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<jats:p> In August, a District of Columbia judge temporarily barred federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. Although this particular court case dates only to the summer of 2009, the hESC story stretches back 15 years, even before the cells were first isolated. <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> assembled a timeline to capture this long road, whose end is still uncertain. </jats:p>

<jats:p>China's powerful State Council last week issued a regulation designed to rein in rampant pillaging of the country's magnificent fossil beds, which have yielded the first feathered dinosaurs and other blockbuster finds.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week on a new report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that lays out steps to triple the world's nuclear energy output by 2050, to more than a terawatt, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Many hoped a workshop last week would help resolve the controversy over reports linking a new retrovirus to some cases of prostate cancer and, more recently—and more controversially—the mysterious illness chronic fatigue syndrome. Instead, the field remains mired in "a zone of chaos," organizers concluded.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week on lying robots, a laser peashooter, a better way to monitor infants born prematurely, and how flying fish match birds at gliding, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Last week, Rockefeller University announced that it has selected Marc Tessier-Lavigne to be its next president. Tessier-Lavigne spoke with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> last week about the transition. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Appointed president-elect of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology this summer, physicist Jonathan Dorfan will steer OIST through the final phase of start-up and enroll its first graduate students in 2012. <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> interviewed him about his plans for the university. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Thirty years ago, China launched an unprecedented attempt to put the brakes on population growth. Some social scientists now argue that it's time to scrap the one-child policy altogether.</jats:p>

<jats:p>China's one-child policy was based on the projections of a 1970s missile scientist and a series of equations developed by a Dutch mathematician to control population on a fictional island.</jats:p>