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<jats:p> <jats:bold>LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA</jats:bold> —Managers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hope that a $1.1 billion laser-fusion facility will change the culture of the nuclear weapons lab, strengthen collaborations with civilian scientists, and cement its future as an important national resource. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:bold>BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA</jats:bold> —In a major break with the past, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is touting the opportunity for collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in its campaign to secure funds for a $150 million heavy-ion accelerator that will complement the inertial-confinement fusion program at NIF. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:bold>TOKYO</jats:bold> —A new technique to ensure a rapid thermonuclear “burn” in a fuel pellet—which has important implications for the U.S. National Ignition Facility—will get a thorough test this year at new facilities in Osaka, Japan, and Livermore, California. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Earlier this month, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issued a statistical report indicating that it has overcome its most serious troubles of the past. ORI says that it is processing cases much faster, and since 1992, it has achieved an eye-popping 92% success rate in sustaining guilty findings. The report also reveals the crushing workload of apparently trivial cases that get referred to ORI, the vast majority of which it decides not to pursue.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:bold>OTTAWA</jats:bold> —Universities across the country are applauding a new program that could generate $1.5 billion in new research equipment and facilities, even as the government continues to trim funding for individual research grants. </jats:p>

<jats:p>When a team of archaeologists publicly accepted a disputed Chilean site as being 12,500 years old—and therefore proof of an early human presence in the Americas—the press compared it to the breaking of the sound barrier. But researchers say that the news on the site of Monte Verde amounted to the conversion of just two archaeologists—and that the debate isn't over yet.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In a paper in yesterday's issue of <jats:italic>Nature,</jats:italic> a respected Canadian astronomer labels the first apparent discovery of a planet orbiting a sunlike star outside our solar system a case of mistaken identity. He argues that a subtle, periodic signal in the spectrum of the star 51 Pegasi, originally attributed to the gravitational tug of a roughly Jupiter-sized planet, was actually generated by a complex sloshing on the star's surface. The researchers who made the original claim are not conceding, however. </jats:p>