Scientific American Magazine Vol 180 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 180, Issue 2

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Features

The Office of Naval Research

It has pioneered so fruitfully in the support of basic science that it stands as a model for the planned National Science Foundation

John E. Pfeiffer

Trial by Newspaper

Being an account of the ordeal of Edward U. Condon, or a case study of the press. The treatment of the affair in nine New York dailies is here dissected

Joseph T. Klapper, Charles Y. Glock

The Mechanism of Lightning

The dramatic phenomenon of nature is closely studied in the laboratory and in the field. It is found to be an intricate series of physical events

Leonard B. Loeb

Tracers

The relatively recent application of labeled atoms in biological research has already brought out some remarkable information about the chemistry of life

Martin D. Kamen

Microseisms

Tiny waves that do not originate with earthquakes have puzzled seismologists. Some have been traced to storms, but this does not tell the whole story

L. Don Leet

Temperature and Life

The thermal environment of organisms is a tiny segment of the thermometer. Some forms, however, have penetrated forbidding regions of heat and cold

Lorus J., Margery J. Milne

Three Mysteries of Easter Island

In which the symbols of the enigmatic Polynesian culture are investigated by the methods of the modern psychologist

Werner Wolff

Departments

Letters to the Editors, February 1949

50 and 100 Years Ago: February 1949

Science and the Citizen: February 1949

Books

The Amateur Astronomer

Bibliography