Automatic Manufacture of Electronic Equipment
"Modular design" of the parts of electronic circuits transforms the traditional hand-assembled maze into an orderly collection of uniform elements that can be plugged together automatically...
Features
Radioactive Poisons
The term refers to those radioactive atoms and molecules which, when they enter the human body, tend to accumulate in certain organs and subject them to damaging radiation
Long-Range Weather Forecasting
Although predictions of a season or more still lack a sound basis, those of a week or a month are greatly improved. They rest on a deeper knowledge of huge waves in the atmosphere
The Honeybee
Studied by man for centuries, it is still the subject of delighted investigation. Its individual and social characteristics illuminate the differences and similarities between insects and higher animals...
The Speed of Light
Methods for measuring this universal constant have become more and more precise. Yet today there is considerable doubt about the true value. It may even have changed in the past 20 years...
Placebos
They are inactive pills or injections that are designed to look like the real thing. Physicians use them for their psychological effect on the patient or as controls to test new pharmaceuticals...
The Homing Salmon
How do salmon find their way back to the waters of their birth? Recent experiments in the laboratory and in the field indicate that they do so by means of a remarkably refined sense of smell...
The Changing American Language
In spite of education and communication our speech continues to evolve with such phenomena as palatalization, epenthesis, aphaeresis, anaptyxis, apocope, syncope, and recessive accent
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: August 1955
Science and the Citizen: August 1955
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, August 1955
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist
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The Authors
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