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Fighting Flu With Ready-Made Antibodies

Author: Bruce Alberts

In science news around the world, two billionaires have bought the former building of drug company Merck Serono in Geneva, the $12 million Laboratory of Neuro Imaging is moving to the University of Southern California Keck Medical Center, and Saudi Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish complained that intellectual property considerations are slowing down the development of diagnostic tests for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

Researchers claim that a beautifully preserved, 170-million-year-old skeleton from China's fossil-rich Liaoning province, dubbed Aurornis xui, is the earliest known-for-sure bird. And the new Will Smith flick After Earth is an ecological fable with a stark moral about humans' impact on the planet—a movie that scientifically quickly goes off the rails but provides an opportunity for scientists to grab an interested audience's attention to counter misinformation.

Rhythms, instabilities, and statistics are the focus of this year's Shaw prizes.

Duplicated images on breakthrough cloning paper raise troubling questions that have dogged scientific publishing for years.

Authors: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Gretchen Vogel

A Senate panel approved a bipartisan plan to change U.S. immigration policy as House members struggled with competing visions of what reforms are needed.

Author: David Malakoff

A controversial stem cell treatment for neurodegenerative diseases, provided by the Stamina Foundation, is continuing on a small scale along with the trial.

Author: Laura Margottini

Three Chinese researchers at New York University were charged with taking bribes and falsifying records—but some say they might've just been foolishly trying to two-time their employer.

Authors: Christina Larson, Hao Xin

Future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about: deep space radiation.

Author: Richard A. Kerr

With 400 million people earning less than $1.25 per day, India is home to a staggering one-third of the world's poor. Can scientists do more to lift people out of poverty?

Authors: Pallava Bagla, Richard Stone

Science spoke with Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh about the role of science in poverty alleviation.

Authors: Pallava Bagla, Richard Stone

In China, statistics have long been skewed by their use in rewarding performance; social scientists say they are beginning to remove those distortions.

Author: Mara Hvistendahl

Author: Jay M. Pasachoff

Authors: Ben D. Moore, William J. Foley, Jennifer S. Forbey, Jane L. Degabriel

Authors: Jacobus C. de Roode, Thierry Lefèvre, Mark D. Hunter

Heckman and 11 responders debate the ability of early interventions to improve the lot of individuals born into disadvantage.

Author: Samuel Bowles