COMPUTER BOMBS

Preserving the Internet

An archive of the Internet may prove
to be a vital record for historians,
businesses and governments

BETTER RED
THAN DEAD

An inexpensive new test instantly
spots harmful E. coli

LINGUISTICS

A MATTER
OF LANGUAGE

Interfaces for Searching the Web

Filtering Information on the Internet

Look for the labels to decide if unknown
software and World Wide Web sites
are safe and interesting

Where the Money Is

BY THE NUMBERS

Global Fertility and Population

SUICIDE PREVENTION

Biochemistry offers some new clues

Trusted Systems

Devices that enforce machine-readable
rights to use the work of a musician
or author may create secure ways to
publish over the Internet

Going Digital

Electronic libraries will make
today's Internet pale by comparison.
But building them will not be easy

A MIRROR, CHEAPLY

Coof low-budget astronomymputer power opens a new era

Netsurfing Without a Monitor

Searching the Internet

Combining the skills of the librarian
and the computer scientist may help
organize the anarchy of the Internet

Amphibians On-line

CHINA SYNDROME

China's eugenics law makes trouble
for science and business

The Internet: Bringing Order from Chaos

Revolutionary Stuff

Algorithm of the Gods

Memories Are Made Of...

Pharmaceutical aids to remembering and forgetting

SOHO Reveals the Secrets of the Sun

A powerful new spacecraft, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is now monitoring the sun around the clock, providing new clues about our nearest star

Finding Pictures on the Web

Multilingualism on the Internet

Psychiatry's Global Challenge

An evolving crisis in the developing world signals the need for a better understanding of the links between culture and mental disorders

Discovering Genes for New Medicines

By identifying human genes involved in disease, researchers can create potentially therapeutic proteins and speed the development of powerful drugs

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Discovery of Superconductivity

The turn-of-the-century race to reach temperatures approaching absolute zero led to the unexpected discovery of electric currents that flowed with no resistance

Plants That Warm Themselves

Some plants produce extraordinary heat when they bloom. A few even regulate their temperature within narrow limits, much as if they were warm-blooded animals

The Rising Seas

Commentary: Wonders Molecular Crayons and Mustard Seed Avalanches

Molecular Crayons and Mustard Seed Avalanches