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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that the most controversial patents in biotechnology—covering breast cancer genes <jats:italic>BRCA1</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>BRCA2</jats:italic> —were declared invalid this week by a U.S. district court, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last November, Tanzania and Zambia proposed selling elephant ivory. A majority of delegates of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at last week's meeting in Doha rejected both proposals.</jats:p>

<jats:p>It was all about the money, not the science. So say environmentalists and conservation biologists reeling from a remarkable number of setbacks for wildlife conservation at a major international meeting that wrapped up last week in Doha, Qatar.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Physicists' best chance of spotting an effect of "quantum gravity"—the melding of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity—may have evaporated.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Climatologist Thomas Karl, currently director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina, is the interim director of the new NOAA Climate Service. Karl spoke with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> on 18 March. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Fifty years after Goodall arrived in Gombe, the environment has changed dramatically for both our closest relatives and the scientists who study them</jats:p>

<jats:p>With the help of satellites, a handheld GPS device, and his laptop, a Cambridge researcher has put together a map that redefines the art of charting chimpanzee life in the wild.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Comparative psychologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center are trying to connect the puckered lips, raised eyebrows, and grins of chimpanzees with emotional states such as aggression, surprise, and lasciviousness.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The chimpanzees at Kibale National Park in Uganda are not threatened by poachers for bushmeat. But they face another peril: Many become entangled in snares set in the forest for other animals such as duikers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center studying two groups of chimps that live in separate but nearly identical conditions published a landmark study in 2005 that provided the most convincing evidence yet that chimpanzee communities have unique "cultures."</jats:p>