Seven Days in 2011

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  • The week in science: Cornell to build US$2-billion science campus in New York; Kepler finds a twin Earth; and Fukushima is declared to be in cold shutdown.

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  • The week in science: boost for gene therapy; EPA reports concern over fracking; and a fresh clue to ancient water on Mars.

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  • The week in science: Europe’s €80-billion research budget; Brazilian deforestation falls to record low; and Kepler finds a potentially habitable planet outside our Solar System.

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  • The week in science: anti-HIV gel fails Africa trial; funding crunch for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and NASA’s Curiosity rover bound for Mars.

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  • The week in science: Europe appoints first chief scientific adviser; Gilead spends US$11 billion on hepatitis-C hope; and those neutrinos are still going faster than light.

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  • The week in science: Geron stops clinical trials with human embryonic stem cells; NSF starts high-risk grants programme; and disgraced psychologist Stapel returns his PhD.

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  • The week in science: China's first docking in space; six men complete 520-day virtual mission to Mars; and GSK pays US$3billion to settle investigations.

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  • The week in science: Earthquake hits Turkey; global warming verified; and promising trial results from a new multiple sclerosis drug.

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  • The week in science: stem-cell patents barred in Europe; Australia set for carbon tax; and full test of Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.

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  • The week in science: plan to clean up Gulf Coast; Europe approves dark-energy mission; and a report says researchers should pay egg-donors.

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  • The week in science: sequencing market sags; link between chronic fatigue and XMRV retracted; and the NSF encourages flexible working.

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  • The week in science: Hope for James Webb Space telescope; Israel joins CERN; and fraudulent physicist Jan-Hendrik Schön loses his PhD.

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  • The week in science: Arctic sea ice drops to record low; protein biochemists win Lasker Award; and NASA's Moon-mapping GRAIL mission launches.

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  • The week in science: Iran's first commercial nuclear plant starts producing electricity; US shelves plans for stricter air-quality standards, and a study reports on mental disorders in Europe.

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  • The week in science: quake and hurricane hit eastern United States; Turkey shakes up research; Denmark backs industrial development in the Arctic.

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  • The week in science: black scientists disadvantaged at NIH; lab safety at Yale; and the launch of the 'eBay for science' — a website for outsourcing research.

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  • The week in science: the search for extraterrestrial life resumes; chemists campaign against UK cuts; and the Mars rover reaches its new home.

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  • The week in science: water on Mars; new rules on scientific integrity; tension over China's deep-sea exploration.

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  • The week in science: Gene patents upheld; Merck closes RNAi facility; Britain's oversight of research integrity criticized.

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