Single Mothers and Welfare
For the first time since the Great Depression, large numbers of families are homeless. Recent welfare revisions will put even more women and children on the streets
Volume 275, Issue 4
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Features
Microbes Deep Inside the Earth
Recently discovered microorganisms that dwell within the earth's crust could reveal clues to the origin of life
Friction at the Atomic Scale
Long neglected by physicists, the study of friction's tomic-level origins, or nanotribology, indicates that the force tems from various unexpected sources, including sound energy
Controlling Computers with Neural Signals
Electrical impulses from nerves and muscles can command computers directly, a method that aids people with physical disabilities
Ten Days Under the Sea
Living underwater in the world's only habitat devoted to science, six aquanauts studied juvenile corals and fought off "the funk"
Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters
When the scientific establishment put a spiritualist on trial, the co-discoverers of natural selection took opposing sides
Confronting Science's Logical Limits
The mathematical models now used in many scientific fields may be fundamentally unable to answer certain questions about the real world. Yet there may be ways around these problems