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<jats:p> In 1978, while I was an undergraduate student, Kip Thorne came to Stanford University to give a seminar on a proposed search for gravitational waves. The auditorium quickly filled with experts and inquisitive students like me. As Thorne described a quest for these ripples in space-time, the audience grew palpably skeptical. Albert Einstein had predicted the existence of gravitational waves based on his theory of general relativity, but even he was doubtful that they would ever be detected because they were anticipated to be so weak. Listening to Thorne propose an approach for measuring such waves, I had no idea that he and his colleagues were about to begin a 40-year journey to discover what <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> now recognizes as the 2016 Breakthrough of the Year. The announcement that gravitational waves had indeed been detected opens up a new window into the universe (see the News story on p. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/354/6319/1516.full">1516</jats:ext-link> ). </jats:p>

<jats:p>A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Science experiments take a back seat to commercial aims for five teams planning launches.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Predatory publishers draw papers from faculty at top research centers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Long after the European mad cow outbreak, researchers hope to screen blood supplies for misfolded proteins.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Swelling tropical wetlands and a decline in a natural atmospheric detergent are leading suspects.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Vaccination rates fall as antivax campaigns gather steam.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Long-term radar studies reveal masses of winged migrants.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> has named the detection of gravitational waves as the Breakthrough of the Year. The discovery fulfilled a 100-year-old prediction by Albert Einstein and foreshadows a new way to eavesdrop on the most violent events in the cosmos. </jats:p>

<jats:p> The nine runners-up for <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's Breakthrough of the Year range from the nanoscale to the planetary scale, and from artificial intelligence to protein engineering. </jats:p>