Science, July 18, 2008

Cover
An artist's conception of the antibiotic
penicillin and some of the bacteria that have developed resistance to
various antibiotics. A special section explores the rise and spread of
so-called bad bugs and possible interventions.

Reinventing Rice to Feed the World
With prices of
rice and other cereals soaring and granaries emptying, it might take a
second green revolution to avert widespread famine.

Simple Sleepers
Classic genetic model organisms --
fruit flies, zebrafish, and roundworms -- are popular newcomers in
sleep research laboratories, although debate continues about how much
their dozing relates to human slumber.

Acoustics '08 Meeting
- Sound Science Maps Venetian Canals and Peruvian Ruins.
- Ultrasound Uses in Medicine Heat Up.
- Listening to Distant Ice Crack.
- Snapshots from the Meeting.

Ice Scour Disturbance in Antarctic Waters
Icebergs
have increasingly scoured the coastlines along the West Antarctic
Peninsula as its ice shelves and glaciers have waned, affecting benthic
marine communities.

Identification of SLEEPLESS, a Sleep-Promoting Factor
A search for genetic modulators of sleep in Drosophila identified a gene encoding a brain protein that is likely secreted and is required for recovery from sleep deprivation.

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