Prejudice
An account of a significant statistical study of racial discrimination from the standpoint that hostility is the consequence of insecurity
Volume 183, Issue 4
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Features
The Abundance of the Elements
Physicists and astronomers have been engaged in a cosmic inventory of the various kinds of atoms as a clue to their primordial creation
The Pituitary
Its anterior lobe, which manufactures the widely noted ACTH and other hormones, plays a major part in the orchestration of the endocrine system
Electronics
A general account of the means by which the smallest fundamental particles are manipulated to accomplish many subtle tasks of our techological civilization
Autumn Colors
In the fall the leaves of hardwood trees assume their hues of yellow and red. The latter is of special interest to chemists
Probability
Three centuries ago some sensible questions asked by gamblers founded a branch of mathematics. Today it powerfully assists our understanding of nature
Microsurgery
The development of the micromanipulator makes it possible to perform operations upon individual cells without killing them
The Kuanyama Ambo
A tribe of the Bantu people in South-West Africa is an example of how a society generates social controls to meet the conditions of its existence