International Herald Tribune: The Bush administration is pressing Congress to approve its deal to share civilian nuclear technology with India before adjourning this weekend for November’s elections but has no guarantees it will happen, the State Department said Thursday.
The New York Times: Dilip Pantosh Patil uses an ox-drawn wooden plow to till the same land as his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. But now he has a new neighbor: a shiny white wind turbine taller than a 20-story building, generating electricity at the edge of his bean field.
BBC: Australia or South Africa will get to host one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century.
Science: The U.S. Department of Energy redirects its big machines toward small-scale research, as materials science overtakes particle physics.
San Francisco Chronicle: Opportunity, the tireless rover exploring the surface of Mars, has finally reached the steep rim of a broad crater called Victoria, after a 21-month journey over sand dunes, rock-studded plains and smaller Martian craters, mission scientists reported Wednesday.
Nature: US astronomers are renowned for getting together and choosing their projects as a group. But just as these tactics are catching on in other fields, some say the astronomy process is grinding to a halt. Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
The New York Times: For years, scientists have been trying to figure out why the atmospheric concentration of methane, a heat-trapping gas, stopped increasing in the early 1990’s after tripling during the preceding 200 years.
People’s Daily Online: Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully conducted the first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which replicates the same energy generation process that fuels the sun.
The Scientist: Making marriage work at the job can be challenging for couples as well as colleagues.
Nature: Absolute zero: survey suggests no papers for field after 2015.