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Popular Science 1998
Title
Subject
Authors
24 hours in space. (an astronaut's day inside a space station)
Science and technology
Mark D. Uehling
A bridge so far.(Japan's Akashi Kaikyo Bridge)(includes related articles on maintaining US bridges and on protecting bridges from earthquake)(Cover Story)
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Dennis Normile, Frank Vizard
A choker for smokers. (pillars beneath the North Pacific Ocean)
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Douglas Gantenbein
Animating in 3-D. (Stereo Animation Drawing Device)
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Christopher Miller
A year wiser. (Katech Inc.)
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Bill Visnic
Battle boat. (US Navy's Mark V)
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Carol Hoidra
Beefing up food safety. (includes related article on biosensors)
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Gunja Sinha
Birth of a champ car. (engineering and design of racing cars) (includes related article on race car developer Swift Engineering)
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Peter Lyons
Braking for Mars. (landing of the Mars Global Surveyor on the planet Mars)
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Michael Carroll
Burster watchers. (astronomical phenomenon)
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Andrew Chaikin
Cancer vaccines.
Science and technology
Ingrid Wickelgren
Creatures of the twilight zone. (underwater probes from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute investigate siphonophores)
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Don Foley
Firewire: the next connection. (cable standard to allow television connection with computers and telephones)(includes related article on Universe Serial Bus)
Science and technology
David Elrich
Forecast for El Nino. (includes related article on airborne experiments funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
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Douglas Gantenbein
Gene readers. (chips that read genetic blueprints)(includes related articles)(Cover Story)
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Ingrid Wickelgreen
Killer rocks. (collision between Earth and an asteroid)(includes related article regarding the movie 'Deep Impact')
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Patricia Barnes-Svarney
Microplanes. (tiny spy planes)(Cover Story)
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Jerome Greer Chandler
Missing in action. (use of DNA tests to identify casualties during the Vietnam War)(includes related article on unidentified soldiers and how to analyze mitochondrial DNA in human remains)
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Ralph Watterhahn
Not your family Taurus. (Ford Taurus racing car)
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John McCormick
Our man-made moons. (predecessors of the International Space Station)
Science and technology
Michael Carroll, Andrew Chaikin
Popular Science the best of what's new: 100 of the year's greatest achievements in science & technology.
Science and technology
Mariette Dichristina
Secret Soviet spacecraft.(Cover Story)
Science and technology
James Oberg
Seek and you shall find? (NEC Research Institute's study on Internet search engines)
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Matt Richtel
Sight my fire. (fire sensor)
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Douglas Page
Space jalopy. (accidents on space station Mir)
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Philip Chien
Test-driving the future. (Chrysler Corp's concept cars)
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John McCormick
The house that beats hurricanes. (house in Charleston, SC)
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Jack Kneece
The international space station: striding toward the future.
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Daniel S. Goldin
The nose knows. (gas leak detector)
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Douglas Page
The right stuff - again. (second space flight of John Glenn)
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Jim Schefter
The sum of its parts. (construction of a space station by NASA)
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Jim Schefter
Think fast! (race car simulator at the Human Performance International in Daytona Beach, Florida)(includes related article on measuring cornering loads)
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Peter Lyons
Tomb rover. (Pioneer robot from RedZone Robotics)
Science and technology
Matt Richtel
Toolbox of champions. (innovative tools)
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Jeff Csatari
Urban rainforest: an African jungle comes to life on New York's west side.(diorama of Central African Republic's Dzanga-Ndoki Rainforest in Manhattan, New York)
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Bob Sillery
Walk on the wild side. (spacewalking practice by astronauts)
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Robert Gannon
Why build a space station? (with related articles about Boeing's program and Russia's view)
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William E. Burrows
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