Features
The Promise and Perils of WAP
The Internet in Your Hands
The Future is Here. Or Is It?
The Third-Generation Gap
Operating on a Beating Heart
Coronary bypass surgery can be a lifesaving operation. Two new surgical techniques should make the procedure safer and less expensive
The Power of Memes
Behaviors and ideas copied from person to person by imitation--memes--may have forced human genes to make us what we are today
NABADA: The Buried City
Excavations in northern Syria reveal the metropolis of Nabada, founded 4,500 years ago. Its elaborate administration and culture rivaled those of the fabled cities of southern Mesopotamia...
Better Decisions through Science
Math-based aids for making decisions in medicine and industry could improve many diagnoses—often saving lives in the process
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From the Editors - October 2000
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Erratum
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Apocalyptic Optimism
The Editors Recommend, November 2000
- Anti Gravity
Founding Father of Invention
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 & 150 years Ago: Galveston Hurricane and Bruno Bettelheim on Prejudice
- Wonders
Hybrid Vigor!
- In Brief
Data Points: The Sky's the Limit
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Six Billion and Counting
- Mathematical Recreation
Million-Dollar Minesweeper
- Amateur Scientist
Down among the Micrograms
- Science and the Citizen
Riding the Rumble
Womb Wars
One-Hit Wonder
Science on the Canvas
Killer Waves on the East Coast?
The Hole Shebang
Schrödinger's Squid
Sea of Troubles
The Tau of Neutrinos
Roadkill Genes
Dingy Skies
Mr. Spock, Phone Home
Down with E-reading?
Stressed for Life
- By the Numbers
The Roots of Homicide
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The Hard and the Soft
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Getting High
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Octothorp Standard
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Speech without Accountability
How Publius Thwarts Censors
