TechnologyApril 1, 1994
Mirror, Mirror
Micromechanical chips challenge tubes for large-screen television
Stories by W. Wayt Gibbs
W. Wayt Gibbs is a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle. He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.
TechnologyApril 1, 1994
Basic Strategies
Japanese companies cultivate research labs sown in the U.S.
TechnologyMarch 1, 1994
King Cotton
W. R. Grace now controls all transgenic cotton in the U.S.
TechnologyFebruary 1, 1994
Heads in the Cloud
Can programmers entice consumers into the net?
The SciencesFebruary 1, 1994
Fertile Ground
IVF researchers pioneer the bioethical frontier
TechnologyDecember 1, 1993
When Cells Divide
Making space for the next wave of wireless communications
HealthDecember 1, 1993
Deliverance
Medicine closes in on an artificial liver device
HealthNovember 1, 1993
More Fun than a Root Canal
TechnologyOctober 1, 1993
Creative Evolution
HealthOctober 1, 1993
Sentries and Saboteurs
Mutating patients' genomes to suit their medicine
The SciencesOctober 1, 1993
Chronologically Privileged
The SciencesSeptember 1, 1993
Natural Selection
Investors aren't buying into Darwin Molecular's evolution
HealthSeptember 1, 1993
In Vitro, in the Money
A government-approved test spares rabbits and snares bucks
TechnologySeptember 1, 1993
Crystal Light
Storing volumes of data in four-dimensional spots
The SciencesAugust 1, 1993
Body English
Controlling computers with twitch and glance
TechnologyAugust 1, 1993
Blue Films
Cheap new coatings trap solar energy as color
Space & PhysicsJuly 1, 1993
Banzai!
HealthJuly 1, 1993
Try, Try Again
Making antibodies more useful by making them more human
The SciencesJuly 1, 1993
Practical Fractal
Mandelbrot's equations compress digital images
TechnologyJune 1, 1993
Extinguished
A champion firefighter goes down for the count
TechnologyJune 1, 1993
Making Wavelets
New math resurrects Brahms and compacts computer data
TechnologyMay 1, 1993
Garbage in, Gravel out
Plasma torches transmute waste into harmless slag
HealthMay 1, 1993
Three Swings
Hoping for a home run against multiple sclerosis
TechnologyApril 1, 1993
Light Motif
An optical computer stores its program in space-time