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<jats:p>The Chinese government will soon announce a new initiative to lure up to 10 winners of prestigious international science prizes to China each year by offering what may be the heftiest reward ever paid to individual researchers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The scientific evidence behind the U.S. government's implication of U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is not as strong as claimed by the FBI, according to a long-awaited review by the National Research Council released this week.</jats:p>

<jats:p> A new analysis of decade-old, low-quality data from a large Turkish earthquake, reported in this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , has revealed tantalizing signs of an earthquake precursor. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A new study shows that people with Laron syndrome, a rare type of dwarfism, who carry a genetic defect that prevents them from responding to growth hormone, are almost exempt from cancer and diabetes.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Forensic geneticist Manfred Kayser is exploring whether DNA found at a crime scene can predict what a suspect looks like.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The Dutch parliament adopted a law in 2003 regulating forensic DNA phenotyping, the use of DNA samples to predict a suspect's ancestry or physical characteristics. But the Netherlands is still the only country to have done so.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Budgetary realities are driving U.S. astronauts away from the moon toward near-Earth asteroids, but the new goal on the way to Mars should prove uniquely challenging.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Only about 5% of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) 140 meters in diameter and larger—so-called city killers—have been found under NASA's search program. If U.S. astronauts hopscotch from one NEA practicing for their trip to Mars, it will be a big help to the search.</jats:p>

<jats:p>An outsider to the scientific community, the E.U.'s new research commissioner promises to cut red tape, champion basic research, and fight to save ITER</jats:p>