Scientific American 2005 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2005
TitleSubjectAuthors
A bolt out of the blue.Science and technologyJoseph R. Dwyer
About the big bang: Baffled by the expansion of the universe? You're not alone. Even astronomers frequently get it wrong.Science and technology 
A cool early earth?(Earth sciences research)Science and technologyJohn W. Valley
A force to reckon with: What applied the brakes on pioneer 10 and 11?Science and technologyAlexander Hellemans
A measured approach.Science and technologyPartha Dasgupta
An echo of Black holes.(research on quantum gravity)Science and technologyTheodore A. Jacobson, Renaud Parentani
An endangered species in the stomach.Science and technologyMartin J. Blaser
A patchwork of laws.(embryonic stem cell research)Science and technologyRichard Gardner, Tim Watson
As arguments mount over who will own the future technologies born of stem cell research, corporate lawyers prepare for battle.Science and technologyPatti Waldmeir
Atoms chips.Science and technologyJakob Reichel
Avoiding another Vioxx: Guarding against unsafe drugs means major changes.(Food and Drug Administration)Science and technologySara Beardsley
Back to square one: Government review repeats cold fusion conclusions.Science and technologyCharles O. Chio
Beating a sudden killer.Science and technologyJohn A. Elefteriades
Bending to bar codes.Science and technologySara Beardsley
Blue-green acres.Science and technologyPatrick Di Justo
Breeding snail fever: Three Gorges Dam boosts parasitic infections.Science and technologyAdam Minter
Bugs and drugs.Science and technologyGunjan Sinha
Buying time in suspended animation.Science and technologyMark B. Roth, Todd Nystul
Can Chlamydia be stopped?.Science and technologyPatrik M. Bavoil, David M. Ojcius, Toni Darville
Can extreme poverty be eliminated?Science and technologyJeffrey D. Sachs
Can we bury global warming?Science and technologyRobert H. Socolow
Capturing a killer flu virus.Science and technologyJaffery K. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid, Thomas G. Fanning
Clash in Cambridge.Science and technologyJohn Horgan
Conversational computers.Science and technologyAndy Aaron, Ellen Eide, John F. Pitrelli
Copper for fiber: Fiber optics into the home, with help from DSL.(digital subscriber line)Science and technologyLamont Wood
Crossbar nanocomputers.Science and technologyR. Stanley Williams, Philip J. Kuekes, Gregory S. Snider
Defensive eating.(vaccines)Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Did life come from another world?Science and technologyDavid Warmflash, Benjamin Weiss
Doubt is their product.(hazardous chemicals and drugs)Science and technologyDavid Michaels
Doubts on dinosaurs.(extinctions)Science and technologyBarry E. DiGregorio
Easy rider.(Shimano develops Bianchi Milano bicycle)Science and technologyKaspar Mossman
Economics in a full world.Science and technologyHerman E. Daly
Endangered wild equids.Science and technologyPatricia D. Moehlman
Exploding the self-esteem.Science and technologyKathleen D. Vohs, Ray F. Baumeister, Jennifer D. Campbell, Joachim I. Krueger
Eye of the beholder.Science and technologyEmily Harrison
Flagging copy rights.Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Founder mutations.(human migrations)Science and technologyDennis Drayna
Getting a leg up on land.(evolution of fossil vertebrates)Science and technologyJennifer A. Clack
Grow your own.(health of diabetics and pancreatic intolerance)Science and technologyPhilip E. Ross
His brain, her brain.(human brains)Science and technologyLarry Cahill
How dinosaurs grew so large -and so small.Science and technologyKevin Padian, John R. Horner, Armand de Ricqles
How do animals do business.(animal social behaviour)Science and technologyFrans B. M. de Waal
Human population grows up.Science and technologyJoel E. Cohen
Hungry for dino meat: A pointy-tooted mammal that preyed on dinosaurs.Science and technologyCharles O. Choi
If small pox strikes Portland.Science and technologyJames P. Smith, Chris L. Barrett, Stephen G. Eubank
Immunity's early-warning system.(inflammation)Science and technologyLuke A. J. O'Neill
Inconstant constants.Science and technologyJohn D. Barrow, John K. Webb
Inside the mind of a savant.(Kim Peek suffering from Savant Syndrome)Science and technologyDarold A. Treffert, Daniel D. Christensen
In Singapore, a company with ambitious goals leads a "privileged existence".(Embryonic Stem Cell International)Science and technologyJohn Burton
In the business of synthetic life.Science and technologySam Jaffe
Into the abyss: Science meets entertainment at the bottom of the sea.Science and technologyChristina Reed
Inventor of dreams.(Nikola Tesla)Science and technologyW. Bernard Carlson
Is the universe out of tune?Science and technologyGlenn D. Starkman, Dominik J. Schwarz
Kryder's law.(Mark Kryder)Science and technologyChip Walter
Leafy letdown.Science and technologyJr. Minkel
Life in balance.(human body)Science and technology 
Low temperature super conductivity is warming up.Science and technologyPaul C. Canfield, Sergey L. Bud'ko
Making memories stick.Science and technologyR. Douglas Feilds
Mapping mercury.Science and technologyRebecca Renner
Math without words: Numerical reasoning seems independent of language.Science and technologyPhilip E. Ross
Mindful of symbols.Science and technologyJudy S. DeLoache
More bits in pits: DVD-Like system could take a run at holographic storage.Science and technologyJR Minkel
More profit with less carbon.Science and technologyAmory B. Lovins
Morphware.(magnetologic)Science and technologyReinhold Koch
Neuromorphic microchips.Science and technologyKwabena Boahen
New bull's-eyes for drugs.(G-protein coupled receptors)Science and technologyTerry Kenakin
New movement in Parkinson's.Science and technologyAndres M. Lozano, Suneil K. Kalia
New offensives against HIV.(increase in number of HIV patiens and shortage of drugs)Science and technologyAimee Cunningham
Parsing parasites: Genome of three tropical parasites is sequenced.Science and technologyKaspar Mossman
Preparing for a pandemic.Science and technologyChristine Soares, W. Waut Gibbs
Probing the geodynamo.Science and technologyGary A. Glatzmaier, Peter Olson
Public health in transition.Science and technologyBarry R. Bloom
Punctuated disequilibrium.(ecology)Science and technologyClaudio Angelo
Quantum black holes.Science and technologyBernard J. Carr, Steven B. Giddings
Rare flare: odd magnetar burst partly solves gamma-ray riddle.Science and technologyGovert Schilling
Reaching in the dark: How babies learn that unseen toys don't just vanish.Science and technologyMarina Krakovsky
Rebuilding a volcano: Mount St. Helens may be patching in its 1980 crater.Science and technologyKrista West
Ripples in a galactic pond.Science and technologyFrancoise Combes
RNA to the rescue: Novel inheritance patterns violet Mendel's laws.Science and technologyJr. Minkel
Scoping out the planet.(EarthScope)Science and technologyKrista West
Seeking better web searches.Science and technologyJaved Mostafa
Shaping the future.(climate change)Science and technologyRobert J. Lempert, Steven W. Popper, Steven C. Bankes
Sick of poverty.(poor people more prone to diseases due to stress)Science and technologyRobert Sapolsky
Simulating ancient societies.Science and technologyTimothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman, Robert G. Reynolds
Slim TV: How to shrink a cathode-ray tube.Science and technology 
Smarter use of nuclear waste.Science and technologyWilliam H. Hannum, Gerald E. Marsh, George S. Stanford
Smart Wi-Fi.Science and technologyAlex Hills
Snaking its way in: Feared snakehead fish sets up house in the US.Science and technologyAimee Cunningham
Snoring suspects: Free radicals may set off sleep Apnea's cardio dangers.Science and technologyLisa Melton
Some experiments can disquietingly blur the line between species.Science and technologyJohn Rennie
Sound findings: Sonar offers a way to count Salmon accurately.Science and technologyDavid Kosub
String revival: Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects?.Science and technologyGovert Schilling
Sustaining the variety of life.Science and technologyStuart L. Pimm, Clinton Jenkins
Tackling malaria.Science and technologyClaire Panosian Dunavan
Taming Lupus.Science and technologyMoncef Zouali
Test-tube teeth.Science and technologyPaul T. Sharpe, Conan S. Young
The alternative genome.Science and technologyGil Ast
The biggest dig: Japan builds a ship to drill to the Earth's mantle.Science and technologyTim Hornyak
The big potential of small farms.Science and technologyPaul Polak
The early evolution of animals.Science and technologyDavid J. Bottjer
The forgotten era of brain chips.Science and technologyJohn Horgan
The former patent powerhouse works on new therapies.Science and technologyVictoria Griffith
The ghost of Lysenko.(recombinant DNA technology)Science and technologyIrving Weissman
The illusion of gravity.(Cover story)Science and technologyJuan Maldacena
The many faces of mars.(Martian atmosphere)Science and technologyPhilip R. Christensen
The midlife crisis of the cosmos.(universe)Science and technologyAmy J. Barger
The multipath to clarity: Receiving HDTV over the air takes luck and lots of patience.(high-definition television )Science and technologyPhilip Yam
The mysteries of mass.(Subatomic particles)Science and technologyGordon Kane
The neurobiology of the self.Science and technologyCarl Zimmer
The search for cells that heal.(embryonic stem cell research)Science and technologyIan Wilmut
The tiny company that ignited a political battle over human therapeutic cloning continues to punch above its weight.(Advanced Cell Technology Inc.)Science and technologyVictoria Griffith
The workings of an ancient nuclear reactor.Science and technologyAlex P. Meshik
Tough cell to investors.(embryonic stem cell research)Science and technologyNuala Moran
Training the brain: Cognitive therapy as an alternative to ADHD drugs.(attention-deficit hyperactivity disorde)Science and technologyGunjan Sinha
Wait a second.(arrival of 2006)Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Waiting for Wi-Fi.(wireless technology used)Science and technologyJ.R. Minkel
What can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages?Science and technology 
What heated the asteroids?.Science and technologyAlan E. Rubin
Widening the window: Strategies to buy time in treating ischemic stroke.Science and technologyCathryn M. Delude
You, Robot.(robotic industry)Science and technologyChip Walter
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