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<jats:p>On 3 October, a few weeks after Montana opened its first legal wolf-hunting season in decades, a hunter killed the alpha female of Yellowstone Park's Cottonwood Pack, whose behavior, travels, life history, and genealogy had been studied in detail by scientists for years. Her death, and that of five other pack members also shot outside Yellowstone, has irrevocably changed what had been a unique long-term study, the researchers say.</jats:p>

<jats:p> On page <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/326/5952/582">582</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , researchers go a long way toward solving the mystery of how a fungal infection has been killing amphibians worldwide. They find that the fungus, <jats:italic>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</jats:italic> , causes such severe electrolyte imbalances that the frog's heart stops. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Scientists concerned about the ecological effects of a proposed dam across the northern end of Poyang Lake, 27 kilometers from the Yangtze River, were encouraged by the State Council's recent order that critics and the dam's backers thrash out their differences in Beijing.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW this week include the achievement of black hole conditions here on Earth, the finding that trust is only skin deep, radio waves that see through walls, and a mother's cancer that infected her fetus, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Archaeologists fear that proposed new rules governing foreign-led excavations in Turkey could make it very difficult for foreigners to dig in the country. The draft regulations could require that each excavation season last at least 4 months and that a Turkish co-director be appointed for each dig.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Scientists in Hong Kong are celebrating a partial victory in what is likely to be an ongoing war against proponents of teaching creationism and intelligent design in secondary schools.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week on a delay in the delivery of swine flu vaccine and the FBI's arrest of a U.S. space scientist on espionage charges, among other stories. <jats:italic /> </jats:p>

<jats:p>Two very different telescope projects are jostling to give the United States its biggest-ever eye on the sky. Can the country afford both?</jats:p>