March 2011: After Earth

March 2011: After Earth

What's New

• The Goods: March 2011's Hottest Gadgets
• Matchbook-Sized Computer Creates Your Own In-Goggle Display
• The Nissan Juke Is Less a Family Hauler Than a Quick, Efficient, Gizmo-Rich City Car
• Golf Club Tweaks Your Shot Three Ways
• The Next Wave of 3-D Specs Look More Like Everyday Glasses
• Tiny Device Handicaps Your Phone and Keeps Your Eyes On the Road
• 4G: Finally, a Network Powerful Enough for Our Enormous Media Appetite

Features

After Earth

Where we'll live when our planet is no longer our home By Ben Austen

The Unseen Currents

How oceanographers track the weather two miles beneath the sea's surface By Donovan Hohn

Making the Connections

Inspired by the Human Genome Project, scientists are comprehensively mapping other human biological systems By Brooke Borel

Our Body the Ecosystem

The thousands of species of bacteria coating our bodies inside and out may be the key to understanding--and treating--a host of diseases By Virginia Hughes

Headlines

• Burn After Reading: A Climate Scientist Digs Up Data by Mining the News
• Revolutionary Robot-Sub Drifts While Tracking Microscopic Organisms
• Introducing the First Road-Ready Hemp-Mobile
• Solution by Destruction
• Talk to the Hand: A New Interface for Bionic Limbs Uses Light

How 2.0

• Dinner to Go: A Nitrous-Injected Dining Table Is the World's Speediest Piece of Furniture
• The Bar Is Open: A Slot Machine That Pays Out in Drinks
• Gray Matter: The Invisible Sea of Gas
• Ask a Geek: How Do I Protect My Smartphone From Viruses?
• Simple Project of the Month: A DIY Ebook-Reader Case

FYI

• FYI: Could Scientists Really Create a Zombie Apocalypse Virus?
• FYI: If I Fell Through The Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?

Megapixels

• Scientists Revive Ancient Bacteria Trapped In Crystals
• A Cyborg Captures Photos To Highlight How Surveillance Has Permeated Our Society