May 2011: How to Save the Oceans
Features Seven Ways to Save the Seas Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones By Rowan Jacobsen Putting a...
Features
Seven Ways to Save the Seas
- Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones By Rowan Jacobsen
- Putting a Price on Carbon Could Slow Oceans’ Acidification By Donovan Hohn
- Fixing the Water Cycle: Key to Preventing Saltier Oceans, Nastier Storms Caused by Atmospheric Warming By Abe Streep
- Protect Oceanic Ecosystems by Outlawing Stowaway Creatures (or Just Eating Them) By Brooke Borel
- Bleaching Threatens Coral, But Phage Therapy Could Prevent “Ghostly” Reefs By Paul Kvinta
- Higher Tech Nets, Hooks Could Stem the Shipload of Fishers’ Bycatch By Josh Dean
- Continuous Surveillance Will Yield Clues About Life Under the Sea By McKenzie Funk
What Would You Do?
Twelve Ocean Experts Tell Us How to Begin to Save the Seas
Shore Line
An undersea electric grid that could make offshore wind power as affordable as coal By David Roberts
Bodies in Motion
The limits of travel are defined not by what vehicles can do, but by what vehicles can do to us. So how much can we take? By Jacob Ward
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
High speed trains will cross the states in the upcoming decades, but at slower speeds than China’s trains By Katherine Bagley
Mind Trips
Dig for dinosaurs, visit a particle accelerator, or play games against robots. Summer vacation just got brainier By Amanda Schupak
What’s New
- The Goods: May 2011’s Hottest Gadgets
- Radio-Controlled Toys Trade Joysticks for Smartphones
- Smarter Vending Machines, Kiosks and Self Check-Outs Help You Food Shop
- New Jacket Fabrics Vent Sweat Without Letting Water or Cold Air Sneak In
- Nissan’s Concept Esflow Takes the Lead on the Electric Sport Car Scene
- Garden Aids That Take the Irk out of Yard Work
- Jet-Propelled Surfboard Battles the Breakers
Headlines
- “Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing Better During CPR
- Amazing Inventions Spring From Hacker Clubs as Membership Soars
- Car Gives Blind Drivers Navigation Clues with Laser Sensors, Cameras
- Rinderpest, the Cattle-Killing Plague, to Become the Second Officially-Eradicated Scourge
- Scientists Trap Single Atoms With Lasers, Optical Tweezers and Lots of Atomic Collisions
- The Next Generation of Dirigibles Takes Flight
- Pricey Transatlantic Cable Could Save Milliseconds, Millions by Speeding Data to Stock Traders
How 2.0
- College Student Builds a Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus
- Tech Support For Managing Everyday Risks In the Workshop
- Ask a Geek: How Do I Find and Archive My Tweets?
- Five-and-a-Half-Ton Solar Array for a Better Cup of Joe
- Man’s Best Friend Gets a High-Tech Home
- Five Ways to Improve Your Facebook Page
FYI
- FYI: What’s the Point of Sex?
- FYI: Can We Make Mars Habitable By Pumping the Atmosphere Full of Oxygen?
Megapixels
- Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day’s Worth of Celestial Splendor
- Plastic Enclosures Provide a Cheap, Bacteria-Based Sewage Solution
Letter From the Editor
May 2011
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