| Scientific American 1998 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 100 years of magnetic memories.(history of magnetic recording) | Science and technology | James D. Livingston |
| A cool idea.(magnetic refrigerator) | Science and technology | Mark Alpert |
| Alcohol in the western world.(various uses of alcohol)(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Bert L. Vallee |
| Ancestral quandary: neanderthals not our ancestors? Not so fast. | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| Andro angst.(federal control over steroids suggested) | Science and technology | Glen Zorpette |
| An ethnologist in cyberspace.(understanding interactions within cyberspace) | Science and technology | Marguerite Holloway |
| A new look at quasars.(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Michael Disney |
| Animating human motion. (computer animation)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Jessica K. Hodgins |
| A quarter century of recreational mathematics. | Science and technology | Martin Gardner |
| Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a new theory suggest the disorder results from a failure in self-control. ADHD may arise when key brain circuits do not develop properly, perhaps because of an altered gene or genes. | Science and technology | Russell A. Barkley |
| Avoiding infection after HIV exposure: treatment may reduce the chance of contracting HIV infection after a risky encounter.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Susan Buchbinder |
| Bacterial gene swapping in nature. | Science and technology | Robert V. Miller |
| Bloodless testing: noninvasive glucose monitors for diabetics are on the way, but cost could be a problem. | Science and technology | Roxanne Nelson |
| Brookhaven brouhaha.(Brookhaven National Laboratory addresses waste disposal issues) | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukerjee |
| Building the better bug.(how to combat communicable diseases) | Science and technology | Peter W. Atkinson, David A. O'Brochta |
| Burial of radioactive waste under the seabed. | Science and technology | Steven Nadis, Charles D. Hollister |
| Clock setting.(controlling the body's physiologic rhythms) | Science and technology | Karen Hopkin |
| Cloning for machine.(medical benefits of cloning) | Science and technology | Ian Wilmut |
| Combating prostate cancer. | Science and technology | William R. Fair, Marc B. Garnick |
| Composite sketch: were composites to blame for recent aircraft accidents? | Science and technology | Phil Scott |
| Computing with DNA. | Science and technology | Leonard Max Adleman |
| Cosmic antimatter.(in search for antimatter in space) | Science and technology | Simon P. Swordy, Gregory Tarle |
| Cryptography for the Internet: e-mail and other information sent electronically are like digital postcards - they afford little privacy. Well-designed cryptography systems can ensure the secrecy of such transmissions. | Science and technology | Philip R. Zimmerman |
| Defibrillation: the spark of life.(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Mickey S. Eisenberg |
| Designer estrogens.(selective estrogen receptor modulators) | Science and technology | V. Craig Jordan |
| Digital television: here at last. | Science and technology | Jae S. Lim |
| Dogma overturned.(study finds man capable of neurogenesis)(Column) | Science and technology | Gibbs. W. Wayt |
| Don't stress: It is now known to cause development problems, weight gain and neurodegeneration. | Science and technology | Kristin Leutwyler |
| Einstein's drag: two satellites reveal how Earth's rotation warps space-time. | Science and technology | Luis Miguel Ariza |
| Everyday exposure to toxic pollutants. | Science and technology | John W. Roberts, Wayne R. Ott |
| Evolution and the origins of disease. | Science and technology | George C. Williams, Randolph M. Nesse |
| Face off: three-dimensional imaging stands in for fossils. | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| Fertilizing the sea. | Science and technology | Steve Nadis |
| Fusion and the Z pinch. | Science and technology | Gerold Yonas |
| Galaxies behind the Milky Way. | Science and technology | |
| Glueballs. | Science and technology | Frank E. Close, Philip R. Page |
| Gravity gradiometry. | Science and technology | Robin E. Bell |
| Greenland ice cores: frozen in time.(ways to predict climatic changes) | Science and technology | Richard B. Alley, Michael L. Bender |
| HIV 1998: The global picture.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Jonathan M. Mann, Daniel J. M. Tarantola |
| HIV vaccines: prospects and challenges.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | David Baltimore, Carole Heilman |
| How cicadas make their noise.(an insect specie) | Science and technology | Henry C. Bennet-Clark |
| How computer security works: three types of safeguards offer a formidable defense against Internet intruders. | Science and technology | William Cheswick, Warwick Ford, James Gosling |
| How drug resistance arises.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Douglas D. Richman |
| How females choose their mates.(sexual behavior of animals) | Science and technology | Jean-Guy J. Godin, Lee Alan Dugatkin |
| How hackers break in ... and how they are caught: port scanners, core dumps and buffer overflows are but a few of the many weapons in every sophisticated hacker's arsenal. Still, no hacker is invincible. | Science and technology | Carolyn P. Meinei |
| If you don't have a defibrillator. | Science and technology | Carl E. Bartecchi |
| Improving HIV therapy.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Richard D. Moore, John G. Bartlett |
| Inner-city violence: the U.S. military tries to prepare for urban warfare. | Science and technology | Daniel G. DuPont |
| Irrigating crops with seawater. | Science and technology | Edward P. Glenn, James W. O'Leary, J. Jed Brown |
| Is Microsoft a natural monopoly?(how to maintain competence in monopolistic environments) | Science and technology | Ted Lewis |
| Japanese temple geometry. | Science and technology | Tony Rothman, Hidetoshi Fukagawa |
| Laser scissors and tweezers.(cell manipulation and surgery) | Science and technology | Michael W. Berns |
| Laser show: critics charge that the Pentagon's antisatellite laser test could set a dangerous precedent. | Science and technology | Daniel G. DuPont |
| Leafy sea dragons.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Paul Groves |
| Leonardo and the invention of the wheellock.(Leonardo da Vinci) | Science and technology | Vernard Foley |
| Leon Foucault: celebrated for his pendulum experiment in 1851, Foucault also produced decisive evidence against the particle theory of light, invented the gyroscope, perfected the reflecting telescope and measured the sun's distance. | Science and technology | William Tobin |
| Liquid fuels from natural gas. | Science and technology | Safaa Fouda A. |
| Lise Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission. | Science and technology | Ruth Lewin Sime |
| Look for the union label.(analysis of labor productivity and unionization)(Column) | Science and technology | Paul Wallich |
| Low-back pain.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Richard A. Devo |
| Lupus in limbo.(reintroduction of gray wolves in parks by the US Fish and Wildlife Service) | Science and technology | Krista McKinsey |
| Making a deep impact: Hollywood tackles the threat of near-earth objects. | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
| Making new elements: three new elements - 110,111,112 - have been produced over the past several years. Scientists are now struggling to create 113 and 114. How many elements can they add to the periodic table? | Science and technology | Peter Armbruster, Fritz Peter Hessberger |
| Making ultrabright x-rays.(bright sources of x-rays) | Science and technology | Massimo Altarelli, Fred Schlachter, Jane Cross |
| Mating strategies in butterflies. | Science and technology | Ronald L. Rutowski |
| Mating strategies of spiders. | Science and technology | Ken Preston-Mafham, Rod Preston-Mafham |
| Microdiamonds. | Science and technology | Rachel Trautman, Brendan J. Griffin, David Scharf |
| Mining for oil. (mining oil from oil sands and oil shales) | Science and technology | Richard L. George |
| Monitoring and controlling debris in space. | Science and technology | Nicholas L. Johnson |
| Moving beyond wireless voice systems.(navigational satellites) | Science and technology | Warren L. Stutzman, Carl B. Dietrich Jr. |
| Nanolasers. (smaller semiconductor lasers enable more effective and faster devices)(includes related articles) | Science and technology | Paul L. Gourley |
| Natural oil spills. | Science and technology | Ian R. MacDonald |
| New satellites for personal communication. | Science and technology | John V. Evans |
| Oil production in the 21st century: recent innovations in underground imaging, steerable drilling and deepwater oil production could recover more of what lies below. | Science and technology | Roger N. Anderson |
| Physicists in wartime Japan. | Science and technology | Laurie M. Brown, Yoichiro Nambu |
| Picosecond ultrasonics. | Science and technology | Humphrey Maris |
| Politics and PCB.(polychlorinated biphenyls) | Science and technology | Jim Gordon |
| Post-polio syndrome. | Science and technology | Lauro S. Halstead |
| Preserving the Laetoli footprints: the discovery of hominid footprints in East Africa reshaped the study of human origins. Now conservators have protected the fragile tracks from destruction. | Science and technology | Neville Agnew, Martha Demas |
| Preventing HIV infection: altering behavior is still the prime way to control the epidemic.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Chris Collins, Thomas J. Coates |
| Quantum computing with molecules.(applying nuclear magnetic resonance in computer design)(includes bibliography) | Science and technology | Isaac L. Chuang, Neil Gershenfeld |
| River of vitriol: the Rio Tinto in Spain abounds in acid - and unexpected organisms. | Science and technology | Luis Miguel Ariza |
| Running on MMT?(Canadian legislators ban MMT due to its health risks) | Science and technology | Krista McKinsey |
| Scene of the crime: high-tech ways to see and collect evidence. | Science and technology | Brenda Dekoker Goodman |
| Scientists in black.(converting military and secret service information in more usable forms) | Science and technology | Jeffrey T. Richelson |
| Secrets of the slime hag: loathsome though they may seem, hagfishes may also resemble the earliest animals to have a braincase - making them even older than the first animals to develop a backbone. | Science and technology | Frederic H. Martini |
| Shrimp aquaculture and the environment.(includes related articles) | Science and technology | Claude E. Boyd, Jason W. Clay |
| Simon Newcomb: astronomer with an attitude. The most celebrated American astronomer of the late 19th century advocated broad social and cultural reforms based on the use of scientific method. | Science and technology | Albert P. Moyer |
| Simulating water and the molecules of life. | Science and technology | Michael Levitt, Mark Gerstein |
| Six months on Mir.(Russian spacecraft) | Science and technology | Shannon Lucid |
| Sizing up software.(evaluating the efficiency of computer programs) | Science and technology | Capers Jones |
| Spread-spectrum radio.(digital radio transmission) | Science and technology | David R. Hughes, Dewayne Hendricks |
| Stalking the wild dugong: an undersea elephant remains elusive. | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukerjee |
| Star warned.(evaluating the programs of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) | Science and technology | Daniel G. Dupont |
| Telecommunications for the 21st century.(space-based telecommunications systems) | Science and technology | Joseph N. Pelton |
| Television's bright new technology. (plasma display panel technology) | Science and technology | Alan Sobel |
| Terrestrial wireless networks.(cellular phones) | Science and technology | Alex Hills |
| The 1997 Nobel prizes in science.(physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine) | Science and technology | |
| The architecture of life.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Donald E. Ingher |
| The artistry of microorganisms: colonies of bacteria or amoebas form complex pattern that blur the boundary between life and nonlife. | Science and technology | Eshel Ben-Jacob, Herbert Levine |
| The asymmetry between matter and antimatter: in 1999 new accelerators will start searching for violations in a fundamental symmetry of nature, throwing ope a window to physics beyond the unknown. | Science and technology | Helen R. Quinn, Michael S. Witherell |
| The blight is back.(dreaded potato fungus) | Science and technology | Roxanne Nelson |
| The Bose-Eistein condensate. (realization of the Bose-Einstein condensate due to the development of the atomic trap and laser cooling) | Science and technology | Eric A. Cornell, Carl E. Wieman |
| The caiman trade. | Science and technology | George Amato, Myrna E. Watanabe, Peter Brazaitis |
| The case against regulating encryption technology: one of the pioneers of computer security says the U.S. government should keep its hand off cryptography. | Science and technology | Ronald Linn Rivest |
| The challenge of antibiotic resistance. | Science and technology | Stuart B. Levy |
| The day the sands caught fire.(meteorite impact site in Saudi Arabia) | Science and technology | Eugene M. Shoemaker, Jeffrey C. Wynn |
| The earliest views.(microscopy during the 16th and 18th centuries) | Science and technology | Brian J. Ford |
| The end of cheap oil: global production of conventional oil will begin to decline sooner than most people think, probably withing 10 years. | Science and technology | Colin J. Campbell, Jean H. Laherrere |
| The evolution of galaxy clusters.(facts about galaxy clusters) | Science and technology | J. Patrick Henry, Ulrich G. Briel, Hans Bohringer |
| The evolution of the periodic system: from its origins some 200 years ago, the periodic table has become a vital tool for modern chemists. | Science and technology | Eric R. Scerri |
| The genetics of cognitive abilities and disabilities. | Science and technology | Robert Plomin, John C. DeFries |
| The Mars Pathfinder mission: last summer the first ever Mars rover found in situ evidence that the Red Planet may once have been hospitable to life. | Science and technology | Matthew P. Golombek |
| The neurobiology of depression.(includes related article on brain imaging) | Science and technology | Charles B. Nemeroff |
| The Oort Cloud: on the outskirts of the solar system swarms a vast cloud of comets, influenced almost as much by other stars as by our sun. The dynamics of this cloud may help explain such matters as mass extinction on Earth. | Science and technology | Paul R. Weissman |
| The origin of birds and their flights. | Science and technology | Kevin Padian, Luis M. Chiappe |
| The Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. | Science and technology | Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, Anna Coxe Toogood |
| The placebo effect: should doctors be prescribing sugar pills? | Science and technology | Walter A. Brown |
| The population slide.(incremental drop in third-world population) | Science and technology | Masdhusree Mukerjee |
| The prevention pill.(the cancer study by National Cancer Institute and National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project) | Science and technology | W. Gibbs Wayt |
| Thermophotovoltaics. | Science and technology | Mark C. Fitzgerald, Timothy J. Coutts |
| Thermophotovoltaics: semiconductors that convert radiant heat to energy may prove suitable for lighting remote villages or powering automobiles. | Science and technology | Mark C. Fitzgerald, Timothy J. Coutts |
| The search for blood substitutes. | Science and technology | Mary L. Nucci, Abraham Abuchowski |
| The single-atom laser: a new type of laser that harnesses the energy of individual atoms reveals how light interacts with matter. | Science and technology | Michael S. Feld, Kyungwon An |
| The split brain revisited: groundbreaking work that began moe than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness. | Science and technology | Michael S. Gazzaniga |
| The theory formerly known as strings. | Science and technology | Michael J. Duff |
| The Ulysses mission. | Science and technology | Edward J. Smith, Richard G. Marsden |
| The Viking longship.(history of longships) | Science and technology | John R. Hale |
| This is not a hoax!(folklores on the Internet)(Column) | Science and technology | Paul Wallich |
| Trade rules.(analysis of international trade regulation and environmental considerations)(Column) | Science and technology | Maruerite Holloway |
| Undressing the emperor: physicist and 'Social Text' prankster Alan Sokal fires another salvo at thinkers in the humanities. | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukherjee |
| Unsound reasoning. (research into new materials for musical instruments) | Science and technology | Karla Harby |
| Viral-load test provide valuable answers.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | John W. Mellors |
| Weightlessness and the human body: the effects of space travel on the body resemble some of the conditions of aging. Studying astronauts' health may improve medical care both in orbit and on the ground. | Science and technology | Ronald J. White |
| When children harbor HIV: HIV infection is particularly difficult to combat in the young.(Defeating AIDS: What Will It Take? Special Report) | Science and technology | Ross E. McKinney Jr., Catherine M. Wilfert |
| When less is more: trying to assess how well trimming hearts and lungs improves function. | Science and technology | Judith Randal |
| Where fiction became ancient fact.(Column) | Science and technology | Philip Morrisson |
| Where have all the boys gone? The mysterious decline in male births. | Science and technology | Mark Alpert |
| Working knowledge: motion-picture projectors. | Science and technology | Ray F. Boegner |
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