Features

• Reading the Blueprints of Creation

  The latest maps of the cosmos have surveyed hundreds of thousands of galaxies, whose clustering has grown from primordial fluctuations

  Michael A. Strauss   | February 1, 2004  |

• Insights into Shock

  Still a last step before death for thousands of people, shock is shedding some of its medical mystery and becoming more treatable

  Donald W. Landry and Juan A. Oliver   | February 1, 2004  |

• The Case of the Unsolved Crime Decline

  Criminologists have not yet cracked the case, but they now know more about why U.S. crime rates plummeted in the 1990s--and how to help keep them down

  Richard Rosenfeld   | February 1, 2004  |

• Better Displays with Organic Films

  Light-emitting organic materials offer brighter and more efficient displays than LEDs. And you'll be able to unroll them across a tabletop

  Webster E. Howard   | February 1, 2004  |

• Out of the Darkness

  Maybe cosmic acceleration isn't caused by dark energy after all but by an inexorable leakage of gravity out of our world

  Georgi Dvali   | February 1, 2004  | 1

• The Cosmic Symphony

  New observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation show that the early universe resounded with harmonious oscillations

  Wayne Hu and Martin White   | February 1, 2004  |

• From Slowdown to Speedup

  Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from decelerating to accelerating

  Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner   | February 1, 2004  |

• Better Displays with Organic Films: Organic Displays Coming to Market

  Webster E. Howard   | February 1, 2004  |

• Better Displays with Organic Films: Overview/Organic Light Emitters

  Webster E. Howard   | February 1, 2004  |

• Four Keys to Cosmology

  The big bang theory works better than ever. If only cosmologists could figure out that mysterious acceleration....

  George Musser   | February 1, 2004  |