April 2009

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy?

Today’s mind-altering chemicals can improve your memory, alertness, and mood. Just wait until you see what tomorrow’s crop can do.

by Sherry Baker

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April

Departments

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Money

Interesting info-nuggets about all that stuff you recently sent to the IRS.
 by Jason Stahl

Can Smart Tech Keep Chevy Volt's Battery Running Longer Than Your Laptop's?

GM says that tightly controlling how the battery charges will keep it alive for 10 years/150,000 miles.
 by Stephen Cass

Big Picture: Where Do Old Colliders Go to Die?

After the LHC comes online, old accelerators will stand by, just in case they're necessary, get salvaged for spare parts, or just lie untouched in the ground for years.
 by Eric Roston

Vital Signs: A Gland Failure

When adrenal functions go out of whack, the mind and body respond in startling ways.
by Robert Norman

Galileo at 400, Why Sh*t Happens, and More

The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe

Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein.
 by Susan Kruglinski; photography by Jamey Stillings

Could a Dose of Ether Contain the Secret to Consciousness?

Researchers may soon be able to measure consciousness as well as we can measure a person's temperature.
 by Carl Zimmer

The Finder of the Secret Gorillas

Biologist Emma Stokes protects endangered animals in far-off countries.
 by Boonsri Dickinson

What Is This? A Dirty Sheep?

Stay away: these poofy blobs are actually quite deadly.
 by Andrew Grant

4 Ways to Smarten up Your Car

Seeds, From the Largest to the Oldest to the Safest

by Jeremy Jacquot

Visual Science: A Close Look at the Original Information Superhighway

A detailed microscope image shows the complicated structure of a fish's nervous system.