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<jats:p>Researchers have found flaws in electrical connections in the world's highest-energy particle smasher—the Large Hadron Collider—that will limit the LHC's energy. The problem could delay the planned November restart of the gargantuan accelerator.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A panel reviewing the European Research Council opined in a report presented last week that despite a successful start, the ERC's structure is "a source of great frustration and ongoing low-level conflict" among its managers.</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 new techniques to forecast tsunamis, protect buildings from earthquakes, and turbocharge microbe engineering; ant decision-making; and a tree that is still defending itself against an extinct enemy. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Thanks to a large network of reefs created in 2004, a booming population of native oysters has taken hold in the Great Wicomico River, a small tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, researchers report in a paper published online by <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> this week. </jats:p>

<jats:p> A paper published this week in the <jats:italic>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</jats:italic> proposes two genetic sequences, or loci, taken from chloroplast genes called <jats:italic>matK</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>rbcL</jats:italic> , as the official plant "bar code," a short piece of DNA that can be used to distinguish species. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Efforts to improve undergraduate introductory biology courses are seen as a critical step toward raising the nation's scientific literacy. Correcting the problem, speakers at a recent conference agreed, will require changing a deep-rooted academic culture that values research over teaching and makes little provision for doing a good job in the classroom.</jats:p>