Scientific American 1992 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Abyssal proposal: are the ocean depths a safe place for sewage sludge? | Science and technology | Margaret Holloway |
Accounting for environmental assets. (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Robert Repetto |
Accretion disks in interacting binary stars. (includes related article) | Science and technology | John K. Cannizzo, Ronald H. Kaitchuck |
Achieving electronic privacy. (blind signature technology) | Science and technology | David Chaum |
Aging brain, aging mind. (structural and chemical changes) (includes related article on dementia) | Science and technology | Dennis J. Selkoe |
An enthusiast's guide to the technology of the America's Cup. (yacht race) | Science and technology | Chester Kyle, David Eggleston |
Astronomy of the age of Columbus. (Christopher Columbus) | Science and technology | Owen Gingerich |
Bacterial endotoxins. (includes related material) | Science and technology | Ernst Theodor Rietschel, Helmut Brade |
Bent light: gravitational distortions illuminate dark matter. | Science and technology | Carey S. Powell |
Better car equals better driver. (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) (includes related article on automobile recycling) (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | |
Billions of buckytubes; mass production of carbon cylinders sparks interest. | Science and technology | Philip Ross |
Binary optics. | Science and technology | Wilfrid B. Veldkamp, Thomas J. McHugh |
Biological roles of nitric oxide. | Science and technology | Solomon H. Snyder, David S. Bredt |
Blind spots. (vision) | Science and technology | Vilayanur S. Ramachandran |
Brain and language. (includes related article) | Science and technology | Antonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio |
Breath tests in medicine. (alternative developments) | Science and technology | Michael Phillips |
Building a market economy in Poland. (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Jeffrey Sachs |
Building molecular crystals. (synthesizing materials to study crystal formations) | Science and technology | Michael D. Ward, Paul J. Fagan |
Cancer cell invasion and metastasis. | Science and technology | Lance A. Liotta |
Control of rabies in wildlife. (includes related article and bibliography) | Science and technology | William G. Winkler, Konrad Bogel |
Diamond film semiconductors. | Science and technology | Michael W. Geis, John C. Angus |
Directed molecular evolution. | Science and technology | Gerald F. Joyce |
Dynamics of Kilauea volcano. (Hawaii)(includes related material) | Science and technology | Carl Johnson, John J. Dvorfak, Robert I. Tilling |
Early results from the Hubble Space Telescope. (includes bibliography) (Cover Story) | Science and technology | Eric J. Chaisson |
Essay: a case of deja vu. (global warming and ozone depletion) | Science and technology | Richard Elliot Benedick |
Essay: an inner-city education. | Science and technology | Michael C. Lach |
Evolution comes to life. (construction of figure with bone fragments) | Science and technology | Ian Tattersall |
Experimental market economics. (experimental market research) (includes related article) | Science and technology | Vernon L. Smith, Arlington W. Williams |
Extremely cold antiprotons. (cooling and storing antiprotons) | Science and technology | Gerald Gabrielse |
Genetic algorithms. (natural selection-type problems solved by computer programs) | Science and technology | John H. Holland |
G proteins. (cellular molecules research)(includes related material) | Science and technology | Maurine E. Linder, Alfred G. Gilman |
Health care reform. (proposed national health care program) | Science and technology | Rashi Fein |
Heisenberg, uncertainty and the quantum revolution. (scientist Werner Heisenberg) | Science and technology | David C. Cassidy |
Histones as regulators of genes. (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Michael Grunstein |
How cells absorb glucose. | Science and technology | Jan W. Slot, David E. James, Gustav E. Lienhard, Mike M. Mueckler |
How cosmology became a science. (discovery of microwave background) | Science and technology | Stephen G. Brush |
How many species inhabit the earth? | Science and technology | Robert M. May |
How neural networks learn from experience. (computer simulation of information processing in the brain) (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Geoffrey E. Hinton |
How sea turtles navigate. | Science and technology | Kenneth Lohmann |
Indochinese refugee families and academic achievement. | Science and technology | Nathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy, John K. Whitmore |
Infrared video cameras. (includes related article and bibliography) | Science and technology | Jerry Silverman, Jonathan M. Mooney, Freeman D. Shepherd |
Junk science in the courtroom. (scientific testimony) | Science and technology | Peter W. Huber |
Jurong Town Corporation. (Special Advertising Section: Singapore, Technology for Economic Growth) | Science and technology | |
Laser trapping of neutral particles. | Science and technology | Steven Chu |
Learning from Asian schools. (elementary education) | Science and technology | Harold W. Stevenson |
Lipoprotein(a) in heart disease. (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Richard M. Lawn |
Major disorders of mind and brain. (schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness) (includes related article on medications for mental disorders) | Science and technology | Elliot S. Gershon, Ronald O. Reider |
Managing the semiconductor industry's collaborative effort. (Semiconductor Research) (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | Larry W. Sumney |
Matra Marconi Space: Europe's fully integrated space company. (World Space Congress) (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company: innovation and experience. (World Space Conference) (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Meaning and mind in monkeys. (vocalizations and intent) | Science and technology | Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth |
Mind and brain: the biological foundations of consciousness, memory and other attributes of mind have begun to emerge; an overview of this most profound of all research efforts. (includes related articles) (Cover Story) | Science and technology | Gerald D. Fischbach |
Mountain belts and the supercontinent cycle. | Science and technology | J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance |
Mountain sickness. (high-altitude pulmonary edema and related illnesses) | Science and technology | Charles S. Houston |
Mud volcanoes of the Marianas. | Science and technology | Patricia Fryer |
Naked mole rats. | Science and technology | Paul W. Sherman, Jennifer U.M. Jarvis, Stanton H. Braude |
NEC: an R&D commitment. (Special Advertising Section: Singapore, Technology for Economic Growth) | Science and technology | |
Neurons for computer. (artificial neural networks) | Science and technology | Drew van Camp |
Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky. (geneticist)(includes related articles on research) | Science and technology | Diane B. Paul, Costas B. Krimbas |
Omega Watch Corporation: a 30-year relationship of space and time. (World Space Congress) (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | David (American novelist) Smith, Kenneth Speicher |
Origins of western environmentalism. | Science and technology | Richard H. Grove |
Paradoxes of musical pitch. (ascending and descending of tones)(includes related material) | Science and technology | Diana Deutsch |
Phantom limbs. (includes related story on phantom hearing and seeing) | Science and technology | Ronald Melzack |
Photovores: intelligent robots are constructed from castoffs. | Science and technology | A.K. Dewdney |
Planetary nebulae. (Cover Story) | Science and technology | Noam Soker |
Quantum cryptography. (unbreakable message transmission system) (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Artur K. Ekert |
Reproductive strategies of frogs. (new species continue to be identified) | Science and technology | William E. Duellman |
Science books for young people. | Science and technology | Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison |
Seeing infrared. (infrared camera)(includes bibliography) (Column) | Science and technology | Donald G. Mooney |
Sex differences in the brain. | Science and technology | Doreen Kimura |
Sighting Cepheid variables. (Amateur Scientist) (includes related article) (Column) | Science and technology | George A. Carlson |
Singapore airport. (Special Advertising Section: Singapore, Technology for Economic Growth) | Science and technology | |
Singapore Technologies. (Special Advertising Section: Singapore, Technology for Economic Growth) | Science and technology | |
Singapore: Technology for Economic Growth. (includes related articles) (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | C.C. Hang, S.K. Chou, Rosa Tan |
Singing caterpillars, ants and symbiosis. | Science and technology | Philip J. DeVries |
Single electronics. (research on electrons)(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Konstantin K. Likharev, Tord Claeson |
Solid acid catalysts. (Cover Story) | Science and technology | John Meurig Thomas |
Spider webs and silks. (includes related article and bibliography) | Science and technology | Fritz Vollrath |
Stellar bells: quivering stars bare their inner secrets. (asteroseismology) | Science and technology | Corey S Powell |
Superantigens in human disease. | Science and technology | Howard M. Johnson, Jeffry K. Russell, Carol H. Pontzer |
Tapping the power of people and technology. (Hitachi) (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | Yasutsuga Takeda |
Technologies for better health care. (Olympus Optical Company GmbH) (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | B Nakatsubo Toshio |
Textures and cosmic structure. (includes related articles and bibliography) | Science and technology | David N. Spergel, Neil G. Turok |
The big bang of animal evolution. (Cambrian period) | Science and technology | Jeffrey S. Levinton |
The biological basis of learning and individuality. (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Eric R. Kandel, Robert D. Hawkins |
The Codex Mendoza. (pictorial book compiled by Aztecs)(includes related article and bibliography) | Science and technology | Patricia Rieff Anawalt, Frances F. Berdan |
The commonwealth of Massachusetts: advanced technology for the future. (advertising supplement) | Science and technology | |
The developing brain. (neural growth and development) | Science and technology | Carla J. Shatz |
The expansion rate and size of the universe. (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Wendy L. Freedman |
The Gundestrup cauldron. (includes related article and bibliography) | Science and technology | Timothy Taylor |
The human voice. (anatomy and voice medicine) | Science and technology | Robert T. Sataloff |
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. | Science and technology | Robert W. Conn, Valery A. Chuyanov, Nobuyuki Inoue, Donald R. Sweetman |
The Italian Space Agency: supporting international collaboration for peaceful ends. (World Space Congress) (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
The last stone ax makers. (Langda village natives in New Guinea) | Science and technology | Nicholas Toth, Desmond Clark, Giancarlo Ligabue |
The mammals of island Europe. | Science and technology | Gerhard Storch |
The most influential investment. (educating girls) | Science and technology | Lawrence Summers |
The patch clamp technique. (isolating ion channels on cell membranes)(includes related article and bibliography) (Cover Story) | Science and technology | Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann |
The problem of consciousness. (studying consciousness scientifically) | Science and technology | Christof Koch, Francis Crick |
The pursuit of pure research. (NEC Institute) (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | C. William Gear |
The risks of software. (critical computer systems)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Bev Littlewood, Lorenzo Strigini |
The visual system and the brain. | Science and technology | Semir Zeki |
Toshiba's 21st Century technologies. (Special Advertising Supplement) | Science and technology | Roger Schreffler |
Transgenic crops. (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Charles S. Gasser, Robert T. Fraley |
Tribal warfare. (Native Americans) | Science and technology | Brian Ferguson |
Trouble in mind. (relationship between mind and brain may remain elusive) | Science and technology | Jonathan Miller |
Turing test. (Alan M. Turing, test for determining if machines can think) | Science and technology | A.K. Dewdney |
Turquoise in Pre-Columbian America. | Science and technology | Garman Harbottle, Phil C. Weigand |
Understanding the AIDS pandemic. | Science and technology | Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson |
Venus revealed. (Magellan spacecraft radar images) | Science and technology | Cory S. Powell |
Visualizing biological molecules. (computer simulation) | Science and technology | Arthur J. Olson, David S. Goodsell |
Watching the death of a star. (Column) | Science and technology | James B. Kaler |
What Columbus 'saw' in 1492. (Christopher Columbus' perceptions of the New World) | Science and technology | I. Bernard Cohen |
Where did modern humans originate? | Science and technology | |
Why American songbirds are vanishing. (includes related article on migratory patterns) | Science and technology | John Terborgh |
Why aromatic compounds are stable. (includes related articles and bibliography) | Science and technology | Jun-ichi Aihara |
Why business needs scientists. (Column) | Science and technology | Michael Schulhof |
Why do we age? (research) | Science and technology | Ricki L. Rusting |
Why only one big bang? | Science and technology | Geoffrey Burbridge |
Women and AIDS. | Science and technology | Kenneth H. Mayer, Charles C.J. Carpenter |
Working memory and the mind. (research) | Science and technology | Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic |
World Space Congress report. (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | Ellis Pines |
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