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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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