Features

• Mount Etna's Ferocious Future

  Europe's biggest and most active volcano is growing more dangerous. Luckily, the transformation is happening slowly

  Tom Pfeiffer   | April 1, 2003  |

• The Grid: Computing without Bounds

  By linking digital processors, storage systems and software on a global scale, grid technology is poised to transform computing from an individual and corporate activity into a general utility

  Ian Foster   | April 1, 2003  | 2

• Questioning the Oldest Signs of Life

  In the past year scientists have been forced to reconsider how they identify life in the most ancient rocks on earth--and elsewhere in the solar system

  Sarah Simpson   | April 1, 2003  |

• Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem

  The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has solved a 30-year-old mystery by showing that neutrinos from the sun change species en route to the earth

  Arthur B. McDonald, Joshua R. Klein and David L. Wark   | April 1, 2003  |

• Where a Pill Won't Reach

  How to get drugs where they need to go

  Robert Langer   | April 1, 2003  |

• The Lowdown on Gingko Biloba: The Other "Brain Boosters"

  Mark A. McDaniel, Steven F. Maier and Gilles O. Einstein   | April 1, 2003  |

• The Lowdown on Ginkgo Biloba: Ginkgo's Effects on the Brain

  Paul E. Gold, Larry Cahill and Gary L. Wenk   | April 1, 2003  |

• A Conversation with James D. Watson

  April 1, 2003  |

• The Lowdown on Ginkgo Biloba

  This popular herbal supplement may slightly improve your memory, but you can get the same effect by eating a candy bar

  Paul E. Gold, Larry Cahill and Gary L. Wenk   | April 1, 2003  |