Scientific American 1996 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
A cricket robot. (robot mimics the behavior of a female cricket) | Science and technology | Barbara Webb |
Advances in cancer detection. (includes related articles on genetic testing and testing of 27-year-old medical sample of Hubert H. Humphrey)(Toward Earlier Detection) | Science and technology | Gary Stix, David Sidransky |
Advances in tumor imaging.(Toward Earlier Detection) | Science and technology | Charles A. Pelizzari, Maryellen L. Giger |
Advancing current treatments for cancer. (includes related information on radiation treatments and chemotherapeutic drugs)(Improving Conventional Therapy) | Science and technology | Everett E. Vokes, Samuel Hellman |
Agricultural biotechnology.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
A harebrained scheme: experimental rabbit-killing virus runs amok in Australia. | Science and technology | Charles Seife |
Alcohol in American history. (includes related articles) | Science and technology | David F. Musto |
Alternative cancer treatments. (includes related information on alternative treatments and evaluation of alternatives)(Living with Cancer) | Science and technology | Jean-Jacques Aulas |
Among the papers in Kaczynski's cabin. (suspected Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski) | Science and technology | Anne Eisenberg |
An anthropologist's attic. (Pitt Rivers museum, University of Oxford, England) | Science and technology | Meridith F. Small |
Arithmetic and old lace. (shoelace problem) | Science and technology | |
Artful dating: researchers refine techniques to gauge the age of ancient sites. (advances in radio-carbon dating techniques) | Science and technology | Ken Howard |
Atmospheric dust and acid rain. | Science and technology | Gene E. Likens, Lars O. Hedin |
Bad timing: a loophole is found in a popular encryption scheme. | Science and technology | Charles Seife |
Blue-laser CD technology. (The Future of CD Technology, part 2) | Science and technology | Robert L. Gunshor, Arto V. Nurmikko |
Budding vesicles in living cells. (research on the formation of vesicles) | Science and technology | James E. Rothman, Lelio Orci |
Caloric restriction and aging. (longevity; includes related articles on benefits, theory on aging and making of energy) | Science and technology | Richard Weindruch |
Cancer's psychological challenges. (includes related articles on coping techniques and anxiety in healthy people with risk of cancer)(Living with Cancer) | Science and technology | Jimmie C. Holland |
Can China feed itself? | Science and technology | Roy L. Prosterman, Tim Hanstad, Li Ping |
Can nuclear waste be stored safely at Yucca Mountain; studies of the mountain's history and geology can contribute useful insights but not unequivocal conclusions. (Nevada; includes related article on high-level radioactive waste)(Confronting the Nuclear Legacy, part 3) | Science and technology | Chris G. Whipple |
Captured in amber. (evolution of insects) | Science and technology | David A. Grimaldi |
Carbon dioxide emissions. (in the 1980s and 1990s levels have tapered off) | Science and technology | Rodger Doyle |
Caribbean mangrove swamps. | Science and technology | Klaus Rutzler, Ilka C. Feller |
Cell suicide in health and disease. (apoptosis) | Science and technology | David M. Ojcius, Richard C. Duke, John Ding-E. Young |
Central Bank of the Philippines: economic stability for global competitiveness. (economic policy)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Charles Darwin and associates, ghostbusters. (includes related article about Thomas Huxley's skepticism of spiritualism) | Science and technology | Richard Milner |
Chemoprevention of cancer: someday people should be able to avoid cancer or delay its onset by taking specially formulated pills or foods. (includes related article on cancer prevention)(Causes and Prevention) | Science and technology | Peter Greenwald, Karen Wright |
Cleaning up the River Rhine: intensive international efforts are reclaiming the most important river in Europe. | Science and technology | Karl-Geert Malle |
Coconut Industry Investment Fund. (CIIF Group)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Collisions with comets and asteroids. | Science and technology | Tom Gehrels |
Colossal galactic explosions. (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Sylvain Veilleux, Gerald Cecil, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn |
Confronting science's logical limits. (as sure as there are limits on the mathematical models underlying science, so too are there alternative theories from which to work) | Science and technology | John L. Casti |
Controlling computers with neural signals. (muscle and nerve electrical impulses can operate computers, greatly assisting those with physical handicaps) (includes related description on biomuse system components) | Science and technology | Hugh S. Lusted, R. Benjamin Knapp |
Controlling the pain of cancer. (includes related information on painkillers and patient-physician relationships)(Living with Cancer) | Science and technology | Kathleen M. Foley |
Creating nanophase materials. | Science and technology | Richard W. Siegel |
Daily life in ancient Egypt. (findings from the Deir El-Medina ruins) | Science and technology | Andrea G. McDowell |
Development Bank of the Philippines: "country above self."(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | Alfredo C. Antonio |
Does screening for prostate cancer make sense?(Toward Earlier Detection) | Science and technology | Gerald E. Hanks, Peter T. Scardino |
Dyslexia. (includes related article on a particular treatment method) | Science and technology | Sally E. Shaywitz |
Electrons in flatland. (quantum Hall effect) | Science and technology | Shou-Cheng Zhang, Steven Kivelson, Dung-Hai Lee |
Embryo overpopulation. (frozen embryos) | Science and technology | Gina Maranto |
Exoskeletal sensors for walking. (arthropod locomotion) | Science and technology | Sasha N. Zill, Ernst-August Seyfarth |
Fighting cancer by attacking its blood supply.(Therapies of the Future) | Science and technology | Judah Folkman |
Finding more information. (cancer treatments)(Living with Cancer)(Directory)(Bibliography) | Science and technology | |
Friction at the atomic scale. (friction's origins surprising and include sound)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Jacqueline Krim |
From fission research to a prize for peace. (Joseph Rotblat)(Interview) | Science and technology | Susan Landau |
Gearing for global competitiveness: a message from the secretary of science and technology. (Science and Technology Agenda for National Development)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | William G. Padolina |
Getting the goats. (plans to eliminate mountain goats in Olympic Peninsula, Washington State) | Science and technology | Karen Wright |
Global climatic change on Mars. (includes related articles on missions to Mars and exploration programs) | Science and technology | Jeffrey S. Kargel, Robert G. Strom |
Globally competitive Philippines: a message from the President.(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | Fidel Valdez Ramos |
Gradients that organize embryo development. | Science and technology | Christiane Nusslein-Volhard |
Hands-on astronomy. (CD-ROMs) (Software Review)(Evaluation) | Science and technology | Timothy Ferris |
How cancer arises. (includes bibliography and related information on stages of tumor development, genetic aspects of cancer and cell cycles)(Fundamental Understandings) | Science and technology | Robert A. Weinberg |
How cancer spreads.(Fundamental Understandings) | Science and technology | Erkki Ruoslahti |
How much bang for the buck? (analysis of the return-on-investment for the semiconductor industry) | Science and technology | G. Dan Hutcheson, Jerry D. Hutcheson |
Immunity and the invertebrates. | Science and technology | Gregory Beck, Gail S. Habicht |
Immunotherapy for cancer. (includes bibliography and related information on tumor-killing agents in antibodies, cancer vaccines and reaction of tumors to immune response)(Therapies of the Future) | Science and technology | Lloyd J. Old |
Information technology in the Philippines: a tradition of excellence.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
International Container Terminal Services: perspective of the executive vice-president. (International Container Terminal Services Inc.)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | Edgardo Abesamis |
Investigating miracles, Italian-style. (investigation of emission of tears or blood from statues and other so-called sanguinary miracles)(Essay)(Column) | Science and technology | James Randi |
Is hormone replacement therapy a risk? (cancer risk)(Causes and Prevention) | Science and technology | Nancy E. Davidson |
Land Bank of the Philippines: assuring balanced development.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | Jesli A. Lapus |
Making headway against cancer. | Science and technology | John Rennie, Ricki Rusting |
Malnutrition, poverty and intellectual development. (includes list of information sources and related articles on research in Guatemala and the prevention of malnutrition) | Science and technology | Ernesto Pollitt, J. Larry Brown |
Materials science and technology: a Philippine R&D focus. (research and development)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Microbes deep inside the earth. (microbes in the earth's crust hint at the origin of life)(includes related article on biodiversity in the subsurface) | Science and technology | Tullis C. Onstott, James K. Fredrickson |
Needles in a cold war haystack. (classified documents on secret weapons) | Science and technology | Daniel G. Dupont, Richard Lardner |
Neptune, Velikovsky and the name of the game. (discovery of Neptune, theories of Immanuel Velikovsky)(Column) | Science and technology | Owen Gingerich |
Neural networks for vertebrate locomotion. (includes related article on parallel processing) | Science and technology | Sten Grillner |
New molecular targets for cancer therapy. (includes bibliography and related article on viruses that kill tumor cells)(Therapies of the Future) | Science and technology | Frank McCormick, Allen Oliff, Jackson B. Gibbs |
Next-generation compact discs. (includes related article on the development of a single format for second-generation compact discs)(The Future of CD Technology, part 1) | Science and technology | Alan E. Bell |
On permanent displays.(new liquid-crystal displays reflect light, thus enhancing resolution) | Science and technology | W. Wayt Gibbss |
On the tail of the tiger: is a Tasmanian legend still wandering the bush? (Tasmanian tiger) | Science and technology | Daniel Drollette |
Primordial deuterium and the Big Bang. | Science and technology | Craig J. Hogan |
Privacy and data collection on the Net. (Internet)(Column) | Science and technology | Anne Eisenberg |
Probing high-temperature superconductivity. | Science and technology | John R. Kirtley, Chang C. Tsuei |
Pump it up. (heart transplant device) | Science and technology | Gunjan Sinha |
Quantum seeing in the dark. | Science and technology | Anton Zeilinger, Paul Kwiat, Harald Weinfurter |
Quarks by computer. (use of computer to study quarks)(includes bibliography and related article on Monte Carlo method) | Science and technology | Donald H. Weingarten |
Ring bubbles of dolphins. (dolphins at play) | Science and technology | Ken Marten, Karim Shariff, Suchi Psarakos, Don J. White |
Rock art in Southern Africa. | Science and technology | Anne Solomon |
Sands of the world.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Elizabeth A. Leistikow, Walter N. Mack |
San Miguel Corporation: a tradition of leadership.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | |
Science and technology in health: an emphasis on biotechnology.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Science and technology services.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Searching for life on other planets. (space-based telescope system)(includes related article) | Science and technology | J. Roger P. Angel, Neville J. Woolf |
Security Bank: meeting the challenges of a globally competitive Philippines. (Security Bank Corp.)(includes information about contact sources)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | |
Seeing underwater with background noise. (acoustic-daylight imaging)(includes list of information sources and related article on remote-sensing technology) | Science and technology | Michael J. Buckingham, John R. Potter, Chad L. Epifanio |
Semiconductor subsidies: did the U.S. government spend more than $700 million to achieve a goal that might have been attained for much less? (Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology consortium; includes information about step-and-repeat lithography) | Science and technology | Lucien P. Randazzese |
Sharks and the origins of vertebrate immunity. | Science and technology | Gary W. Litman |
Should women in their 40s have mammograms?(Toward Earlier Detection) | Science and technology | Gina Maranto |
Single mothers and welfare. | Science and technology | Ellen L. Bassuk, John C. Buckner, Angela Browne |
Smart cards. (computerized money) | Science and technology | Carol H. Fancher |
Smart rooms. (computer systems for recognizing faces, expressions and gestures)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Alex P. Pentland |
Smog from space: pollution photographed from the space shuttle helps to quantify global cooling. | Science and technology | Gunjan Sinha |
Software for reliable networks.(designing software to reduce chances of a network crash; includes related article on a World Wide Web brownout) | Science and technology | Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert Van Renesse |
Strategies for minimizing cancer risk. (includes bibliography)(Causes and Prevention) | Science and technology | Walter C. Willett, Graham A. Colditz, Nancy E. Mueller |
Sunlight and skin cancer. | Science and technology | Douglas E. Brash, David J. Leffell |
Symmetries and civilizations. (part 2)(South Africa)(Column) | Science and technology | Phylis Morrison, Philip Morrison |
Taxoids: new weapons against cancer. (taxol-like compounds) | Science and technology | K.C. Nicolaou, Rodney K. Guy, Pierre Potier |
Technology and economics in the semiconductor industry. | Science and technology | G. Dan Hutcheson, Jerry D. Hutcheson |
Telomeres, telomerase and cancer. (use of enzyme in cancer therapy)(includes list of information sources and related article on end replication) | Science and technology | Carol W. Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Ten days under the sea. (marine biologists narrative of ten days in an underwater lab) (includes related article about advances in marine science possible through underwater habitat research) | Science and technology | Steven Miller, Peter J. Edmunds |
Ten years of the Chornobyl era.(Confronting the Nuclear Legacy, part 1) | Science and technology | Yuri M. Shcherbak |
The African AIDS epidemic.(includes related information) | Science and technology | John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell |
The art and science of photoreconnaissance. | Science and technology | Dino A. Brugioni |
The art of Charles R. Knight. (American paleoartist) | Science and technology | Gregory S. Paul |
The bacteria behind ulcers. (Helicobacter pylori)(includes bibliography and related article on ingestion of the bacteria for research) | Science and technology | Martin J. Blaser |
The Beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River. | Science and technology | Pierre Beland |
The berry and the parasite. (schistosomiasis)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukherjee |
The birth of complex cells. (eukaryotic cells) | Science and technology | Christian de Duve |
The case for electric vehicles. | Science and technology | Daniel Sperling |
The constraints of chance. (origins of life)(Column) | Science and technology | Christian De Duve |
The culture machine: science and art on the Web. (World Wide Web) | Science and technology | Ben Davis |
The evolution of continental crust: the high-standing continents owe their existence to the earth's long history of plate-tectonic activity. | Science and technology | Scott M. McLennan, S. Ross Taylor |
The Global Positioning System. (includes list of information sources and related article on carrier tracking)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Thomas A. Herring |
The hidden world of surgery. (photographs)(Illustration) | Science and technology | Max Aguilera-Hellweg |
The horror of land mines.(injury and death inflicted upon civilians is on the rise due to land mines) | Science and technology | Gino Strada |
The Kuiper belt.(group of small celestial objects in the outer solar system) | Science and technology | David C. Jewitt, Jane X. Luu |
The lost technology of ancient Greek rowing.(Ancient Greeks navies and their use of cushions in the galleys) | Science and technology | John R. Hale |
The loves of the plants. (sexual reproduction of plants)(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Londa Schiebinger |
The midnight hour: Japan ventures onto the Net in the dark of night. (use of the Internet increases) | Science and technology | Tom Abate |
The mother of mass extinction. (end-Permian mass extinction) | Science and technology | Douglas H. Erwin |
The mystery of lambic beer. (brewing) | Science and technology | Jacques De Keersmaecker |
The nature of space and time.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Steven W. Hawking, Roger Penrose |
The Pacific hub for marine science and technology. (Marine Science Institute)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
The Philippines bestseller. (Cebu, Philippines)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
The pursuit of happiness.(people on the average are happy and satisfied with their lives) | Science and technology | Ed Diener, David G. Myers |
The real threat of nuclear smuggling. (includes related article on terrorist use of nuclear waste)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Phil Williams, Paul N. Woessner |
The reluctant father of black holes. (Albert Einstein) | Science and technology | Jeremy Bernstein |
The specter of biological weapons. (includes related articles on potential biological agents and defenses against biological weapons) | Science and technology | Leonard Cole |
The stellar dynamo. (sunspot cycles) | Science and technology | Sallie L. Baliunas, Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes, Dmitry Sokoloff |
The world on a platter. (encyclopedias on CD-ROMS) (Software Review)(Evaluation) | Science and technology | Timothy Ferris |
Training the Olympic athlete: sports science and technology are today providing elite competitors with the tiny margins needed to win in world-class competition.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Jat T. Kearney |
Twelve major cancers.(Improving Conventional Therapy) | Science and technology | |
Uncovering new clues to cancer risk.(molecular epidemiology hopes to identify biological markers associated with cancer development; includes related article of a cancer study in Poland) | Science and technology | Frederica P. Perera |
University of the Philippines: propelling the nation towards globalization. (includes statistics about the university)(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
Urban planning in Curitiba. (capital of the Brazilian state of Parana)(includes a related article on the city's bus system) | Science and technology | Jonas Rabinovitch, Josef Leitman |
What causes cancer? (includes related articles on cancer-causing microbes and community cancer clusters)(Causes and Prevention) | Science and technology | Dimitrios Trichopoulos, David J. Hunter, Frederick P. Li, Lori Miller Kase |
When are bone marrow transplants considered?(Improving Conventional Therapy) | Science and technology | Karen Antman |
Who owns digital works: computer networks challenge copyright law, but some proposed cures may be as bad as the disease. | Science and technology | Ann Okerson |
Working elephants: they earn their keep in Asia by providing an ecologically benign way to harvest forests. | Science and technology | Michael J. Schmidt |
Working knowledge.(Halogen Lights) | Science and technology | Terry McGowen |
World birth-control use. | Science and technology | Rodger Doyle |
Your direct access to Philippine business: Philippine diplomatic posts.(Globally Competitive Philippines)(Philippines Advertising Section)(Directory) | Science and technology | |
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