Scientific American 1999 W. Wayt Gibbs - Abstracts

Scientific American 1999 W. Wayt Gibbs
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A diabetes switch? Turning off a single gene protects mice against obesity and type II diabetes.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Breath of fresh liquid.(perfluorocarbons lets people with lung problems breathe)Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Field of dreams: undeterred by failure, SETI researchers plan to build a telescope of their own.(SETI Institute)Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Holey magic.(gold and metallic films offer developments in integrated optics)Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Micromicrophones: new sensors detect sound using light and heat.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Not cleaning up: faster, cheaper ways to restore polluted ground are largely shunned.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
On Cemetery Pond.(mystery on why previously abundant red-legged frogs have become endangered)Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
R(sub x) for B and C.(drugs against hepatitis epidemics)Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
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 technologyW. Wayt Gibbs, Douglas Fox
The magnetic attraction: a long race to create faster memory chips that never lose data yields prototypes at last.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Watch the watchers.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
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