Scientific American 2000 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
50, 100, and 150 years ago.(stories from Scientific American) | Science and technology | |
A bus between the planets - proposal 3: the next step.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | James Oberg, Edwin Aldrin |
Adding a data crunch.(Special Industry Report; includes related articles on extending lif eof magnetic-disk drives, using magnets, holographic storage, atomic resolution storage, new punch cards) | Science and technology | Jon William Toigo |
Age breakers.(aging process) | Science and technology | Lisa Melton |
A Greene universe.(physicist Brian Greene) | Science and technology | Alden Hayashi |
AIDS drugs for Africa. | Science and technology | Carol Ezzell, Karin Retief |
An elemental mystery: who really discovered element 43?(Chemistry) | Science and technology | |
A new Rex.(News & Analysis: Paleontology, Dinosaurs) | Science and technology | Eric Niler |
Animals imitate, too.(memetics) | Science and technology | Lee Alan Dugatkin |
Asbestos in the air: a housing boom stirs up natural asbestos in California.(Health) | Science and technology | Rebecca Renner |
A scourge of small arms.(Special Report -- Waging a New Kind of War) | Science and technology | Jeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare |
A stretgy for subsets.(Mathematical Recreations) | Science and technology | |
Atlas Shrugged.(News & Analysis: Internet - Software) | Science and technology | Michael Menduno |
Better decisions through science. | Science and technology | John A. Swets, Robyn M. Dawes, John Monahan |
Beyond the first draft: making the genome data useful may depend on the public project Ensembl.(includes list of research activities genome scientists need to complete) | Science and technology | Tabitha M. Powledge |
Birth of the modern diet. | Science and technology | Rachel Laudan |
Bits of radio: receiving digital broadcasts becomes cheaper and easier - except in the U.S. | Science and technology | Wendy M. Grossman |
Brain invaders.(auditory prosthesis) | Science and technology | Simon LeVay |
Building a brainier mouse. | Science and technology | Joe Z Tsien |
Burning times for hot fusion: plasma physics. | Science and technology | Luis Miguel Ariza |
Capturing greenhouse gases.(includes related articles on burying carbon dioxide, trees and climate change policy) | Science and technology | Diane Martindale, Howard Herzog, Baldur Eliasson, Olav Kaarstad, David W. Keith, Edward A. Parson |
Care for a dying continent.(Expeditions: AIDS in Africa) | Science and technology | Carol Ezell |
Car parts from chickens. | Science and technology | Diane Martindale |
Cell communication: the inside story. | Science and technology | John D. Scott, Tony Pawson |
Census 1900: more Americans, more electricity.(50, 100 & 150 Years Ago) | Science and technology | |
Children of the gun.(kidnapped children turned into soldiers)(Special Report -- Waging a New Kind of War) | Science and technology | Neil G. Boothby, Christine M. Knudsen |
Cleaning agents. | Science and technology | Louis A Bloomfield |
Cloning and conservation.(how cloning should be used)(Editorial) | Science and technology | John Rennie |
Cloning Noah's ark. | Science and technology | Robert P. Lanza, Betsy L. Dresser, Philip Damiani |
Color television, 1950; why good sausages go bad.(50, 100 & 150 Years Ago) | Science and technology | |
Computing with molecules.(molecular switches) | Science and technology | Mark A. Reed, James M. Tour |
Coping with crowding.(social aspects of population growth) | Science and technology | Frans B.M. de Waal, Filippo Aureli, Peter G. Judge |
Creating convergence.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Peter Forman, Robert W. Saint John |
Curiosity rhymed the cat.(Feedback) | Science and technology | Alan Alda |
Darwin's influence on modern thought.(evolutionary biologist, Charles Darwin) | Science and technology | Ernst Mayr |
Different stripes.(superconductivity) | Science and technology | Graham P. Colins |
Digital cinema is for reel.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Peter D. Lubell |
Digital humans wait in the wings.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Alvy Ray Smith |
Digital materials and virtual weathering.(includes related articleson modeling reflection and on levels of detail) | Science and technology | Julie Dorsey, Pat Hanrahan |
Diseased passage.(New River, CA, migrants) | Science and technology | Eric Niiler |
Dissecting a hurricane.(Expeditions)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Tim Beardsley, Andrew Itkoff |
Drinking without harm: arsenic poisoning or deadly diarrhea? Bangladesh may no longer have to choose. | Science and technology | Kimberly Masibay |
Dwarf galaxies & starbursts. | Science and technology | Sara C. Beck |
Edible vaccines. | Science and technology | William H.R. Langridge |
Electricity meters.(Working Knowledge)(Column) | Science and technology | Les Rosenau |
Fireballs of free quarks: CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma - last seen during the big bang. | Science and technology | Graham Collins, Uwe Reichert |
Form from fire.(combustion synthesis) | Science and technology | Arvind Varma |
Fountains of youth.(birth of stars) | Science and technology | Thomas P. Ray |
Galveston hurricane, Bruno Bettelheim on prejudice.(50, 100, & 150 Years Ago)(Column) | Science and technology | |
Gene scenes.(cell development) | Science and technology | Trisha Gura |
Granting immunity.(child vaccination safety) | Science and technology | Sasha Memecek |
How green are green plastics? | Science and technology | Tillman U. Gerngross, Steven C. Slater |
Intragalactically speaking.(extraterrestrials) | Science and technology | George W. Swenson Jr. |
Invaders from Hollywood.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
Invisible wounds: medical researchers have recently begun to address the mental health effects of war on civilians.(Special Report -- Waging a New Kind of War) | Science and technology | Richard F. Mollica |
Is global warming harmful to health?(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Paul R. Epstein |
Island survivors.(Guadalupe Island, Mexico) | Science and technology | Eric Niiler |
Maglev: a new approach; the Inductrack promises a safer, cheaper system for magnetically levitating trains. The same technology can also be used to launch rockets. | Science and technology | Richard F. Post |
Making Metallic Hydrogen.(turning hydrogen into metal)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | William J. Nellis |
Making money the new-fashioned way. | Science and technology | Wendy M. Grossman |
Male sexual circuitry.(erectile dysfunction) | Science and technology | Irwin Goldstein |
Mars by way of its moons - proposal 2: a new approach.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | S. Fred Singer |
Melting below zero.(surface melting; includes related article on environmental effects) | Science and technology | John S. Wettlaufer, J. Greg Dash |
Meme theory oversimplifies how culture changes. | Science and technology | Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson |
Monitoring Earth's vital signs.(NASA's Earth Observing System) | Science and technology | Michael D King, David D Herring |
More than the best medicine.(laughter, psychology) | Science and technology | Meredith F. Small |
Moviemaking in transition.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Peter Broderick |
Muscle, genes and athletic performance: the cellular biology of muscle helps to explain why a particular athlete wins and suggests what future athletes might do to better their odds.(includes related article on muscles in the elderly)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Jesper L. Andersen, Peter Schjerling, Bengt Saltin |
Music wars.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Ken C. Pohlmann |
Nabada: the buried city.(Syria) | Science and technology | Joachim Bretschneider |
Name recognition. | Science and technology | |
Nanotubes for electronics.(includes related articles) | Science and technology | Philip G. Collings, Phaedon Avouris |
Narcolepsy; although people with the disorder do not fall face-first into their soup as in the movies, narcolepsy is still a mysterious disease. But science has new leads.(includes related information on the neural circuitry involved) | Science and technology | Jerome M. Siegel |
NASA's not shining moments: the space agency's approach, including its "faster, better, cheaper" credo, may be a recipe for disaster. | Science and technology | |
Negative energy, wormholes and warp drive. | Science and technology | Lawrence H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman |
No resistance.(includes related article)(superconductivity) | Science and technology | Bruce Schechter |
No space sex? Despite a push to understand human behavior in space, NASA remains squeamish about sex.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) | Science and technology | Barbara Gallagher |
Once we were not alone; today we take for granted that Homo sapiens is the only hominid on earth. Yet for at least four million years many hominid species shared the planet. What makes us different?(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Ian Tattersall |
One-hit wonder.(Biology: Cell Death) | Science and technology | Rebecca Lipsitz |
Operating on a beating heart.(bypass surgery) | Science and technology | Cornelius Borst |
People do more than imitate.(Counterpoint - memetics) | Science and technology | Henry Plotkin |
Piecing together Alzheimer's.(disease) | Science and technology | Peter H. St. George-Hyslop |
Quantum teleportation.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Anton Zeilinger |
Reading the bones of La Florida.(the diet of Florida's Native Americans in the 1500's) | Science and technology | Clark Spencer Larsen |
Reengineering the radio.(defense technology) | Science and technology | Daniel G. Dupont |
Riding the rumble.(earthquake engineering) | Science and technology | Simon LeVay |
Robots in the sky.(News & Analysis: Aviation, Remote Sensing) | Science and technology | Stephen Cole |
Rulers of the Jurassic seas.(ichthyosaurs)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Ryosuke Motani |
Running the dam gauntlet: in the name of science, a rubber fish serves as stunt double.(Field Notes) | Science and technology | Pat Janowski |
Scar no more.(human tissue repair) | Science and technology | |
Schrodinger's SQUID.(quantum mechanics) | Science and technology | |
Science greats: look back - and ahead. | Science and technology | |
Searching for shadows of other earths.(includes related article) | Science and technology | Laurance R. Doyle, Hans-Jorg Deeg, Timothy M. Brown, Ray Jayawardhana |
Six billion and counting.(Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich)(Interview) | Science and technology | Julie Lewis |
Snowball earth; ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed.(inlcudes related evolution information) | Science and technology | Daniel P. Schrag, Paul F. Hoffman |
SNPs of disease: the UK plans a national genomic database to study late-onset sickness.(single nucleotide polymorphisms) | Science and technology | Arlene Judith Klotzko |
Soothing the inflamed brain: antiinflammatories may be the first drugs to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. | Science and technology | Nicola Jones |
The 1999 National Medal of Technology. | Science and technology | |
The Aleutian kayak. | Science and technology | George B Dyson |
The bioinformatics gold rush.(biomedicine, genetic engineering)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | ken Howard |
The Bromeliads of the Atlantic forest.(Brazil)(Science in Pictures) | Science and technology | |
The business of the human genome.(includes related article)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Carol Ezzell, Kathryn Brown, Julia Karow |
The discovery of brown dwarfs. | Science and technology | Gibor Basri |
The early origins of autism.(includes related article on diagnosis) | Science and technology | Patricia M. Rodier |
The future is here. Or is it?(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Company Profile)(Industry Overview) | Science and technology | David Wilson |
The future of digital entertainment.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Mark Fischetti |
The Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons. | Science and technology | Torrence V. Johnson |
The hard and the soft: contact lenses. | Science and technology | Naomi Lubick |
The Internet in your hands.(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Company Profile)(Industry Overview) | Science and technology | Fiona Harvey |
The Large Hadron Collider.(particle accelerator) | Science and technology | Chris Llewellyn Smith |
The lion emperors. | Science and technology | Philip Morrison, Phyllis Morrison |
The Mars direct plan - proposal 1: going soon.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Robert Zubrin |
The Nobel prizes for 2000. | Science and technology | |
The odd couple and the bomb.(Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi and the atom bomb) | Science and technology | William Lanouette |
The plan to save Fallingwater.(house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) | Science and technology | Robert Silman |
The power of memes. | Science and technology | Susan Blackmore |
The promise of WAP.(Wireless Application Protocol)(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Industry Overview)(Company Profile) | Science and technology | Karen J. Bannan |
The revolutionary bridges of Robert Maillart. | Science and technology | David P. Billington |
The science of smart growth.(urban sprawl) | Science and technology | Donald D.T. Chen, Andres Duany |
The search for extreme life.(microorganisms) | Science and technology | Julie Wakefield |
The second War of the Worlds.(Martian microbes on earth)(Cover Story)(Editorial) | Science and technology | John Rennie |
The secrets of stardust: tiny grains of dust floating in interstellar space have radically altered the history of our galaxy. | Science and technology | J. Mayo Greenberg |
The small planets.(asteroids) | Science and technology | Erik Asphaug |
The third-generation gap.(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Cover Story)(Industry Overview) | Science and technology | Leander Kahney |
The tick-tock of the biological clock.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Michael W. Young |
The universe's unseen dimensions. | Science and technology | Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Georgi Dvali |
The unmet need for family planning.(many parts of the world face health and environmental difficulties unless access to contraceptives is provided) | Science and technology | Malcolm Potts |
The VASIMR rocket.(Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) | Science and technology | Franklin R. Chang Diaz |
Toxins on the firing range: over military protests, the EPA orders cleanups of unexploded ordnance. | Science and technology | Wendy Williams |
Transparent animals. | Science and technology | Sonke Johnsen |
Ultrashort-pulse lasers: big payoffs in a flash. | Science and technology | John-Mark Hopkins, Wilson Sibbert |
Understanding clinical trials. | Science and technology | Justin A Zivin |
Unlimited light: researchers make pulses that travel faster than light - sort of. | Science and technology | David Appell |
Uprooting the tree of life.(evolution research) | Science and technology | W. Ford Doolittle |
Violent opposition: escalating protests may be driving away some researchers.(Animal Experimentation) | Science and technology | Meg Turville-Heitz |
Voyage to superheavy island; the synthesis of element 114 confirmed decades-old theoretical predictions of a little patch of nuclear stability in a sea of short-lived superheavy nuclei. | Science and technology | Yuri Ts. Oganessian, Vladimir K. Utyonkov, Kenton J. Moody |
Where are they?(includes related article)(extraterrestrials) | Science and technology | Ian Crawford, Andrew LePage |
Winds of change; can skyscrapers withstand stronger hurricanes? | Science and technology | Alden M. Hayashi |
Womb wars.(fetal development) | Science and technology | Lisa Melton |
Women and the professions. | Science and technology | Roger Doyle |
Your own virtual storyworld.(Special Report) | Science and technology | Glorianna Davenport |
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