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Reports on developments related to the global science field as of August 5, 2004. Resumption of the program of vaccinating children against polio in Kano, Nigeria; Arrest of one of the most prominent scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California; Availability of papers on the arrangement of electrons in solids.

The article reports that The U.S. National Academies are recommending that American scientists not travel to Iran, following the detainment of one of the academies' top officials in December 2008. Glenn Schweitzer, a physicist who orchestrates scientific exchanges for the National Academy of Sciences, was detained on two separate occasions.

Reports that Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin and two of his colleagues were detained on October 27, 1999 by the Russian Federal Security Service. Searching of Sutyagin's apartment in Obninsk, Russia; Removal of papers and computers; Work nature of Sutyagin and colleague Joshua Handler.