Scientific American 2000 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2000
TitleSubjectAuthors
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 technologyJames 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 technologyJon William Toigo
Age breakers.(aging process)Science and technologyLisa Melton
A Greene universe.(physicist Brian Greene)Science and technologyAlden Hayashi
AIDS drugs for Africa.Science and technologyCarol Ezzell, Karin Retief
An elemental mystery: who really discovered element 43?(Chemistry)Science and technology 
A new Rex.(News & Analysis: Paleontology, Dinosaurs)Science and technologyEric Niler
Animals imitate, too.(memetics)Science and technologyLee Alan Dugatkin
Asbestos in the air: a housing boom stirs up natural asbestos in California.(Health)Science and technologyRebecca Renner
A scourge of small arms.(Special Report -- Waging a New Kind of War)Science and technologyJeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare
A stretgy for subsets.(Mathematical Recreations)Science and technology 
Atlas Shrugged.(News & Analysis: Internet - Software)Science and technologyMichael Menduno
Better decisions through science.Science and technologyJohn 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 technologyTabitha M. Powledge
Birth of the modern diet.Science and technologyRachel Laudan
Bits of radio: receiving digital broadcasts becomes cheaper and easier - except in the U.S.Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Brain invaders.(auditory prosthesis)Science and technologySimon LeVay
Building a brainier mouse.Science and technologyJoe Z Tsien
Burning times for hot fusion: plasma physics.Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Capturing greenhouse gases.(includes related articles on burying carbon dioxide, trees and climate change policy)Science and technologyDiane Martindale, Howard Herzog, Baldur Eliasson, Olav Kaarstad, David W. Keith, Edward A. Parson
Care for a dying continent.(Expeditions: AIDS in Africa)Science and technologyCarol Ezell
Car parts from chickens.Science and technologyDiane Martindale
Cell communication: the inside story.Science and technologyJohn 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 technologyNeil G. Boothby, Christine M. Knudsen
Cleaning agents.Science and technologyLouis A Bloomfield
Cloning and conservation.(how cloning should be used)(Editorial)Science and technologyJohn Rennie
Cloning Noah's ark.Science and technologyRobert 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 technologyMark A. Reed, James M. Tour
Coping with crowding.(social aspects of population growth)Science and technologyFrans B.M. de Waal, Filippo Aureli, Peter G. Judge
Creating convergence.(Special Report)Science and technologyPeter Forman, Robert W. Saint John
Curiosity rhymed the cat.(Feedback)Science and technologyAlan Alda
Darwin's influence on modern thought.(evolutionary biologist, Charles Darwin)Science and technologyErnst Mayr
Different stripes.(superconductivity)Science and technologyGraham P. Colins
Digital cinema is for reel.(Special Report)Science and technologyPeter D. Lubell
Digital humans wait in the wings.(Special Report)Science and technologyAlvy Ray Smith
Digital materials and virtual weathering.(includes related articleson modeling reflection and on levels of detail)Science and technologyJulie Dorsey, Pat Hanrahan
Diseased passage.(New River, CA, migrants)Science and technologyEric Niiler
Dissecting a hurricane.(Expeditions)(Cover Story)Science and technologyTim Beardsley, Andrew Itkoff
Drinking without harm: arsenic poisoning or deadly diarrhea? Bangladesh may no longer have to choose.Science and technologyKimberly Masibay
Dwarf galaxies & starbursts.Science and technologySara C. Beck
Edible vaccines.Science and technologyWilliam H.R. Langridge
Electricity meters.(Working Knowledge)(Column)Science and technologyLes Rosenau
Fireballs of free quarks: CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma - last seen during the big bang.Science and technologyGraham Collins, Uwe Reichert
Form from fire.(combustion synthesis)Science and technologyArvind Varma
Fountains of youth.(birth of stars)Science and technologyThomas P. Ray
Galveston hurricane, Bruno Bettelheim on prejudice.(50, 100, & 150 Years Ago)(Column)Science and technology 
Gene scenes.(cell development)Science and technologyTrisha Gura
Granting immunity.(child vaccination safety)Science and technologySasha Memecek
How green are green plastics?Science and technologyTillman U. Gerngross, Steven C. Slater
Intragalactically speaking.(extraterrestrials)Science and technologyGeorge W. Swenson Jr.
Invaders from Hollywood.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story)Science and technologyPhilip 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 technologyRichard F. Mollica
Is global warming harmful to health?(Cover Story)Science and technologyPaul R. Epstein
Island survivors.(Guadalupe Island, Mexico)Science and technologyEric 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 technologyRichard F. Post
Making Metallic Hydrogen.(turning hydrogen into metal)(Cover Story)Science and technologyWilliam J. Nellis
Making money the new-fashioned way.Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Male sexual circuitry.(erectile dysfunction)Science and technologyIrwin Goldstein
Mars by way of its moons - proposal 2: a new approach.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story)Science and technologyS. Fred Singer
Melting below zero.(surface melting; includes related article on environmental effects)Science and technologyJohn S. Wettlaufer, J. Greg Dash
Meme theory oversimplifies how culture changes.Science and technologyRobert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
Monitoring Earth's vital signs.(NASA's Earth Observing System)Science and technologyMichael D King, David D Herring
More than the best medicine.(laughter, psychology)Science and technologyMeredith F. Small
Moviemaking in transition.(Special Report)Science and technologyPeter 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 technologyJesper L. Andersen, Peter Schjerling, Bengt Saltin
Music wars.(Special Report)Science and technologyKen C. Pohlmann
Nabada: the buried city.(Syria)Science and technologyJoachim Bretschneider
Name recognition.Science and technology 
Nanotubes for electronics.(includes related articles)Science and technologyPhilip 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 technologyJerome 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 technologyLawrence H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
No resistance.(includes related article)(superconductivity)Science and technologyBruce 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 technologyBarbara 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 technologyIan Tattersall
One-hit wonder.(Biology: Cell Death)Science and technologyRebecca Lipsitz
Operating on a beating heart.(bypass surgery)Science and technologyCornelius Borst
People do more than imitate.(Counterpoint - memetics)Science and technologyHenry Plotkin
Piecing together Alzheimer's.(disease)Science and technologyPeter H. St. George-Hyslop
Quantum teleportation.(Cover Story)Science and technologyAnton Zeilinger
Reading the bones of La Florida.(the diet of Florida's Native Americans in the 1500's)Science and technologyClark Spencer Larsen
Reengineering the radio.(defense technology)Science and technologyDaniel G. Dupont
Riding the rumble.(earthquake engineering)Science and technologySimon LeVay
Robots in the sky.(News & Analysis: Aviation, Remote Sensing)Science and technologyStephen Cole
Rulers of the Jurassic seas.(ichthyosaurs)(Cover Story)Science and technologyRyosuke Motani
Running the dam gauntlet: in the name of science, a rubber fish serves as stunt double.(Field Notes)Science and technologyPat 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 technologyLaurance R. Doyle, Hans-Jorg Deeg, Timothy M. Brown, Ray Jayawardhana
Six billion and counting.(Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich)(Interview)Science and technologyJulie 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 technologyDaniel 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 technologyArlene Judith Klotzko
Soothing the inflamed brain: antiinflammatories may be the first drugs to halt the progression of Alzheimer's.Science and technologyNicola Jones
The 1999 National Medal of Technology.Science and technology 
The Aleutian kayak.Science and technologyGeorge B Dyson
The bioinformatics gold rush.(biomedicine, genetic engineering)(Cover Story)Science and technologyken 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 technologyCarol Ezzell, Kathryn Brown, Julia Karow
The discovery of brown dwarfs.Science and technologyGibor Basri
The early origins of autism.(includes related article on diagnosis)Science and technologyPatricia M. Rodier
The future is here. Or is it?(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Company Profile)(Industry Overview)Science and technologyDavid Wilson
The future of digital entertainment.(Special Report)Science and technologyMark Fischetti
The Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons.Science and technologyTorrence V. Johnson
The hard and the soft: contact lenses.Science and technologyNaomi Lubick
The Internet in your hands.(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Company Profile)(Industry Overview)Science and technologyFiona Harvey
The Large Hadron Collider.(particle accelerator)Science and technologyChris Llewellyn Smith
The lion emperors.Science and technologyPhilip Morrison, Phyllis Morrison
The Mars direct plan - proposal 1: going soon.(Special Report: Sending Astronauts To Mars)(Cover Story)Science and technologyRobert 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 technologyWilliam Lanouette
The plan to save Fallingwater.(house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)Science and technologyRobert Silman
The power of memes.Science and technologySusan Blackmore
The promise of WAP.(Wireless Application Protocol)(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Industry Overview)(Company Profile)Science and technologyKaren J. Bannan
The revolutionary bridges of Robert Maillart.Science and technologyDavid P. Billington
The science of smart growth.(urban sprawl)Science and technologyDonald D.T. Chen, Andres Duany
The search for extreme life.(microorganisms)Science and technologyJulie Wakefield
The second War of the Worlds.(Martian microbes on earth)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Science and technologyJohn Rennie
The secrets of stardust: tiny grains of dust floating in interstellar space have radically altered the history of our galaxy.Science and technologyJ. Mayo Greenberg
The small planets.(asteroids)Science and technologyErik Asphaug
The third-generation gap.(Wireless Web - Special Report)(Cover Story)(Industry Overview)Science and technologyLeander Kahney
The tick-tock of the biological clock.(Cover Story)Science and technologyMichael W. Young
The universe's unseen dimensions.Science and technologyNima 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 technologyMalcolm Potts
The VASIMR rocket.(Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket)Science and technologyFranklin R. Chang Diaz
Toxins on the firing range: over military protests, the EPA orders cleanups of unexploded ordnance.Science and technologyWendy Williams
Transparent animals.Science and technologySonke Johnsen
Ultrashort-pulse lasers: big payoffs in a flash.Science and technologyJohn-Mark Hopkins, Wilson Sibbert
Understanding clinical trials.Science and technologyJustin A Zivin
Unlimited light: researchers make pulses that travel faster than light - sort of.Science and technologyDavid Appell
Uprooting the tree of life.(evolution research)Science and technologyW. Ford Doolittle
Violent opposition: escalating protests may be driving away some researchers.(Animal Experimentation)Science and technologyMeg 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 technologyYuri Ts. Oganessian, Vladimir K. Utyonkov, Kenton J. Moody
Where are they?(includes related article)(extraterrestrials)Science and technologyIan Crawford, Andrew LePage
Winds of change; can skyscrapers withstand stronger hurricanes?Science and technologyAlden M. Hayashi
Womb wars.(fetal development)Science and technologyLisa Melton
Women and the professions.Science and technologyRoger Doyle
Your own virtual storyworld.(Special Report)Science and technologyGlorianna Davenport
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