Science 25 July 2014; vol 345 (Table of contents)

Climate change and WWI - editorial by David Titley, 361 - how the rulers of Europe allowed WWI: "It is more appropriate to call them deniers, who preferred to persist with supremely dangerous policies and strategies ..." - parallels between today's climate change deniers.

AIDS research dies in Ukraine crash  (p362) - connections

NIH institute considers shift to 'people' awards (no right answer)

Fusion's restless pioneers - startups (no way to know)

Vanishing fauna (Sacha Vignieri, p392) - special section

Wildlife decline and social conflict (376)

Defaunation in the Anthropocene (Rodolfo Dirzo et al., 401)

Physics - A cloaking coating for murky media (also p427)

At FDA, speedier approval could add uncertainty over risks

Loose cable may unravel faster-than-light result. (Edwin Cartlidge, p1027)

'Killjoys' challenge claims of clever animals. (Michael Balter, p1036)

Origins of cumulative culture (Robert Kurzban and H. Clark Barrett, p. 1056).  Commentary on "Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture (L.G. Dean et al., p1114)

 

Synchronization of North Pacific and Greenland climates preceded abrupt deglacial warming (Summer K. Praetorius and Alan C. Mix, 444)