Features

• The Unearthly Landscapes of Mars

  The Red Planet is no dead planet

  Arden L. Albee   | June 1, 2003  |

• The Dawn of Physics beyond the Standard Model

  The Standard Model of particle physics is at a pivotal moment in its history: it is both at the height of its success and on the verge of being surpassed

  Gordon Kane   | June 1, 2003  | 1

• Chain Letters and Evolutionary Histories

  A study of chain letters shows how to infer the family tree of anything that evolves over time, from biological genomes to languages to plagiarized schoolwork

  Charles H. Bennett, Ming Li and Bin Ma   | June 1, 2003  |

• Self-Repairing Computers: Whose fault was that?

  Armando Fox and David Patterson   | June 1, 2003  |

• Pandora's Baby

  In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity. Cloning inspires similar fears

  Robin Marantz Henig   | June 1, 2003  |

• Self-Repairing Computers: Striving for dependability

  Armando Fox and David Patterson   | June 1, 2003  |

• Self-Repairing Computers: Overview/High-Dependability Computing

  Armando Fox and David Patterson   | June 1, 2003  |

• Self-Repairing Computers

  By embracing the inevitability of system failures, recovery-oriented computing returns service faster

  Armando Fox and David Patterson   | June 1, 2003  |

• Shoot This Deer

  Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations--and maybe livestock and humans

  Philip Yam   | June 1, 2003  |