February 2006 Feature Articles

Folk Wisdom

U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge

Will industry make up the difference?

Beating Sony At Its Own Game

The Temptations And Pitfalls of Hacking The PlayStation Portable

Butterfly Effect

Sophisticated method of manipulating light is discovered in Princeps nireus

Forum: Our Readers Write

Learning Where the Jobs Are

Communications, defense, and bioengineering are leading industries

Re-engineering Iraq

U.S. and Iraqi officials have spent billions on restoring Iraq's electrical system. So why is Baghdad getting just 6 hours of electricity a day?

Patents 2.0

A new type of patent is needed

Mars Gets Broadband Connection

New orbiter will provide future missions with high data rates

The Transistor Laser

Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open new computing frontier

More Fun at Work

Hollywood Science Gone Bad

Journalist David Kushner takes up a topic we all love to complain about: outrageously stupid science in movies and television.

Iraq: Will There Be Light?

Googlearchy or Googlocracy?

Conventional wisdom says that search engines make big websites even more prominent. New research, though, says "not so fast" on jumping to that conclusion.