Issue 9
Fall 2005

Editor in Chief
Charlie Emrich

Managing Editor
Jess Porter

Editors
Letty Brown
Lisa Green
Charlie Koven
Wes Marner
Angie Morey

Art Director
Ainsley Seago

Layout Editors
Andy DeMond
Wendy Hansen
Bryan Jackson
Jess Porter

Web Editor
Jesse Dill

Copy Editor
Tracy Powell

Proofreader
Kaspar Mossman

Printer
Sundance Press

24 Dark Side of the Universe

A search for the secret energy that's pushing the cosmos apart

by Roger O'Brient

30 Whodunnit?

Mystery of the Missing Megafauna

by Ruth Murray-Clay

41 All the easy experiments

A Berkeley professor, dirty bombs, and the birth of informed consent

by Will Grover

9 Superbugs!
New bacteria on the block

10 From Noise to Signal
The Earth Hum

12 Mark of the Beast
Using DNA to catalog the world's diversity

14 Perfect Strangers
Experimental evolution yields unlikely bedfellows

16 Better Living Through Viruses
Chicken Soup for the Cell

18 Crouching Scientist, Hidden Salamander
The Korean salamander that shouldn't be there...or should it?

20 Doctor Atomic
...or how we learned to stop worrying and love our nuclear heritage

21 Hungry Like the Wolf
Predator reintroduction in Yellowstone may soften the impact of climate change

51 Profile: Ignacio Chapela

Berkeley's newest tenured professor talks about fungus, fireflies and the future of his research

by Cheryl Hackworth

47 Regenerative Medicine
California gives props to stem cells


35 Shot Down
The American Physical Society takes aim at the boost phase

Jurassic Punk

Walk This Way

The Sharpest Image

Mixed Signals

23 Quanta
Heard on Campus

46 Book Review
A Machine to Make a Future

54 Berkeley Groks
Spreading science news by any means necessary

55 Who Knew?
The No-Spin Zone