The SciencesJuly 1, 1994
"You're the Top..."
Fermilab finds the top quark--sort of
Stories by Philip Yam
Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.
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It's Just a Phase
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Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Physics
TechnologyApril 1, 1994
Super Progress
Defects pin intrusive magnetic fields in superconductors
The SciencesMarch 1, 1994
Chaotic Chaos
The SciencesFebruary 1, 1994
Reflections in a Quantum Well
TechnologyJanuary 1, 1994
Getting a New Rise out of Superconductors
The SciencesDecember 1, 1993
The Color of Sound
Shedding light on sonoluminescence
TechnologyDecember 1, 1993
Current Events
Now that the blizzard of hype has stopped, workers are gradually realizing the promise of high-temperature superconductors
TechnologyNovember 1, 1993
Dot's Incredible
Controlling single electrons in a quantum dot
The SciencesSeptember 1, 1993
The All-Star of Buckyball
TechnologyAugust 1, 1993
A Gem of a Catalyst
TechnologyJuly 1, 1993
QED for QCD
A supercomputer backs the theory of quarks
The SciencesJune 1, 1993
A Bus for Scotty
TechnologyJune 1, 1993
"Plastics, Benjamin..."
Photorefractive polymers make a big gain in data storage
The SciencesJune 1, 1993
Is that Shirt Ascorbic Acid?
TechnologyMay 1, 1993
"Daisy, Daisy"
Do computers have near-death experiences?
TechnologyMarch 1, 1993
High on Gravity
Increasing the g's grows crystals with few defects
TechnologyFebruary 1, 1993
Surreal Science
Virtual reality finds a place in the classroom
HealthJanuary 1, 1993
A Gene for Hypertension
The SciencesDecember 1, 1992
Theoretical Resistance
What makes some ceramics superconductive?
TechnologyNovember 1, 1992
Cool Sounds
An acoustic compressor pumps up the volume on refrigeration
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Noisy Nucleotides
DNA sequences show fractal correlations
TechnologyJuly 1, 1992
Sound System
Using the ocean's noise to image undersea objects