| Scientific American 2004 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 50, 100 & 150 years ago. | Science and technology | |
| Abrupt Climate Change: winter temperatures plummeting six degrees Celsius and sudden droughts scorching farmland around the globe are not just the stuff of scary movies. Such striking climate jumps have happened before-sometimes within a matter of years. | Science and technology | Richard B. Alley |
| A CENTURY OF EINSTEIN: Scientific American has covered Einstein's theories--and the refinements and reactions to them ever since scientists began to grasp the import of his landmark 1905 papers. Read on for a sampling of our reports, some by leading physicists of their times.(Reprint) | Science and technology | Daniel C. Schlenoff |
| A COSMIC CONUNDRUM: a new incarnation of Einstein's cosmological constant may point the way beyond general relativity. | Science and technology | Lawrence M. Krauss, Michael S. Turner |
| A new race of robots. | Science and technology | Wayt W. Gibbs |
| Anguish and ethics. | Science and technology | Hubertus Breuer |
| Are Viruses Alive? Although viruses challenge our concept of what "living" means, they are vital members of the web of life. | Science and technology | Luis P. Villarreal |
| ARSENIC CRISIS in Bangladesh: arsenic in drinking water could severely poison 50 million people worldwide. Strategies being tested in Bangladesh might help prevent the problem. | Science and technology | A. Chowdhury, Mushtaque R. |
| Ask the experts. | Science and technology | |
| Atoms of space and time. | Science and technology | Lee Smolin |
| A transparent enigma. | Science and technology | Madhusree Mukerjee |
| A universe of disks.(accretion disks) | Science and technology | Omer Blaes |
| A walk in the woods: satellites show the way in the new sport of geocaching. | Science and technology | Mark Clemens |
| Baby talk beginning: infant pacification may led to the origin of language. | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| Back to the Future of Cereals.(genomic research and grain crops) | Science and technology | John M. Salmeron, Stephen A. Goff |
| Back to the Future.(Physics)(25th anniversary commemoration, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara) | Science and technology | Graham R. Collins |
| Becoming behemoth: how to put the rex into tyrannosaurus. | Science and technology | Kate Wong |
| Better displays with organic films.(Organic light-emitting diodes) | Science and technology | Webster E. Howard |
| BLACK HOLE COMPUTERS: in keeping with the spirit of the age, researchers can think of the laws of physics as computer programs and the universe as a computer.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Seth Lloyd, Y. Jack Ng |
| Blastoffs on a budget. | Science and technology | Joan C. Horvath |
| Bluffhead. | Science and technology | Dennis E. Shasha |
| Breathing difficulties.(air pollution control)(Editorial) | Science and technology | |
| Breathing with Hepatitis: DOES EXPOSURE TO A LIVER-INFLAMING VIRUS PREVENT ASTHMA?(Allergy) | Science and technology | Lisa Melton |
| Bugging for guidance: no one is sure who regulated genetically modified insects. | Science and technology | Jr. Minkel |
| Controlling hurricanes.(Cover Story) | Science and technology | Ross N. Hoffman |
| Crippled but Not Crashed: NEURAL NETWORKS CAN HELP PILOTS LAND DAMAGED PLANES.(Technicalities) | Science and technology | Mike Corder |
| Damage Control: A CRACKDOWN TO PREVENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AT THE NIH.(National Institutes of Health) | Science and technology | David Labrador |
| Decoding schizophrenia. | Science and technology | Joseph T. Coyle, Daniel C. Javitt |
| Defusing the global warming time bomb. | Science and technology | James Hansen |
| Detected mad cow disease. | Science and technology | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| Dissecting "Happy Birthday". | Science and technology | Eckart O. Altenmuller |
| Diving for dead wood: Submarine with a chain saw for eco-friendly logging. | Science and technology | Sarah Simpson |
| Does free will arrive freely?. | Science and technology | Michael Pauen |
| Doom and Gloom by 2100: unleashed viruses, environmental disaster, gray goo-astronomer Sir Martin Rees calculates that civilization has only a 50-50. | Science and technology | Julie Wakefield |
| Double distress. | Science and technology | Rebecca Renner |
| Downsized target.(Amyloid Beta-Derived Diffusible Ligand ) | Science and technology | Tom Valeo |
| Draining the language out of color. | Science and technology | Philip E. Ross |
| Dying to see.(lens cells may be the key to understanding and treating Alzheimer's and other diseases) | Science and technology | Ralf Dahm |
| Egg beaters: flu vaccine makers look beyond the chicken egg. | Science and technology | Karen Hopkin |
| Einstein = Man of Conscience.(SA Perspectives) | Science and technology | |
| EINSTEIN & NEWTON: GENIUS COMPARED.(Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton) | Science and technology | Alan Lightman |
| EINSTEIN'S COMPASS: What was it about the magnetism of an iron bar that could divert Einstein from perfecting his celebrated theory of general relativity? | Science and technology | Peter Galison |
| Electrodynamic Tethers in Space: by exploiting fundamental physical laws, tethers may provide low-cost electrical power, drag, thrust, and artificial gravity for spaceflight . | Science and technology | Enrico Lorenzini, Juan Sanmartin |
| EVERYDAY EINSTEIN: finding your way out of the woods with GPS? Hanging a picture frame with a laser level? Making photocopies? Better thank Einstein. | Science and technology | Philip Yam |
| Evolution encoded. | Science and technology | Laurence D. Hurst, Stephen J. Freeland |
| Eye on the junk: Space station noises renew worry about orbital debris. | Science and technology | Phil Scott |
| Fear not: anxieties can become strongly etched into the grain. But don't worry- researchers may find ways to erase them. | Science and technology | Rudiger Vaas |
| Fixing the vote.(direct record electronic voting) | Science and technology | Ted Selker |
| Flawed Revelations? CONTAMINATION MAY UNDERMINE GENESIS DATA. | Science and technology | Barry E. Digregorio |
| Four keys to cosmology. | Science and technology | |
| Freud returns. | Science and technology | Mark Solms |
| From slowdown to speedup. | Science and technology | Adam G. Riess, Michael S. Turner |
| Gene Doping. | Science and technology | H. Lee Sweeney |
| Gerard Piel (1915-2004).(In Memoriam)(Obituary) | Science and technology | |
| Getting the picture. | Science and technology | Michael H. Herzog, Udo Ernst, Christian W. Eurich |
| Holes in the Missile Shield: the national missile defense now being deployed by the U.S. should be replaced with a more effective system. | Science and technology | Richard L. Garwin |
| How are temperatures close to absolute zero achieved and measured?. | Science and technology | |
| How do dimples on golf balls affect their flight?. | Science and technology | T. Grinham |
| Humbled by history: over the centuries, many "proven" ideas about the brain were later found lacking, a lesson worth remembering today. | Science and technology | Robert-Benjamin Illing |
| Insights into shock. | Science and technology | Donald W. Landry, Juan A. Oliver |
| Islands of genius. | Science and technology | Darold A. Treffert, Gregory L. Wallace |
| Keep the Beat.(WORKING KNOWLEDGE) | Science and technology | Mark Fiscbetti |
| Lash out: a blimp-based system for military surveillance.(Littoral Airborne Sensor Hyperspectral) | Science and technology | Phil Scott |
| Leading to lead: conflicting rules may put lead in tap water. | Science and technology | Rebecca Renner |
| Learning from switched-off brains. | Science and technology | Claus C. Hilgetag |
| Lessons from the wolf. | Science and technology | Jim Robbins |
| Magnetic moods. | Science and technology | Emily Harrison |
| Marijuana Research.(SA Perspectives)(Editorial) | Science and technology | |
| Memories of a fly: tiny and ubiquitous, the fruit fly is a helpful model for the study of memory. | Science and technology | Raphael Hitier |
| Mickey has two moms: no sperm needed: mice are born from two eggs. | Science and technology | Diane Martindale |
| Muscle Twitch Switch: GENETIC FINDING COULD MEAN GAIN WITHOUT PAIN. | Science and technology | Diane Martindale |
| Music and the Brain: what is the secret of music's strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians. | Science and technology | Norman M. Weinberger |
| Music in your head. | Science and technology | Eckart O. Altenmuller |
| Nanosize Me.(Nomenclature) | Science and technology | Patrick DiJusto |
| Nanotechnology and the double helix. | Science and technology | Nadrian C. Seeman |
| Not so icy stares: the moon's water may be difficult to get. | Science and technology | Sarah Simpson |
| Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs. | Science and technology | Michael Levi |
| OPTICS AND REALISM IN RENAISSANCE ART: a much publicized assertion holds that 15th-century painters achieved a new level of realism with the help of lenses and mirrors. But recent findings cast doubt on that idea. | Science and technology | David G. Stork |
| Our growing, breathing galaxy. | Science and technology | Bart P. Wakker, Philipp Richter |
| Out of the darkness. | Science and technology | Georgi Dvali |
| Outsourcing Drug Work. | Science and technology | Gunjan Sinha |
| Plan for Water. | Science and technology | Elizabeth Querna |
| Planning for prestige: hope for getting the oil out of a sunken tanker. | Science and technology | Luis Miguel Ariza |
| Political Science.(ISA Perspectives)(Editorial) | Science and technology | |
| Principled problem solving. | Science and technology | Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff |
| Questions about a hydrogen economy. | Science and technology | Matthew L. Wald |
| QUESTIONS That PLAGUE PHYSICS.(Interview with Lawrence M. Krauss)(Interview) | Science and technology | |
| Reading the blueprints of creation. | Science and technology | Michael A. Strauss |
| REBUILDING BROKEN HEARTS. | Science and technology | Jonathan Leor, Smadar Cohen |
| Register or Perish. | Science and technology | Marina Krakovsky |
| Retooling the Global Positioning System. | Science and technology | Per Enge |
| RFID a key to automating everything.(Radio-frequency identification) | Science and technology | Roy Want |
| Saturn at last!. | Science and technology | Jonathan I. Lunine |
| Science's political bulldog. | Science and technology | Julie Wakefield |
| SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50.(research leaders of the year) | Science and technology | |
| Seeing is believing. | Science and technology | Vilayanur S. Ramachandaran, Diane Rogers Ramachandaran |
| Sitcoms on the brain: Different brain areas "Get It" and find it funny. | Science and technology | Marina Krakovsky |
| Sloshing in Space.(Dynamics) | Science and technology | Govert Schilling |
| Smart sensors to network the world. | Science and technology | David E. Culler, Hans Mulder |
| Sobering shift. | Science and technology | Sally Lehrman |
| Splash of cold water. | Science and technology | Christina Reed |
| Spring forward. | Science and technology | Daniel Grossman |
| Storm spotting: a step closer to forecasting disruptive solar activity. | Science and technology | Krista West |
| String theory: a weak sun may have sweetened the Stradivarius. | Science and technology | Laura Wright |
| Sussing out stress: chronic stress makes people sick. But how? and how might we prevent those ill effects?. | Science and technology | Hermann Englert |
| Television addiction is no mere metaphor. | Science and technology | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Kubey |
| The 17-year itch: Brood X reappears, with clues to cicada behavior. | Science and technology | Tabitha M. Powledge |
| The addicted brain. | Science and technology | Eric J. Nestler, Robert C. Malenka |
| The brain's own marijuana: research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain-and suggest treatments for-pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions. | Science and technology | Roger A. Nicoll, Bradley E. Alger |
| THE CASE OF THE PILFERED PLANET. | Science and technology | William Sheehan, Nicholas Kollerstrom, Craig B. Waff |
| The cosmic symphony. | Science and technology | Wayne Hu, Martin White |
| The curious history of the first pocket calculator. | Science and technology | Cliff Stoll |
| THE DINOSAURS OF ARCTIC ALASKA: seventy-five million to 70 million years ago, a group of hardy dinosaurs thrived in the harsh climate of what is now northern Alaska. | Science and technology | Anthony R. Fiorillo |
| The extraordinary deaths of an ordinary stars. | Science and technology | Adam Frank, Bruce Balick |
| The fairest vote of all. | Science and technology | Partha Dasgupta, Eric Maskin |
| The first nanochips. | Science and technology | G. Dan Hutcheson |
| The Green Gene Revolution.(SA Perspectives) | Science and technology | |
| The hidden genetic program of complex organisms. | Science and technology | John S. Mattick |
| The hidden members of planetary systems. | Science and technology | David R. Ardila |
| The internet of things. | Science and technology | Danny Cohen, Neil Gershenfeld, Raffi Krikorian |
| The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. | Science and technology | Gordon Rugg |
| The myth of the beginning of time. | Science and technology | Gabriele Veneziano |
| The oil and the otter. | Science and technology | Sonya Senkowsky |
| The other half of the brain. | Science and technology | R. Douglas Fields |
| The quest to find consciousness. | Science and technology | Gerhard Roth |
| The science of persuasion: social psychology has determined the basic principles that govern getting to "yes". | Science and technology | Robert B. Cialdini |
| THE SEARCH FOR RELATIVITY VIOLATIONS: to uncover evidence for an ultimate theory, scientists are looking for infractions of Einstein's once sacrosanct physical principle. | Science and technology | Alan Kostelecky |
| The service of siblings.(only children at a social disadvantage) | Science and technology | Lisa DeKeukelaere |
| The spirit of exploration: NASA's rover fights the curves of the angry red planet. | Science and technology | Geroge Musser |
| The stem cell challenge. | Science and technology | Nadia Rosenthal, Robert Lanza |
| THE STRING THEORY LANDSCAPE: the theory of strings predicts that the universe might occupy one random "valley" out of a virtually infinite selection of valleys in a vast landscape of possibilities. | Science and technology | Raphael Bousso, Joseph Polchinski |
| The threat of silent earthquakes. | Science and technology | Peter Cervelli |
| The transit of Venus. | Science and technology | Steven J. Dick |
| The tyranny of choice. | Science and technology | Barry Schwartz |
| Transfer troubles.(nuclear transfer) | Science and technology | Cathryn M. Delude |
| Uncertain threat: does smallpox really spread that easily? | Science and technology | Gunjan Sinha |
| VIRTUAL-REALITY THERAPY: Patients can get relief from pain or overcome their phobias by immersing themselves in computer-generated worlds. | Science and technology | Hunter G. Hoffman |
| When blade meets bat: unexpected bat kills threaten future wind farms. | Science and technology | Wendy Williams |
| When methane made climate. | Science and technology | James F. Kasting |
| Why are blood transfusions not rejected, as can happen with organs? | Science and technology | K. Dahlke |
| Women and men at Catalhoyuk. | Science and technology | Ian Hodder |
| Your personal pathology. | Science and technology | Robert M. Sapolsky |
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