| Scientific American 1999 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| A case against virtual nuclear testing. | Science and technology | Christopher E. Paine |
| Ada and the first computer.(includes related articles on Bernoulli numbers and Ada's program for computing them)(countess Augusta Ada Byron of London, England) | Science and technology | Eugene Eric Kim, Betty Alexandra Toole |
| Air-breathing engines.(for powering aircraft that surpass Mach 5) | Science and technology | Charles R. McClinton |
| Alan Turing's forgotten ideas in computer science.(includes related articles) | Science and technology | B. Jack Copeland, Diane Proudfoot |
| A multifractal walk down Wall Street.(representing drastic changes in stock prices by multifractals) | Science and technology | Benoit B. Mandelbrot |
| A patch for love.(innovative hormone-delivering patches may help endangered birds to reproduce) | Science and technology | Christina Reed |
| A taste of weightlessness.(trip on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's KC-135A aircraft) | Science and technology | Glenn Zorpett |
| A Total Eclipse of Reason.(commentary) | Science and technology | John Rennie |
| A unified physics by 2050?(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Steven Weinberg |
| A zeppelin for the 21st century. | Science and technology | Klaus G. Hagenlocher |
| Biological warfare against crops: intentionally unleashing organisms that kill an enemy's food crops is a potentially devastating weapon of warfare and terrorism.(includes related article on federal aid to research on plant pathogens) | Science and technology | Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dando, Paul Rogers |
| Brace for (educational) impact.(use of 'Star Trak' videos as educational films) | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
| Breathing life into Tyrannosaurus rex.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Gregory M. Erickson |
| Cable-free; free-air optical networks go for a test tun.(Wireless Communications) | Science and technology | David Pescovitz |
| Calculating pie. | Science and technology | Brenda DeKoker Goodman |
| Can human aging be postponed?(includes related article) | Science and technology | Michael R. Rose |
| Child care among the insects. | Science and technology | Douglas W. Tallamy |
| Cichlids of the rift lakes.(unusual diversity in Lake Tanganyika) | Science and technology | Axel Meyer, Melanie L.J. Stiassny |
| Communications chameleons.(experimental multipurpose communications systems being studied by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Oxygen Project)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | John V. Guttag |
| Compact nuclear rockets. | Science and technology | James R. Powell |
| Cosmological antigravity.(Special Report: Revolution in Cosmology)(cosmological constant) | Science and technology | Lawrence M. Krauss |
| Crimes against nature.(National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory) | Science and technology | Mia Schmiedeskamp |
| Death to sperm mitochondria.(mechanism for the destruction of paternal mitochondria in mammals) | Science and technology | Karen Hopkin |
| Deciphering the code of life; the study of all the genes of various organisms will yield answers to some of the most intriguing questions about life. | Science and technology | Francis Collins, Karin G. Jegalian |
| Deserting the Sahara: Dying plants harvest harsh surprises from climate change. | Science and technology | Sarah Simpson |
| Detecting massive neutrinos.(includes related articles on quantum waves on neutrino mass)(Super-Kamiokande Detector) | Science and technology | Edward Kearns, Takaaki Kajita, Yoji Totsuka |
| Disarming flu viruses.(includes related articles)(new medicines that can halt viral replication in human tissues) | Science and technology | Norbert Bischofberger, Robert G. Webster, W. Graeme Laver |
| DNA microsatellites: agents of evolution?(includes related article) | Science and technology | E. Richard Moxon, Christopher Wills |
| Do-It-Yourself Financial Planning.(Automated, on-line advice for 401(k)s and other investments takes off) | Science and technology | Michael Menduno |
| Down in front.(advantages of being short) | Science and technology | |
| Driven up a tree; botanist Margaret D. Lowman opened up the tops of the rain forest for science. | Science and technology | Julie Lewis |
| DSL: Broadband by Phone.(Alexander Graham Bell's ubiquitous copper wires will still be a capacity-rich communications resource in the third millenium) | Science and technology | George T. Hawley |
| Embryonic stem cells for medicine.(Special Report)(includes related article) | Science and technology | Roger A. Pedersen |
| Encapsulated cells as therapy.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Patrick Aebischer, Michael J. Lysaght |
| Exploring our universe and others. | Science and technology | Martin Rees |
| Explosive reactions: a backlash from a nuclear espionage case might hurt science and do little to bolster national security. | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
| Flammable ice.(methane hydrate deposits on the seafloor)(includes related information on fuel possibilities) | Science and technology | Erwin Suess, Gerhard Bohrmann, Jens Greinert, Erwin Lausch |
| Floating in space.(balloons in upper atmosphere and space research)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | L. Steve Smith Jr., James A. Cutts |
| Genetic vaccines.(eradicating potent diseases through the use of genetic vaccines) | Science and technology | David B. Weiner, Ronald C. Kennedy |
| Global climate change on Venus.(includes related article on climate difference of the Earth and Venus) | Science and technology | Mark A. Bullock, David H. Grinspoon |
| Godel and the limits of logic: mathematical genius Kurt Godel was devoted to rationality in his work but struggled with it in his personal life.(includes related article on Godel's proof of the axioms of number theory) | Science and technology | John W. Dawson Jr. |
| Grand piano.(design and construction) | Science and technology | Michael Mohr |
| Growing new organs.(Special Report) | Science and technology | David J. Mooney, Antonios G. Mikos |
| Health care costs.(By The Numbers) | Science and technology | Roger Doyle |
| High blood pressure and the slave trade. | Science and technology | Richard S. Cooper, Ryk Ward, Charles N. Rotimi |
| High-Speed Data Races Home.(The global network is entering a new phase in its evolution, one that will spawn new applications and make dial-up modems a thing of the past.) | Science and technology | David D. Clark |
| Highways of light.(beaming high-intensity laser light or microwave energy to space vehicles to provide power) | Science and technology | Leik N. Myrabo |
| How limbs develop. | Science and technology | Clifford J. Tabin, Robert D. Riddle |
| How the body tells left from right.(includes related article on the biological makeup of Siamese twins) | Science and technology | Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte |
| How the brain creates the mind. | Science and technology | Antonio R. Damasio |
| Hypersearching the Web. | Science and technology | Jon M. Kleinberg, Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, S. Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins, David Gibson |
| Image-guided surgery: virtual-reality technology is giving surgeons the equivalent of x-ray vision, helping them to remove tumors more effectively, to minimize surgical wounds and to avoid damaging critical tissues. | Science and technology | Peter McL. Black, Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jolesz, W. Eric L. Grimson |
| Inflation in a low-density universe.(Special Report: Revolution in Cosmology)(includes related articles on the geometry and beginning of the universe) | Science and technology | David N. Spergel, Martin A. Bucher |
| In the Drink: Cities try cooling off with deep lake water. | Science and technology | Liz Holmes |
| Is space finite? | Science and technology | Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jeffrey R. Weeks, Glenn D. Starkman |
| Is there life elsewhere in the universe? | Science and technology | Christopher F. Chyba, Jill C. Tarter |
| Killer kangaroos and other murderous marsupials.(includes related article on discovery of fossil of an extinct, terrestrial bird in Australia) | Science and technology | Stephen Wroe |
| Leaving a bad taste: the furor in Britain raises health safety concerns about genetically modified foods. | Science and technology | Peta Firth |
| Life's far-flung raw materials.(n)(space and the origin of man)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Max P. Bernstein, Scott A. Sandford, Louis J. Allamandola |
| Light sails.(used for catching beamed energy from lasers on Earth to power space vehicles) | Science and technology | Henry M. Harris |
| Little big science: high-energy polemics erupt over plans to replace an aging French synchrotron. | Science and technology | Gary Stix, Marie-Helene Bojin |
| LMDS: Broadband Wireless Access.(Ground-based wireless networks delivering the full range of broadband services can be deployed quickly and inexpensively) | Science and technology | John Skoro |
| Making waves.(new theory on how the earth's mantle moves) | Science and technology | Sarah Simpson |
| Mapping the universe.(efforts by astronomers to determine the arrangement of galaxies at large distances) | Science and technology | Stephen D. Landy |
| Men, Women, and College.(the number of women receiving college degrees is growing)(Statistical Data Included) | Science and technology | Roger Doyle |
| Mickey Mouse, Ph.D.: inserting a single gene makes mice smarter. | Science and technology | Ken Howard |
| Migrating planets.(includes related article on discovery of first planetary system with Jupiter-mass objects orbiting a sun-like star) | Science and technology | Renu Malhotra |
| Mind over matter: getting rat thoughts to move robotic parts. | Science and technology | Mimi Zucker |
| New nerve cells for the adult brain. | Science and technology | Fred H. Gage, Gerd Kempermann |
| Not making scents.(flowers losing fragrance due to commercial hybridization) | Science and technology | Roxanne Nelson |
| One Man's Rainbow.(Richard Dawkins' book entitled 'Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, delusion and the Appetite for Wonder') | Science and technology | Melvi Konner |
| Pirate Fear: Controversey heats up about chlorfenapyr, a.k.a. Pirate - a pesticide some claim is the next DDT. | Science and technology | Wendy Williams |
| Pork progress.(xenotransplantation research) | Science and technology | Arlene Judith Klotzko |
| Preserving Nefertari's Legacy.(The tomb of this ancient Egytian queen is testament to the great love of Pharoah Ramses II. Its preservation is testament to advances in conservation) | Science and technology | Neville Agnew, Shin Maekawa |
| Pretesting tumors: long derided, test-tube screening for cancer-drug sensitivity slowly gains acceptance. | Science and technology | Evelyn Strauss |
| Prevented prevention: treating sexually transmitted diseases may not restrain the spread of HIV. | Science and technology | Roxanne Nelson |
| Raw computation.(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Oxygen Project)(Raw semiconductor chip)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Anant Agarwal |
| Reaching for the stars.(nuclear fusion-powered and antimatter-powered space vehicles) | Science and technology | Stephanie D. Leifer |
| Repairing the damaged spinal cord.(includes related article on advances in electronics) | Science and technology | John W. McDonald |
| Replacing the battery in portable electronics.(batteries made of fuel cells to run tomorrow's miniature electrical products) | Science and technology | Christopher K. Dyer |
| Rise of the robots.(increasing efficiency) | Science and technology | Hans Moravec |
| Rushing the double-gate.(self-aligned, double-gate transistors) | Science and technology | Brandon D. Chase |
| Satellites: The Strategic High Ground.(Data communications systems that use satellites to transmit signals have many advantages over ground-based systems) | Science and technology | Robert P. Norcross |
| Scientists and religion in America. | Science and technology | Edward J. Larson, Larry Witham |
| Silicone safe.(breast implants) | Science and technology | Christina Reed |
| Skin: the first tissue-engineered products.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Gail Naughton, Nancy Parenteau |
| Slave-making queens.(ant behavior) | Science and technology | Howard Topoff |
| Space tethers.(concept of hurling a payload into space using a number of cartwheeling tethers) | Science and technology | Robert L. Forward, Robert P. Hoyt |
| Speaking up for science.(scientists and activism) | Science and technology | David Appell |
| Stress test; the tragedy in Turkey may aid earthquake forecasting,. | Science and technology | Simon LeVay |
| Supersoft x-ray stars and supernovae. | Science and technology | Edward P.J. van den Heuvel, Peter Kahabka, Saul A. Rappaport |
| Surveying space-time with supernovae.(Special Report: Revolution in Cosmology) | Science and technology | Craig J. Hogan, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Robert P. Kirshner |
| Taking ballistics by storm: an electronic gun with no mechanical parts fires a million rounds per minute.(Weaponry) | Science and technology | Dan Drollette |
| Talking with your computer.(includes related article on telephone conversation through the Jupiter system)(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Oxygen Project)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Victor Zue |
| The 1998 National Medal of Technology.(winners) | Science and technology | |
| The 1998 Nobel prizes in science. | Science and technology | |
| The Andaman Islanders.(aborigines in the Bay of Bengal) | Science and technology | Sita Venkateswar |
| The Broadest Band.(New technologies promise to reduce the cost of linking homes with optical fiber, the ultimate medium for data communications.) | Science and technology | Paul W. Shumate Jr. |
| The crash in the machine.(automobile crash test) | Science and technology | Stefan Thomke, Michael Holzner, Touraj Gholami |
| The earliest zoos and gardens. | Science and technology | Karen Polinger Foster |
| The electrochemical engine for vehicles.(discovering alternative energy sources for automobiles) | Science and technology | A. John Appleby |
| The end of nature versus nurture.(human behavior) | Science and technology | Frans B.M. De Waal |
| The False Crisis in Science Education.(The largely mythical decline of science in the public schools is leading - yet again - to rushed reforms that ignore the best advice on what kids should know) | Science and technology | W. Wayt Gibbs, Douglas Fox |
| The fate of life in the universe.(includes related article on the cosmological constant) | Science and technology | Lawrence M. Krauss, Glenn D. Starkman |
| The future of computing.(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Oxygen Project)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Michael L. Dertouzos |
| The Grameen Bank. | Science and technology | Muhammad Yunus |
| The Hidden Ocean of Europa.(Doodles and freckles, creamy plains and crypto-icebergs - the amazing surface of Jupiter's brightest icy moon hints at a global sea underneath) | Science and technology | James W. Head, Ronald Greeley, Robert T. Pappalardo |
| The human impact on climate. | Science and technology | Kevin E. Trenberth, Thomas R. Karl |
| The Internet Via Cable.(Only cable networks are well equipped to provide hybrid TV-Internet services, as well as superfast on-line access) | Science and technology | Milo Medin, Jay Rolls |
| The Komodo dragon.(includes an article about the author) | Science and technology | Claudio Ciofi |
| The Light at the End of the Pipe.(A much faster and easier-to-use internet will stimulate the introduction of new services and possibly even significant social metamorphoses) | Science and technology | P. William Bane, Stephen P. Bradley |
| The lurking perils of Pfiesteria.(includes related article on its life cycle)(microbial toxin Pfiesteria piscicida) | Science and technology | JoAnn M. Burkholder |
| The metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov.(father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb) | Science and technology | Gennady Gorelik |
| The moral development of children.(includes related articles on the six stages of moral development and on the universality of values) | Science and technology | William Damon |
| The mystery of the nucleon spin. | Science and technology | Andreas Schafer, Klaus Rith |
| The power plant in your basement.(designing residential fuel cell power stations) | Science and technology | Alan C. Lloyd |
| The puzzle of hypertension in African-Americans. | Science and technology | Richard S. Cooper, Ryk Ward, Charles N. Rotimi |
| The revival of colored cotton. | Science and technology | James M. Vreeland Jr. |
| The teeth of the tyrannosaurus.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | William L. Abler |
| The throat singers of Tuva.(includes related article on the vocal tract) | Science and technology | Theodore C. Levin, Michael E. Edgerton |
| The timing of birth. | Science and technology | Roger Smith |
| The unexpectged science to come; the most important discoveries of the next 50 years are likely to be ones of which we cannot now even conceive.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | John Maddox |
| The Unmet Challenges of Hepatitis C.(Some 1.8 percent of the U.S. adult population are infected with the hepatitis C virus, most without knowing it) | Science and technology | Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, Bruce R. Bacon |
| Time-reversed acoustics. | Science and technology | Mathias Fink |
| Tissue engineering: the challenges ahead.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Joseph P. Vacanti, Robert S. Langer |
| To your on-line health.(Cyber View) | Science and technology | David Pescovitz |
| Trailing a virus.(Nipah virus) | Science and technology | W. Wyatt Gibbs |
| Tsunami!(includes related articles)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Frank I. Gonzalez |
| Turtle tragedy: demand in Asia may be wiping out turtle populations worldwide. | Science and technology | Wendy Williams |
| Unmasking black holes.(includes related article on black hole transient called GRO J1655-40) | Science and technology | Jean-Pierre Lasota |
| Viral gene screen.(US blood banks implement genetic testing to screen HIV and hepatitis C viruses from blood donations) | Science and technology | Jessa Netting |
| Vision: a window on consciousness.(visual perception research)(includes related information on binocular rivalry and on research with monkeys) | Science and technology | Nikos K. Logothetis |
| Visualizing human embryos.(through magnetic resonance microscopy) | Science and technology | Bradley R. Smith |
| Water filters.(Working Knowledge) | Science and technology | Louis A. Bloomfield |
| Why national missile defense won't work.(includes related articles on Patriot missile and on potential missile defense countermeasures) | Science and technology | John Pike, George N. Lewis, Theodore A. Postol |
| Why Things Break.(Scientists have known for most of this century that chemistry is responsible for whether a solid shatters or bends. But only now are they finding a way to predict which type of failure will win.) | Science and technology | Mark E. Eberhart |
| Wink of an eye: half-asleep ducks can control which hemisphere gets to snooze. | Science and technology | Jessa Netting |
| XML and the second-generation Web.(includes related article on new scientific terms spawned by XML)(Extensible Markup Language) | Science and technology | Tim Bray, Jon Bosak |
| Y2K: so many bugs ... so little time.(Year 2000 problems) | Science and technology | Peter de Jager |
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