Scientific American 2008 - Abstracts

Scientific American 2008
TitleSubjectAuthors
A better mosquito net.(innovation of mosquito nets to tackle malaria)Science and technologyEva Kaplan
A dash of nutrition.(iron- and vitamin-fortified salt to fight malnutrition)Science and technologyDiane Martindale
Amyris Biotechnologies.(Amyris Biotechnologies gets SciAm 50 Business Leader of the Year Award )Science and technologyEmeryville Calif
An accelerating universe wipes out traces of its own origins.Science and technologyLawrence M. Krauss, Robert J. Scherrer
A solar grand plan.(huge solar power plant construction in U.S.)Science and technologyJames Mason, Ken Zweibel, Vasilis Fthenakis
Big and small solutions.(methods to meet energy demands of U.S.)Science and technologyJohn Rennie
Brazil's option for science education.(Brazilian Plan for the Development of Education)(Viewpoint essay)Science and technologyMiguel A.L. Nicolelis, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Fernando Haddad
Building the next-generation collider.(Large Hardon Collider)Science and technologyHitoshi Yamamoto, Nicholas Walker, Barry Barish
Congress fails science.(slow action of Congress on Science issues)(Viewpoint essay)Science and technology 
Cooking up bigger brains.Science and technologyRachael Moeller Gorman
Disease for Darwinism.(benefits of Huntington's disease)Science and technologyMelinda Wenner
Do antibacterial soaps do more harm than good?Science and technologyCoco Ballantyne
Does infinity come in different sizes?(Georg Cantor's research on infinity)Science and technologyJohn Matson
Fishing blues: without limits on industrial-scale catches, marine populations will continue to collapse.Science and technology 
Hot spots unplugged.(erruption and movement of volcanos)Science and technologyJohn A. Tarduno
Lovers, not fighters?Science and technologyJohn Whitfield
Making space for time.(research on time flow)Science and technologyScott Dodd
Making them whole.(research on artificial limbs)Science and technologyGeorge Musser
Maverick against the Mendelians.(Michael Wigler's views on autism)Science and technologyNikhil Swaminathan
NASA's flimsy argument for nuclear weapons.(Report)Science and technologyThomas Graham Jr., Russell L. Schweickart
Oil vs. Autos.(Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future)(Brief article)(Book review)Science and technologyMichelle Press
Paging Dr. Doolittle.(role of language gene FOXP2)Science and technologyJohn Whitfield
Pay for what works.(Viewpoint essay)Science and technology 
Perilous pursuit: with missile defense, India turns the thumbscrews on unsettled Pakistan.Science and technologyMadhusree Mukerjee
Proactive prototypes: for new tech systems, a return to competitive prototyping.Science and technologyDaniel G. Dupont
Regaining lost luster.(use of viruses in gene therapy)Science and technologyMelinda Wenner
Relative distance.(behavioral analysis of striped hyena)Science and technologyDan Eatherley
RFID powder.(uses of radio frequency identification )Science and technologyTim Hornyak
Second thoughts about fluoride.(adverse effects of fluoride)Science and technologyDan Fagin
Self-powered nanotech.(electricity generation using nanotechnology)Science and technologyZhong Lin Wang
Solving a massive worker health puzzle.Science and technologyCarole Bass
Space wars.Science and technologyTheresa Hitchens
Squirt and spin.(printers processing silicon chips)Science and technologyGeorge Musser
Stirling in deep space.Science and technologyMark Wolverton
Taming vessels to treat cancer.(research on blood vessels to treat cancer)(Personal account)Science and technologyRakesh K. Jain
The bluefin in peril.(bluefin tuna)Science and technologyRichard Ellis
The coming revolutions in particle physics.Science and technologyChris Quigg
The fastest way to get there.(computerized traffic control systems)Science and technologyPeter Sergo
The human instrument.(resdearch on human vocal system)Science and technologyIngo R. Titze
The limits of quantum computers.Science and technologyScott Aaronson
The unquiet ice.(melting of ice due to global warming)Science and technologyRobin E. Bell
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.(Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium to find causes of genetic disease)Science and technologyKaspar Mossman
Turning a blind eye?(adverse efect of glaucoma tests)Science and technologyAlison Snyder
Voyagers to the end.(Voyager 2)Science and technologyChristina Reed
White matter matters.(myelin-coated axons)Science and technologyR. Douglas Fields
X Prize Foundation.(funding for research by nonprofit organization)Science and technologyKaspar Mossman
Your cells are my cells.(research on microchimerism)Science and technologyJ. Lee Nelson
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