Progress at AAAS

2016 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council.

Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Univ. of California, Davis Americans, not just Europeans—are empowered to reach their full potential as leaders.” Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of Jordan’s Royal Scientific Society, spoke forcefully at WLSTE+10 about the continuing imbalance in women’s access to leadership positions in science, not only in the Middle East but also globally. “All of our socie...

AAAS annual meeting. A first look at a comet's dust.

Potentially shaking basic assumptions of marine biologists, the first large-scale ecotoxicity study of coral has identified a new and surprising suspect for what may be killing reefs worldwide: organic carbon in the form of simple sugar molecules. Coral reefs are under global assault; Caribbean reefs, for example, have lost 80% of their coral cover in the last 3 decades. As coastal populations ...

AAAS-African Programs Under Way.

* PUST visit From 28 March to 8 April the AAAS, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, sponsored a visit to the United States by the president and secretary general of the new Panafrican Union of Science and Technology (PUST), Edward Ayensu and Levy Makany. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize PUST with the operations of scientific societies and the activities of relevant donors, ...

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.

Progress at last.

Refinement of protein structures from a correct topology to atomically detailed resolution has proven remarkably difficult. Jian et al. (in this issue of Structure) illustrate a significant advance in this task by carefully incorporating into the refinement process many body interactions extracted from fragment statistics.