Scientific American 2007 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2007
TitleSubjectAuthors
A cure for rabies?(Clinical report)Science and technologyRodney E. Willoughby Jr.
A digital life.(document management software for medical care)Science and technologyJim Gemmell, Gordon Bell
A do-it-yourself quantum eraser.Science and technologyPaul Kwiat, Rachel Hillmer
A good turn.(Electric Power Research Institute to develop hydro-power turbine)Science and technologyMadeline Bodin
A little privacy, please.Science and technologyChip Walter
Are aliens among us?(research on evolution of life)Science and technologyPaul Davies
A robot in every home: The leader of the PC revolution predicts that the next hot field will be robotics.Science and technologyBill Gates
A simpler origin for life.Science and technologyRobert Shapiro
Atomic fingerprinting.(Technical report)Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Black hole blowback.Science and technologyWallace Tucker, Harvey Tananbaum, Andrew Fabian
Breaking network logjams.Science and technologyMichelle Effros, Ralf Koetter, Muriel Medard
Breaking the poverty trap.Science and technologyJeffery D. Sachs
Brilliant displays.Science and technologyM. Mitchell Waldrop
Broadband room service by light.Science and technologyMohsen Kavehrad
Build diplomacy, not bombs.(nuclear weapons control)Science and technology 
Can fat be fit?Science and technologyPaul Raeburn
Carbon nanonets spark new electronics.Science and technologyGeorge Gruner
Cell defenses and the sunshine vitamin.Science and technologyJohn H. White, Luz E. Tavera-Mendoza
Chemo control.(epigenetic changes in cancer cells)Science and technologyJeneen Interlandi
Chipping in: Brain chip for memory repair closes in on live tests.Science and technologyAnna Griffith
Chromosomal chaos and cancer.Science and technologyPeter Duesberg
Conservation for the people.(World Conservation Union)Science and technologyPeter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier
Dark riddles.Science and technologyGovert Schilling
Data center in a box: A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing.(Project Blackbox system)Science and technologyMitchell M. Waldrop
Deadly orbits.(studying the behavior of Salmonella bacteria under different environmental conditions)Science and technologyDon Monroe
Deja Vu Disks.Science and technologySourish Basu
Dial "I" for Internet.Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Dialing in: Mobile phones target the world's nonreading poor.(Motorola Inc. introduced Motofone)Science and technologySally Lehrman
Diet advice from DNA?(internet companies provide diet plan based on genetic structures)Science and technologyLaura Hercher
Digital TV at last?Science and technologyMichael Antonoff
Don't wreck the Mars program.Science and technologyRobert Zubrin
Down go the dams.Science and technologyJane C. Marks
Easing hormone anxiety.(hormone therapy reduces the risk of heart diseases)Science and technologyTabitha M. Powledge
Eating made simple.Science and technologyMarion Nestle
Evolution in a Petri dish.(evolution of infectious organisms)Science and technologyLuis Miguel Ariza
Evolved for cancer?Science and technologyCarl Zimmer
Experimental drugs on trial.(Abigail Alliance and Food and Drug Administration)Science and technologyBeryl Lieff Benderly
Eyes open, brain shut: New brain-imaging techniques are giving researchers a better understanding of patients in the vegetative state.Science and technologySteven Laureys
Fish that go skin-deep.Science and technologyMatt Mossman
Full speed ahead for an accelerator.Science and technologyC. Konrad Gelbke
Future farming: A return to roots.Science and technologyJohn P. Reganold, Jerry D. Glover, Cindy M. Cox
Gassing up with hydrogen.Science and technologyGeorge Thomas, Sunita Satyapal, John Petrovic
Going beyond X and Y.(Clinical report)Science and technologySally Lehrman
Green gold in a shrub.(Jatropha curcas)Science and technologyRebecca Renner
Have brain, must travel: A successful space exploration program requires astronauts as well as robots.Science and technologyJim Bell
Healing broken nerves.Science and technologyAnna Griffith
Higher power.(internal heat of Earth)Science and technologySarah Simpson
How does consciousness happen?(two neuroscientists give their opinion on consciousness experience)Science and technologySusan Greenfield, Christof Koch
How do itches come about, and why does it feel good to scratch them?Science and technologySweden Ericsson
How do short-term memories become long-term memories?(research on working memory)Science and technologyAlison Preston
Illusory color and the brain.Science and technologyJohn S. Werner, Baingio Pinna, Lothar Spillmann
Investigating an ancient sense .(electroreception senses of shark)Science and technologyR. Douglas Fields
Jam session.(radio-frequency identification tags)Science and technologyWendy M. Grossman
Just how smart are Ravens?Science and technologyThomas Bugnyar, Bernd Heinrich
Kim's big fizzle: The physics behind a nuclear dud.Science and technologyGraham P. Collins
Laboratory letdowns: Accidental infections in biosafety labs go unreported.Science and technologyJohn Dudley Miller
Lifting the fog around anesthesia.(Clinical report)Science and technologyBeverley A. Orser
Losing scents.(body odor depends on a person genes)Science and technologyCoco Ballantyne
Making carbon markets work.(effect carbon dioxide regulation on world economy)Science and technologyDavid G. Victor, Danny Cullenward
Making silicon lase.Science and technologyBahram Jalali
Mapping the cancer genome.Science and technologyFrancis S. Collins, Anna D. Barker
Methane, plants and climate change.Science and technologyFrank Keppler, Thomas Rockmann
Microchips with heart: No batteries needed: Pumps driven by heart cells.Science and technologyTim Hornyak
Molecular lego?Science and technologyChristian E. Schafmeister
Motion pictures: HDTV broadcasters plan to get into mobile video.(high definition television)Science and technologyMichael Antonoff
NASA spent millions on a pen able to write in space.(Paul C. Fisher of Fisher Space Pen Co. develops Fisher Space Pen for National Aeronautics and Space Administration)Science and technologyCiara Curtin
New predictors of disease.(autoantibodies)Science and technologyAbner Louis Notkins
Oceangoing iron: a venture to profit from a C[O.sub.2]-eating algae bloom riles scientists.(carbon dioxide)Science and technologySourish Basu
Oceans, stronger hurricanes.Science and technologyKevin E. Trenberth
On the rebound: Discouraging people from using more energy just because it costs less.Science and technologyLinda Baker
Our evolving present.(increase in evolution of various species)Science and technologyRob Dunn
Pieces of a paranoid past.Science and technologyMichael Dumaik
Playing defense against Lou Gehrig's disease.(Disease/Disorder overview)Science and technologyPatrick Aebischer, Ann C. Kato
Playing it by ear: A machine-listening system that understands three speakers at once.(Robovie)Science and technologyTim Hornyak
Pollution in solution: Drug-resistance DNA as the latest freshwater threat.Science and technologyCharles O. Choi
Predicting wildfires: Fires are burning more acres than ever.Science and technologyMark Fischetti, Patricia Andrews, Mark Finney
Preventing blackouts.Science and technologyPhillip F. Schewe, Massoud Amin
Prime directive for the last Americans.(Sydney Ferreira Possuelo)Science and technologyClaudio Angelo
Race in a bottle.(Bidil by African American Heart Failure Trial)Science and technologyJonathan Kahn
Racing past the moon.(space race, a commercial business)Science and technology 
Repairs without rivets.(CarbonWrap)Science and technologyDavid Appell
Restoring America's big, wild animals.Science and technologyC. Josh Donlan
Scared off silicone.(silicon injections used for prevention of diabetic foot ulcers)Science and technologyMelinda Wenner
Science speak to faith.Science and technologyRichard Dawkins, Lawrence M. Krauss
Seeing stars in Iraq: Restoring wrecked observatory may boost Iraqi science.Science and technologyMike Simmons
Seeing triple.(Actuality Systems Inc. and io2Technology use Digital Light Processor ch)Science and technologyStuart F. Brown
Seeking the connections: Alcoholism and our genes.Science and technologyJohn I. Jr. Nurnberger, Laura Jean Bierut
Seismic sentries: Why underground nuclear tests are so hard to hide.Science and technologySarah Simpson
Silicon smackdown.(Asian board game Go)(Product/service evaluation)Science and technologyKaren A. Frenkel
South America's missing mammals.Science and technologyJohn J. Flynn, Andre R. Wyss, Reynaldo Charrier
Sowing a gene revolution.Science and technologyTerri Raney, Prabhu Pingali
Still hungry.(poverty and global hunger)Science and technologyPer Pinstrup-Andersen, Fuzhi Cheng
Surviving side effects.(side effects of cancer radiotherapy)Science and technologyJohn Dudley Miller
T cell turnoff.(suppressing immune system to treat HIV infections)Science and technologyBianca Nogrady
The car doctor is in.(CarMD, devised handheld automotive diagnostic tool and got award for that)Science and technologyPhilip Yam
The diamond age of spintronics.Science and technologyDavid D. Awschalom, Ryan Epstein, Ronald Hanson
The evolution of cats.Science and technologyWarren E. Johnson, Stephen J. O'Brien
The forgotten code cracker.(Marshall W. Nirenberg)(Biography)Science and technologyEd Regis
The Gedanken experimenter.Science and technologyJ.R. Minkel
The great cosmic roller-coaster ride.Science and technologyCliff Burgess, Fernando Quevedo
The limited appeal of nuclear energy.Science and technologyJose Goldemberg
The long haul?(ethanol from corn)Science and technologyMatthew L. Wald
The many worlds of Hugh Everett.(works of Hugh Everett )Science and technologyPeter Byrne
The memory.Science and technologyJoe Z. Tsien
The Mississippi's curious origins.Science and technologyRoy B. Van Arsdale, Randel T. Cox
The movies in our eyes.Science and technologyBotond Roska, Frank Werblin
The mystery of methane on Mars & Titan.Science and technologySushil K. Atreya
The physical science behind climate change.Science and technologyPhilip Mote, Martin R. Manning, William Collins, Robert Colman, James Haywood
The power of riboswitches.(Ribonucleic acid)Science and technologyJeffrey E. Barrick, Ronald R. Breaker
The promise of plasmonics.Science and technologyHarry A. Atwater
The science of doing good.Science and technologySheri Fink
The science of lasting happiness.Science and technologyMarina Krakovsky
The Semantic Web in action.(Semantic Web applications )Science and technologyLee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann, Susie Stephens
The shark's electric sense: An astonishingly sensitive detector of electric fields helps sharks zero in on prey.Science and technologyR. Douglas Fields
The Traveler's Dilemma.(Product/service evaluation)Science and technologyKaushik Basu
The universe's invisible hand.Science and technologyChristopher J. Conselice
The world is fat.Science and technologyBarry M. Popkin
This is your brain on food.(Nora D. Volkow)(Interview)Science and technologyKristin Leutwyler Ozelli
To the moon and beyond.(Orion crew exploration )Science and technologyCharles Dingell, William A. Johns, Julie Kramer White
Toxic bulbs: recycling rules vary for mercury-containing fluorescents.Science and technologyDavid Appell
Tracking an ancient killer.Science and technologyDavid W. Krause, Raymond R. Rogers
Unsettled scores: Has the black-white IQ gap narrowed?.Science and technologyMarina Krakovsky
What fuels fat.Science and technologyJeffery S. Flier, Eleftheria Maratos-Flier
What is a planet?Science and technologySteven Soter
When fields collide.(Report)Science and technologyDavid Kaiser
Why is there an ozone hole in the atmosphere when there is too much ozone at ground level.Science and technologyH. Cox
Window on the extreme universe.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope)Science and technologyWilliam B. Atwood, Peter F. Michelson, Steven Ritz
Windows on the mind.(fixational eye movements )Science and technologySusana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik
Working knowledge: Electronic stability control.Science and technologyMark Fischtti
Worse than gasoline: Liquid coal would produce toughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline.Science and technology 
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