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<jats:p> In science news around the world this week, three crested ibis chicks became the first of their species born in the wild in Japan in 36 years; Congress is giving some research programs more money in 2013 than the White House had requested; the Abrolhos Shelf of Brazil was found to have the world's largest expanse of rhodoliths, a spherical type of coralline algae; and Japan's deep-sea drilling vessel <jats:italic>Chikyu</jats:italic> has set the record for the deepest undersea research borehole. </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/336/6081/524.1.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/336/6081/524.2.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/336/6081/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/336/6081/524.3.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/336/6081/525.summary">Newsmakers</jats:ext-link> </jats:p> </jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>

<jats:p> The Disney film <jats:italic>Chimpanzee</jats:italic> tells a scientifically accurate story about an orphan chimp that was adopted by one of his troop's males—in fact, "the main plot was decided by the chimps," says primatologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. A noted Maya epigrapher sees the cottage industry in Maya 2012 predictions as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to inform people about the true role time played in the Maya's lives. And this week's numbers quantify the percentage of pediatric drug trials and the number of Chinese family names. </jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Steven Koonin, who has been named director of New York University's new Center for Urban Science and Progress, and William Foege, a leader of the global campaign that wiped out smallpox, who has been named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The affordable options for the first stage of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment would severely limit its scientific potential and could leave it only marginally more capable than an existing Fermilab experiment.</jats:p>

<jats:p> One of two controversial studies that shows how to make H5N1 avian influenza more transmissible in mammals is now up on <jats:italic>Nature</jats:italic> 's Web site for all the world to scrutinize. </jats:p>

<jats:p>At a meeting last month, researchers heard new evidence that human evolution took a gradual, rather than revolutionary, course during two key junctures in prehistory.</jats:p>