March 2010 Issue: Aerobot Invasion

Features The Present and Future of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide Inside the wild kingdom of the world’s...

| Published Feb 23, 2010 3:36 AM EST

Technology

The Present and Future of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide

Inside the wild kingdom of the world’s newest and most spectacular species of unmanned aircraft, from swarming insect ‘bots that can storm a burning building to a seven-ton weaponized spyplane invisible to radar By Eric Hagerman

Frontiers of Medicine: Rebooting the Body

The ability to reprogram the immune system is one of the most sought-after goals in medicine. Now researchers are closer than ever to pulling it off in patients with Type 1 diabetes, one of whom happens to be our correspondent** By Catherine Price**

Frontiers of Medicine: Radical Cures

Neuroscientists can reconstruct mental images—like the hamburger you’re picturing—using a common brain scanner and complex math. Reading your thoughts may well be next. By Corey Binns

The Man Who Was Allergic to Radio Waves

Your cellphone does not in itself cause cancer. But in the daily sea of radiation we all travel, there may be subtler dangers at work, and science is only just beginning to understand how they can come to affect people like Per Segerbäck so intensely** By James Geary**
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