News Summaries

In science news around the world this week, a Senate bill would preserve the U.S. helium supply for research, researchers have issued the first-ever international principles governing peer review of grant proposals, the European Parliament rebuked three regulatory agencies, Norway opened the world's largest carbon capture and storage test facility, and a new Twitter feed run by the Shanghai U.S. consulate is charting the city's air quality.

An analysis of the DNA sequence from three species of Heliconius butterflies and several subspecies reveals that those with the same color patterns have the same versions of key genes, holdovers from extensive hybridization within the genus. A recent master's degree thesis at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany is generating waves—though not the "time waves" the student was looking for. And this week's numbers quantify deaths of children under 5 caused by preventable infectious diseases, U.S. adults who sleepwalk, and pages in the Encyclopedia of Life.

This week's Newsmaker is Arunava Majumdar, who will leave his post as head of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy on 9 June.

Last week, Alfred Gilman announced he is stepping down as the chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas this fall because he believes CPRIT's leaders are bypassing scientific review.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser

A study reported this week in Science Translational Medicine of autopsies of four veterans of recent conflicts has found features of the same neurodegenerative disease reported previously in athletes.Author: Greg Miller

On 10 May, the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration debated whether an anti-HIV drug should receive approval as a preventive for uninfected people.Author: Jon Cohen

Stephen Pruitt is trying to coax states to adopt a set of standards for teaching science in their elementary and secondary schools. He offers a tutorial on the new standards in an interview with Science.Author: Jeffrey Mervis

The Chinese government is leading a crusade to warn its people against the perils of frivolous antibiotic consumption in hopes of warding off calamitous outbreaks of drug-resistant strains.Author: Mara Hvistendahl

In the wake of the Arab Spring, archaeologists in the Near East are locked in a struggle for the survival of their field.Author: Andrew Lawler

German chemist Peter Seeberger says he has developed a cheaper way to produce a key malaria drug. Now, he's trying to convince the rest of the world.Author: Kai Kupferschmidt