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Features 8/28/08
Angling for a Better Way to Farm Fish--And Vegetables, Too
Aquaponics fertilizes plant crops with bacteria-treated fish waste products. The plants return the favor by filtering the fish's water—and humans can eat both of them

Features 8/25/08
Experimental Prosthetic Surgery to Help One Dog Get a Leg Up
A three-legged canine's experimental surgery could lead to better prosthetics--for people and animals alike
Features 8/25/08
Tamping Down Tuberculosis in Russia [Slide Show]
The methods for fighting the multidrug resistant TB epidemic in Russia
Features 8/25/08
Infected and Imprisoned: Tuberculosis in a Siberian Jail [Slide Show]
The plight of inmates with TB in Russia's Tomsk province
Features 8/25/08
A Report from the Russian Front in the Global Fight against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Can the campaign against MDR-TB in Russia help curb the global epidemic?

Features 8/25/08
Prisons in Post-Soviet Russia Incubate a Plague
The collapse of the Soviet health care system in the 1990s coupled with prisons releasing improperly treated inmates and endemic poverty escalated incidences of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis to epidemic proportions

Features 8/25/08
In Pursuit of Better Weapons to Combat TB
Tuberculosis remains a stubborn foe despite the efforts of the public and private sector's efforts to deploy new antibiotics and diagnostic tools against a disease that thrives on poverty and ignorance

Features 8/25/08
A Siberian Community Mobilizes to Fight TB
A Russian province bucks the national government, bringing tuberculosis treatment to the treated--and following through until they are cured. The results so far have been encouraging

Features 8/21/08
RFID--A Key to Automating Everything
Already common in security systems and tollbooths, radio-frequency identification tags and readers stand poised to take over many processes now accomplished by human toil

Features 8/19/08
Poll: How Safe is Your Information Online
What steps do you take to protect your personal information?

Features 8/19/08
Are You Being Watched? Probably
Looking back at the surveillance all around us--from wiretapped phones to security cameras

Features 8/19/08
Does an Advertiser Know You Clicked on This Story?
Facebook, Yahoo, and Google come under fire for allowing advertisers to follow online consumer behavior to create targeted messages

Features 8/19/08
Who's Keeping an Eye on Your Online Health Records?
Google, Microsoft and other providers of Web-based services for managing health care information promise to keep it secure, but privacy policies vary from site to site

Features 8/18/08
International Report: What Impact Is Technology Having on Privacy around the World?
ScientificAmerican.com, with help from our international colleagues, highlights privacy and security issues in China, Japan, the Middle East, Russia and the U.K.

Features 8/18/08
How I Stole Someone's Identity
The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online

Features 8/18/08
Pedophile-Proof Chat Rooms?
Can Lancaster University's Isis Project keep children safe online without invading our privacy?

Features 8/18/08
Planning to E-Vote? Read This First
With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology

Features 8/18/08
The Web Ushers In New Weapons of War and Terrorism
Protesters, terrorists and warmongers have found the Internet to be a useful tool to achieve their goals. Who will bring law and order to cyberspace?

Features 8/18/08
Industry Roundtable: Improving Online Security (Extended version)
To protect against more numerous and sophisticated attacks by hackers, security professionals call for upgraded technology along with more attention to human and legal factors

Features 8/15/08
How to Be Popular during the Olympics: Be H. Lee Sweeney, Gene Doping Expert
Physiologist Lee Sweeney has been asked to dope an entire junior college football team, but his day job is studying age-related muscle decline