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<jats:p>In science news around the world this week, India marks 1 year without polio; a newly discovered pathogen infecting cattle, sheep, and goats has been found across Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium; the imperiled hospital and research center run by the San Raffaele del Monte Tabor Foundation may have found a buyer; China's Ministry of Health will crack down on unproven stem cell treatments; the Ecuadorian government will move forward with its rainforest conservation plan; Spain is cutting science funding; and NOAA is being moved from the Commerce Department to Interior.</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/335/6066/268.1.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/335/6066/268.2.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/335/6066/findings.full">Findings</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/335/6066/268.3.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/335/6066/270.summary">Newsmakers</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>

<jats:p> The German chemical company BASF will move the headquarters of its plant science division from Limburgerhof, Germany, to Raleigh, North Carolina. At less than half the diameter of a U.S. dime, a newly discovered frog species <jats:italic /> has taken the top spot as the world's smallest vertebrate. funky49, a self-described "IT worker/nerd/science enthusiast" whose real name is Steve Rush, raps about particle accelerators, Benjamin Franklin, and swapping genes. And this week's numbers quantify the award for designing a hand-held device capable of diagnosing certain diseases and the percentage of about 2700 academic and medical researchers who had witnessed scientific misconduct. </jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Mark Ferguson, who has been named as the next director general of Science Foundation Ireland, and Dipak Das, head of the cardiovascular research center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, who has been found guilty of 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Japanese scientists combing through the vast jumble of seismic signals recorded in the days before the Tohoku earthquake have just sorted out more than 1000 newly recognized earthquakes.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , researchers describe a strain of <jats:italic>Escherichia coli</jats:italic> that they have genetically engineered to break down and ferment alginate and all the other major sugars in seaweed into ethanol. </jats:p>