Lateral Root Regulation | Ring Out, Bright Star | Chlorine Gets Grounded | Mixing It Up | Titania's Face in Profile | Modeling the Midbody | Tropical Forest Species Dynamics | Where Fat Cells Are Born | Blood Pressure Control: It's (Another) Gas! | RNA Polymerase Caught in the Act | Chloride Channel Clinched | DNA Repair at the Edge | Warm Drink--Warm Thoughts | The Sun's in Fine Shape | Characterizing Quantum Components | Interference, Processing, and Transcription

CELL BIOLOGY: Nuclear Membrane Mechanics | GENETICS: Making a Meristem | EVOLUTION: Adding Less or Substrating More? | CHEMISTRY: Gold for the Shortest Bond? | CHEMISTRY: Less Strain, More Force | VIROLOGY: Hitchhiking in Membrane Traffic | SCIENCE SIGNALING: Restricted Redundancy

Protection for Researchers | Hubble Trouble ... Again | Making Space Reservations | Not Those Stock Analysts | Italy Restricts Academic Hires | Going Green Once, Twice ... | A Rewarmed Climate Report

WHO ATE WHOM? | BATTERERS' BRAINS | SECRETS OF A GREEN SAHARA | MOTORMOUTH

IN THE FIELD | CELEBRITIES | MOVERS | THREE Q'S

Author: Donald Kennedy

Facing growing public skepticism, impatient politicians, and a blogosphere rife with conspiracy theories, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday sought to bolster its case that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks by extensively discussing the scientific evidence.

Authors: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Martin Enserink

On page 1054 of this week's issue of Science, geoscientists argue that rock has flowed west to east beneath the Tibetan Plateau to inflate its eastern side and that the flow has been throttled by tectonic doings as far as thousands of kilometers away.

Author: Richard A. Kerr

The flat marine organism Trichoplax adhaerens barely qualifies as an animal, yet the 98 million DNA base pairs of its genome include many of the genes responsible for guiding the development of other animals' complex shapes and organs, researchers report in the 21 August issue of Nature.

Author: Elizabeth Pennisi

The Bush Administration has proposed controversial rules that would exempt many projects from what the Administration says are unnecessary reviews of their potential impact on endangered species. The plan has left environmentalists sputtering.

Author: Erik Stokstad