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| January/February 2009
Rising or falling birthrates are changing the religious populations of Europe and the Middle East. A look at how women's wombs have become "a biological weapon."
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Twelve hundred years ago, foreskins became big business. Recent news suggests they're making a comeback, and not in the area of the body one might expect.
Read more... | | - Getting Computers to Think Like Us
Computer scientists have written software that can fool humans.
by Sam Kean
- Mystics Under the Microscope
Is there such a thing as a core, common mystical experience?
by Peter Bebergal
- Reinterpreting the Origin of Life
A new look at one of the most famous and revolutionary experiments in science history.
by Sam Kean
- Visions of Birmingham
They come for a visionary's healing. The visionary came for the nephrology center.
by Ashley Makar - The Beef with Beef
Beef makes people who care about food—and its ethical implications—feel better.
by Scott Korb
- Reading the Wounds
The doctors who treat torture victims find that the stories run deeper than the scars.
by Jina Moore - Inconstant Flux
What happens when the fixed laws of the universe change? (Plus, read about the quirky history of "inconstants".)
by Sam Kean
- Changing Our Minds
Can meditation clear the fog of war? Doctors and veterans find out.
by Nick Street
- "On God": Unheavenly Bodies
The more coherent the cosmos becomes, the less imperiously whimsical.
by Natalie Angier
- Plasticize Me
Will advances in human tissue preservation change how we think about bodies, death, god ... and China?
by Peter Manseau
- Down in the Valley
The "uncanny valley" may dictate how humans evolve in the future.
by Sam Kean
- Praying for Ice
Global warming and terrorism threaten a 900-year-old Hindu pilgramage.
Photos by Javeed Shah, Text by Peter Manseau
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