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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY<br />

RFID: A Key to Automating Everything<br />

By Roy Want<br />

Radio-frequency identification tags and readers stand poised to take over many processes now<br />

accomplished by human toil<br />

INVENTION<br />

The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator<br />

By Cliff Stoll<br />

It was called the Curta, and it proved lifesaving when its inventor was trapped in a Nazi<br />

concentration camp<br />

ENVIRONMENT<br />

Spring Forward<br />

By Daniel Grossman<br />

As temperatures rise earlier in spring, interdependent species in a number of ecosystems shift<br />

dangerously out of sync<br />

ARCHAEOLOGY<br />

Women and Men at Çatalhöyük<br />

By Ian Hodder<br />

The largest known Neolithic settlement yields clues about the roles played by the sexes in early<br />

agricultural societies<br />

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY<br />

Better Displays with Organic Films<br />

By Webster E. Howard<br />

Light-emitting organic materials can make electronic displays<br />

SPECIAL REPORT<br />

Four Keys to Cosmology<br />

By George Musser<br />

The big bang theory works better than ever. If only cosmologists could figure out that mysterious<br />

acceleration....<br />

SPECIAL REPORT: COSMOLOGY<br />

The Cosmic Symphony<br />

By Wayne Hu and Martin White<br />

Sound waves powerfully shaped the early universe<br />

BIOTECHNOLOGY<br />

Insights into Shock<br />

By Donald W. Landry and Juan A. Oliver<br />

Still a last step before death for thousands of people, shock is shedding some of its medical<br />

mystery and becoming more treatable<br />

SPECIAL REPORT: COSMOLOGY<br />

Out of the Darkness<br />

By Georgi Dvali<br />

A leakage of gravity might cause cosmic acceleration<br />

SPECIAL REPORT: COSMOLOGY<br />

Reading the Blueprints of Creation<br />

By Michael A. Strauss<br />

New surveys highlight extraordinary cosmic structures<br />

CRIMINOLOGY<br />

The Case of the Unsolved Crime Decline<br />

By Richard Rosenfeld<br />

Crime rates in the U.S. plummeted in the 1990s. None of the common theories fully explains why,<br />

however<br />

SPECIAL REPORT: COSMOLOGY<br />

From Slowdown to Speedup<br />

By Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner<br />

Supernovae reveal when the expansion of the universe sped up<br />

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