Five years ago, Australian screenwriter Eron Sheean spent several months at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics as an artist in residence; now he's back with a film crew and actors to shoot a feature film there that he says is "a little science fiction and a little science fact." And this week's numbers quantify surface freshwater in Canada's boreal forest, the contribution of insect pollinators to global food production, and "hot papers" penned by genomicist Eric Lander.