Features

• Race in a Bottle

  Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science

  Jonathan Kahn   | August 1, 2007  |

• The Shark's Electric Sense

  An astonishingly sensitive detector of electric fields helps sharks zero in on prey

  R. Douglas Fields   | August 1, 2007  | 1

• Windows on the Mind

  Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even re?veal subliminal thoughts

  Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | August 1, 2007  |

• Future Farming: A Return to Roots?

  Large-scale agriculture would become more sustainable if major crop plants lived for years and built deep root systems

  Jerry D. Glover , Cindy M. Cox and John P. Reganold   | August 1, 2007  |

• Data Center in a Box

  A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing

  M. Mitchell Waldrop   | August 1, 2007  | 2

• Predicting Wildfires

  Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?

  Patricia Andrews , Mark Finney and Mark Fischetti   | August 1, 2007  |

• The Physical Science behind Climate Change

  Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming the earth?

  William Collins , Robert Colman , James Haywood , Martin R. Manning and Philip Mote   | August 1, 2007  | 1