Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2018
Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world
Features
Sacred Groves: An Ancient Tradition of Nature Conservation
Indian villagers are reviving an ancient tradition to enjoy the ecological benefits it confers
Spooky Quantum Action Passes Test
Recent experiments quash the hope that the unsettling phenomenon of quantum entanglement can be explained away
A Supervolcano with a Cold Heart May Be Brewing in Chile
A supervolcano may be brewing underneath Chile, with a cold interior that is upending ideas about triggers of huge eruptions
Gene Therapy Tackles a Common Birth Defect: Deafness
After false starts, researchers are making progress toward treating deafness with gene therapy
Sponge Cities Can Limit Urban Floods and Droughts
Restoring natural water flows in cities can lessen the impacts of floods and droughts
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- From the Editor
Technologies That Shape the World: 2018 Edition
- Letters
Readers Respond to the August 2018 Issue
- Advances
Catching Whisky Fakers
Plants That Lived on Mount Everest Rediscovered in Forgotten Lab Collection
Molecular Microscope Lets Scientists Peer inside Single Cells
Detecting Fog Using Signals from Cell-Phone Towers
Rolling under the Sea: Scientists Gave Octopuses Ecstasy to Study Social Behavior
Creating Synthetic Silk from Microbes
More Than a Third of Female Suicides Are Committed by Indian Women
Unraveling the Mathematics of Smell
In Case You Missed It
Bad First Impressions Are Not Set in Stone
- Forum
The Ocean's Wilderness Areas Are Smaller Than You Think--and They're Disappearing Fast
- The Science of Health
How to Cultivate a Warm Computer-Side Manner
- The Science Agenda
The Term "Anthropocene" Is Popular--and Problematic
- TechnoFiles
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Keyboard Shortcuts
- Recommended
100 Years after an Epidemic, a Scientific Guide to Alien Life and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
Kids Today Are Being Socialized to Think They're Fragile Snowflakes
- Anti Gravity
Star Trek Biology Explored in the New Book Live Long and Evolve
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
1968: J. B. Gurdon on Pluripotent Cells; 1918: Sending the Army Back Home
- Graphic Science
Normal Body Temperature Is Surprisingly Less Than 98.6
