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<jats:p>More than 9200 unlisted vials of dangerous pathogens and toxins have turned up in an inventory of biological materials at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The managers of the ITER fusion project are still scrambling to draw up a final design, schedule, and cost estimate for the massive reactor. But the international partners behind the effort agreed last week to build the project in stages so engineers can make corrections if something goes awry early on.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In 2003, researchers reported that a gene variant seemed to play a major role in whether people get depressed in response to life's stresses or sail through. But an exhaustive new analysis published last week in <jats:italic>The Journal of the American Medical Association</jats:italic> suggests that the big fish may be a minnow at best. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Researchers at a recent conference in Taipei on bioscience say that the dearth of joint work among life scientists in Taiwan and the Chinese mainland is because they haven't had the chance to get to know each other yet, which was one of the objectives of the conference.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Although no one doubts that logging long hours on the Internet can erode quality of life and on occasion can lead to ruinous consequences, there is no meeting of the minds on whether Internet addiction is a genuine disorder. In China, the official view appears to be that Internet addiction is a genuine disorder, but attitudes are shifting about how aggressively it should be treated.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's online daily news site, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW, this week include a criminal investigation tool that can be used to track sharks, atoms speeding from the moon, a fish that throws away its genes as it grows, and a yawn from the napping sun. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Scientists increasingly recognize the value of collaborative, open-access data sharing for understanding the world. But there's still a wide gap between wanting to share and figuring out how to do it right, discovered those who attended an international meeting on biodiversity this month.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider this week reported on a U.S. government official's prediction that H1N1 flu will continue unabated during the summer and into the fall, a decision by the G8 nations to skip science at their summit meeting in Italy this month, and an interruption of clinical trials caused by procedural errors at two U.S. cancer centers, among other stories. </jats:p>