In Praise of Print

Where traditional magazines are better than the Web

Letters from our readers

Cell Burst

Window Power

Neuron on a Chip

The Value of Spam

Congestion Control

BMW: Engine for Hydrogen

Staring at the Sun

Self-Cooling Microchips

Patent Objector

Guiding Eye for MEMS

Annotating the Earth

55,000 Tiny Pens

On Autism's Trail

Graphic Muscles

A Failure of Intelligence

A personal account of operational research at the British Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1943-1945.

Hungry Monkeys

Monkeys on an extremely low-calorie diet are healthier--and hungrier.

Finding Hidden Tumors

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital are using whole-body MRI to illuminate a tricky disease.

How to Steal an Election

Princeton University computer scientists expose the weakness of a diebold voting machine.

Danny Hillis

Why is creating thinking machines so difficult?

Fakesters

On MySpace, you can be friends with Burger King. This is social networking?

Spying On My Wife

Surveillance gizmos are a part of my life. What do they reveal?

Still Waiting for Personalized Medicine

Pharmacogenomics promises drugs tailored to your genetic profile--but just try getting one of those tests.

Computer Lesson

Introducing computers to schools in poor countries requires care.

New Hope for Optical Signal Processing

Photonic crystals may finally make it a reality.

The Prize of RNAi

The study of RNAs could mean new drugs and new understanding.