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COLUMNS
Physika • Catch the Wave
Rogue ocean waves that can tear apart a supertanker are challenging physicists with their daunting complexity
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Bitter Pill
As the human genome is decoded, artists are seizing the stuff of the genetic revolution and grappling with its dilemmas
EMILY LABER
FEATURES
Cover Story • Nursery Crimes
What kind of mother poisons her child to fake an exotic illness, then enlists an unsuspecting medical system to treat it?
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
Hell on Wheels
New computer models are confirming what commuters have long suspected: traffic jams can come out of nowhere
KAI NAGEL
Lifestyles of the Cold and Frozen
Whether supercooled or stiff as icicles, some animals can survive the harshest winters. Their tricks may one day benefit diabetics and organ-transplant recipients
KENNETH B. STOREY AND JANET M. STOREY
REVIEWS
Interface-Off
From geek chic to information appliances to empathic machines: the struggle for people-friendly computers continues
David Berreby
Books in Brief • Null and Void
PLUS: Glass; the joy of dung
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Freedom's Rewards
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Shattered Mirror, Pay Dirt, Knots Landing, Separation Anxiety, What's New, Pussycat?, Q-bits
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