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The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis
The Sciences

The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis

Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses -- especially in controlling pain

By Michael R. Nash

How to Build a Hyper computer

The simulation and ultimate solution of humanity's major ills and most perplexing problems require significantly faster supercomputers

By Thomas Sterling

Making Molecules into Motors

Molecular turmoil, quantum craziness: microscopic machines must operate in a world gone mad. But if you can't beat the chaos, why not exploit it?

By R. Dean Astumian
Frozen <em>Light</em>
The Sciences

Frozen Light

Slowing a beam of light to a halt may pave the way for new optical communications technology, tabletop black holes and quantum computers

By Lene Vestergaard Hau

Battling Biofilms

THE WAR IS AGAINST BACTERIAL COLONIES THAT CAUSE SOME OF THE MOST TENACIOUS INFECTIONS KNOWN. THE WEAPON IS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENEMY'S COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

By J. W. Costerton and Philip S. Stewart

Fishy Business

Cyanide fishing threatens many of the last pristine coral reefs in Southeast Asia. Will an ambitious program to clean up the marine aquarium trade be enough to save them?

By Sarah Simpson

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    Air Traffic Out of Control

  • Letters

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  • Advances

    Shrinking the Dead Zone

  • Sailing on Sunlight

  • À Votre Sant

  • Napoleon's Revenge

  • Sigma Chi Chimpy

  • Fuel Cell Phones

  • Bigger Snips of DNA

  • A Crush on Nitrogen

  • Going Ballistic

  • Dwindling Albedo

  • Born Again

  • The Flipper Effect

  • Skeptic

    Starbucks in the Forbidden City

  • Anti Gravity

    Out of This World

  • 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

    50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

  • In Brief

    Data Points, July 2001

  • Brief Bits, July 2001

  • Puzzling Adventures

    Seeing Red, Feeling Blue

  • Voyages

    The Universe Atop a Mountain

  • Reviews

    Our Evolving View of the Galápagos

  • Profile

    A Mind for Consciousness

  • Staking Claims

    Sounding Out Snipers

  • Innovations

    Builders of Light Pipes

  • By the Numbers

    In a Dry Land

  • Working Knowledge

    Tan or Burn

  • Departments

    End Points

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