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<jats:p>In science news around the world this week, the U.K. is boosting its science budget slightly, tiger numbers may be up in India, oceanographers are scouring the sea floor off Brazil's northeast coast for the flight recorders from a doomed 2009 flight, a venerated volcano has inspired a rare attempt at scientific partnership on the divided Korean peninsula, the faculty senate of the University of Johannesburg voted to terminate a collaborative research agreement with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, some of Europe's top scientists will be getting financial help to take their discoveries to the marketplace, and a trove of vintage primate data will be digitized at Duke University.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Follow the links below for a roundup of the week's top stories in science, or <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/18.1.full.pdf">download a PDF of the entire section</jats:ext-link> . <jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/18.2.summary">Around the World</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/findings.full">Findings</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/18.3.summary">Random Samples</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/20.summary">Newsmakers</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>

<jats:p>Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology has launched a popularity tournament featuring North American birds. And archaeologists and volunteers are conducting an experiment to see whether the people who occupied hill forts along the Welsh-English border some 2500 years ago could have seen each other and maybe even sent signals with fire.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Cornell ecologist and evolutionary biologist Thomas Eisner, who died last week at age 81 of complications from Parkinson's disease; topologist and dynamical systems theorist John Milnor, who has won the 2011 Abel Prize in mathematics; entomologist May Berenbaum, who will receive the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; and physical chemist Bai Chunli, who was appointed president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences last month.</jats:p>

<jats:p>An obscure paper about an earthquake in 869 C.E. that destroyed a castle town in northeastern Japan and a subsequent tsunami that inundated the surrounding area is now at the center of a growing debate about how quickly scientific findings can and should influence disaster-mitigation policies.</jats:p>

<jats:p> At a meeting <jats:sup /> last week, three independent teams offered preliminary evidence that the Ghaggar-Hakra River system was at most a modest seasonal stream during and after the Indus flourished from 2500 B.C.E. to 1900 B.C.E., which may prompt a re-evaluation of how Indus peoples acquired water for agriculture. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Of all the terrible news from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reports about the spent fuel storage pool for reactor #4 may be among the most disconcerting for scientists.</jats:p>