Features

• A Sharper View of the Stars

  A new generation of optical interferometers is letting astronomers study stars in 100 times finer detail than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope

  Arsen R. Hajian and J. Thomas Armstrong   | March 1, 2001  |

• Cosine Effect

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• What We Learn from Yummy and Yucky

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• The Taste Map: All Wrong

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• A Nose for Taste

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• Lidar Guns

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• Radar Guns

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• Contributions to Astronomy

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• Interferometers for Astronomy across the Ages

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• Making Sense of Taste

  How do cells on the tongue register the sensations of sweet, salty, sour and bitter? Scientists are finding out and discovering how the brain interprets these signals as various tastes

  David V. Smith and Robert F. Margolskee   | March 1, 2001  |