Scientific American 1992 - Abstracts

Scientific American 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
Abyssal proposal: are the ocean depths a safe place for sewage sludge?Science and technologyMargaret Holloway
Accounting for environmental assets. (includes bibliography)Science and technologyRobert Repetto
Accretion disks in interacting binary stars. (includes related article)Science and technologyJohn K. Cannizzo, Ronald H. Kaitchuck
Achieving electronic privacy. (blind signature technology)Science and technologyDavid Chaum
Aging brain, aging mind. (structural and chemical changes) (includes related article on dementia)Science and technologyDennis J. Selkoe
An enthusiast's guide to the technology of the America's Cup. (yacht race)Science and technologyChester Kyle, David Eggleston
Astronomy of the age of Columbus. (Christopher Columbus)Science and technologyOwen Gingerich
Bacterial endotoxins. (includes related material)Science and technologyErnst Theodor Rietschel, Helmut Brade
Bent light: gravitational distortions illuminate dark matter.Science and technologyCarey 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 technologyPhilip Ross
Binary optics.Science and technologyWilfrid B. Veldkamp, Thomas J. McHugh
Biological roles of nitric oxide.Science and technologySolomon H. Snyder, David S. Bredt
Blind spots. (vision)Science and technologyVilayanur S. Ramachandran
Brain and language. (includes related article)Science and technologyAntonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio
Breath tests in medicine. (alternative developments)Science and technologyMichael Phillips
Building a market economy in Poland. (includes bibliography)Science and technologyJeffrey Sachs
Building molecular crystals. (synthesizing materials to study crystal formations)Science and technologyMichael D. Ward, Paul J. Fagan
Cancer cell invasion and metastasis.Science and technologyLance A. Liotta
Control of rabies in wildlife. (includes related article and bibliography)Science and technologyWilliam G. Winkler, Konrad Bogel
Diamond film semiconductors.Science and technologyMichael W. Geis, John C. Angus
Directed molecular evolution.Science and technologyGerald F. Joyce
Dynamics of Kilauea volcano. (Hawaii)(includes related material)Science and technologyCarl Johnson, John J. Dvorfak, Robert I. Tilling
Early results from the Hubble Space Telescope. (includes bibliography) (Cover Story)Science and technologyEric J. Chaisson
Essay: a case of deja vu. (global warming and ozone depletion)Science and technologyRichard Elliot Benedick
Essay: an inner-city education.Science and technologyMichael C. Lach
Evolution comes to life. (construction of figure with bone fragments)Science and technologyIan Tattersall
Experimental market economics. (experimental market research) (includes related article)Science and technologyVernon L. Smith, Arlington W. Williams
Extremely cold antiprotons. (cooling and storing antiprotons)Science and technologyGerald Gabrielse
Genetic algorithms. (natural selection-type problems solved by computer programs)Science and technologyJohn H. Holland
G proteins. (cellular molecules research)(includes related material)Science and technologyMaurine E. Linder, Alfred G. Gilman
Health care reform. (proposed national health care program)Science and technologyRashi Fein
Heisenberg, uncertainty and the quantum revolution. (scientist Werner Heisenberg)Science and technologyDavid C. Cassidy
Histones as regulators of genes. (includes related articles)Science and technologyMichael Grunstein
How cells absorb glucose.Science and technologyJan W. Slot, David E. James, Gustav E. Lienhard, Mike M. Mueckler
How cosmology became a science. (discovery of microwave background)Science and technologyStephen G. Brush
How many species inhabit the earth?Science and technologyRobert M. May
How neural networks learn from experience. (computer simulation of information processing in the brain) (includes related articles)Science and technologyGeoffrey E. Hinton
How sea turtles navigate.Science and technologyKenneth Lohmann
Indochinese refugee families and academic achievement.Science and technologyNathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy, John K. Whitmore
Infrared video cameras. (includes related article and bibliography)Science and technologyJerry Silverman, Jonathan M. Mooney, Freeman D. Shepherd
Junk science in the courtroom. (scientific testimony)Science and technologyPeter W. Huber
Jurong Town Corporation. (Special Advertising Section: Singapore, Technology for Economic Growth)Science and technology 
Laser trapping of neutral particles.Science and technologySteven Chu
Learning from Asian schools. (elementary education)Science and technologyHarold W. Stevenson
Lipoprotein(a) in heart disease. (includes bibliography)Science and technologyRichard M. Lawn
Major disorders of mind and brain. (schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness) (includes related article on medications for mental disorders)Science and technologyElliot S. Gershon, Ronald O. Reider
Managing the semiconductor industry's collaborative effort. (Semiconductor Research) (Special Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyLarry 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 technologyDorothy 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 technologyGerald D. Fischbach
Mountain belts and the supercontinent cycle.Science and technologyJ. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance
Mountain sickness. (high-altitude pulmonary edema and related illnesses)Science and technologyCharles S. Houston
Mud volcanoes of the Marianas.Science and technologyPatricia Fryer
Naked mole rats.Science and technologyPaul 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 technologyDrew van Camp
Nikolai V. Timofeeff-Ressovsky. (geneticist)(includes related articles on research)Science and technologyDiane B. Paul, Costas B. Krimbas
Omega Watch Corporation: a 30-year relationship of space and time. (World Space Congress) (Special Advertising Section)Science and technologyDavid (American novelist) Smith, Kenneth Speicher
Origins of western environmentalism.Science and technologyRichard H. Grove
Paradoxes of musical pitch. (ascending and descending of tones)(includes related material)Science and technologyDiana Deutsch
Phantom limbs. (includes related story on phantom hearing and seeing)Science and technologyRonald Melzack
Photovores: intelligent robots are constructed from castoffs.Science and technologyA.K. Dewdney
Planetary nebulae. (Cover Story)Science and technologyNoam Soker
Quantum cryptography. (unbreakable message transmission system) (includes related articles)Science and technologyCharles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Artur K. Ekert
Reproductive strategies of frogs. (new species continue to be identified)Science and technologyWilliam E. Duellman
Science books for young people.Science and technologyPhilip Morrison, Phylis Morrison
Seeing infrared. (infrared camera)(includes bibliography) (Column)Science and technologyDonald G. Mooney
Sex differences in the brain.Science and technologyDoreen Kimura
Sighting Cepheid variables. (Amateur Scientist) (includes related article) (Column)Science and technologyGeorge 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 technologyC.C. Hang, S.K. Chou, Rosa Tan
Singing caterpillars, ants and symbiosis.Science and technologyPhilip J. DeVries
Single electronics. (research on electrons)(includes bibliography)Science and technologyKonstantin K. Likharev, Tord Claeson
Solid acid catalysts. (Cover Story)Science and technologyJohn Meurig Thomas
Spider webs and silks. (includes related article and bibliography)Science and technologyFritz Vollrath
Stellar bells: quivering stars bare their inner secrets. (asteroseismology)Science and technologyCorey S Powell
Superantigens in human disease.Science and technologyHoward M. Johnson, Jeffry K. Russell, Carol H. Pontzer
Tapping the power of people and technology. (Hitachi) (Special Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyYasutsuga Takeda
Technologies for better health care. (Olympus Optical Company GmbH) (Special Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyB Nakatsubo Toshio
Textures and cosmic structure. (includes related articles and bibliography)Science and technologyDavid N. Spergel, Neil G. Turok
The big bang of animal evolution. (Cambrian period)Science and technologyJeffrey S. Levinton
The biological basis of learning and individuality. (includes related articles)Science and technologyEric R. Kandel, Robert D. Hawkins
The Codex Mendoza. (pictorial book compiled by Aztecs)(includes related article and bibliography)Science and technologyPatricia 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 technologyCarla J. Shatz
The expansion rate and size of the universe. (includes related articles)Science and technologyWendy L. Freedman
The Gundestrup cauldron. (includes related article and bibliography)Science and technologyTimothy Taylor
The human voice. (anatomy and voice medicine)Science and technologyRobert T. Sataloff
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.Science and technologyRobert 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 technologyNicholas Toth, Desmond Clark, Giancarlo Ligabue
The mammals of island Europe.Science and technologyGerhard Storch
The most influential investment. (educating girls)Science and technologyLawrence Summers
The patch clamp technique. (isolating ion channels on cell membranes)(includes related article and bibliography) (Cover Story)Science and technologyErwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
The problem of consciousness. (studying consciousness scientifically)Science and technologyChristof Koch, Francis Crick
The pursuit of pure research. (NEC Institute) (Special Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyC. William Gear
The risks of software. (critical computer systems)(includes related article)Science and technologyBev Littlewood, Lorenzo Strigini
The visual system and the brain.Science and technologySemir Zeki
Toshiba's 21st Century technologies. (Special Advertising Supplement)Science and technologyRoger Schreffler
Transgenic crops. (includes bibliography)Science and technologyCharles S. Gasser, Robert T. Fraley
Tribal warfare. (Native Americans)Science and technologyBrian Ferguson
Trouble in mind. (relationship between mind and brain may remain elusive)Science and technologyJonathan Miller
Turing test. (Alan M. Turing, test for determining if machines can think)Science and technologyA.K. Dewdney
Turquoise in Pre-Columbian America.Science and technologyGarman Harbottle, Phil C. Weigand
Understanding the AIDS pandemic.Science and technologyRobert M. May, Roy M. Anderson
Venus revealed. (Magellan spacecraft radar images)Science and technologyCory S. Powell
Visualizing biological molecules. (computer simulation)Science and technologyArthur J. Olson, David S. Goodsell
Watching the death of a star. (Column)Science and technologyJames B. Kaler
What Columbus 'saw' in 1492. (Christopher Columbus' perceptions of the New World)Science and technologyI. Bernard Cohen
Where did modern humans originate?Science and technology 
Why American songbirds are vanishing. (includes related article on migratory patterns)Science and technologyJohn Terborgh
Why aromatic compounds are stable. (includes related articles and bibliography)Science and technologyJun-ichi Aihara
Why business needs scientists. (Column)Science and technologyMichael Schulhof
Why do we age? (research)Science and technologyRicki L. Rusting
Why only one big bang?Science and technologyGeoffrey Burbridge
Women and AIDS.Science and technologyKenneth H. Mayer, Charles C.J. Carpenter
Working memory and the mind. (research)Science and technologyPatricia S. Goldman-Rakic
World Space Congress report. (Special Advertising Section)Science and technologyEllis Pines
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