Features

• Controlling Robots with the Mind: A Vision of the Future

  Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin   | October 1, 2002  |

• Skin Deep

  Throughout the world, human skin color has evolved to be dark enough to prevent sunlight from destroying the nutrient folate but light enough to foster the production of vitamin D

  Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: Thermal Breakdown of a MOSFET

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• The Emptiest Places

  Space comes in degrees of emptiness, but even in the wasteland between galaxies it is not a complete void

  Evan Scannapieco , Patrick Petitjean and Tom Broadhurst   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: When Photomasks Spark

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: Basic Effects of High Voltages in Semiconductors

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: Damage to Interconnects

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Controlling Robots with the Mind: Stopping Seizures

  Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: Magneticians and Electrostatics

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics

  Electrostatic discharges threaten to halt further shrinking and acceleration of electronic devices in the future

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Technology against Terror

  Biologists and engineers are devising early-warning systems that can detect a bioterrorist attack in time to blunt its effects

  Rocco Casagrande   | October 1, 2002  |

• Vehicle of Change

  It's not just about transportation: the transition to fuel-cell cars could transform energy infrastructures and developing economies while helping the environment

  Lawrence D. Burns, J. Byron McCormick and Christopher E. Borroni-Bird   | October 1, 2002  |

• Controlling Robots with the Mind: Belle's 600-Mile Reach

  Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin   | October 1, 2002  |

• Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics: Making Sturdier Lasers and LEDs

  Steven H. Voldman   | October 1, 2002  |

• Controlling Robots with the Mind

  People with nerve or limb injuries may one day be able to command wheelchairs, prosthetics and even paralyzed arms and legs by "thinking them through" the motions

  Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin   | October 1, 2002  |

• The Vigilance Defense

  Proven systems and well-prepared people are our best protection against bioterror

  Stephen S. Morse   | October 1, 2002  |