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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider this week reported on a congressional amendment that killed three peer-reviewed grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health, a stem-cell paper that was retracted following charges of plagiarism, and a report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security used a scientifically flawed study to justify its selection of Manhattan, Kansas, as the site for the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Nobelist Roald Hoffmann believes that taking graduate students off grants and giving them fellowships would be good for U.S. science. But others say such a radical change isn't in the cards.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Despite periodic predictions that it will go extinct, the Hispaniolan solenodon endures, and scientists now want to ensure the rare mammal's survival.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Inexplicably hot bubbles in space have put researchers on the trail of feedback loops that slap weight limits on galaxies and stifle the birth of stars.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Reform-minded Chinese scientists hope a new program, <jats:italic>Qianren Jihua</jats:italic> , will reel in the sort of comrades who can help raise the nation's scientific game. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Mathew-Fenn <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . (Reports, 17 October 2008, p. 446) reported unexpected distance fluctuations in short end-labeled DNA constructs and interpreted them as evidence for cooperative DNA stretching modes. We show that when accounting for a subtle linker leverage effect, their data can be understood within standard noncooperative DNA elasticity. </jats:p>