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Mysteries of the Milky Way

2008
Seven articles discuss discoveries about the Milky Way galaxy, covering its formation, its growth, the sun's corona paradox, the interstellar medium, and other topics.

Endangered Earth

2008
A collection of seven articles that examines environmental responsibility, discussing extinction, biotechnology, green consumerism, family planning, and global warming.

Germ wars

battling killer bacteria and microbes
2008
Contains seven scientific essays which address topics involving germs, including vaccines, Hepatitis C, how to fight anthrax, and more.

Tackling cancer

2007
A collection of nine essays that address various issues in the field of cancer research.

The future of the Web

2007
Offers a collection of seven essays that examines Internet trends in the early twenty-first century; including filtering, archiving, searching, Extensible Markup Language, and Internet-scale applications.

Fighting infectious diseases

2007
Offers a collection of seven essays that examines trends in the twenty-first century in the fight against infectious diseases; including smallpox, chlamydia, anthrax, mad cow disease, and AIDS.

21st-century robotics

2007
Offers a collection of eight articles that examines twenty-first-century trends in robotics technology; including NASA rovers, brain-machine interfaces, personal robots, telepresence, and electronic pets.

Extreme engineering

2007
Contains six articles in which scientists and journalists discuss scientific breakthroughs and possibilities in engineering, covering nanotechnology, the development of semisynthetic organs, electrodynamic tethers in space, and other topics.

The nanotech revolution

2007
Contains seven articles in which scientists and journalists discuss scientific breakthroughs and possibilities in nanotechnology, covering the Nanodrive Project, nanopatterning, nanotechnology and DNA, and other topics.
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