Metropolitan Segregation
As Negroes move in from the South and whites move out to the suburbs a new pattern of segregation emerges in the big cities of the U. S., bringing with it significant economic, social and political problems...
Features
Salt and Rain
What make the tiny water droplets of a cloud grow into the large drops of rain? Some recent studies indicate that particles of salt from the sea may play a key role in the process over both sea and land...
Defense by Color
It is generally assumed that the coloration of some animals is for the purpose of deceiving predators. Is this assumption true? An account of some experimental efforts to answer the question...
The Sumerians
This gifted people lived at the head of the Persian Gulf roughly between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago. Their brilliant technological and social inventions laid the foundation of modern civilization...
Plasmoids
These little pieces of plasma (a gas of electrons and ions) are created in the laboratory with an electrical gun. They have an unexpected capacity for maintaining their identity
The Specificity of Antibodies
Research is beginning to show how these body proteins "recognize" and react with particular foreign molecules and not with others that have very nearly the same chemical structure and properties...
Congenital Deformities
It is now known that many of them are caused, not by hereditary factors, but by injuries during gestation. The kind of deformity is related to the time of early life at which the injury occurs...
The Synthesis of Milk
How does a mammal make milk out of blood? The answer is sought by new experiments in which substances in the blood are labeled with either radioactive or nonradioactive isotopes
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: October 1957
Science and the Citizen: October 1957
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, October 1957
- Recommended
Books
- Mathematical Recreation
Mathematical Games
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist
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The Authors
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