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Vacationing in Florida? Want to bring your python? Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/roundup-311-like-a-snake-edition.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reorganizing its eight laboratory divisions. Currently,... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/nist-looks-to-reorganize-its-lab.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Among the military brass giving testimony about global terrorism at a Senate hearing yesterday... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/should-social-scientists-help-th.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

A protein that binds to the notorious drug may help explain how it causes birth defects <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/-thalidomide-ranks-as-one.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The 10th annual Albany Medical Center Prize&#8212;the U.S.'s biggest prize in biomedicine&#8212;will go to... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/half-a-million-for-gene-sequence.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from the week <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/podcast-genetics-of-pain-where-h.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Q&amp;A with Dario Ringach <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/ringach.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Brain imaging and computer algorithms can detect specific memories in action <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/pardon-your-thoughts-are-showing.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The scheduled start-up date for the ITER fusion reactor project looks set to slip again... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/fusion-delayed-iter-startdate-mo.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Governors and school superintendents from 48 states have released a draft of common math... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/roundup-310-do-the-math-edition.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Yesterday the United Nations announced that a panel of scientists appointed by a global... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/review-of-climate-panel-aims-for.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Full DNA sequence of people with inherited disorders portends medicine's future <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scouring-the-whole-genome-to-nai.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Phenomenon could have choked off star birth in the universe <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scienceshot-titanic-explosion-ro.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Wayward chlorine compound could complicate pollution-fighting efforts <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/catalyst-for-coastal-smog-shows-.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

An accomplished deep-sea exploration robot met a mysterious and watery end while scoping the... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/ocean-probe-lost-at-sea.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

While developing mammals wait for hormonal cues, chicken embryos know their sex from the start <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/no-sexual-confusion-for-chicken.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Men under stress are more attracted to females who don't look like them <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/stressed-men-fancy-someone-diffe.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

In the Borneo rainforest, females discern what the males are up to <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scienceshot-orangutans-decipher-.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Ahead of an expected general election in May, there are two more calls for improving... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/roundup-39-the-cleanup-edition.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Jean Fréchet, an organic chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/berkeleys-frechet-to-head-resear.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Congressional supporters of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/bill-introduced-to-codify-us-ste.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Mysterious pair could be generating gravity waves <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scienceshot-midget-stars-dance-c.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced last week that its site selection committee had recommended... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/place-mammoth-telescope-on-our-i.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses&#8212;an oddity in the world of scientific publishing... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/elsevier-to-editor-change-contro.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Hot on the heels of the U.K. Council for Science and Technology's (CST's) Vision... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/royal-society-protect-uk-science.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Karl Tryggvason, Karolinska Institute's former dean of research speaks on why he was recently... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/roundup-38-mind-games-edition.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Expectant moms' bad eating habits may hurt boys more than girls <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/for-pregnant-mice-eating-matters-1.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

<em>Science</em> picks its favorites from our supplementary coverage of AAAS 2010 <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/and-the-winners-of-our-blogging-.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

The novel H1N1 virus behind the swine flu pandemic has in many ways proved less... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/hog-in-the-limelight-swine-flus.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

A subtle genetic variant seems to dictate how much pain people feel <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/pains-in-the-genes.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

HIV lies low in the bone marrow, new study finds <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/new-hiv-hiding-spot-revealed.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Could science superstar Harold Varmus be named the next director of the National Cancer... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/varmus-dispels-cancer-institute.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Scientists at research universities in several Chilean cities are reeling from last week's earthquake,... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/researchers-in-chile-hit-hard-by.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

A federal judge in San Francisco, California, put off a ruling in a key... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/roundup-55-tiny-bubbles-edition.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Martian moon may be porous, according to space probe's data <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scienceshot-phobos-has-a-cheesy-.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Relief was the order of the day for Canadian scientists on Thursday as the... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/canadian-budget-light-on-new-res.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

Strategy keeps cephalopod from becoming dinner <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/video-an-octopus-mimics-a-flound.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>

BEIJING&#8212;Last year, Chinese researchers were over the moon when the central government bestowed a... <a href= http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/03/in-annual-rite-chinese-science-s.html?rss=1 >[Read more]</a>