Science, May 15, 2009

Cover
Shaded perspective view of a surface topography
of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet looking toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice
Shelf and Antarctic Peninsula at the upper left. Floating ice shelves
at the surface are in gray; the grounded ice sheet is shaded green to
blue with increasing elevation. The topography was used to determine
the volume of ice above sea level.

"Vengeance" Bites Back At Jared Diamond
Two tribesmen
from Papua New Guinea are suing the prominent biologist over a popular
magazine article about the human thirst for retribution.

Carbon Sheets an Atom Thick Give Rise to Graphene Dreams
Interest
in a novel material with amazing properties continues to sweep through
physics and chemistry labs worldwide. Will graphene's promise pay off?

Two Missions Go in Search of A Watery Lunar Bonanza
Frustrated
by long-controversial hints of water ice on the moon,
researchers-turned-miners are going to blast for the mother lode in
hopes that astronauts can use water to fuel a permanent moon base.

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