Scientific American 1995 - Abstracts

Scientific American 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
21st-century spacecraft.Science and technologyFreeman J. Dyson
A brief history of infinity. (includes related article on Godel's theorem)Science and technologyA.W. Moore
All-optical networks. (fiber optics)Science and technologyVincent W.S. Chan
An improved future? (medical advances)Science and technologyArthur L. Caplan
Annual index 1995.Science and technology 
A pox on the pox: new vaccine raises hopes and doubts. (chicken pox vaccine)Science and technologyJohn Carpi
A prime patent: legal rights to a number upset programmers and lawyers.Science and technologySimon Garfinkel
Argentina: magnificent food. (Advertising Section: Argentina)Science and technology 
Argentina: mining and minerals. (Advertising Section: Argentina)Science and technology 
Argentina: the challenge of science and technology. (interview with Argentine Secretary of Science and Technology Domingo Liotta) (Advertising Section: Argentina) (Interview)Science and technology 
Argentina: the keys to growth. (Advertising Section: Argentina)Science and technology 
Argentina: the research scene. (Advertising Section: Argentina)Science and technology 
Artificial intelligence.Science and technologyDouglas B. Lenat
Artificial organs.Science and technologyRobert Langer, Joseph P. Vacanti
Binary neutron stars.Science and technologyTsvi Piran
Building world-record magnets. (includes related article)Science and technologyGreg Boebinger, Al Passner, Joze Bevk
Can environmental estrogens cause breast cancer?(includes related articles)Science and technologyDevra Lee Davis, H. Leon Bradlow
Chaotic climate.Science and technologyWallace S. Broecker
Charles Darwin: the last portrait.Science and technologyRichard Milner
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 meets Jupiter. (includes sidebar)Science and technologyDavid H. Levy, Eugene M. Shoemaker, Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Coming out in the sciences. (gays in the scientific community)Science and technologyMadhursee Mukerje
Common scents: using dogs to track, well, everything.Science and technologyMark Derr
Companions to young stars. (binary star evolution)(Cover Story)Science and technologyAlan P. Boss
Computerized restoration of juvenile art.Science and technologyRicardo Chiav'inglese
Computing bouts for the prisoner's dilemma. (includes related article)Science and technologyAlun L. Lloyd
Confidential communication on the Internet. (includes related articles)Science and technologyThomas Beth
Cookstoves for the developing world.Science and technologyDaniel M. Kammen
Cordoba. (Argentina) (Advertising Section: Argentina )Science and technology 
Custom manufacturing.Science and technology 
Cystic fibrosis. (genetic aspects)(includes related article)Science and technologyAlan E. Smith, Michael J. Welsh
Debt and the environment.Science and technologyDavid Pearce, David Maddison, Dominic Moran, Neil Adger
Deciphering a Roman blueprint.Science and technologyLothar Haselberger
Demolition by implosion: detonation of small quantities of strategically placed explosives can demolish an unwanted high-rise in a matter of seconds.(includes related article on certain demolished structures)Science and technologyJ. Mark Loizeaux, Douglas K. Loizeaux
Dendrimer molecules. (construction and properties)Science and technologyDonald A. Tomalia
Designing the future.Science and technologyDonald A. Norman
Detecting signals with noise. (experiments)(The Amateur Scientist)Science and technologyFrank Moss, Wayne Garver
Did Bohr share nuclear secrets? (document negates allegations against physicist Niels Bohr)(includes related article) (Special Investigation: The Atomic Intrigues of Niels Bohr)Science and technologyKurt Gottfried, Hans Bethe, Roald Z. Sagdeev
Digital literacy.Science and technologyRichard A. Lanham
Disposing of nuclear waste.Science and technology 
Earth before Pangea: the North American continent may be more nomadic than any of its inhabitants. (Cover Story)Science and technologyIan W.D. Dalziel
Egil's bones. (legendary Viking hero's bone disorder; includes related article on Paget's disease)Science and technologyJesse L. Byock
Elastic biomolecular machines: synthetic chains of amino acids, patterned after those in connective tissue, can transform heat and chemical energy into motion.Science and technologyDan W. Urry
Electric genes. (Chemist Thomas J. Meade and molecular biologist Jon F. Kayyem discover electronic method for genetic screening) (Technology and Business)Science and technologyDavid Paterson
Emerging viruses. (hemorrhagic fever viruses; includes related article on the Ebola virus)Science and technologyBernard Le Guenno, Laurie Garrett
Engineering microscopic machines.Science and technologyKaigham J. Gabriel
Ensuring the longevity of digital documents.Science and technologyJeff Rothenberg
Evolution of the commercial airliner.Science and technologyEugene E. Covert
First class upgrade. (the Bertram Hatteras Shootout)(includes related article)Science and technologyJay Coyle
Flying in the face of tradition. (bird evolution)Science and technologyChristina Stock
Frog communication.Science and technologyPeter M. Narins
Further predictions on medical progress.Science and technology 
Fusion. (nuclear fusion)Science and technologyHarold P. Furth
Future contraceptives. (includes related articles)Science and technologyNancy J. Alexander
Gene therapy.Science and technologyW. French Anderson
Giant earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest. (includes related article)Science and technologyRoy D. Hyndman
God's utility function. (DNA)(includes related article)Science and technologyRichard Dawkins
Governor Eduardo Angeloz. (Cordoba, Argentina) (Advertising Section: Argentina)Science and technology 
Halo nuclei. (includes related articles)Science and technologySam M. Austin, George F. Beertsch
High-speed rail: another golden age?Science and technologyTony R. Eastham
High-temperature superconductors.Science and technologyPaul C.W. Chu
High tidings: ancient, erratic changes in sea level suggest a coming swell.(Science and the Citizen)Science and technologyChristina Stock
Holographic memories. (holographic data storage)Science and technologyDemetri Psaltis, Fai Mok
Hookworm infection.Science and technologyPeter J. Hotez, David I. Pritchard
How breast milk protects newborns.Science and technologyJack Newman
How HIV defeats the immune system. (evolution of HIV inside body)(includes sidebar)Science and technologyMartin A. Nowak, Andrew J. McMichael
How to convince a reluctant scientist. (Column)Science and technologyJohn Timpane
Intelligent materials.Science and technologyCraig A. Rogers
Intelligent software.Science and technologyPattie Maes
J. Robert Oppenheimer: before the war.Science and technologyJohn S. Rigden
Kin recognition. (identification in organisms)Science and technologyDavid W. Pfennig, Paul W. Sherman
Leonado the Inventor. (Software Review)(Evaluation)$Evaluation (Evaluation)Science and technologyHenry Petroski
Light in the ocean's midwaters. (includes related article)Science and technologyBruce H. Robison
Machines that learn from hints.Science and technologyYaser S. Abu-Mostafa
Manic-depressive illness and creativity. (includes related articles)Science and technologyKay Redfield Jamison
Masers in the sky. (includes related article)Science and technologyMoshe Elitzur
Measuring the metabolism of small organisms. (includes related article)Science and technologyShawn Carlson
Measuring the wind with hot metal.Science and technologyShawn Carlson
Microprocessors in 2020. (includes related articles)Science and technologyDavid A. Patterson
Misreading dyslexia: researchers debate the causes and prevalence of the disorder.(Science and the Citizen)Science and technologyBilly Tashman
Molecular machines that control genes. (gene transcription)Science and technologyRobert Tijan
Neuquen. (Argentina) (Advertising Section: Argentina )Science and technology 
On Neutrino astronomy.Science and technologyPhilip Morrison
On the level: central Asia's inland seas curiously rise and fall.Science and technologyDavid Schnedier
Outline for an ecological economy.Science and technologyHeinrich von Lersner
Persistently toxic: the Union Carbide accident in Bhopal continues to harm.Science and technologyMadhusreee Mukerjee
Population, poverty and the local environment. (includes related article)Science and technologyPartha S. Dasgupta
Probes built to go the distance. (space probes)Science and technology 
Producing light from a bubble of air. (Column)Science and technologyRobert A. Hiller, Bradley P. Barber
Profile: Ruth Hubbard.Science and technologyMarguerite Holloway
Protecting the greenback.Science and technologyRobert E. Schafrik, Sara E. Church
Quantum-mechanical computers.Science and technologySeth Lloyd
Quest for the limits of the heliosphere.Science and technologyFrank B. McDonald, J.R. Jokipii
Recollections of a nuclear war. (recollections of Manhattan Project and nuclear age)Science and technologyPhilip Morrison
Robotics in the 21st century.Science and technologyJoseph F. Engelberger
Satellites for a developing world.Science and technologyRussell Daggatt
Seeing the forest for the trees: biologists crane to see the canopy.(Wind River Canopy Crane, Washington)Science and technologyKaren Wright
Self-assembling materials. (includes related article)Science and technologyGeorge M. Whitesides
Setting a standard. (new test for Alzheimer's disease)Science and technologyDavid Patrson
Solar energy. (includes related article)Science and technologyWilliam Hoagland
Sonoluminescence: sound into light. (includes related article)Science and technologySeth J. Putterman
Technology for sustainable agriculture. (includes related article on aquaculture)Science and technologyDonald L. Plucknett, Donald L. Winkelmann
Technology infrastructure.Science and technologyArati Prabhakar
The arithmetics of mutual help.Science and technologyRobert M. May, Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund
The art historian's computer.Science and technologyLillian Schwartz
The automobile: clean and customized.Science and technologyDieter Zetsche
The benefits of background noise. (stochastic resonance)Science and technologyFrank Moss, Kurt Wiesenfeld
The birth and death of Nova V1974 Cygni.Science and technologySumner Starrfield, Steven N. Shore
The brain's immune system. (includes related articles)Science and technologyWolfgang J. Streit, Carol A. Kincaid-Colton
The controversy over the end of science. (linearism vs. cyclicism)(Column)Science and technologyGerald Holton
The discovery of X-rays.Science and technologyGraham Farmelo
The emperor's new workplace. (information technology)Science and technologySoshana Zuboff
The endangered piano technician.Science and technologyJames Boyk
The fishy business of waste. (traditional recycling in Calcutta, India)Science and technologyMadhursee Mukerjee
The Galileo mission. (probe to study Jupiter's atmosphere)(includes related article)Science and technologyTorrence V. Johnson
The global tobacco epidemic. (smoker population continues growth despite scientific evidence on health effects)(includes related articles) (Cover Story)Science and technologyRobert W. Schrier, Carl E. Bartecchi, Thomas D. MacKenzie
The GOP strikes back. (Republican Party's missile defense policy)Science and technologyDaniel Dupont
The history of synthetic testosterone.Science and technologyJohn M. Hoberman, Charles E. Yesalis
The industrial ecology of the 21st century. (includes related article on incinerators)Science and technologyRobert A. Frosch
The information economy.Science and technologyHal R. Varian
The laboratory notebooks of Thomas Edison.Science and technologyNeil Baldwin
The leaning tower of Pisa. (engineers use new technology to save tower)Science and technologyPaolo Heiniger
The mid-Cretaceous superplume episode.Science and technologyRoger L. Larson
The molecular logic of smell. (genetics of the human olfactory sense)Science and technologyRichard Axel
The next wave: aquaculture.Science and technology 
The ocean's salt fingers. (properties and impact on ocean structure)(includes related article)Science and technologyRaymond W. Schmitt Jr.
The oldest old. (nonagenarians and centenarians)Science and technologyThomas T. Perls
The physiology of decompression illness. (includes related articles)(Cover Story)Science and technologyRichard E. Moon, Richard D. Vann, Peter B. Bennett
The prion diseases. (proteinaceous infectious particles)Science and technologyStanley B. Prusiner
The problematic red wolf.Science and technologyRobert K. Wayne, John L. Gittleman
The pursuit of the living machine.Science and technologySimon Penny
The puzzle of conscious experience. (includes related article)Science and technologyDavid J. Chalmers
The puzzle of declining amphibian populations.Science and technologyDavid B. Wake, Andrew R. Blaustein
The Republic of China on Taiwan: Partner for Technology and Investment.(Special Advertising Section)Science and technology 
The science of juggling. (includes related article)Science and technologyPeter J. Beek, Arthur Lewbel
The silicon microstrip detector.Science and technologyAlan M. Litke, Andreas S. Schwarz
The silk road. (silk fibers)Science and technologyJames Burke
The tapestry of power in a Mesopotamian city.Science and technologyElizabeth C. Stone, Paul Zimansky
The trebuchet.(Cover Story)Science and technologyPaul E. Chevedden, Les Eigenbrod, Vernard Foley, Werner Soedel
The ultimate incinerators.Science and technology 
The uncertainties of technological innovation.Science and technologyJohn Rennie
The Way Things Work. (Software Review)(Evaluation)Science and technologyHenry Petroski
The world's imperiled fish. (effect of environmental degradation on fisheries)(includes related articles)Science and technologyCarl Safina
Top to bottom. (history of chronometers)(Column)Science and technologyJames Burke
Tornadoes. (includes sidebars)Science and technologyRobert Davies-Jones
Toshiba's commitment to the future. (Special Advertising Section)Science and technologyRichard Prentiss, Hideharu Egawa
Treating diabetes with transplanted cells.Science and technologyPaul E. Lacy
Virtual reality.Science and technologyBrenda Laurel
What did Heisenberg tell Bohr about the bomb? (motivation behind German physicist Werner Heisenberg's meeting physicist Niels Bohr remains unclear) (Special Investigation: The Atomic Intrigues of Niels Bohr)Science and technologyJeremy Bernstein
What technology alone cannot do.Science and technologyRobert W. Lucky
Why go anywhere? (automobile travel)Science and technologyRobert Cervero
Why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness.Science and technologyChristof Koch, Francis Crick
Wireless networks. (includes related article on wireless telephony)Science and technologyGeorge I. Zysman
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