Features

• Fixing the Vote

  Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems--with the machines and the wider electoral process--are rectified

  Ted Selker   | October 1, 2004  |

• The Hidden Genetic Program of Complex Organisms

  Biologists assumed that proteins alone regulate the genes of humans and other complex organisms. But an overlooked regulatory system based on RNA may hold the keys to development and evolution

  John S. Mattick   | October 1, 2004  |

• Controlling Hurricanes

  Can hurricanes and other severe tropical storms be moderated or deflected?

  Ross N. Hoffman   | October 1, 2004  | 2

• Dying to See

  Studies of the lens of the eye not only could reveal ways to prevent cataracts but also might illuminate the biology of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases in which cells commit suicide

  Ralf Dahm   | October 1, 2004  |

• A Universe of Disks

  New research reveals the dynamics of the spinning disks of gas that surround young stars and gargantuan black holes

  Omer Blaes   | October 1, 2004  |

• Hitting the Genetic Off Switch

  A host of start-ups is speeding development of a new class of drugs that block the action of RNA

  Gary Stix   | October 1, 2004  |

• The Internet of Things

  The principles that gave rise to the Internet are now leading to a new kind of network of everyday devices, an "Internet-0"

  Neil Gershenfeld, Raffi Krikorian and Danny Cohen   | October 1, 2004  | 1