Vessels of Death or Life
Angiogenesis¿the formation of new blood vessels¿might one day be manipulated to treat disorders from cancer to heart disease. First-generation drugs are now in the final phase of human testing...
Features
The Sciences
India, Pakistan and the Bomb
The Indian subcontinent is the most likely place in the world for a nuclear war
Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light
Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons
How We Came to Be Human
The acquisition of language and the capacity for symbolic art may lie at the very heart of the extraordinary cognitive abilities that set us apart from the rest of creation
The First Stars in the Universe
Exceptionally massive and bright, the earliest stars changed the course of cosmic history
The Origins of Personal Computing
FORGET GATES, JOBS AND WOZNIAK. THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN INTERACTIVE COMPUTERS WERE LAID DECADES EARLIER
Departments
- From the Editor
Here's Looking at You
- Letters
Letters
Erratum
- Advances
Special Report: Better Killing through Chemistry
Reseizing the Controls
Trillions Entwined
Stem Cell Showstopper?
Evaluating the Threat
Defusing Anthrax
Plague Redux
Cure or Poison?
Inside Attacks
- Recommended
Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked
- Skeptic
More Baloney Detection
- Anti Gravity
The Importance of Being Ernst
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
- In Brief
The Nobel Prizes for 2001
Brief Bits, December 2001
- Puzzling Adventures
Fashion Gang
- Profile
Thawing Scott's Legacy
- Staking Claims
Patent Pamphleteer
- Innovations
The Undying Pulse
- By the Numbers
Why Do Prisons Grow?
- Technicalities
Long-Distance Robots
- Working Knowledge
In the Fast Lane--Working Knowledge on Electronic Toll Collection
- Departments
Annual Index 2001
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