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<jats:p>A new species of orchid has been discovered in the primeval tropical forest of the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea that blooms at night. An Internet psychologist has identified four common characteristics of so-called viral videos. And this week's numbers quantify the amount paid by Gilead Sciences for Pharmasset and the fraction of global energy supply that could be derived from biomass without damaging food production.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Michael Tomasello, a developmental psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who has won the 2011 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, and Lynn Margulis, pioneer of the idea that eukaryotic cells could develop from combinations of simpler cells, who died at her home 22 November after suffering a stroke.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Chronic fatigue syndrome researcher Judy Mikovits was arrested and jailed on 18 November in Ventura, California, on a felony charge of possessing stolen property from her former employer.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, a coalition of student organizations at the University of California, Berkeley, demanded action to improve the school's poor record of attracting and retaining minority and women students.</jats:p>

<jats:p>H5N1 avian influenza strains genetically altered to be more easily transmissible are the subject of a heated debate among scientists, biosecurity experts, and U.S. government officials.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Work that pinpointed the control of aging in a handful of genes is being taken apart by some of the scientists who made early discoveries. Efforts to replicate studies are producing conflicting results.</jats:p>

<jats:p>New research stations in Tibet and central Asian countries will monitor environmental changes around Himalayan glaciers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>One experiment saw neutrinos traveling faster than light. If the result can't be replicated, it may never be explained away.</jats:p>