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<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are classical archaeologist Friederike Fless, who last month became the first woman to head the German Archaeological Institute, and Baruch Blumberg, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1976 for discovering the hepatitis B virus and inventing a vaccine against it, who died on 5 April at age 85.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In a monthlong exhibition beginning 3 May at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London called "Beyond Entropy," eight interdisciplinary groups explore the second law of thermodynamics in the context of sound, electricity, heat, and gravitational potential energy. And this week's numbers quantify the height of Japan's 11 March tsunami and the percentage of U.S. universities where the average faculty salary decreased in 2010–2011.</jats:p>

<jats:p>When the dust settles on the spending bill—negotiated just an hour before the federal government would have shut down last week—scientists can breathe more easily. U.S. research agencies were largely spared from deep cuts in current spending.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Monitoring seafood and fish taken from the waters around the leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant makes sense, according to radiation geochemists, but they warn against overreacting to the perceived risk of ocean contamination.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In early April, Mitsubishi Chemical reportedly set a new efficiency record, producing organic solar cells with a 9.2% conversion efficiency. Many researchers in the field are confident that the figure could soon top 10% and possibly reach 15%.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At a World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery meeting last month, researchers and neurosurgeons sought to clarify which brain operations for psychiatric conditions should be allowed and which should be experimental or off-limits.</jats:p>

<jats:p>U.S. science educators are wringing their hands over what they characterize as a significant legislative victory for those who oppose the teaching of evolution.</jats:p>