Scientific American, June 2007
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Breaking Network Logjams. Network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency of communications networks.
PARTICLE COSMOLOGY When Fields Collide. The history of particle cosmology shows that science can benefit from wrenching changes
INNOVATIONS Seeing Triple. Anticipated for decades, machines are finally displaying real objects in three true dimensions
MEDICINE Lifting the Fog around Anesthesia. Learning why current anesthetics are so potent and sometimes dangerous will lead to a new generation of safer targeted drugs.
BIOLOGY A Simpler Origin for Life. Energy-driven networks of small molecules may be more likely first steps for life than the commonly held idea of the sudden emergence of large self-replicating molecules such as RNA.
ECOSYSTEMS Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals. Pleistocene rewilding--a proposal to bring back animals that disappeared from North America 13,000 years ago--offers an optimistic agenda for 21st-century conservation.

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