The Census
The 17th decennial count of the human resources of the U. S. reveals that the population increase of the past decade was much larger than expected
Features
Paradoxes of the Mississippi
The water of the great river is generally assumed to be muddy, its bed rising above the surrounding country, its delta building out into the Gulf of Mexico. None of these assumptions is true...
The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial
The rich tomb of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon king has yielded an archaeological treasure that illuminates an obscure period in the history of the English people
Reactors
The machines designed for the controlled use of nuclear energy take many forms and present many problems. A report on some typical reactors and the AEC program of reactor development
Shakespeare the Physicist
A little-known investigation by Sherlock Holmes reveals that the Bard anticipated wireless, relativity and the atomic bomb
Cataclysmic Evolution
Many plants (e.g., wheat, cotton, tobacco) evolved suddenly by a process involving the doubling of chromosomes. The same process is artificially induced to create useful new species
The Imitative Drugs
The fact that a counterfeit molecule will compete for the place of a natural one in biochemical reactions has made possible a rewarding study of drug action and metabolism
The Squid
Largest, fastest, most vicious and probably most beautiful of the animals without backbones, it possesses a nervous system that is uniquely useful to the modern physiologist
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: April 1951
Science and the Citizen: April 1951
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, April 1951
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Astronomer
- Departments
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