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<jats:p>The National Academies has convened a blue-ribbon committee to recommend ways to keep research universities healthy. But universities are likely to be disappointed if they are hoping that the committee will conclude that money is the solution.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week's announcement that the first spacecraft of the newly reconfigured program previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System wouldn't be able to measure the intensity of sunlight has left U.S. climate scientists feeling out in the cold.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Scientists' access to the polar regions depends on an over-the-hill and increasingly fragile U.S. icebreaking fleet. And the latest breakdown has scientists worried about the fate of future research cruises.</jats:p>

<jats:p> 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/329/5988/223">223</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , a comparison between the genomes of the 2000-cell <jats:italic>Volvox carteri</jats:italic> and a single-celled green alga, <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</jats:italic> , has revealed surprisingly few differences in their gene makeup. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that in the latest twist in a contentious debate about a possible tie between a retrovirus and chronic fatigue syndrome, the journal <jats:italic>Retrovirology</jats:italic> last week published a study that failed to find a key virus in blood samples from 51 CFS patients and 56 healthy people, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Three top neuroscientists are betting big money and their scientific careers on a new approach to studying schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases. With help from philanthropists, they are launching an institute that will look for treatments by probing early brain development for the origins of mental illness.</jats:p>