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COLUMNS
The Information Age • The Electronic Palimpsest
Digital documents for all occasions: erasable, reproducible, forgeable
BRIAN HAYES
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • A Plague Returns
TB is back, the grim harvest of decades of complacency. The greatest fear is a multiple-drug-resistant form treatable only through quarantine.
MARK EARNEST AND JOHN A. SBARBARO
FEATURES
The Sound of Oceans Warming
Acoustic signals have been sent halfway around the world through a natural underwater sound channel. The goal is to measure the global greenhouse effect.
WALTER MUNK
Brain by Design
An era of molecular engineering, aimed at refining and refocusing the effects of marijuana and other psychoactive drugs, may be at hand
RICHARD RESTAK
The Stuff of Stars
When a woman graduate student discovered abundant hydrogen in stellar spectrums, she was bullied into suppressing her results results
MARCIA BARTUSIAK
REVIEWS
The Holy Grail of Physics
TIs the end of physics in sight? How would anyone recognize a complete physical theory if one were thrust upon us?
LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Books in Brief • The Emir of Arithmetic
PLUS: Alternative medicine; a forensic anthropologist looks at bones
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Fermat's last theorem falls to Andrew Wiles; mechanisms of migraine; the short shelf life of videotape
Strange Matter
As Yet to Be Proven
ROZ CHAST
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