This week, in Nature, Eugene Serabyn of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and his colleagues describe a stunning implementation of what is known as an optical vortex coronagraph.

Rabin and Netanyahu had previously asked for Pollards release, too.

Meanwhile in this week's issue of Science, a team led by Edward Rubin of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California reports that it has also recovered large tracts of Neanderthal DNA.