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<jats:p>Researchers have long projected that they will not glimpse the first signs that the Antarctic ozone hole is healing until well past 2020. But for the first time, a group of researchers claims they can already see the ozone hole slowly recovering.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last month saw the launch of the South University of Science and Technology of China, a bold challenge to the country's education system that enrolls high-flying students nominated not only for their grades but also for their creativity and passion for learning.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The president's 2012 budget request suspends plans to triple the number of graduate research fellowships at the National Science Foundation.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The White House has dropped an ambitious 10-year, $1.6 billion education and training initiative at the Department of Energy, dubbed "Regaining our Energy Science and Engineering Edge," from DOE's 2012 budget request.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A visiting university scientist's signature on a visitor's agreement at a biotech company is at the center of a major patent fight before the U.S. Supreme Court.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, a key congressional panel heard proposals to retain the "best and brightest" foreign students without disadvantaging U.S. workers. But the approach of the 2012 elections means the political window of opportunity won't stay open for very long.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In a 5-year plan launched this month, Singapore will boost public spending on research by 20% compared with spending during the previous 5 years. This largesse comes with a price: The government is demanding more economic bang from its research bucks.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taking a closer look at the impact of biotech crops on organic farms. Research is providing tools to help them thrive side by side, but the politics are tricky.</jats:p>

<jats:p>For Carol Mallory-Smith of Oregon State University, the migration of genes in agricultural crops is not just a research topic or a matter of policy debate. It's the cause of a vexing quarrel among her neighbors: the farmers of Oregon's Willamette Valley.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Physicists have used sound waves to transport individual electrons over significant distances between artificial atoms on a chip, they reported at the American Physical Society meeting.</jats:p>