Features

  • Social Networking: From Fantasy to Facebook

    17 August 2009, Michael D. Maffie, Guest Author

    Social networking via websites such as Myspace, Facebook and Twitter is one of the most significant recent changes in social communication. Individuals can now mobilize

  • Civilization and Mass Destruction

    17 August 2009, Mira Patel, Cornell University

  • Fermilab: Advancing our understanding of energy

    2 April 2008, Melissa Tan, University of Chicago

    Despite impending federal budget cuts and the approaching closure of the world’s current largest particle accelerator, researchers at Fermilab are still hard at work trying

  • Light-switch magic in the brain

    27 December 2007, Louise Whiteley, University College London

    A new ‘light switch’ technique opens up a wide range of experiments that would have been impossible before, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about