A Study of Attitudes
The psychology of U. S. soldiers was thoroughly explored during the war. The findings suggest some rich leads for peacetime social research
Features
Pauling and Beadle
Two investigators at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for an unusual partnership of chemistry and biology
The Theory of Games
From it is being forged a new tool for the analysis of social and economic behavior. The new approach already has shown its superiority to classical economic theory
Rockets
The historic method of propulsion is also the most modern. The central problem is fuel, the development of which may presently liberate man from the earth
Plant Hormones
Like animal hormones, they achieve powerful effects at a distance from their point of origin. Presenting a review of how they have been studied and applied
The Nature of Dreams
Do they express the dreamer's irrational strivings, as Freud contended? Not necessarily, says a modern analyst, suggesting a new interpretation of them
Living Records of the Ice Age
The missing snakes of Ireland, the peat of the English Channel and the fishes of Great Salt Lake are among the biogeographer's clues to the events of the Pleistocene
The Athabaska Tar Sands
They hold one of the world's great collections of oil. The studies of a practical process for extracting it are making encouraging progress
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: May 1949
Science and the Citizen: May 1949
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, May 1949
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Astronomer
- Departments
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