The World Health Organization has promised to supply developing countries with H1N1 vaccine donated by manufacturers and rich countries. But it has secured only about 200 million doses for 95 countries that together are home to a third of the world's population.

ScienceInsider reported this week on the National Institutes of Health's decision to fund 840 of the more than 20,000 applications it received for its vaunted Challenge Grants program and a petition to the United Nations human rights committee to stop the Large Hadron Collider from restarting because of risks that the collisions could create dangerous mini–black holes, among other stories.