Editor in Chief Eran Karmon
Managing Editor Temina Madon
Current Briefs Editor Jane McGonigal
Content Editor Jessica Palmer
Copy Editor Donna Sy
Editors Joel Kamnitzer Colin McCormick Teddy Varno
Art Director Una Ren
Art Aaron Golub Jessica Palmer
Webmaster Tony Wilson
Special Thanks Evelyn Strauss
Printer UC Press
12 Cuts Like a Knife
Doctors perfect a technique for curing multiple-tumor brain cancer without a single incision
by Aubrey Lau
16 The Sky's the Limit
Look! Up in the air! It's a bird, it's a plane! Holy Cow, it's a Nikon dangling on the end of a kite string!
by Temina Madon
22 Constructing Coral
A pile of concrete and some netting can mean the difference betwee a living ocean and an underwater rubble field.
by Sneha Desai
7 Splitting Heads When it comes to brain surgery, there's no such thing as too many cooks
8 Micro Machines Diagnosing tiny devices is tougher than it looks
9 Walk Like a Man When did our ancestors first stand up for themselves?
26 Darwin or Dogma?
Berkeley's suprising place in the evolution vs. creationism debate by Jessica Palmer
32 Back to the Future Does time really march on or are we just moving forward into the past?
Hawaii's Spiders
Itsy-Bitsy Transistors
Crystal Path for Photons
Modeling the Universe's Birth
Babies Know What's Up
11 Book Review: Sexual Selections Evolution's feminist side
6 Biotech Beat High points of the Bay Area biotech boom
21 Weird Science Phoebe the Photon conquers all
51 The Back Page - Inside Out with Clifford Stoll How to drink a beer without anything to put it in
35 Quanta (heard on campus)