January 2004

January

Departments

Reviews on the Web: Hug a Bug

by Laura Wright

Reviews: Best of 2003

NeuroQuest

How your brain gobbles up visual clues
by Eric Haseltine

Bogglers Solution

by Scott Kim

Bogglers

Scientists much be master detectives, able to piece together entire theories from scraps of evidence
by Scott Kim

Sky Lights

What a wonderful year 2004 will be for space and astronomy aficionados
by Bob Berman

Emerging Technology

Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism?
by Steven Johnson

Vital Signs

A surgeon must carefully reposition a thighbone after a motorcycle injury
by Sharron Sussman

The Biology of . . . Batteries

Slowly but surely, microbiologists are learning to unleash the Edison within
by Alan Burdick

Letters

Contributors