Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 June 2008: 1404.
After a year of gathering advice on how to improve its overloaded peer-review system, the U.S. National Institutes of Health last week unveiled a plan to ease the workload on both applicants and reviewers and to help young investigators. 
FUSION RESEARCH: Design Changes Will Increase ITER Reactor's Cost
Daniel Clery
Science 13 June 2008: 1405.
This month, funders of the €10 billion ITER fusion project, which seeks to demonstrate that a burning plasma can be controlled to produce useful energy, face the daunting task of keeping the project's budget under control, as scientists present a wish list of design changes.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Changes in Peer Review Target Young Scientists, HeavyweightsGEOLOGY: Two Years On, a Mud Volcano Still Rages--and Bewilders
Dennis Normile
Science 13 June 2008: 1406.
As a disastrous mud eruption on Indonesia's Java Island marks its second anniversary, the unprecedented event continues to stir debate about whether it resulted from an exploratory gas well drilling accident or a distant earthquake and how long it will last. 
GEOLOGY: Unstoppable
Dennis Normile
Science 13 June 2008: 1407.
The Indonesian mud volcano Lusi is unique in its longevity and the volume of material ejected. It may also be setting records for the number of failed attempts to plug it. ...........

TIME Magazine
March 31, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 13

• COVER: A Monk's Struggle - As China cracks down in Tibet, the Dalai Lama faces his greatest challenge since going into exile 49 years ago. Can his message of peace bring his people freedom?
• TO OUR READERS: Tackling Tibet - As violent protests spread in China, two TIME veterans offer unparalleled insight into the life and mind of Tibet's holiest leader, the Dalai Lama
• SCIENCE: Cosmic Flock - The solar system is filled with NASA's busy ships--and they're having a very good year
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Donatella Versace - After her brother Gianni was killed in 1997, she took over the family business and built it into a global brand, with a new menswear line out this month. Donatella Versace will now take your questions

*Save the climate by saving the forests*
Paying people to leave carbon locked away in the rainforests sounds like a great idea, but can it work

*Has the Riemann hypothesis finally been proven?*
A lone researcher claims to have cracked one of the most famous problems in mathematics. Is it too good to be true

*Quantum randomness may not be random*
The quantum universe may seem random, but a closer look may reveal that it is actually predictable

*Being self-centred is the key to empathy*
The way we judge people is more egocentric than we'd like to admit, but it seems that's the key to understanding them

*Is dark matter mystery about to be solved?*
About a quarter of the cosmos is thought to be made of dark matter, yet no one has ever found any. In 2008, that could change

*Dark energy may just be a cosmic illusion*
A simple trick of gravity could open the door to a much brighter view of the cosmos

*Did we learn to walk in the trees?*
It has long been assumed bipedalism only evolved after our ancestors came down from the trees, but now this orthodoxy is being challenged

*The cyborg animal spies hatching in the lab*
Scientists are creating a new generation of cyborg insects with implants that control their every move.