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<jats:p>For years, scientists have been warning about the potential for an influenza pandemic on the order of the 1918 Spanish flu. But the pandemic that erupted last spring looks nothing like the one health officials have been preparing to combat.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Congress has quietly passed a 2010 spending bill that gives several U.S. science agencies pretty much what they expected, including a 2.3% bump for the National Institutes of Health and a 6.7% increase for the National Science Foundation.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last month a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, was charged with conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act after he refused to testify before a grand jury that is apparently investigating a laboratory break-in at the University of Iowa in 2004.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Two papers from a prominent chemistry lab were retracted from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> and the <jats:italic>Journal of the American Chemical Society</jats:italic> this fall because the results couldn't be replicated. The story behind the retractions involves an extortion attempt and a threat of suicide. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN), the chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, announced this week that he will retire at the end of 2010, ending a 26-year career in Congress.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that HIV has outwitted yet another microbicide, the discovery of a cheap way to chop up nitrogen and a way to make large amounts of an elusive type of nanotube, and that people who perceive numbered sequences as visual patterns have superior memories, among other stories. </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/summary/326/5960/1663">1663</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> and in <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1182213"> last week's <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Express </jats:ext-link> , two teams independently report that changes in regulatory DNA were responsible for an adaptation in natural populations of fish and insects. Each group has also pieced together details of the underlying genetic alterations in those animals. </jats:p>

<jats:p>On Monday, president Nicolas Sarkozy announced a €35 billion investment plan that he pledged would make France's science more productive, its population smarter, its economy more competitive, and its environment cleaner.</jats:p>

<jats:p> This week, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider offers a comprehensive look at the political climate for the climate-change debate in the U.S. Senate, including interviews with the key players, analysis of the biggest issues, and a look at where the votes are, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Concerns about the risk of a calamitous flood from a mountain lake in Central Asia have scientists racing to improve evacuation plans and find an engineering fix.</jats:p>