Scientific American 2001 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
100 years of quantum mysteries: as quantum theory celebrates its 100th birthday, spectacular successes are mixed with persistent puzzles. | Science and technology | Max 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 technology | Charles L. Bennett, Gary F. Hinshaw, Lyman Page |
Acronym acrimony.(use of attractive names in the medical science) | Science and technology | Brenda 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 technology | Rebecca Renner |
A sharper view of the stars.(optical interferometry)(includes related articles on contributions to astronomy and history of interferometers) | Science and technology | Arsen 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 technology | Peter H. Gleick |
Battling biofilms. | Science and technology | Philip 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 technology | K.C. Nicolaou, Christopher N.C. Boddy |
Beyond chicken soup.(includes related articles)(antiviral drugs) | Science and technology | William A. Haseltine |
Bright sky, dirty city? Houston, we have ground strikes. Lots of them.(meterology in Houston, Texas) | Science and technology | Stephen Cole |
Class acts.(connections in 18th and 19th century England) | Science and technology | James Burke |
Code Red for the web.(implications of infiltration and disruption of the world wide web by computer hackers) | Science and technology | Carolyn Meinel |
Collision Decision: new radar systems may prevent deadly accidents on congested runways. | Science and technology | Phil Scott |
Cybernetic cells. | Science and technology | Wayt Gibbs W. |
Dissent in the Maelstrom. | Science and technology | Daniel Grossman |
Dissident or Don Quixote?: Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H Duesberg all but excommunicated from the sceintific orthodoxy. | Science and technology | Wayt W. Gibbs |
Does class size matter?(learning) | Science and technology | Ronald 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 technology | Sasha Nemecek |
Does the world need GM foods? Yes.(GM Food Safety: Q&A)(Questions and Answers)(Interview) | Science and technology | Sasha 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 technology | Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski |
Endpoints.(Questions and Answers) | Science and technology | Alexandra Chang |
Evaluating the threat: Does mass biopanic portend mass destruction? | Science and technology | Ed Regis |
Evolution: a lizard's tale. | Science and technology | Jonathan B. Losos |
Facing a new menace.(New York terrorist attack, 2001) | Science and technology | Philip Yam, Gary Stix |
Faith-based reasoning.(SA Perspectives)(Editorial) | Science and technology | |
Fighting the darkness in El Dorado.(Profile: Anthropologist, Napoleon Chagnon) | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
Finding Homo sapiens' lost relatives.(profile of paleoanthropologist Meave G. Leakey)(Interview) | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
French leave.(Connections) | Science and technology | James Burke |
Frozen light.(includes related articles) | Science and technology | Lene Vestergaard Hau |
Genetically modified foods: are they safe? Seeds of concern.(GM Food Safety) | Science and technology | Kathryn Brown |
Go forth and replicate. | Science and technology | Moshe Sipper, James A. Reggia |
Gravity's kaleidoscope.(gravitational lensing) | Science and technology | Joachim Wambsganss |
Growing more food with less water.(Safeguarding Our Water)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Sandra Postel |
Hair: why it grows, why it stops.(includes related article on research of hair-growth compounds) | Science and technology | Mia Schmiedeskamp, Ricki K. Rusting |
Hormones, howitzers, horsepower.(50, 100, & 150 Years Ago) | Science and technology | |
How can see mammals drink saltwater? | Science and technology | Robert Kenney |
How to build a hyper computer.(includes related articles)(supercomputers) | Science and technology | Thomas Sterling |
How we came to be human. | Science and technology | Ian Tattersall |
If humans were built to last.(hypothetical redesigning of human beings) | Science and technology | S. 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 technology | Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila |
India, Pakistan and the bomb. | Science and technology | M.V. Ramana, A.H. Nayyar |
In pursuit of the ultimate lamp.(full-spectrum light-emitting diodes) | Science and technology | M. George Craford, Nick Holonyak Jr., Frederick A. Kish Jr. |
In the fast lane. | Science and technology | |
I, Robonaut.(News Scan: Robotics) | Science and technology | Phil Scott |
Less is more in medicine.(applications of nanotechnology in biomedical research) | Science and technology | A. Paul Alivisatos |
Life's rocky start. | Science and technology | Robert M. Hazen |
Machine-phase nanotechnology. | Science and technology | K. Eric Drexler |
Mad cow's human toll: the unfolding mystery of prion disease and its ultimate casualties.(includes related information) | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
Making every drop count.(water supply protection and preservation)(Safeguarding Our Water)(Cover Story)(Statistical Data Included) | Science and technology | Peter H. Gleick |
Making molecules into motors.(includes related articles) | Science and technology | R. Dean Astumian |
Making sense of modern cosmology.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | P. James E. Peebles |
Making sense of taste. | Science and technology | David V. Smith, Robert F. Margolskee |
Mammoth kill: did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? Or give them lethal disease? | Science and technology | Katie Wong |
Martian Canals, 1901, the Crystal Palace, 1851.(50, 100 & 150 Years Ago) | Science and technology | |
Napoleon's revenge.(humans, height) | Science and technology | Alison McCook |
No power to the people.(FM radio transmission) | Science and technology | Mariama 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 technology | Robert Zubrin |
Of Chemistry, love and nanorobots. | Science and technology | Richard E. Smalley |
Once were cannibals. | Science and technology | Tim 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 technology | Daniel Grossman |
Origins of personal computing. | Science and technology | M. Mitchell Waldrop |
Photonic crystals: Semiconductors of light. | Science and technology | Eli Yablonovitch |
Piloting through unchartered seas: the privately funded Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institure enables scientists and engineers to engage in radical pursuits. | Science and technology | John Adam |
Plan B for the cosmos; if the new cosmology fails, what's the backup plan?(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Joao Magueijo |
Plenty of room, indeed.(scope for research into nanoscale manipulation) | Science and technology | Michael Roukes |
Plenty to sniff at.(Technology & Business: Sensors, Olfaction) | Science and technology | Mia Schmiedeskamp |
Refuges for life in a hostile universe.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Guillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee, Peter D. Ward |
Rip van twinkle: the oldest stars have been growing younger.(includes related information) | Science and technology | Brian 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 technology | Daniel J. Blumenthal |
Save embyronic stem cell research.(Editorial) | Science and technology | |
Scotchgard scotched.(News & Analysis: Environment Contamination) | Science and technology | Rebecca Renner |
Sculpting the earth from inside out.(motions deep inside earth lift entire continents) | Science and technology | Michael Gurnis |
Sight unseen.(News Scan: Optics) | Science and technology | Neal Singer |
Sigma chi chimpy.(chimpanzees, behavior) | Science and technology | Meredith F. Small |
Sign language in the brain.(how language is processed) | Science and technology | Gregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima |
Skin so fixed.(News & Analysis: Dermatology, Cancer)(Product Announcement) | Science and technology | Julia Karow |
Solving the mystery of insect flight: insects use a combination of aerodynamic effects to remain aloft. | Science and technology | Michael Dickinson |
Sound judgments.(use of low frequency active sonar by US Navy) | Science and technology | Wendy Williams |
Sound proof.(End Point: Anti Gravity) | Science and technology | Mirsky Steve |
Symmetry breaking.(cryptography laws in US and Russia) | Science and technology | Paul Wallich |
Taken to heart: brushing your teeth may be good for your ticker. | Science and technology | Julia Karow |
Taking the plunge.(sky diving through the ozone layer) | Science and technology | Christine Kenneally |
Taming the killing fields of Laos. | Science and technology | Mark 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 technology | Carol Ezell |
The art of building small.(techniques deployed in nanofabrication) | Science and technology | George M. Whitesides, J. Christopher Love |
The cellular chamber of doom.(proteasomes)(includes related article on cell division) | Science and technology | Stephen J. Elledge, Alfred L. Goldberg, J. Wade Harper |
The challenge of macular degeneration. | Science and technology | Jeremy Nathans, Hui Sun |
The company's company: Venture capitalism becomes a new mission for the nation's spymasters. | Science and technology | Daniel 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 technology | Andrew Whiten, Christophe Boesch |
The electronic paper chase.(interview with inventor Nicholas K. Sheridon) | Science and technology | Steve Ditlea |
The evolution of human birth. | Science and technology | Karen R. Rosenberg, Wenda R. Trevathan |
The first stars in the universe. | Science and technology | Richard B. Larson, Volker Bromm |
The fury of space storms. | Science and technology | James L. Burch |
The future of human evolution.(From the Editors)(Editorial) | Science and technology | John Rennie |
The geography of poverty and wealth. | Science and technology | Jeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger, John L. Gallup |
The ice of life. | Science and technology | David F. Blake, Peter Jenniskens |
The incredible shrinking circuit.(applications of nanoelectronics) | Science and technology | Charles M. Lieber |
The mystery of Damascus blades. | Science and technology | John D. Verhoeven |
The new uncertainty principle; for complex environmental issues, science learns to take a backseat to political precaution. | Science and technology | David Apell |
The once and future nanomachine.(critique of physical possibility of nanorobots) | Science and technology | George M. Whitesides |
The paradox of the sun's hot corona.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Bhola N. Dwivedi, Kenneth J.H. Phillips |
The post-genome project. | Science and technology | Karen 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 technology | Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Paul J. Steinhardt |
The rise of optical switching. | Science and technology | David J. Bishop, C. Randy Giles, Sawato R. Das |
The risks on the table.(GM Food Safety) | Science and technology | Karen Hopkin |
The science of persuasion.(social psychology) | Science and technology | Robert B. Cialdini |
The trouble with turtles. | Science and technology | Eric Niiler |
The truth and the hype of hypnosis.(includes related articles)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Michael R. Nash |
The well-rounded flat speaker.(audio)(includes related technology information) | Science and technology | Naomi Lubrick |
Touchy-feely computing. | Science and technology | Steve Ditlea |
Troubles at the edge: at their borders, reserves may increase animal deaths. | Science and technology | Luis Miguel Ariza |
Unfair game: the bushmeat trade is wiping out large African mammals. | Science and technology | Josephine Hearn |
vessels of death or life. | Science and technology | Rakesh K. Jain, Peter F. Carmeliet |
Violent pride: do people turn violent because of self-hate, or self-love? | Science and technology | Roy F. Baumeister |
Virtually there: three-dimensional tele-immersion may eventually bring the world to your desk. | Science and technology | Jaron Lanier |
Volcanic accomplice.(News & Analysis: Geophysics - Superplumes) | Science and technology | Naomi Lubick |
What's wrong with this picture?(use of the Rorschach inkblot test)(includes related information) | Science and technology | Howard N. Garb, Scott O. Lilienfeld, James M. Wood |
Whose blood is it, anyway?(umbilical cord and placenta blood)(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Ronald M. Kline |
Why the y is so weird.(Y chromosome) | Science and technology | Karin Jegalian, Bruce T. Lahn |
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