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20 Ways the World Could End

by Corey S. Powell, Diane Martindale

Are we in danger of being erased from the universe? Here we look at the factors that could doom humanity: natural disasters, human-triggered cataclysms, willful self-destruction, and greater forces directed against us.

What You'll Need to Know In 2020 That You Don't Know Now

by Joseph D'Agnese

Guess who's coming to dinner?

20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last 20 Years

by Judith Newman

What were they thinking?

by Bruce McCall

that could win blue ribbons in twenty years if we don't watch out

20 Young Scientists to Watch

by William Speed Weed

20 Species We Might Lose

by Jack McClintock

And then there were none.

20 Ideas That Will Rule Research in the Next 20 Years

by Matt Mahurin

On the edge of a brave new world.

DEPARTMENTS

by Claire Panosian Dunavan

Mr. Post's escalating fever after a monthlong trip into the bush was not a good sign

DATA

by Josie Glausiusz

Showy plants usually don't smell good, and that's a problem for pollination.

Robot Watch: Going Robo-Postal

by Fenella Saunders

The Emperor's New Genome?

by Josie Glausiusz

These Boots are Made for Galloping

by Eric Powell

Next, the Copier Will Reproduce Popsicles

by Fenella Saunders

Armageddon in a Can

by Sara Pratt

by Bob Berman

Calculating the odds of surviving a manned mission to Mars

by Scott Kim

by Eric Haseltine

20 Things That Will Be Obsolete in 20 years

by Eric Haseltine

Swept away.

by Kathy A. Svitil

by Fenella Saunders

by Kathy A. Svitil

They Invented it When?

by Fenella Saunders

Lab-Grown Black Holes

by Kathy A. Svitil

Works in Progress

by Karen Wright

Whither the biggest iceberg in recorded history?

The Physics of. . . Foul Shots

by Curtis Rist

Why everyone in the NBA ought to be using a granny shot from the foul line

by Mark Sincell

What's beyond silicon and fiber optics? Would you believe microprocessors with living brain tissue?

Bogglers Solutions

by Scott Kim

20 Things That Won't Change

by Brad Lemley

There will still be a Super Bowl.

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