Interview with Ross MacPhee
What killed the mammoths and other behemoths that once roamed the Americas? This mammalogist thinks it may have been hyperlethal disease
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Science and Technology in Y2K
From genomes to Jupiter's moons, many important discoveries took place in 2000
Not Nelson's Obelisk
James Burke draws monumental conclusions from wax, dinner sets, greenhouses, Argentina, prisons and the king of beasts
Completing the Circuit
Her research on integrated circuits advanced the Internet age by years. Now she finds herself revisiting her earliest, groundbreaking work in computers, which she long kept secret because, back then, she existed as a man...
Red Team versus the Agents
At a nuclear weapons lab, a team of elite hackers matches wits with undefeated autonomous defenders
Radioactive Wrecks
Sunken nuclear subs pose no immediate threat, but they could be long-term ecological time bombs
Survival
James Burke considers the primitive, the antiquarian, the mathematical, the electrical¿and draws some dramatic conclusions
