Scientific American Magazine

Pharmaceutical aids to remembering and forgetting

A powerful new spacecraft, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is now monitoring the sun around the clock, providing new clues about our nearest star

An evolving crisis in the developing world signals the need for a better understanding of the links between culture and mental disorders

By identifying human genes involved in disease, researchers can create potentially therapeutic proteins and speed the development of powerful drugs

The turn-of-the-century race to reach temperatures approaching absolute zero led to the unexpected discovery of electric currents that flowed with no resistance

Some plants produce extraordinary heat when they bloom. A few even regulate their temperature within narrow limits, much as if they were warm-blooded animals

Molecular Crayons and Mustard Seed Avalanches

Devices that enforce machine-readable
rights to use the work of a musician
or author may create secure ways to
publish over the Internet

Biochemistry offers some new clues

Global Fertility and Population

Look for the labels to decide if unknown
software and World Wide Web sites
are safe and interesting

A MATTER
OF LANGUAGE

An inexpensive new test instantly
spots harmful E. coli

An archive of the Internet may prove
to be a vital record for historians,
businesses and governments

China's eugenics law makes trouble
for science and business

Combining the skills of the librarian
and the computer scientist may help
organize the anarchy of the Internet

Coof low-budget astronomymputer power opens a new era

Electronic libraries will make
today's Internet pale by comparison.
But building them will not be easy