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Lifeline for Renewable Power

January/February 2009

Without a radically expanded and smarter electrical grid, wind and solar will remain niche power sources.By David Talbot

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Letter from the editor

The Geological Strata of Things

Features

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Interpreting the Genome
New technologies will soon make it possible to sequence thousands of human genomes. Now comes the hard part: understanding all the data.
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Parallel Universe
In an effort to move forward, Intel dusts off old supercomputing technology.

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