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<jats:p>Nobel Prize–winning biologist Paul Nurse is stepping down as president of Rockefeller University in New York City to become president of the Royal Society in London, the United Kingdom's science academy.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Iran's government has begun to remove academics who oppose the authoritarian regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, according to human-rights activists in the country.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Just as researchers are preparing the $1.5 billion, 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for liftoff on the last flight of NASA's space shuttle, its developer, Samuel C. C. Ting, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has decided to swap out a key piece of hardware.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told a Senate spending panel that space science could suffer if the U.S. Congress forces NASA to stick with the Constellation program, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Platelets are known for thwarting blood loss, but new research shows these simplified cells defend against microbes and perform other duties—and they're also drug targets in sepsis and other conditions.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A record-setting Japanese mission to an asteroid is due to land in June after overcoming a 7-year history of mishaps.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Excavators are peeling back the layers of dirt on the village of Sanyangzhuang, which was buried by a flood on the Yellow River 2000 years ago, to reveal a unique 2000-year-old time capsule of Chinese rural life, they reported at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.</jats:p>

<jats:p>New tree ring data detailing monsoon failures from 1250 C.E. to the present suggest that droughts coincided with political upheaval, presumably by causing crop failure, researchers reported at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At the Society for American Archaeology meeting, an archaeologist argued that the ball courts found throughout Mesoamerica likely began as a communal game and only later were co-opted by elites who used them for ritual and political goals.</jats:p>