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Dangerous sex: new signs of risk taking prompt rethinking about AIDS prevention

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A resurgence of unsafe sexually activity, concentrated mainly in younger people, is forcing AIDS experts to reassess their prevention strategies. Some speculate that heterosexuals feel invulnerable to the disease, and no longer pay attention to safe sex advertisements.

Author: Yam, Philip
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
Social aspects, Prevention, Diseases, AIDS (Disease), Safe sex, Heterosexuals

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Mirror, mirror: a whiff of supersymmetry at Fermilab

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The Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory produced evidence that quarks have structure, a finding that violates accepted theory. Evidence suggests that the particle collisions at the laboratory produced supersymmetric particles.

Author: Yam, Philip
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
Research, Quarks, Particles (Nuclear physics), Subatomic particles, Supersymmetry

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Theoretical resistance: what makes some ceramics superconductors?

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No one has yet been able to determine what enables pottery-like materials to conduct electricity without resistance. Several superconductivity theories are discussed.

Author: Yam, Philip
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
Causes of, Design and construction, Electrical conductivity, Ceramic superconductors

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