Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants
Modern insights into the immune system have revived interest in adding ingredients that can supercharge old vaccines and make entirely new ones possible
Features
Turbocharging the Brain--Pills to Make You Smarter?
Will a pill at breakfast improve concentration and memory—and will it do so without long-term detriment to your health?
Lost Garden Cities: Pre-Columbian Life in the Amazon
The Amazon tropical forest is not as wild as it looks
Privacy and the Quantum Internet
Courtesy of some of the weirdest laws of physics, we may someday be able to search and surf the Web without anyone collecting our data
How Quantum Effects Could Create Black Stars, Not Holes
Quantum effects may prevent true black holes from forming and give rise instead to dense entities called black stars
Biotech's Plans to Sustain Agriculture
Popular movements may call for more organic methods, but the agricultural industry sees biotechnology as a crucial part of farming's future
Another Century of Oil? Getting More from Current Reserves
Amid warnings of a possible "peak oil," advanced technologies offer ways to extract every last possible drop
Departments
Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement
The Failing U.S. Government--The Crisis of Public Management [Extended version]
50 Years Ago: Kidney Transplantation
Why We Really Want to Go Back to the Moon
Ask the Experts
- From the Editor
Playing the Averages: The Risks of Pharmaceutical Advances
- Letters
Readers Respond on "Obama's Science"
- Advances
The First Synthetic Organelle
Climate Change May Mean Slower Winds
What (Maybe) Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs: Comets
What Is Killing South African Crocs?
LSD Returns--For Psychotherapeutics
How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road
Positions of Genes Inside the Cell Nucleus Exert Biological Effects
Tasting the Light
- Skeptic
Pirate Economics?: Captain Hook Meets Adam Smith
- Perspectives
Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late
- Reviews
Recommended: The Age of Empathy
