Contents
Vol 345, Issue 6204
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Podcasts
- Science Podcast: 26 September Show
On this week's show: Tracing the roots of an ancient stone-age technology and a daily news round up with David Grimm.
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- Evidence for cosmic inflation wanes
The biggest result in cosmology in a decade fades into dust.
- Red wolves in the crosshairs
U.S. agency ponders future of innovative reintroduction as animal deaths and controversy mount.
- Testing new Ebola tests
Identifying infections more quickly and easily could help slow the epidemic.
- Metabolic shift may train immune cells
BLUEPRINT project studies epigenetics of various blood cells.
Feature
- On the edge
Ecologist Marten Scheffer became a leader in the science of tipping points by studying lakes. Now he's making waves in many other fields.
- NOνA's shining moment
Despite years of delay, Fermilab's massive new experiment has a chance to take the next big step in neutrino physics.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
- Books Received
A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 19 September 2014.
Policy Forum
- Implementing Pasteur's vision for rabies elimination
Human and veterinary health systems must be better integrated if rabies is to be controlled
Perspectives
- Whose conservation?
Changes in the perception and goals of nature conservation require a solid scientific basis
- Autoimmunity by haploinsufficiency
Partial deficiency in the protein CTLA4 underlies severe autoimmune disease with incomplete penetrance
- Water's place in Au catalysis
Water plays a key role in gold-catalyzed CO oxidation
- Managing patterns and proportions over time
Tissue patterning is specified relative to growth through differences between cell proliferation and the differentiation rates
- Perovskites take lead in solar hydrogen race
Earth-abundant materials show promise for solar hydrogen production
- A dynamic tool for nitrogen reduction
Carbon monoxide reveals new possibilities for substrate binding in nitrogenase
Association Affairs
Research Articles
- mTOR- and HIF-1α–mediated aerobic glycolysis as metabolic basis for trained immunity
Epigenetic profiling identifies the cellular metabolic substrate of innate immune memory.
- Transcriptional diversity during lineage commitment of human blood progenitors
RNA sequencing identifies how different cell fate decisions are made during blood cell differentiation.
- Epigenetic programming of monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation and trained innate immunity
Genome-wide approaches analyze human monocyte differentiation in vitro into functional macrophages.
- Coordination of progenitor specification and growth in mouse and chick spinal cord
Embryonic chick and mouse reveal how neural tube differentiation takes on new strategies as development progresses.
Reports
- Evidence for global electron transportation into the jovian inner magnetosphere
Near-Earth satellite measurements in the extreme ultraviolet examine a charged torus produced by volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io.
- Detection of a branched alkyl molecule in the interstellar medium: iso-propyl cyanide
Millimeter-wave emission is detected from branched carbon-chain molecules that may form on interstellar dust-grain surfaces.
- Ongoing drought-induced uplift in the western United States
GPS measurements of crustal rebound in the western U.S. quantify drought-induced regional water depletion.
- The ancient heritage of water ice in the solar system
A model tracing the path of deuterium in the solar system shows that its abundance hails from the parent interstellar medium.
- Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts
A pair of perovskite solar cells can power efficient hydrogen generation from water.
- Infrared-driven unimolecular reaction of CH3CHOO Criegee intermediates to OH radical products
Spectroscopy in the laboratory elucidates key steps in ozone’s atmospheric reaction with unsaturated hydrocarbons.
- The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation
Adsorbed water enables proton-transfer steps that lower the activation barrier for carbon monoxide oxidation.
- Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients
A >2-million-year soil chronosequence reveals how the environment can regulate species plant diversity.
- Direct roles of SPEECHLESS in the specification of stomatal self-renewing cells
The molecular pathways that regulate an essential adult stem cell lineage in plant stomata are dissected.
- Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus
An assemblage of obsidian artifacts suggests independent origins of stone knapping in different hominin populations.
- Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur
New fossils of the sail-finned predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus reveal that it lived in and near water.
- A critical time window for dopamine actions on the structural plasticity of dendritic spines
Dopamine promotes spine structural plasticity during a narrow time window in mouse neuron distal dendrites.
- Ligand binding to the FeMo-cofactor: Structures of CO-bound and reactivated nitrogenase
The structure of an inhibitor bound to nitrogenase reveals rearrangements in the active-site metallocluster.
- Immune dysregulation in human subjects with heterozygous germline mutations in CTLA4
A mutation in a single copy of the CTLA4 gene in people is associated with immune dysfunction.
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