In this issue...

• Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology, and Engineering
  Vibrant Science

• Dynamic Vision
  DAhrt fulFills its destiny

• Solar Smart Grid in the Atomic City
  Test bed for local control of renewable energy

• Megagenomics
  Exposing and Exploiting the secret life of soil

• Spotlight
  - Clean air and abundant fuel
  - shooting rocks on mars
  - fission makeup
  - Better Fuel Cell membrane materials

About the Cover: Microorganisms in the soil perform services that are essential to the survival of all plant and animal life on Earth, and learning to harness their abilities could lead to revolutionary new technologies in agriculture, medicine, environmental management, and more. however, only about 1 percent of these microorganisms are understood by science today. Can we rapidly learn about the other 99 percent?

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Los Alamos scientist Jim Tuck with the "Perhapsatron," a device he designed to slowly compress a hot plasma to nuclear fusion conditions by using magnetic fields.

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