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<jats:p>In science news around the world this week, Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth up to $2 billion to support U.S. science in Antarctica, NIH is launching the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a second paper supporting a viral link to chronic fatigue syndrome has been retracted, China's BeiDou navigation satellite system is online, and a UCLA professor has been charged in the death of a research assistant.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Follow the links below for a roundup of the week's top stories in science, or <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/18.1.full.pdf">download a PDF of the entire section</jats:ext-link> . <jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/18.2.summary">Around the World</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/19.2.summary">Random Samples</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> <jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/19.1.summary">Newsmakers</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are pathology professor Vincent Dammai of the Medical University of South Carolina, who is accused of harvesting stem cells from umbilical cords without any oversight and selling them illegally; Craig Thompson, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who is facing a $1 billion lawsuit from the cancer center he used to head; and John Grunsfeld, who this week became head of NASA's $5 billion science mission directorate.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Dutch designers, in collaboration with animal welfare researchers, have developed a computer game that lets users play with real, living pigs.</jats:p>

<jats:p> At the request of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Nature</jats:italic> have agreed to strike key details from papers in press describing how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus more transmissible between mammals. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The two influenza researchers whose work has triggered a far-reaching debate on the limits of scientific freedom could hardly have handled their publicity more differently.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A change in the milestones of the National Ignition Facility has highlighted the concerns of some in the field that the path NIF researchers have taken may not be the right one.</jats:p>

<jats:p> This coming summer, China's <jats:italic>Jiaolong</jats:italic> submersible will carry out its first research mission in the South China Sea. But China's claims of sovereignty there have sparked territorial disputes with six neighbors. </jats:p>

<jats:p>One year after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives by promising to slash federal spending, the budgets of most research agencies have been left largely intact.</jats:p>