Rethinking Nuclear Power
A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower-power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety...
Features
The Earth's Magnetotail
The solar wind sweeps the earth's magnetic field into a vast tail. Disruptions of the tail generate bright auroras at the earth and propel great bodies of magnetized gas into interplanetary space...
The Molecular Genetics of Hemophilia
Hemophiliacs bleed because a defective gene deprives them of a key blood-clotting protein. The protein has now been made artificially by isolating the normal gene and then inserting it into cultured cells...
Athletic Clothing
The thorough attention now given to the design of athletic equipment has contributed to new records in the speed sports and to enhanced protection or performance in other contests
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: March 1986
Science and the Citizen, March 1986
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, March 1986
The Superconducting Supercollider
Computer-Simulated Plant Evolution
Mental Imagery and the Visual System
- Recommended
Books, March 1986
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist, March 1986
- Departments
The Authors, March 1986
Computer Recreations, March 1986
Crop Storage at Assiros
Bibliography, March 1986
