Crashless Cars: Making Driving Safer
Next-generation automotive safety technology could give us vehicles that are difficult to crash—and eventually may not need drivers at all
Features
Taking Wing: Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins of Bats
At last, fossil and genetic findings elucidate the evolution of bats--and settle a long-standing debate over the origins of flight and echolocation
How to Foil "Phishing" Scams
Understanding the human factors that make people vulnerable to online criminals can improve both security training and technology
Enceladus: Secrets of Saturn's Strangest Moon
Wrinkled landscapes and spouting jets on Saturn's sixth-largest moon hint at underground waters
20 BioScapes Contest Photos--Life Viewed through the Microscope
Winners and other images from the 2008 BioScapes Photo Competition use light microscopes to portray extraordinary images of biological specimens
Magic and the Brain: How Magicians "Trick" the Mind
Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up
Triple Helix: Designing a New Molecule of Life
Peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic hybrid of protein and DNA, could form the basis of a new class of drugs—and of artificial life unlike anything found in nature
Can Phishing Be Foiled?
Understanding the human factors that make people vulnerable to online criminals can improve both security training and technology
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How to Fix the U.S. Financial Crisis
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Ask the Experts
- From the Editor
Looking at Moons from Apollo 8 and Cassini
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, December 2008
- Advances
Planck Satellite Mission Set to Explore Cosmic Secrets
News Scan Briefs: Blocking Sound with Holes
Turf Battles: Politics Interfere with Species Identification
Updates: Whatever Happened to Midsize Black Holes?
The Science of Finding a Face in the Crowd
New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs
Robot Cartoons--Cute; Robot Humans--Creepy
Stations in the Seas: Permanent Underwater Observatories
Digging Ancient Iraq: How Mesopotamia Has Weathered the War
Sacrificial Ants
More Fluid Mileage
The 2008 Nobel Prizes
Explosive-Free Mix
Vanishing Act for Mammals
- Skeptic
Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
100 Years Ago: Engineering a City--New York City's Bridges
- Perspectives
After the Crash: How Software Models Doomed the Markets
- In Brief
In Brief, December 2008
- Working Knowledge
How GPS Units Work
- Insights
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?
