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<jats:p>In a surprise announcement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week named three prominent scientists as special envoys to assess the potential for scientific partnerships with Muslim-majority countries.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This week, Wellcome Trust officials announced that they are phasing out their biomedical research grants for U.K. scientists, which consists of 3-year to 5-year awards focused on a specific problem, and instead will put that money into a new program called Investigator Awards. The awards will be bigger, more flexible, and longer—up to 7 years.</jats:p>

<jats:p>As the H1N1 flu outbreak gathers speed and more vaccine becomes available, some European countries are now telling families that healthy children—or at least infants—are candidates for vaccination after all. The change of mind did not reassure a jittery public.</jats:p>

<jats:p> This week, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider explored why academic biomedical scientists report that they are receiving less corporate support for their research now than in the 1990s and reported on the Dutch House of Representatives' rejection of a motion asking the government to sever all ties with virologist Albert Osterhaus, who had been accused of conflicts of interest in his role as a health adviser, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Four of Russia's most prominent physics labs are to be merged into a new national research center. But a different reform aimed at separating basic and applied research at one of the institutes has researchers up in arms.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Himalayan glaciers are beating a rapid retreat in the face of global warming, according to a flurry of recent reports by BBC and other mass media. But the picture is more complex—and poses scientific puzzles, according to a review of satellite and ground measurements released by India's Ministry of Environment and Forests earlier this week.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week on expert criticism of a nanoparticle study, additional support for a human role in China's devastating Wenchuan earthquake, and the findings that prosthetic limbs offer no advantage to sprinters and babies cry in their native language, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Because of lingering tensions over a swath of the Himalayas that is claimed by both China and India, a diplomatic initiative to get Chinese and Indian scientists working together on glaciers has quietly been put on ice.</jats:p>

<jats:p>As scientists debate whether climate is changing faster than anticipated, some worry that a drumbeat of dire warnings may be helping to erode U.S. public concerns about global warming.</jats:p>