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<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are Chi-Chang Kao, an x-ray physicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory who is SLAC's new director, and Mark Ferguson, the head of Science Foundation Ireland who is now also Ireland's chief scientific adviser.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Italy's government lacks experts to advise it on natural hazards following the conviction last week of six scientists and a government official for advice they gave ahead of the deadly earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A cell's defensive reaction to viruses seems to make it more open to expressing genes that are usually shut down—whether they are those that trigger inflammation or those that are active in stem cells.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At a meeting of vertebrate paleontologists last month, researchers pondered fresh clues about the origins of flight from studies of feathered dinosaurs and baby birds.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Indonesian children lag far behind their peers on global measures of science aptitude. But rather than use that poor performance as a call to arms, the Indonesian government wants to eliminate science as a subject in the nation's elementary schools.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Researchers argue that most work on <jats:italic>Myc</jats:italic> , a gene linked to aggressive cancers, needs to be reevaluated. They say that <jats:italic>Myc</jats:italic> 's cancerous effects are actually much broader, and that a flawed experimental method may have thrown off previous <jats:italic /> research. </jats:p>

<jats:p>An investigation and a congressional hearing earlier this year prompted the Office of Management and Budget to impose government-wide restrictions on conference travel—and now some scientific meetings are paying the price.</jats:p>

<jats:p>France and Germany are pursuing parallel initiatives to bolster their best universities. Do they go too far or not far enough?</jats:p>