Scientific American 2001 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2001
TitleSubjectAuthors
100 years of quantum mysteries: as quantum theory celebrates its 100th birthday, spectacular successes are mixed with persistent puzzles.Science and technologyMax Tegmark, John Archibald Wheeler
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago.Science and technology 
A cosmic cartographer; the Microwave Anisotropy Probe will give cosmologists a much sharper picture of the early universe.(includes related spacecraft information)(Cover Story)Science and technologyCharles L. Bennett, Gary F. Hinshaw, Lyman Page
Acronym acrimony.(use of attractive names in the medical science)Science and technologyBrenda Goodman
Air traffic out of control.(air traffic control, privatization)(Editorial)Science and technology 
An environmental solution: Ionic liquids may replace hazardous solvents.Science and technologyRebecca Renner
A sharper view of the stars.(optical interferometry)(includes related articles on contributions to astronomy and history of interferometers)Science and technologyArsen R. Hajian, J. Thomas Armstrong
Bagged and dragged: transporting water in enormous bags may not be such a crazy idea.(Safeguarding Our Water: How We Can Do It)(Cover Story)Science and technologyPeter H. Gleick
Battling biofilms.Science and technologyPhilip S. Stewart, J.W. Costerton
Behind enemy lines: a close look at the inner workings of microbes in this era of escalating antibiotic resistance is offering new strategies for designing drugs.Science and technologyK.C. Nicolaou, Christopher N.C. Boddy
Beyond chicken soup.(includes related articles)(antiviral drugs)Science and technologyWilliam A. Haseltine
Bright sky, dirty city? Houston, we have ground strikes. Lots of them.(meterology in Houston, Texas)Science and technologyStephen Cole
Class acts.(connections in 18th and 19th century England)Science and technologyJames Burke
Code Red for the web.(implications of infiltration and disruption of the world wide web by computer hackers)Science and technologyCarolyn Meinel
Collision Decision: new radar systems may prevent deadly accidents on congested runways.Science and technologyPhil Scott
Cybernetic cells.Science and technologyWayt Gibbs W.
Dissent in the Maelstrom.Science and technologyDaniel Grossman
Dissident or Don Quixote?: Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H Duesberg all but excommunicated from the sceintific orthodoxy.Science and technologyWayt W. Gibbs
Does class size matter?(learning)Science and technologyRonald G. Ehrenberg, Dominic J. Brewer, Adam Gamoran, J. Douglas Willms
Does the world need GM foods? No.(GM Food Safety: Q&A)(Questions and Answers)(Interview)Science and technologySasha Nemecek
Does the world need GM foods? Yes.(GM Food Safety: Q&A)(Questions and Answers)(Interview)Science and technologySasha Nemecek
Echoes from the big bang; scientists may soon glimpse the universe' beginnings by studying the subtle ripples made by gravitational waves.(includes related article on the new wave detectors)(Cover Story)Science and technologyRobert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski
Endpoints.(Questions and Answers)Science and technologyAlexandra Chang
Evaluating the threat: Does mass biopanic portend mass destruction?Science and technologyEd Regis
Evolution: a lizard's tale.Science and technologyJonathan B. Losos
Facing a new menace.(New York terrorist attack, 2001)Science and technologyPhilip Yam, Gary Stix
Faith-based reasoning.(SA Perspectives)(Editorial)Science and technology 
Fighting the darkness in El Dorado.(Profile: Anthropologist, Napoleon Chagnon)Science and technologyKate Wong
Finding Homo sapiens' lost relatives.(profile of paleoanthropologist Meave G. Leakey)(Interview)Science and technologyKate Wong
French leave.(Connections)Science and technologyJames Burke
Frozen light.(includes related articles)Science and technologyLene Vestergaard Hau
Genetically modified foods: are they safe? Seeds of concern.(GM Food Safety)Science and technologyKathryn Brown
Go forth and replicate.Science and technologyMoshe Sipper, James A. Reggia
Gravity's kaleidoscope.(gravitational lensing)Science and technologyJoachim Wambsganss
Growing more food with less water.(Safeguarding Our Water)(Cover Story)Science and technologySandra Postel
Hair: why it grows, why it stops.(includes related article on research of hair-growth compounds)Science and technologyMia Schmiedeskamp, Ricki K. Rusting
Hormones, howitzers, horsepower.(50, 100, & 150 Years Ago)Science and technology 
How can see mammals drink saltwater?Science and technologyRobert Kenney
How to build a hyper computer.(includes related articles)(supercomputers)Science and technologyThomas Sterling
How we came to be human.Science and technologyIan Tattersall
If humans were built to last.(hypothetical redesigning of human beings)Science and technologyS. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes, Robert N. Butler
I know what you mean...the semantic Web: a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.(Cover Story)Science and technologyTim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila
India, Pakistan and the bomb.Science and technologyM.V. Ramana, A.H. Nayyar
In pursuit of the ultimate lamp.(full-spectrum light-emitting diodes)Science and technologyM. George Craford, Nick Holonyak Jr., Frederick A. Kish Jr.
In the fast lane.Science and technology 
I, Robonaut.(News Scan: Robotics)Science and technologyPhil Scott
Less is more in medicine.(applications of nanotechnology in biomedical research)Science and technologyA. Paul Alivisatos
Life's rocky start.Science and technologyRobert M. Hazen
Machine-phase nanotechnology.Science and technologyK. Eric Drexler
Mad cow's human toll: the unfolding mystery of prion disease and its ultimate casualties.(includes related information)Science and technologyPhilip Yam
Making every drop count.(water supply protection and preservation)(Safeguarding Our Water)(Cover Story)(Statistical Data Included)Science and technologyPeter H. Gleick
Making molecules into motors.(includes related articles)Science and technologyR. Dean Astumian
Making sense of modern cosmology.(Cover Story)Science and technologyP. James E. Peebles
Making sense of taste.Science and technologyDavid V. Smith, Robert F. Margolskee
Mammoth kill: did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? Or give them lethal disease?Science and technologyKatie Wong
Martian Canals, 1901, the Crystal Palace, 1851.(50, 100 & 150 Years Ago)Science and technology 
Napoleon's revenge.(humans, height)Science and technologyAlison McCook
No power to the people.(FM radio transmission)Science and technologyMariama Orange
North to Mars! To pave the way for a mission to Mars, a band of scienists decided to go to the Canadian Arctic.Science and technologyRobert Zubrin
Of Chemistry, love and nanorobots.Science and technologyRichard E. Smalley
Once were cannibals.Science and technologyTim D. White
One disaster after another: the father of the idea that a sibling of the sun periodically wreaks havoc on Earth finds inspiration in catastrophe.(scientist Richard A. Muller)Science and technologyDaniel Grossman
Origins of personal computing.Science and technologyM. Mitchell Waldrop
Photonic crystals: Semiconductors of light.Science and technologyEli Yablonovitch
Piloting through unchartered seas: the privately funded Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institure enables scientists and engineers to engage in radical pursuits.Science and technologyJohn Adam
Plan B for the cosmos; if the new cosmology fails, what's the backup plan?(Cover Story)Science and technologyJoao Magueijo
Plenty of room, indeed.(scope for research into nanoscale manipulation)Science and technologyMichael Roukes
Plenty to sniff at.(Technology & Business: Sensors, Olfaction)Science and technologyMia Schmiedeskamp
Refuges for life in a hostile universe.(Cover Story)Science and technologyGuillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee, Peter D. Ward
Rip van twinkle: the oldest stars have been growing younger.(includes related information)Science and technologyBrian C. Chaboyer
Routing packets with light; the ultimate all-optical network will require dramatic advances in technologies that use one lightwave to imprint information on another.Science and technologyDaniel J. Blumenthal
Save embyronic stem cell research.(Editorial)Science and technology 
Scotchgard scotched.(News & Analysis: Environment Contamination)Science and technologyRebecca Renner
Sculpting the earth from inside out.(motions deep inside earth lift entire continents)Science and technologyMichael Gurnis
Sight unseen.(News Scan: Optics)Science and technologyNeal Singer
Sigma chi chimpy.(chimpanzees, behavior)Science and technologyMeredith F. Small
Sign language in the brain.(how language is processed)Science and technologyGregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima
Skin so fixed.(News & Analysis: Dermatology, Cancer)(Product Announcement)Science and technologyJulia Karow
Solving the mystery of insect flight: insects use a combination of aerodynamic effects to remain aloft.Science and technologyMichael Dickinson
Sound judgments.(use of low frequency active sonar by US Navy)Science and technologyWendy Williams
Sound proof.(End Point: Anti Gravity)Science and technologyMirsky Steve
Symmetry breaking.(cryptography laws in US and Russia)Science and technologyPaul Wallich
Taken to heart: brushing your teeth may be good for your ticker.Science and technologyJulia Karow
Taking the plunge.(sky diving through the ozone layer)Science and technologyChristine Kenneally
Taming the killing fields of Laos.Science and technologyMark Leong
The $13-billion man; why the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute could be the most powerful individual in biomedicine.(Thomas R. Cech)Science and technologyCarol Ezell
The art of building small.(techniques deployed in nanofabrication)Science and technologyGeorge M. Whitesides, J. Christopher Love
The cellular chamber of doom.(proteasomes)(includes related article on cell division)Science and technologyStephen J. Elledge, Alfred L. Goldberg, J. Wade Harper
The challenge of macular degeneration.Science and technologyJeremy Nathans, Hui Sun
The company's company: Venture capitalism becomes a new mission for the nation's spymasters.Science and technologyDaniel G. Dupont
The cultures of chimpanzees.(social customs)(includes related articles and informaton on animal research, on chimpanzee customs, and on chimpanzee learning)Science and technologyAndrew Whiten, Christophe Boesch
The electronic paper chase.(interview with inventor Nicholas K. Sheridon)Science and technologySteve Ditlea
The evolution of human birth.Science and technologyKaren R. Rosenberg, Wenda R. Trevathan
The first stars in the universe.Science and technologyRichard B. Larson, Volker Bromm
The fury of space storms.Science and technologyJames L. Burch
The future of human evolution.(From the Editors)(Editorial)Science and technologyJohn Rennie
The geography of poverty and wealth.Science and technologyJeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger, John L. Gallup
The ice of life.Science and technologyDavid F. Blake, Peter Jenniskens
The incredible shrinking circuit.(applications of nanoelectronics)Science and technologyCharles M. Lieber
The mystery of Damascus blades.Science and technologyJohn D. Verhoeven
The new uncertainty principle; for complex environmental issues, science learns to take a backseat to political precaution.Science and technologyDavid Apell
The once and future nanomachine.(critique of physical possibility of nanorobots)Science and technologyGeorge M. Whitesides
The paradox of the sun's hot corona.(Cover Story)Science and technologyBhola N. Dwivedi, Kenneth J.H. Phillips
The post-genome project.Science and technologyKaren Hopkin
The quintessential universe; the universe has recently been commandeered by an invisible energy field, which is causing its expansion to accelerate outward.(includes related information)(Cover Story)Science and technologyJeremiah P. Ostriker, Paul J. Steinhardt
The rise of optical switching.Science and technologyDavid J. Bishop, C. Randy Giles, Sawato R. Das
The risks on the table.(GM Food Safety)Science and technologyKaren Hopkin
The science of persuasion.(social psychology)Science and technologyRobert B. Cialdini
The trouble with turtles.Science and technologyEric Niiler
The truth and the hype of hypnosis.(includes related articles)(Cover Story)Science and technologyMichael R. Nash
The well-rounded flat speaker.(audio)(includes related technology information)Science and technologyNaomi Lubrick
Touchy-feely computing.Science and technologySteve Ditlea
Troubles at the edge: at their borders, reserves may increase animal deaths.Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Unfair game: the bushmeat trade is wiping out large African mammals.Science and technologyJosephine Hearn
vessels of death or life.Science and technologyRakesh K. Jain, Peter F. Carmeliet
Violent pride: do people turn violent because of self-hate, or self-love?Science and technologyRoy F. Baumeister
Virtually there: three-dimensional tele-immersion may eventually bring the world to your desk.Science and technologyJaron Lanier
Volcanic accomplice.(News & Analysis: Geophysics - Superplumes)Science and technologyNaomi Lubick
What's wrong with this picture?(use of the Rorschach inkblot test)(includes related information)Science and technologyHoward N. Garb, Scott O. Lilienfeld, James M. Wood
Whose blood is it, anyway?(umbilical cord and placenta blood)(Cover Story)Science and technologyRonald M. Kline
Why the y is so weird.(Y chromosome)Science and technologyKarin Jegalian, Bruce T. Lahn
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