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<jats:p>This week, a long-awaited paper about the link between a virus and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) finally saw the light of day. The study confirms a controversial 2009 paper that reported CFS patients are often infected with the virus, called XMRV.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Coral reefs are reeling from extensive bleaching in the Indian Ocean and throughout Southeast Asia. And although some hard-hit areas have cooled—offering hope that some reefs may rebound—other regions are just now heating up.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Chinese astronomers thought they had their hands full, fine-tuning their complicated new survey telescope into next year. Now they have a more urgent problem: Light pollution could jeopardize its ambitious science program.</jats:p>

<jats:p>U.S. physicists want to take parts from their massive twin gravitational-wave detectors and use them to build a third detector near Perth in western Australia, greatly enhancing the experiment's ability to pinpoint sources of gravitational waves, should such waves ever be spotted.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Over the past 5 years, a handful of research teams have found that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) could become cancerlike after growing for months in the lab. But three of these research teams have now discovered that the cancerlike cells they spotted are unrelated to the original MSCs.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that martian volcano mud may have hosted life, zombies thrived on ancient Earth, hair follicles track the body's clock, and bacteria are gobbling gulf oil, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Political tensions between Israel and the Arab world are threatening to overshadow an upcoming chemistry conference in Jordan. The verbal sparring has already created plenty of raw feelings and led to much finger-pointing.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The National Science Foundation has quietly folded a recent earmark into a competitive grants program, eliminating what seemed to be one state's advantage.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that a court decision earlier this week temporarily blocking federal funding for work with human embryonic stem cells has left some researchers working with the cells facing a cutoff of funding, among other stories. </jats:p>