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<jats:p>This week's Newsmaker is Peter Thiel, who has launched a program called Breakout Labs to fund "revolutionary" science by do-it-yourself scientists and those with start-up companies that aren't far enough along to attract venture capital.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Researchers at the University of Southern California cracked a ciphered code to uncover the 250-year-old writings of a German secret society. And this week's numbers quantify the drop in blood lead levels worldwide as a result of lead no longer being used as a gasoline additive and the accuracy of navigation using Icelandic spars.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, the full National Biodefense Science Board voted 12–1 in favor of a clinical trial of the anthrax vaccine in children, assuming its ethics are approved by a review board.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , neuroscientists report that housing macaques in larger groups increased the amount of gray matter in several parts of the brain involved in social cognition. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A Dutch committee has concluded in a report this week that one of the Netherlands' leading social psychologists made up or manipulated data in dozens of papers over nearly a decade.</jats:p>

<jats:p>An ambitious study exploring two strategies to increase tuberculosis testing and treatment found that one approach led to a 22% drop in TB over 3 years, whereas the other had no effect on prevalence of the disease.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A study reported at the meeting has found that the first waves of European settlers to push into the wilderness of northeastern Quebec in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children than people who came later or stayed in central towns.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Compared with Europeans and Asians, Africans have extra diversity on their X chromosomes, according to an invited lecture at the meeting.</jats:p>