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<jats:p> The Walters Art Museum's exhibit <jats:italic>Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes</jats:italic> will display the results of a decade-long project to decipher the Archimedes Palimpsest from 16 October through 1 January 2012. And this week's numbers quantify awards made in a new program at the National Science Foundation and the "success rate" for reviewed research grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health. </jats:p>

<jats:p> A presidential task force is calling for dramatically expanding efforts to restore battered Gulf of Mexico ecosystems—and using billions of dollars in fines resulting from the 2010 <jats:italic>Deepwater Horizon</jats:italic> oil spill to pay for them. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent have won this year's Nobel Prize in economics for sorting out the tangles of cause and effect in the world of macroeconomics.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Daniel Shechtman's discovery that atoms in a solid can achieve fivefold symmetry by arranging themselves in a pattern that almost but never quite repeats—a "quasicrystal"—has netted this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Some researchers worry that a recent study that found that hormonal contraceptive use increases HIV risk will overshadow the many complexities in the data that leave open critical questions about whether injected contraceptives truly pose an HIV risk.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Two papers have independently suggested that early <jats:italic>Homo sapiens</jats:italic> interbred with now-extinct forms of humans in Africa, so that some living Africans carry genes from archaic people, just as all Europeans and Asians recently have been shown to do. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Two reports in this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> describe viruses that co-opt components of the gut microflora to establish infection. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The latest attempt to clarify how NSF assesses grant proposals for possible impacts beyond the expected scientific results has not ended a long-running debate.</jats:p>