NEWS AND ANALYSIS
In Focus

• Small (Lending) is Beautiful

  Science and the Citizen
  

• Earth's Hidden Heat
• Salivating for Saffron
• Test Driving GM's EV1
• The Emotion Quotient
• Stopping Strokes
• Life on Europa?
• U.S. Air Pollution
• In Brief

  Technology and Business
  

• Sharing Defense R & D costs
• Dredging the Digestive System
• All-Plastic Batteries Debut
• Matching Passengers with Baggage

  Profile
  

• Internet security guru Dan Farmer

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ARTICLES

• Jules Verne, Misunderstood Visionary
• Extremophiles

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WORKING KNOWLEDGE

• Smoke Detectors

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THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST

• Joys of Armchair Ornithology

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REVIEWS

• Reconstructing Tesla
  
• Bright History of a Dark Science
  
• Briefly Noted

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COMMENTARIES

• Feathered Friends
• Wonders: The Silicon Gourmet

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FROM THE EDITORS

• 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
• Letters to the Editors