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<jats:p> The computer language COBOL is the subject of an exhibition opening 17 March at the Smithsonian. Materials scientists in Japan say they can make the compound iron tellurium sulfide (FeTeS) conduct electricity without resistance if they first soak the stuff in booze. And this week's numbers quantify <jats:italic>Jeopardy!</jats:italic> scores, electric-car sales, and the cost of identifying Earth's estimated 5.4 million undiscovered animal species. </jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Zahi Hawass, who announced last week that he intended to resign his post as minister of Egypt's antiquities in the wake of the country's revolution, and three Hungarian-born scientists who have been honored with a new €1 million award from a Danish nonprofit organization for their contributions to European neuroscience.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, the country's main agency for funding competitive, peer-reviewed research grants, will get 12 billion yuan ($1.83 billion) in 2011—a 17% increase over 2010 and twice its budget just 2 years ago.</jats:p>

<jats:p>On 28 February, after 10 months of hearing anecdotal stories of flulike symptoms, rashes, heat stroke, and stress from cleanup workers in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the long-awaited Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A new finding presented at a conference last week throws cold water on the impassioned debate about the link between a novel mouse retrovirus and prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome in humans.</jats:p>