Race in a Bottle
Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science
Features
Future Farming: A Return to Roots?
Large-scale agriculture would become more sustainable if major crop plants lived for years and built deep root systems
The Physical Science behind Climate Change
Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming the earth?
The Shark's Electric Sense
An astonishingly sensitive detector of electric fields helps sharks zero in on prey
Data Center in a Box
A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing
Predicting Wildfires
Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?
Windows on the Mind
Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even re?veal subliminal thoughts
Departments
Floral Derangement
The Gedanken Experimenter
Accident Epidemiology -- An Unsinkable Ship -- Truth Serum
Making Development Less Risky
Ask the Experts
NASA Spent Millions on a Pen Able to Write in Space
- From the Editor
Little Black Pills
- Letters
Letters
- Advances
Attitude Screen
On the Rebound
Laboratory Letdowns
Playing It by Ear
A Return on Redwoods
Whatever happened to...?
Dimensional Shortcuts
Protein Pretense
Roots of Science Hatred
Quantum Photosynthesis
Catch the Laser Rainbow
In Brief, August 2007
New Ways for More Stem Cells
- Forum
Have Brain, Must Travel
- Recommended
Cosmic Questions--Baboon Melodrama--Cold Coors
- Perspectives
Worse Than Gasoline
- In Brief
Data Points: Healthy Investing
- Working Knowledge
Blu-ray vs. HD DVD
