Smog
As the metabolism of our cities quickens, their inhabitants breathe increasingly polluted air. The study of the problem is unusually difficult, but good beginnings have been made
Features
A Stone Age Hunters' Camp
Beside an ancient lake bed in Yorkshire archaeologists have unearthed stone and organic relics of the pre-agricultural folk who inhabited the forests of Europe 10,000 years ago
Electricity in Space
The motion of a conducting fluid in a magnetic field generates a hitherto unknown kind of wave. This may be a mighty force of nature which causes such phenomena as sunspots and cosmic rays...
Sherrington on the Eye
The great English physiologist, who died in March at 95, was also a remarkable writer. Presenting his poetic account of the eye and how it makes itself
The Control of Flowering
What makes a plant grow flowers instead of stems and leaves? Although the mechanism is not entirely understood, the study of it makes possible some interesting advances in agriculture
A New Microscope
Electrons or protons from a fine needle reveal the architecture of crystals and resolve individual atoms and molecules
Inherited Sense Defects
Concerning color blindness, tone deafness and certain lesser- known shortcomings of men and animals
The Coriolis Effect
Everything that moves over the surface of the earth-water, air, animals, machines and projectiles-sidles to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: May 1952
Science and the Citizen: May 1952
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, May 1952
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist
- Departments
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