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Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner and honorable mentions in the photography category in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. - [Read more]

Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner in the interactive media category in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. - [Read more]

Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winners and honorable mentions in the noninteractive media category in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. - [Read more]

Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner and an honorable mention in the informational graphics category in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. - [Read more]

One of mathematicians most beloved Web sites is getting ready for a makeover, it was reported at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, established by Neil Sloane at AT&T Labs Research in 1996 and run largely as a one-man shop, is poised to go "wiki," with 50 associate editors taking over much of the workload.

Author: Barry Cipra - [Read more]

Authors: Jeff Nesbit, Monica Bradford - [Read more]

Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winners and honorable mentions in the illustration category in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. - [Read more]

China thought it had licked leprosy 10 years ago, but the disease is stubbornly hanging on in poor, rural areas of three southwestern provinces, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan.

Author: Richard Stone - [Read more]

A British mycologist and a local businessperson have launched a pharmaceutical venture grounded in a Buddhist reverence for the environment.

Author: Richard Stone - [Read more]

At the Joint Mathematics Meetings, mathematical voting theorists described a recent case study that suggests different voting systems only rarely produce the vastly different results possible in theory.

Author: Barry Cipra - [Read more]

At the Joint Mathematics Meetings, researchers reported the first sighting of a "perfect parallelepiped," a brick whose sides are allowed to be parallelograms rather than strict 90º rectangles and all 13 of whose edges and diagonals are exact integers.

Author: Barry Cipra - [Read more]

Phil Jones is at the center of a swirling controversy over e-mails stolen or leaked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, which he has directed since 2004. Science interviewed him last week.

Author: Eli Kintisch - [Read more]

Proposed revisions for the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include for the first time "behavioral addictions"—a change some say is long overdue and others say is still premature.

Author: Constance Holden - [Read more]

A scientific study of the benefits and harms of screening women in their 40s got buried by the politics of health-care reform.

Author: Eliot Marshall - [Read more]

Chinese neuroscientists seeking to recruit subjects for a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder last December came away empty-handed because of parents reluctance to expose children to strong magnetic fields.

Author: Li Jiao - [Read more]

With Asian carp poised to invade Lake Michigan, wildlife managers are urgently trying to figure out how many of the voracious 1.5-meter-long fish have already slipped past electric fish barriers in a waterway near Chicago—and they are scrambling to shore up defenses.

Author: Erik Stokstad - [Read more]

Iranian physicist Farhad Ardalan has spent enough time in the United States to regard it as his second home. But a case of apparent mistaken identity may prevent him from ever visiting his adopted country again.

Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee - [Read more]

Brazils $40 million National Laboratory of Bioethanol Science and Technology, inaugurated on 22 January, represents the countrys big bet to maintain its position as the worlds most efficient producer of ethanol.

Author: Antonio Regalado - [Read more]

Vernon Ehlers (R–MI), a staunch supporter of science and one of three physicists in the U.S. House of Representatives, is retiring after 17 years in Congress.

Author: Jeffrey Mervis - [Read more]

Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, which he nicknamed Friendship 7. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket to become the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown. Image Credit: NASA - [Read more]