March 2010 issue
COVER STORY
The Electronic Display of the Future
Kindle, iPad, Droid—these compact mobile devices are essentially all display. But the screens aren't all we'd like them to be. Yet.
By Jason Heikenfeld

FEATURES

Lasers Get the Green Light
Compact green-light sources could slash the cost of laser TV
By Richard Stevenson

Remotely Piloted Underwater Glider Crosses the Atlantic
Rutgers University's underwater vehicle successfully navigates an ocean
By Ari Daniel Shapiro

Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur
NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans
By Sidd Bikkannavar, David Redding

UPDATE

A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud
Sparse-coding technique spots fakes
By Willie D. Jones

Europe Plans a North Sea Grid
Undersea cables will transport wind, hydro, and solar power
By John Blau

Medical Imagers Lower the Dose
Radiation-lowering techniques were in the works even before studies showed a danger
By Neil Savage

Satellite Internet Access Withstands Haiti Quake
Wireless broadband links relief agencies
By Harry Goldstein

Scientists Solve Mystery of Superinsulators
The opposite of superconductivity might lead to strange new circuits
By Saswato R. Das

The Beauty of Math
Incalculable beauty is the result when equations produce fractals

OPINION

The Apple iPad Isn't Going to Revolutionize the Display Industry
The iPad's old-tech LCD screen demonstrates, once again, that the perfect display is at least 10 years away
By Tekla S. Perry

DEPARTMENTS

Frank Oppenheimer, the Man Who Made Science Fun
The brother of Robert Oppenheimer marched to the beat of his own drummer
By Kieron Murphy

Green Living in Nashville
The city turns a run-down warehouse district into an upscale eco-neighborhood
By Susan Karlin

How to Reboot Your Corpse
Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death
By Susan Karlin

Outperforming Moore's Law
The electrical efficiency of computing has risen faster, for a longer time, than computational speed and cost
By Jonathan G. Koomey

Teleportation: Finally, a Little Science Behind the Science Fiction
Will we look back on the MakerBot as the beginnings of teleportation?
By Robert W. Lucky

The Smart Power Strip
A Web-enabled outlet tells you how much power an appliance is consuming and lets you turn it on and off remotely
By James Turner

They All Live for a Yellow Submarine
Freelance writer Ari Daniel Shapiro follows Rutgers oceanographers and their ocean-crossing glider