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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that U.S. government lawyers have asked an appeals court to suspend a federal judge's ruling that froze federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Earlier this week, researchers helped fill gaps in the data on the conservation status of species by using an innovative statistical approach called the Sampled Red List Index. The new index is a response to growing frustrations with the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, which is an ongoing tally of which species are known to be in trouble.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Next week, participants will gather in London to celebrate the first ever Census of Marine Life (CoML). <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> interviews tropical marine ecologist Ian Poiner, chair of the scientific steering committee for CoML since 2008. </jats:p>

<jats:p>As discoveries on Mars, including warm spells and salty soil, raise the chances of finding life there, scientists are considering how best to look for it within their budget.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Creative applications for ancient DNA emerged at a meeting, where researchers also described studies of other preserved molecules, including ancient RNA and proteins.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The bot that won the third annual 2K BotPrize, a competition to create artificially intelligent game-playing agents that can fool a judge into believing they are human, represents a leap forward for game AI because the team used machine consciousness rather than just mimicking human behaviors.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Researchers have been using massively multiplayer online games as natural laboratories, but the data are a challenge to interpret. At the meeting, a computer scientist presented results obtained using a mathematical tool called archetype analysis that works by identifying the most extreme data points and describes the rest as combinations of these archetypes.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Games used for teaching or training face big problems because of their simple programming. A computer scientist presented a solution to those problems at the meeting: a new architecture for so-called serious games that uses artificial-intelligence techniques similar to those in some of the latest video games.</jats:p>