| Scientific American 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| Alan Cocconi: electric cars and pterosaurs are my business. | Science and technology | Glem Zorpette |
| A multifaceted star. | Science and technology | |
| Animal research is vital to medicine.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Adrian R. Morrison, Jack H. Botting |
| Animal research is wasteful and misleading.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Neal D. Barnard, Stephen R. Kaufman |
| Asbestos revisited. (the uses and harmful and effects of asbestos)(includes related article) | Science and technology | James E. Alleman, Brooke T. Mossman |
| A simpler ride into space. (design considerations in the construction of the single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle) | Science and technology | T.K. Mattingly |
| Automated highways: cars that drive themselves in tight formation might alleviate the congestion now plaguing urban freeways. | Science and technology | James H. Rillings |
| Black holes and the information paradox. | Science and technology | Leonard Susskind |
| Booming sand. (acoustic properties of sands) | Science and technology | Franco Nori, Paul Sholtz, Michael Bretz |
| Bridging the sky. (constructing the Petronas Towers' skybridge) | Science and technology | |
| Building a new gateway to China. | Science and technology | John J. Kosowatz, Andy Ryan |
| Building doors into cells.(generating artificial pores into cells) | Science and technology | Hagan Bayley |
| Building on Kenny Hill soil. (stabilizing the soil for the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia) | Science and technology | |
| Can sustainable management save tropical forests? | Science and technology | Richard E. Rice, Raymond E. Gullison, John W. Reid |
| China's Buddhist treasures at Dunhuang. | Science and technology | Neville Agnew, Fan Jinshi |
| Combinatorial chemistry and new drugs. | Science and technology | Jonathan A. Ellman, Matthew J. Plunkett |
| Concrete monoliths. (building the Petronas Tower through the use of concrete monoliths) | Science and technology | |
| Configurable computing. (potential applications and computing power of devices fitted with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) microchips) | Science and technology | John Villasenor, William H. Mangione-Smith |
| Cosmic rays at the energy frontier. | Science and technology | James W. Cronin, Thomas K. Gaisser, Simon P. Swordy |
| Creating false memories. (how to inculcate misleading memories) | Science and technology | Elizabeth F. Loftus |
| Cyberview: master of your domain. (analysis of issues regarding the squabble over domain names in the Internet) | Science and technology | Wendy M. Grossman |
| Dam safety; does record flooding threaten the Aswan High Dam? | Science and technology | Louis Werner |
| Discovering genes for new medicines. (includes related article on making and separating cDNA molecules) | Science and technology | William A. Haseltine |
| Disliking the Internet. (corruption of the Internet by users) | Science and technology | Anne Eisenberg |
| Divided we fall: cooperation among lions. | Science and technology | Anne E. Pusey, Craig Packer |
| Do we still need skyscrapers? | Science and technology | William J. Mitchell |
| Early hominid fossils from Africa. (discovery of a new Austropithecus species) | Science and technology | Alan Walker, Maeve Leakey |
| Elevators on the move. | Science and technology | Miriam Lacob |
| Experimental flooding in Grand Canyon. | Science and technology | Michael P. Collier, Robert H. Webb, Edmund D. Andrews |
| Extremophiles. (includes related article on the three major evolutionary linkages of life) | Science and technology | Michael T. Madigan, Barry L. Marrs |
| Farming with lint: lint from blue jeans as plant boosters and bricks. | Science and technology | Brenda DeKoker |
| Faster ships for the future. (analysis of the design of the the FastShip containership) | Science and technology | David L. Giles |
| Fast trains: why the U.S. lags. | Science and technology | Anthony Perl, James A. Dunn Jr. |
| Fermat's last stand. (Pierre de Fermat, 17th-century master of number theory) | Science and technology | Simon Singh, Kenneth A. Riber |
| Fighting computer viruses. (antivirus software) | Science and technology | Jeffrey O. Kephart, Steve R. White, David M. Chess, Gregory B. Sorkin |
| Filtering information on the Internet. (labeling requirement for screening Web sites and software)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Paul Resnick |
| Flanders: Europe's new technology center in Belgium. (Special Advertising Section) | Science and technology | |
| Flywheels in hybrid vehicles: a rapidly spinning flywheel combines with a gas-turbine engine to power a novel hybrid electric vehicle. | Science and technology | Deborah R. Castleman, Harold A. Rosen |
| Galaxies in the young universe. | Science and technology | F. Duccio Macchetto, Mark Dickinson |
| Gamma-ray bursts. (powerful explosions in the universe) | Science and technology | Gerald J. Fishman, Dieter H. Hartman |
| Gateway for Malaysia. (design and construction of the Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia) | Science and technology | |
| Gene therapy for cancer. (includes related article on gene therapy for AIDS)(Making Gene Therapy Work: Scientific American Special Report) | Science and technology | R. Michael Blaese |
| Gene therapy for the nervous system.(Making Gene Therapy Work: Scientific American Special Report) | Science and technology | Robert M. Sapolsky, Dora Y. Ho |
| Getting the dirt on dirt. (the role of soil macroaggregates in plant growth) | Science and technology | Rebecca Zacks |
| Glandular gifts. (sexual behavior of crickets) (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Darryl T. Gwynne |
| Global fertility and population. (population projections by the United Nations) | Science and technology | Roger Doyle |
| Global population and the nitrogen cycle. | Science and technology | Vaclav Smil |
| Going digital. (developing electronic libraries on the Internet)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Michael Lesk |
| Great Zimbabwe. (archaeological sites) | Science and technology | Webber Ndoro |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's discovery of superconductivity. | Science and technology | Rudolf de Bruyn Ouboter |
| Helping heartache; surgeons blast holes through the heart to relieve chest pain. | Science and technology | W. Wayt Gibbs |
| How erosion builds mountains. (includes related article on the Himalayas and the Appalachians) | Science and technology | Mark T. Brandon, Nicholas Pinter |
| How fast is technology evolving? | Science and technology | W. Brian Arthur |
| How high-speed trains make tracks: in Europe and Japan, train manufacturers are gearing up to achieve ultrafast speeds routinely, without relying on levitation. | Science and technology | Jean-Claude Raoul |
| How the blind draw. | Science and technology | John M. Kennedy |
| Hybrid electric vehicles: they will reduce pollution and conserve petroleum. But will people buy them, even if the vehicles have astounding fuel efficiency? | Science and technology | Victor Wouk |
| Immunotherapy for cocaine addiction. | Science and technology | Donald W. Landry |
| In search of AIDS-resistance genes. (includes related articles) | Science and technology | Michael Dean, Stephen Jean O'Brien |
| Integrins and health. | Science and technology | Alan F. Horwitz |
| Interfaces for searching the Web.(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Marti A. Hearst |
| Iran's nuclear puzzle. (Iran's electrification program based on nuclear reactors) | Science and technology | David A. Schwarzbach |
| Islands in the sky. (designing skyscrapers) | Science and technology | |
| Jules Verne, misunderstood visionary. | Science and technology | Arthur B. Evans, Ron Miller |
| Late bloomer. (examination of the language acquisition ability of children) | Science and technology | Karl Sabbagh |
| Life in the provinces of the Aztec Empire. | Science and technology | Michael E. Smith |
| Looking for alternatives. (chemist dies of mercury poisoning) | Science and technology | Rebeca Zacks |
| Making the rice disease-resistant. (by the use of genetic engineering) | Science and technology | Pamela C. Ronald |
| Managing human error in aviation. | Science and technology | Robert L. Helmreich |
| Mercury: the forgotten planet.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Robert M. Nelson |
| Metal clusters and magic numbers. | Science and technology | Matthias Brack |
| Microsubs go to sea. (description of the microsub from the Deep Flight program) | Science and technology | Graham S. Hawkes |
| Mitochondrial DNA in aging and disease.(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Douglas C. Wallace |
| Moroto morass; a fossil ape unexpectedly resembles modern apes and humans. | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| Multilingualism on the Internet. (machine-aided translation)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Bruno Oudet |
| Natural synthetics. (plant breeding and biotechnology combine to produce synthetic fabric materials from naturally-grown plants) | Science and technology | Samuel K. Moore |
| Neanderthal notes. (flute used by Neanderthals) | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| New chemical tools to create plastics. | Science and technology | John A. Ewen |
| No bones about it. (Tyrannosaurus rex fossil auctioned) | Science and technology | Karin Vergoth |
| No more 9 to 5. (the computer as an apparent threat to employment) | Science and technology | John M. Browning |
| Nonviral strategies for gene therapy.(Making Gene Therapy Work: Scientific American Special Report) | Science and technology | Philip L. Felgner |
| Now that travel can be virtual, will congestion virtually disappear. (analysis of the effects of telecommuting on traffic congestion) | Science and technology | Patricia L. Mokhtarian |
| Oil in 4-D: time-lapse software boosts oil recovery. | Science and technology | Kimberly Martineau |
| On-line advertising goes one-on-one. | Science and technology | Patrick Joseph |
| Out of Africa again ... and again? | Science and technology | Ian Tattersall |
| Overcoming the obstacle to gene therapy.(Making Gene Therapy Work: Scientific American Special Report) | Science and technology | Theodore Friedmann |
| Panoramas of the seafloor. (images gathered in the mapping of the US ocean floor)(includes related articles) | Science and technology | Lincoln F. Pratson, William F. Haxby |
| Plants at risk in the U.S. | Science and technology | Roger Doyle |
| Plants that warm themselves. | Science and technology | Roger S. Seymour |
| Playing nice: the Pentagon tries to share R&D weapons costs with allies. | Science and technology | Daniel G. Dupont |
| Pollution-purging poplars. | Science and technology | Mia Schmiedeskamp |
| Preserving the Internet. (archiving the information contained in the Internet)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Brewster Kahle |
| Prize mistake. (solution to Karl Weierstrass' classic n-body problem in mathematics) | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukerjee, Christoph Poppe |
| Psychiatry's global challenge. (culture and mental disorders) | Science and technology | Arthur Kleinmann, Alex Cohen |
| Running on water. (basilisk lizards) | Science and technology | James W. Glasheen, Thomas A. McMahon |
| Satellite radar interferometry. | Science and technology | Didier Massonnet |
| Searching for digital pictures. (technology involved in developing image identification and object recogniton capabilities in computer systems)(includes related article) | Science and technology | David Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Robert Wilensky |
| Searching the Internet. (future developments in search engines)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Clifford Lynch |
| Shock-wave showdown in the Old West.(extreme ways of powering wheeled-vehicles) | Science and technology | Gray Stix |
| SOHO reveals the secrets of the sun. (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) | Science and technology | Kenneth R. Lang |
| Space age archaeology. (innovations in archaeology) | Science and technology | Farouk El-Baz |
| Straight up into the blue: Tiltrotors, which take off like a helicopter but fly like an airplane, will soon make their military debut. Can civilian applications be far behind? | Science and technology | Hans Mark |
| Strategic investments: China plans to make Hong Kong its high-tech gateway. | Science and technology | Simon Fleundy |
| Strong fabrics for fast sails. (may be used in research balloons and parachutes) | Science and technology | Brian E. Doyle |
| Tackling turbulence with supercomputers.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | John Kim, Parviz Moin |
| Taking computers to task. (disadvantages of computers)(includes related article) | Science and technology | W. Wayt Gibbs |
| Taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. (includes related article on submarine-launched missiles and land-mobile missiles) | Science and technology | Bruce G. Blair, Harold A. Feiveson, Frank N. von Hippel |
| The 1996 Nobel Prizes in Science. | Science and technology | John Rennie, Paul Wallich, Philip Yam |
| The 1997 National Medal of Technology. (recepients) | Science and technology | |
| The benefits and ethics of animal research. | Science and technology | Andrew N. Rowan |
| The case for relic life on Mars. | Science and technology | David S. McKay, Christopher S. Romanek, Everett K. Jr Gibson, Kathie Thomas-Keprta |
| The challenge of large numbers. (advances in computing large numbers)(includes related article on Fast Fourier Transform and a graphic representation of large numbers)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Richard E. Crandall |
| The coming climate. | Science and technology | Thomas R. Karl, Neville Nicholls, Jonathan Gregory |
| The discovery of the top quark. | Science and technology | Tony M. Liss, Paul T. Tipton |
| The Einstein-Szilard refrigerators. (physicists Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein) | Science and technology | Gene Dannen |
| The ghostliest galaxies. (validation of the existence of low-surface-brightness galaxies) | Science and technology | Gregory D. Bothun |
| The Internet: bringing order from chaos. (introduction to Internet research areas)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | |
| The lesser known Edison. (Thomas Alva Edison) | Science and technology | Neil Baldwin |
| The longest suspension bridge. (Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Japan) (includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Satoshi Kashima, Makoto Kitagawa |
| The next hop: can wallabies replace the lab rat? | Science and technology | Dan Drollette |
| The parasitic wasp's secret weapon. | Science and technology | Nancy E. Beckage |
| The past and future of global mobility: with growing wealth, people everywhere travel farther and faster. That trend inevitably brings a shift in the dominant transportation technologies. | Science and technology | Andreas Schafer, David Victor |
| The science of Murphy's law.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Robert A.J. Matthews |
| The top-secret life of Lev Landau.(a Russian physicist) | Science and technology | Gennady Gorelik |
| The world's tallest buildings. (Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia) | Science and technology | Leonard Joseph, Cesar Pelli, Charles Thornton |
| Tracking a dinosaur attack. | Science and technology | James O. Farlow, David A. Thomas |
| Transgenic livestock as drug factories. | Science and technology | William H. Velander, Henryk Lubon, William N. Drohan |
| Trusted systems. (publishing over the Internet and the issue of access rights)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | Mark Stefik |
| Understanding Parkinson's disease. | Science and technology | Moussa B.H. Youdin, Peter Riederer |
| Universal disservice. (political attempts to connect the whole US to the Internet) | Science and technology | John M. Browning |
| Unjamming traffic with computers: insights gleaned from realistic simulations are already moving from computer screens to asphalt. | Science and technology | Kenneth R. Howard |
| Websurfing without a monitor. (audio processing of Web site contents)(The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise) | Science and technology | T.V Raman |
| We don't need no regulation. (on encryption) | Science and technology | Ted Lewis |
| What are they thinking? Student's reasons for rejecting evolution go beyond the Bible. | Science and technology | Rebecca Zacks |
| What cloning means for gene therapy.(Making Gene Therapy Work: Scientific American Special Report) | Science and technology | Steve Mirsky, John Rennie |
| Where do turtles go? (evidence in evolutionary biology which reclassifies turtles into the diapsid category) | Science and technology | Erica Garcia |
| Where the money is. (the current popularity of intranets which is the basis for future computer software and hardware product development) | Science and technology | Anne Eisenberg |
| Why and how bacteria communicate. | Science and technology | Richard Losick, Dale Kaiser |
| Williams Syndrome and the brain. | Science and technology | Ursula Bellugi, Frank Greenberg, Howard M. Lenhoff, Paul P. Wang |
| Wonders. | Science and technology | |
| Working knowledge. (the physics underlying a successful pitching) | Science and technology | Alan M. Nathan |
| Working knowledge. (usage of fiber optics in telecommunications) | Science and technology | John MacChesney |
| Www.batmobile.car. (oustanding features of a newly developed Web car) | Science and technology | Ted Lewis |
| Xenotransplantation. (the move towards successful xenotransplantation)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Robert P. Lanza, William L. Chick, David K.C. Cooper |
| X-ray sound.(detector of chemical weapons and toxic substances) | Science and technology | Wayt W. Gibbs |
| Yellow Fever Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues. (book by Christopher Wills) | Science and technology | Paul Ewald |
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