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<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's online daily news site, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW, this week include <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/601/1">preventing a plant apocalypse</jats:ext-link> , a <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/529/1">billion-year hard drive</jats:ext-link> , <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/601/2">iPS cells to the rescue</jats:ext-link> , a quantum widget, and a possible way to <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/528/3">prevent blood clots without aspirin</jats:ext-link> . </jats:p>

<jats:p>Geoscientists are making room for an interval of time that is uniquely human.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A new report by the U.S. National Academies says that women are getting a fair shake from major research universities in being hired, promoted, and given access to resources—once they can grab onto the academic ladder and start climbing the rungs.</jats:p>

<jats:p> As executive director of the National Center for Science Education, Eugenie Scott has spent the past 2 decades on the frontlines of the contentious battle over teaching evolution in U.S. public schools. Scott spoke to <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> last week about where things now stand. </jats:p>

<jats:p> A call to <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/science-academi.html">include damage to oceans in climate policy</jats:ext-link> , a trio of <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/indian-scientis.html">new government ministers in India</jats:ext-link> , and a <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/05/cdc-too-optimis.html">contrarian analysis of swine flu data</jats:ext-link> were among the stories covered by <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider in the past week. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Daphnia pulex</jats:italic> , a crustacean common in lakes and ponds around the world, is no bigger than the letters on this page, but its genome contains more genes than some much larger organisms have, scientists reported at the Biology of Genomes meeting. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Just as junk DNA proved to be more than junk, at least some non-protein-coding RNA translates into meaningful molecules that may play key roles in turning genes on and off, scientists reported at the Biology of Genomes meeting.</jats:p>

<jats:p> The newly sequenced DNA of the pea aphid, a common pest of legume crops, reflects a long history of give-and-take between the genomes of the bug and a tiny bacterium called <jats:italic>Buchnera aphidicola</jats:italic> , scientists reported at the Biology of Genomes meeting. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Why sex? In the sixth essay in <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Carl Zimmer explores why so many species take such a labyrinthine path to reproduction, when straightforward routes are available. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The Obama Administration wants to end the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles program, which proponents see as the ultimate clean-car technology.</jats:p>