Features

• Explaining Frog Deformities: Overview / Amphibian Ailments

  Andrew R. Blaustein and Pieter T.J. Johnson   | February 1, 2003  |

• Satellite-Guided Munitions

  Highly accurate yet affordable strike weapons, proved in Afghanistan, are the latest upgrades to America's arsenal

  Michael Puttré   | February 1, 2003  |

• Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide

  New research addresses the wrenching question left when someone ends his or her own life

  Carol Ezzell   | February 1, 2003  |

• Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide: Physical Clues to Suicide

  Carol Ezzell   | February 1, 2003  |

• Explaining Frog Deformities: How Parasites Can Cripple Frogs

  Andrew R. Blaustein and Pieter T.J. Johnson   | February 1, 2003  |

• Evolving Inventions

  Computer programs that function via Darwinian evolution are creating inventions that are novel and useful enough to be patented

  John R. Koza, Martin A. Keane and Matthew J. Streeter   | February 1, 2003  | 2

• Drink to Your Health?

  Three decades of research shows that drinking small to moderate amounts of alcohol has cardiovascular benefits. A thorny issue for physicians is whether to recommend drinking to some patients

  Arthur L. Klatsky   | February 1, 2003  |

• Magnetars

  Some stars are magnetized so intensely that they emit huge bursts of magnetic energy and alter the very nature of the quantum vacuum

  Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson   | February 1, 2003  |

• Explaining Frog Deformities

  An eight-year investigation into the cause of a shocking increase in deformed amphibians has sorted out the roles of three prime suspects

  Andrew R. Blaustein and Pieter T.J. Johnson   | February 1, 2003  | 3

• THE ICE-LACED MOON OF GANYMEDE

  February 1, 2003  |