Washington Post: “It’s the oldest and most cliched of metaphors, but when it comes to global warming, it’s the only one that really works: We’re in a desperate race. Politics is chasing reality, and the gap between them isn’t closing nearly fast enough,” says Bill McKibben in the Washington Post.
BBC: The most accurate catalogue of the distances to more than 100,000 stars has just been released.
Science: After U.S. high school students did poorly on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in 1995, the government has decided not to participate in another version to be given next year.
The New York Times: The White House convened a two-day conference of the world’s major greenhouse-gas-emitting nations here on Thursday that served to highlight how isolated the Bush administration is on the issue of global warming.
Nature: Reaction data of crucial chloride compounds called into question.
Nature: Well-established models of nuclei describe properties such as shells and magic numbers. But how do these predictions stand up to scrutiny for exotic, unstable nuclei? Pretty well, according to the latest study.
The New York Times: A group of scientists are upset about their inclusion in a film that makes the case for intelligent design.
The Baltimore Sun: Scientists hope Dawn will shed light on early solar system
The Christian Science Monitor: Climate-change ‘optimists’ say complex natural cycles may be at the heart of global warming.
San Diego Union-Tribune: In a darkened laboratory on the UCSD campus, Mark Thiemens peers intently into the blue flame of a blowtorch, directing its fierce, fusing heat at the glowing orange ends of two glass tubes, each a piece of a larger latticework of interconnected beakers, flasks and bulbs.