Newsmakers

Abstract

This week's Newsmakers are a group of scientists who have squeezed a reproduction of the entire periodic table onto a human hair; Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz, who have won a 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for their study of beetles that mate with beer bottles; and Judy Mikovits, champion of the controversial theory that XMRV, a mouse retrovirus, had links to chronic fatigue syndrome, who was fired on 29 September.