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2003 Stories by Margaret Wertheim

• 8 Terrifying Advances in Biological Warfare

  published December 25, 2003

  Even Saddam Hussein and the madmen behind the Soviet’s infamous Biopreparat facility understood that getting serious about bio-weaponr... More >>

• The Ice Man Formeth

  published December 18, 2003

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• Space(F)light

  published December 4, 2003

  Photo by Louis Friedman, ThePlanetary Society THROUGHOUT THE AGES humans have been borne across oceans by the power of wind. Propelled... More >>

• The Zombie Within

  published November 27, 2003

  Photos by Max S. Gerber 1. EXPERIENCING THE ABSOLUTE A hundred feet above me, Christof Koch is hanging by a thread. Three... More >>

• Brain Worlds

  published November 13, 2003

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• Prime Obsession

  published August 28, 2003

  It’s been called the hardest problem in mathematics, and also the most important. Three books have recently been published about it an... More >>

• Sightlines

  published July 31, 2003

  Photo: Courtesy of NRAO/AUI Out along Highway 60, 700 miles east of Los Angeles, photons are being gathered, the raw material for a... More >>

• Beetles and Boys

  published July 17, 2003

  Illustration by Debby Wolfensohn It is not often that science forms the foundation for a great work of literary fiction. As Jay McInerney... More >>

• The House That Behrokh Built

  published June 26, 2003

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• Extended Warranty

  published June 12, 2003

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• The Beasts Within

  published May 15, 2003

  In the ur-time of mythology, man’s most fearsome foes were large and toothy beasts — monsters and dragons, tigers, bears and sharks — hu... More >>

• Stopping Time

  published May 8, 2003

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• What Is It Like To Be a Fish?

  published April 17, 2003

  In the rivers of the Amazon jungle swims a fish that could hardly be more alien. Living in extremely murky water, this creature would have... More >>

• Buckyballs and Screaming Cells

  published April 10, 2003

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo Just before noon on a crisp spring day, Jim Gimzewski is looking a little rusty around the edges. Walking across... More >>

• To Infinity and Beyond

  published March 13, 2003

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• Bits and BANGS

  published March 6, 2003

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• Conception Misconception

  published February 6, 2003

  When does a human embryo become a human being? For right-to-lifers the answer is unequivocal: at the moment of conception. And this idea, that... More >>

• The Unbearable Likeness of Being

  published February 6, 2003

  Illustration by Dana Collins WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, HOW DO YOU know who you are? The question has derailed philosophers,... More >>

• Almost Being There

  published January 16, 2003

  For more than a decade, the curatorial staff at the Museum of Jurassic Technology has been charting the geography of that interstitial zone... More >>