
Martin Enserink
The country could soon be the epidemic’s last holdout.
Bioethics
Jocelyn Kaiser and Dennis Normile
First test of gene-editing technique on human embryos illustrates clinical risks.
Nutrition
Viviane Callier
Isotope ratios could aid research by tracking added sugars.
Funding
Edwin Cartlidge
Beleaguered scientists are spending reserves to protect them from confiscation.
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Robert F. Service
The ultrathin form of carbon has inspired other atoms-thick materials that promise even bigger technological payoffs.
Jon Cohen
This popular TV game show has a thing for science.
Do you have what it takes to succeed in our Jeopardy! quiz?
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| Working Life |
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| Letters |
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Todd L. Pittinsky
Outside the Tower
Carri J. LeRoy
Deepak B. Khatry
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| Books et al. |
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Anthropology
Peter Turchin
Did food and fuel help shape our value systems?
History of Optics
Christopher Dainty
Johannes Kepler and the transition to modern optical theories
A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 24 April 2015.
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| Policy Forum |
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Sustainability
Gabriel S. Sampson et al.
Require improvements as conditions for market access
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| Perspectives |
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Ecology
J. E. O’Connor et al.
Dam removals are reconnecting rivers in the United States
Chemical Physics
Oleg Kornilov
Femtosecond laser pulses help to take a snapshot of the huge elusive Efimov state
Medicine
Thomas R. Insel and Bruce N. Cuthbert
Precision medicine comes to psychiatry
ECOLOGY
Janneke Hille Ris Lambers
How will climate change affect global biodiversity?
Ecology
Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.
How can the ecological consequences of the increasing use of airspace by humans be minimized?
Immunology
Atsushi Tanaka and Shimon Sakaguchi
The development of particular T cells at a specific time prevents autoimmunity
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| Research Articles |
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Markus Räschle et al.
Surveying the battery of proteins required to repair covalently linked DNA strands reveals a new repair pathway.
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| Reports |
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R. C. Brown et al.
A tunable checkerboard optical lattice filled with rubidium atoms is used to simulate demagnetization dynamics.
M. W. Ray et al.
An analog of the magnetic monopole has been created and observed in an ultracold gas of rubidium-87 atoms.
Y. L. Tang et al.
Scanning transmission electron microscopy is used to observe closed polarization loops in the ferroelectric PbTiO3.
Maksim Kunitski et al.
A weakly bound triangular arrangement of three helium atoms, long predicted by theory, has been observed experimentally. [Also see Perspective by Kornilov]
Shuo Chen et al.
The strength of a salt bridge between organic ions decreased with distance from a hydrophobic surface.
S. Ciocchi et al.
The hippocampus routes distinct pieces of information selectively to different brain regions.
Eric M. Arndt et al.
Bombardier beetles use internal pulsed chemical reactions to deter prey.
Seth Finnegan et al.
Fossils reveal patterns of extinction in marine species, past and present.
Mark C. Urban
A meta-analysis details how current climate trends could result in increases in extinction. [Also see Perspective by Hille Ris Lambers]
Xiaoxue Zhou et al.
Daughter cell separation in Staphylococcus aureus proceeds much like the cracking of an egg.
Józef R. Lewandowski et al.
The dynamic modes that relate solvent, side-chain, and backbone motions in a protein are determined from nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation.
David W. Taylor et al.
A bacterial immune system protein complex changes shape to recognize and destroy foreign RNA.
Antoine Bridier-Nahmias et al.
A mobile genetic element is targeted away from gene-coding regions by a component of a host transcription complex.
Siyoung Yang et al.
Regulatory T cells generated in neonatal mice are especially important for preventing autoimmunity. [Also see Perspective by Tanaka and Sakaguchi]
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