Features

• Conversational Computers

  Efforts to make computers speak naturally will let machines better communicate meaning

  Andy Aaron, Ellen Eide and John F. Pitrelli   | June 1, 2005  |

• Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?

  A growing number of dissenting researchers accuse government and medical authorities--as well as the media--of misleading the public about the health consequences of rising body weights

  W. Wayt Gibbs   | June 1, 2005  | 3

• Buying Time in Suspended Animation

  An ability to put the human body on hold could safeguard the critically injured or preserve donor organs for transport. Does the power to reversibly stop our biological clocks already lie within us?

  Mark B. Roth and Todd Nystul   | June 1, 2005  |

• The Morning of the Modern Mind

  Controversial discoveries suggest that the roots of our vaunted intellect run far deeper than is commonly believed

  Kate Wong   | June 1, 2005  |

• Doubt Is Their Product

  Industry groups are fighting government regulation by fomenting scientific uncertainty

  David Michaels   | June 1, 2005  |

• Inconstant Constants

  Do the inner workings of nature change with time?

  John D. Barrow and John K. Webb   | June 1, 2005  | 2

• Making Cold Antimatter

  Low-energy atoms of antihydrogen will enable researchers to test a fundamental property of the universe

  Graham P. Collins   | June 1, 2005  |