Scientific American 2006 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2006
TitleSubjectAuthors
50, 100 & 150 years ago.(energy physics conference)Science and technology 
A great leap in graphics.Science and technologyWayt W. Gibbs
Al Gore.(Albert Gore)(documentary film 'An Inconvenient Truth')Science and technologyGary Stix, J.K. Minkel
Android science.Science and technologyTim Hornyak
An efficient solution: Wasting less energy is the quickest, least expensive way to stem carbon emissions.Science and technologyEberhard K. Jochem
An immune portal.Science and technologyJeneen Interlandi
A plan to keep carbon in check.(controlling air pollution to help world economy grow)Science and technologyStephen W. Pacala, Robert H. Socolow
A power grid for the hydrogen economy.Science and technologyThomas J. Overbye, Chauncey Starr, Paul M. Grant
Ballbots.(mobile robots)Science and technologyRalph Hollis
Body blazes: How nicotine stops inflammation could lead to new drugs.Science and technologyLisa Melton
Bringing DNA computers to life.Science and technologyYaakov Benenson, Ehud Shapiro
Broken mirrors: A theory of autism.Science and technologyVilayanur S. Ramachandran, Lindsay M. Oberman
Cancer clues from pet dogs.Science and technologyDavid J. Waters, Kathleen Wildasin
Catchy carbon: What Floyd Landis has in common with ocean sediment.Science and technologySarah Simpson
Clean and green.(Stain removers)Science and technologyRebecca Renner
Climate and the evolution of mountains.Science and technologyKip Hodges
Contentious calculation.(death toll after Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nuclear Accident, 1986)Science and technologyJohn Dudley Miller
CSI: Reality.(Crime Scene Investigation)Science and technologyMax M. Houck
Dependable software by design.Science and technologyDaniel Jackson
Does globalization help or hurt the world's poor?Science and technologyPranab Bardhan
Down in flames: Can stem cell research recover from Woo Suk Hwang?Science and technologySara Beardsley
Easing jitters when building rumble.(Lucy Jones)(Californian Seismic Safety Commission)Science and technologyDavid Appell
Engineering life: Building a FAB for biology.Science and technologyDavid Baker, Jim Collins, Drew Endy, Ron Weiss, George Church, Joseph Jacobson, Jay Keasling, Paul Modrich, Christina Smolke
Experiments at work.(Kay-Yut Chen of Hewlett-Packard Co.)Science and technologyMarina Krakovsky
Food for thought.(australopithecines)Science and technologyKate Wong
Fueling Our Transportation Future.(using green technology to reduce automotive emissions)Science and technologyJohn B. Heywood
Genomes for all.Science and technologyGeorge M. Church
Giant telescopes of the future.Science and technologyRoberto Gilmozzi
High hopes for hydrogen.(use of hydrogen fuels and hybrid vehciles to reduce emissions)Science and technologyJoan Ogden
How to blow up a star.(white dwarf)Science and technologyWolfgang Hillebrandt, Hans-Thomas Janke, Ewald Muller
Hubble's top 10.(Hubble Space Telescope)Science and technologyMario Livio
Hybrid vehicles gain traction.(increase in sale of hybrid vehciles due to increase in gasoline price )Science and technologyJoseph J. Romm, Andrew A. Frank
Hydraulic engineering in prehistoric Mexico.Science and technologyS. Christopher Caran, James A. Neely
Impact from the deep.(mass extinction and geochemical analysis)Science and technologyPeter D. Ward
Innovations from a robot rally.Science and technologyWayt W. Gibbs
Intrigue at the immune synapse.Science and technologyDaniel M. Davis
Keeping C[O.sub.2] down: The first U.S. project for carbon dioxide burial gives mixed results.Science and technologyRebecca Renner
Lifting the winter dark.(Bartenbach Light Laboratory constructs heliostats)Science and technologyMichael Dumiak
Light work.(Nanotubes)Science and technologyEric Smalley
Little green molecules.Science and technologyChip Walter, Terrence J. Collins
Looking better: Advanced light microscopy for the research masses.(California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research collaboration)Science and technologyEmily Harrison
Lucy's baby.(Australopithecus afarensis)Science and technologyKate Wong
Malware goes mobile.Science and technologyMikko Hypponen
Mirrors in the mind.Science and technologyGiacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese
More than government grants.Science and technologyMichelle Press
Nanotechnology's future.Science and technologyMihail C. Roco
New hope for defeating rotavirus.Science and technologyRoger I. Glass
Peacekeepers of the immune system.Science and technologyShimon Sakaguchi, Zoltan Fehervari
Pinching out sulfur.Science and technologyJr. Minkel
Plan B for energy.Science and technologyW. Wayt Gibbs
Plasma accelerator.Science and technologyChandrashekhar Joshi
Power for a space plane.Science and technologyThomas A. Jackson
Protecting more than animals.Science and technologyThomas Hartung, Alan M. Goldberg
Pumped-up performance.(Inflatable aircrafts)Science and technologySarah Todd Davidson
Pumping coal.(coal-to-diesel production facility)Science and technologyGunjan Sinha
Putting a face on the first president.(George W. Bush)Science and technologyJeffrey H. Schwartz
Reprogramming biology.(Therapeutic cloning (Human cloning))Science and technologyRay Kurzweil
Reviewing dead zones.Science and technologyLaurence Mee
Seeing with surperconductors.Science and technologyKent D. Irwin
Seeking the neural code.Science and technologyMiguel A.L. Nicolelis, Sidarta Ribeiro
Shielding space travelers.Science and technologyEugene N. Parker
Shutting down Alzheimer's.Science and technologyMichael S. Wolfe
Soccer goes green.Science and technologyGunjan Sinha
Stem cells: The real culprits in cancer?Science and technologyMichael F. Clarke, Michael W. Becker
Survival of the smallest.(reserach on captive fish)Science and technologySarah Simpson
Swiss Re.(released report on global warming)Science and technologyJ.K. Minkel
Taking sides.(research on why people prefer right hand to do work)Science and technologySandra Upson
The birth of the mighty Amazon.(Rain forest ecology)Science and technologyCarina Hoorn
The dangers of ocean acidification.Science and technologyScott C. Doney
The darkages of the universe: Astronomers are trying to the blank pages in our photo album of the infant universe.Science and technologyAbraham Loeb
The end of the everglades?: Supreme court case jeopardizes 90 percent of US wetland.Science and technologySara Beardsley
The evolution of future wealth.Science and technologyStuart A. Kauffman
The first few microseconds.Science and technologyMichael Riordan, William A. Zajc
The fish and the forest.Science and technologyScott M. Gende, Thomas P. Quinn
The geometer of particle physics.Science and technologyAlexander Hellemans
The limits of reason.Science and technologyGregory Chaitin
The maternal brain.Science and technologyHoward Craig Kinsley, Kelly G. Lambert
The mysterious origins of solar flares.Science and technologyGordon D. Holman
The mystery of brown dwarf origins.Science and technologyRay Jayawardhana, Subhanjoy Mohanty
The net's real security problem.Science and technologyTom Leighton
The new age of wireless.Science and technologyAndrew Lippman
The New Geopolitics: Preventing wars and other strife will increasingly depend on facing the ecological consequences of our economic activities .Science and technologyJeffrey Sachs
The nuclear option.(nuclear power plants help reduce global warming)Science and technologyJohn M. Deutch, Ernest J. Moniz
The origin of the constellations.Science and technologyBradley E. Schaefer
The promise of molecular imprinting.Science and technologyKlaus Mosbach
The prostitutes' union.(Smarajit Jana generates awareness to prevent HIV)Science and technologyMadhusree Mukerjee
The quest for the superlens.(negative-index material)Science and technologyDavid R. Smith, John B. Pendry
The real life of pseudogenes.Science and technologyMark Gerstein, Deyou Zheng
The Red Planet's watery past.Science and technologyJim Bell
The rise of renewable energy.(reducing global warming)Science and technologyDaniel M. Kammen
The science behind Sudoku.Science and technologyJean-Paul Delahaye
The Secrets of Supervolcanoes: MIcroscopic crystals of volcanic ash are revealing surprising clues about the world's most devastating eruptions .Science and technologyIlya N. Bindeman
The strangest satellites in the solar system.Science and technologyDavid Jewitt, Scott S. Sheppard, Jan Kleyna
The ultimate blood test.(Biophysical250)Science and technologyPhilip Yam
The ultimate white light.Science and technologyRobert R. Alfano
Thinking of child's play: Brain-machine interface turns robots into games.(Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International and Honda Research Institute Japan develop a mind-controlled robot)Science and technologyTim Hornyak
Thwarting nuclear terrorism.Science and technologyAlexander Glaser, Frank N. Von Hippel
Towards better pain control.Science and technologyAllan I. Basbaum, David Julius
Tsunami: Wave of change.Science and technologyEric L. Geist, Vasily V. Titov, Costas E. Synolakis
Un-killing the messenger.Science and technologyCharles Q.Choi
Unlocking the secrets of longevity genes.Science and technologyDavid A. Sinclair, Lenny Guarente
Virtual jihad.(Islamist and jihadist sites)Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Wading in Waste: Thanks to unchecked development along America's coasts, disease-causing microbes are increasingly fouling beaches and shellfish beds. .Science and technologyMichael A. Mallin
What birds see.(color vision)Science and technologyTimothy H. Goldsmith
What to do about coal.Science and technologyDaniel A. Lashof, David G. Hawkins, Robert H. Williams
When slide rules ruled.Science and technologyCliff Stoll
Who pays?(protest by the Google, Microsoft and consumer groups)Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Why are some animals so smart?Science and technologyCarel Van Schaik
Winner takes all: Are tech prices the best way to the cutting edge?Science and technologyDi Patrick Justo
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