30 JANUARY 2015 • VOLUME 347 • ISSUE 6221
CONTEN TS 477 & 534 Chicks, like people, count from left to right
NEWS
IN BRIEF
460 Roundup of the week’s news
IN DEP TH
463 A MOMENT OF TRUTH ARRIVES
FOR U.S. OCEAN SCIENCE
Report urges painful cuts in
infrastructure to free up funds for
research By E. Kintisch
464 INDIA’S COSTLY NEUTRINO GAMBLE
The country splurges on a deep
underground laboratory, hoping to
regain leadership in neutrino physics
By R. Stone and P. Bagla
465 DARPA SE TS OUT TO
AUTOMATE RESEARCH
Crash program aims to teach
computers to read journals
and hatch new ideas By J. You
466 MEET TWO NEW SCIENCE SPENDING
CARDINALS IN CONGRESS
Representatives Cole, Culberson share
enthusiasm for research, but differ in
approach By J. Mervis
468 CREDIT CARD STUDY BLOWS HOLES
IN ANONYMITY
Attack suggests need for new data
safeguards By J. Bohannon
▶ THE END OF PRIVACY SECTION P. 490;
REPORT P. 536
FEATURE
469 A NE W DRUG WAR
As new designer drugs hit the streets,
researchers try to forecast which will
prove most dangerous By E. Underwood
473 Alarm over synthetic cannabinoids
By E. Underwood
SPECIAL SECTION
THE END OF PRIVACY
INTRODUCTION
490 Big data and the Internet are
empowering researchers and the
public—but endangering privacy
NEWS
492 Unmasked By J. Bohannon
494 When your voice betrays you
By D. Shultz
495 Breach of trust By J. Bohannon
497 Game of drones By D. Shultz
498 Risk of exposure By M. Enserink
499 Could your pacemaker be hackable?
By D. Clery
500 Hiding in plain sight By J. You
501 Trust me, I’m a medical researcher
By J. Couzin-Frankel
502 Camouflaging searches in a sea of
fake queries By J. You
PERSPECTIVES
504 Control use of data to protect privacy
S. Landau
ON THE COVER
Data pour out of us
and our devices every
second of every day, and
people no longer control
their personal privacy.
Understanding how these
data streams can be used
will help us to cope with
the consequences. For a
key to the data in the art on the cover and on
page 490, search for an encrypted URL and
decode it. Image: William Duke
INSIGHTS
PERSPECTIVES
474 THE SUPERRESOLVED BRAIN
Physically enlarged neurons
can be observed at high resolution
with light microscopy
By H.-U. Dodt
▶ REPORT P. 543
475 THE GLOBAL ENGINE
THAT COULD
How do hydrological processes
affect Earth’s heat engine?
By O. M. Pauluis
▶ REPORT P. 540
476 WHEN THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK
BECOMES BLIND
The conceptual model of circadian
oscillator function may need revision
By A. Kramer
▶ RESEARCH ARTICLE P. 518
507 What the “right to be forgotten”
means for privacy in a digital age
A. L. Newman
REVIEW
509 Privacy and human behavior in the
age of information A. Acquisti et al.
▶ NEWS STORY P. 468 ▶ PERSPECTIVE P. 479
▶ BOOKS ET AL. P. 481 ▶ REPORT P. 536
▶ SCIENCE CAREERS STORIES BY
R. BERNSTEIN AND E. PAIN ▶ PODCAST
▶ sciencemag.org/site/special/privacy
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