Breaking the Storm
Physicists with their heads in the clouds are learning how to turn dangerous hailstorms into crop-saving rain showers.
by Kathryn Phillips
Spin Doctor
Randy Lewis thinks the silky stuff of cobwebs may be the fiber of the future.
A Question of Size
Bigger is better, right? So why in the world have Pygmies opted for smallness?
Shell Game
Creating shells out of nothing but mathematical equations, a computer scientist holds a mirror up to nature.
Ruffled Feathers
A paleontologist going after the earliest bird may have ended up with a mouthful of worms.
Road to Ruin
If highways are jammed, common sense says that an additional road will make things better. Mathematics says otherwise.