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	Issue 9 Fall 2005	Letter From the Editor

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 Jurassic Punk Walk This Way The Sharpest Image Mixed Signals

23 Quanta Heard on campus 46 Book Review A Machine to Make the Future 54 Berkeley Groks Spreading science news by any means necessary 55 Who Knew? The No-Spin Zone