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<jats:p>A lavishly funded health study of veterans from the first Gulf War—favored by the U.S. Congress but viewed with skepticism by many scientists—hit a wall in August when its funder, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, pulled out.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Harold McAlister, the director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, shared the panic and the relief over the heroic firefighting campaign that saved the facility from the Los Angeles wildfires in a phone conversation with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> on 4 September. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The moon isn't made of green cheese and almost certainly doesn't harbor hypothetical particles called "strangelets," an analysis of lunar soil has shown.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW this week include studies showing that when we eat may be just as important as what we eat, pigeons use wing noise to warn the flock about approaching enemies, backup copies of genes help evolution move forward, and a mosquito may complicate malaria control. </jats:p>

<jats:p>On 24 August, the White House released a report about the swine flu pandemic from a group of prominent scientists commissioned by U.S. President Barack Obama that made a stir because it highlighted a "plausible scenario" that the novel H1N1 virus could infect up to half the U.S. population in the next 6 months and kill as many as 90,000 people, most of them young.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Discoveries at a cave in the Republic of Georgia, reported 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/325/5946/1359">1359</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , suggest that humans acquired the skill to weave plant fibers into textiles more than 30,000 years ago. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider this week reported on a prominent prostate cancer researcher who has been sued for allegedly making false claims about a prostate cancer biomarker, NOAA's plan to allow offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico, and other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Hopi Hoekstra, a young evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, has been tackling the genetic complexity of a classic case of adaptation in mice.</jats:p>