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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that rooks comprehend basic principles of physics at the same level as a 6-month-old infant, monkey moms have Madonna moments, famous royals suffered from hemophilia, and humans lost much of their genetic diversity in two dramatic bottlenecks between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Five papers published online in <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> this week report that NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer revealed a sky-spanning "ribbon" of unexpectedly intense emissions of energetic neutral atoms. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Last week, it was alleged that famed virus hunter Albert Osterhaus has been stoking pandemic fears to promote his own business interests in vaccine development. As <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> went to press, the Dutch House of Representatives had even slated an emergency debate about the matter. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that French authorities have charged a nuclear physicist working as a contractor at CERN with having ties to an Algerian terrorist organization and that 51 academic biomedical scientists in Spain have published an open letter in <jats:italic>El País</jats:italic> declaring their "confusion" at plans for a €5.3 billion science and innovation budget, a 0.2% increase over this year's budget, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> This April, Nobelist Susumu Tonegawa became director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) near Tokyo, a part-time arrangement that allows him to maintain his lab at MIT. Tonegawa spoke with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> earlier this month about how he intends to raise BSI's game while coping with what he views as an inevitable downsizing. </jats:p>

<jats:p>In response to a 2 October letter signed by 100 Russian researchers working abroad complaining of "the disastrous situation in Russian basic research," Russian officials last week boasted about their support of science, particularly a new program to lure back 100 expat researchers to work at least 2 months a year in a Russian research institute or university.</jats:p>

<jats:p>NASA officials and scientists have declared the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission a success despite the absence of the expected spray of dust and debris as the 2-ton hunk of metal slammed into the moon.</jats:p>

<jats:p>King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is betting that generous funding and great facilities will attract the talent it will need to become a top-ranked institution.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Despite past failures and growing skepticism about cell therapy in general, scientists once again plan to test fetal cell transplants on Parkinson's disease.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan worked with Norman Borlaug for nearly half a century and spoke with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> about the Nobel laureate's contributions to South Asia. </jats:p>