Features

• An Endangered Species in the Stomach

  Is the decline of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium living in the human stomach since time immemorial, good or bad for public health?

  Martin J. Blaser   | February 1, 2005  | 3

• Seeking Better Web Searches

  Deluged with superfluous responses to online queries, users will soon benefit from improved search engines that deliver customized results

  Javed Mostafa   | February 1, 2005  | 1

• Atom Chips

  Magnetic fi elds on a microchip can produce tiny, coherent clouds of atoms called Bose-Einstein condensates. The chips could have uses in ultraprecise sensors for aircraft and in quantum computing

  Jakob Reichel   | February 1, 2005  |

• Nanotubes in the Clean Room

  Talismans of a thousand graduate projects may soon make their way into electronic memories

  Gary Stix   | February 1, 2005  |

• The New College Try

  Innovation is alive and kicking on campus

  Steve Mirsky   | February 1, 2005  |

• The Littlest Human

  A spectacular find in Indonesia reveals that a strikingly different hominid shared the earth with our kind in the not so distant past

  Kate Wong   | February 1, 2005  | 1

• Making Memories Stick

  Some moments become lasting recollections while others just evaporate. The reason may involve the same processes that shape our brains to begin with

  R. Douglas Fields   | February 1, 2005  | 3