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Features
Histoplasmosis: The Unknown Infection
The mild form of a fatal fungus disease appears to be spreading in the U. S. Its lesions are much like those of tuberculosis, complicating diagnosis.
The Army Ant
This explanation of how the creature conducts its complicated social life clearly distinguishes ants from men
The Ultimate Particles
Presenting a comprehensive review of what is known thus far about the fundamental units of matter and the forces that play among them in the atom's core
The Biology of Old Age
Senescence and death, which to man seem unavoidable, are not the rule among all species of living things
"If a Slave Girl Fled..."
Being an account of how the law code of Lipit-Ishtar, a Sumerian king who ruled 19 centuries before Christ, was found to antedate the code of the great Hammurabi
White Pine
Once king of the primeval forests from Maine to Minnesota, the noble conifer has exerted a powerful influence in American history
Srinivasa Ramanujan
The "profound and invincible originality" of the obscure Hindu mathematician who died in 1920 made possible one of the most prodigious feats in the history of human thought
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: June 1948
Science and the Citizen: June 1948
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, June 1948
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Astronomer
- Departments
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