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This Week in Science
Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Development and Climate Change
Rosina M. Bierbaum and Robert B. Zoellick
Science 6 November 2009: 771.
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Editors' Choice
Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 6 November 2009: 773.
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Science Podcast
Science 6 November 2009: 875.
The show includes an unusual supernova, the origins of religion, your Letters to Science, and more.
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New Products
Science 6 November 2009: 875.
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
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News of the Week
Physics
Helium-3 Shortage Could Put Freeze On Low-Temperature Research
Adrian Cho
Science 6 November 2009: 778-779.
A shortfall of helium-3, the lighter isotope of the most inert element, threatens several research fields, and the Department of Energy, the major supplier, is releasing the gas, which is used in neutron detectors that help prevent the smuggling of plutonium and other radioactive materials into the country, only to researchers with U.S. funding.
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U.S. Science Policy
Peer Review Not Popular at Homeland Security
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 6 November 2009: 779.
An analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's $1 billion science and technology directorate has found that very little of its basic science research budget was awarded using peer review.
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Stem Cells
CIRM Awards Seek to Move Cell Therapies to the Clinic
Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 6 November 2009: 780-781.
Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants—$230 million to 14 teams—intended to speed stem cell therapies to patients.
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Privacy
Court Orders Stanford Expert to Surrender Manuscript
Sam Kean
Science 6 November 2009: 780-781.
A Stanford University professor is fighting to keep his unpublished book manuscript out of the hands of tobacco company R.J. Reynolds, which subpoenaed it after he testified as an expert witness for smokers who are suing the company.
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ScienceNOW.org
From Science's Online Daily News Site
Science 6 November 2009: 781.
ScienceNOW this week reported on fellatio among fruit bats, the death toll from a pair of man-eating lions, a primordial nuclear age, and the definition of p-value, among other stories.
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Swine Flu Pandemic
Developing Countries to Get Some H1N1 Vaccine—But When?
Martin Enserink
Science 6 November 2009: 782.
The World Health Organization has promised to supply developing countries with H1N1 vaccine donated by manufacturers and rich countries. But it has secured only about 200 million doses for 95 countries that together are home to a third of the world's population.
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Economic Recovery
When Counting Jobs Isn't Enough
Jeffrey Mervis
Science 6 November 2009: 783.
A federal pilot project launched this summer aims not just to improve the tracking of jobs created by the $787 billion stimulus package but also to lay the foundation for a system to measure the impact of research on the U.S. economy.
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ScienceInsider
From the Science Policy Blog
Science 6 November 2009: 783.