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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that NIH is defending its 16 intramural cancer scientists whose travel has been questioned by Senator Charles Grassley (R–IA), among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last month, researchers met in Qingdao, China, to plot strategy on a 5-year, $4 million mission to understand the disturbing ascendancy of jellyfish in Asian waters, one that parallels the apparent rise of the animals in the Mediterranean and Caspian seas and other bodies of water.</jats:p>

<jats:p> A report on page <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/330/6010/1523">1523</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> analyzes how El Niño and La Niña, naturally occurring weather patterns that cause warming (El Niño) and cooling (La Niña) in the tropical Pacific and around the globe, have actually influenced clouds and concludes that—at least on the scale of decades—clouds do not counter warming by greenhouse gases. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last Monday in Burkina Faso, a massive campaign kicked off to immunize 20 million people in three African countries against deadly meningococcal meningitis by the end of December.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week on why diets fail, how swine flu killed the healthy, and a new study that shows that mercury in the environment can change an animal's mating habits, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A new generation of genetic tests could give authorities a much better idea of exactly where fish have been caught.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A newfangled x-ray source exceeds expectations in creating new conditions of matter, probing materials, and deciphering the structures of proteins.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At the meeting, a series of biblical archaeologists came to the podium for 2 hours of data-rich presentations—and put their colleagues on notice that their field is in the midst of a scientific revolution.</jats:p>

<jats:p>By carefully sorting genetic data from living people, a researcher reported at the meeting that around 6000 B.C.E., Neolithic seafarers spread their seed—both agricultural and genetic—from their homeland in the Near East as far west across the Mediterranean as Marseilles, but no farther.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The round stone fort at Ras Budran on the southern Sinai Peninsula hints at the precariousness of Egypt's Old Kingdom, suggesting an increasingly desperate trading and military strategy in the waning days of the 22nd century B.C.E., an excavator reported at the meeting.</jats:p>