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Top SciTech Gifts 2002

Still haven't found presents for the science fans on your list? Before you brave the cold and the holiday crowds again, take a look at our favorite geek gifts to give and get this year.

The Scientific American 50: Interviews with the Research Leader and Business Leader of the Year

The Scientific American 50 Award

Our first annual celebration of visionaries from the worlds of research, industry and politics whose recent accomplishments point toward a brighter technological future for everyone

Quiet Celebrity: Interview with Judah Folkman

The renowned medical researcher reflects on the promise of anti-angiogenesis drugs

Code Red: Worm Assault on the Web

On October 21, 2002, hackers waged one of the most sophisticated cyber-attacks yet. The Code Red worm tried to bring down the Net last year using a similar strategy

Fine Tuning

IC chips bring digital quality to conventional radios

Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory

With the fundamental new discipline of quantum information science now under construction, it's a good time to look back at an extraordinary scientist who single-handedly launched classical information theory...

The Little Plankton That Could¿Maybe

No one knows whether fertilizing single-celled marine organisms is a sound way to pull more heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But that hasn't stopped companies from developing plans to do so...

The Warm Hues of Fall Foliage

Competing theories try to explain the season's spectacular show of color, but most come up short

Human-Free Kick

At Robocup 2002, humanoids battle it out in soccer

Designing AUTOnomy

One of the designers of a radical new fuel-cell-car concept explains what was done

After the Fall

New thinking to make skyscrapers safer

Viral Workhorses

Emptied of their infectious nucleic acids, viruses make surprisingly adaptable tools for nanoengineers

Soaring City Slickers

Birds of prey are being reintroduced to U.S. cities. Will they stay?

Saving Venice

An ambitious plan seeks to prevent a modern Atlantis