U.S. Access to Space
For the next decade the U.S. has to rely on the shuttle and existing expendable launchers to get into space. Before launchers for the 21 st century are developed, space-program goals should be established...
Features
Multidrug Resistance in Cancer
An ancient pump protein that flushes toxins out of cells may be to blame when cancer chemotherapy fails. Its identification offers hope that multidrug-resistant cancers might be made vulnerable again...
Plasma Particle Accelerators
Electric fields generated in plasma can propel electrons to high energies. The process promises fields 10,000 times stronger than those of the most powerful conventional accelerators...
Science in Pictures: Macromolecular Crystals
The growth of crystals is now the key to deducing the structure of large molecules.
Modeling the Geochemical Carbon Cycle
Natural geochemical processes that result in the slow buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have caused past geologic intervals of global warming through the greenhouse effect...
The Biology of Obsessions and Compulsions
Advances in pharmacology and in brain imaging suggest that severe obsessions and compulsions are biologically rooted. Several new drugs, first formulated as antidepressants, relieve them...
Lessons of Sunraycer
The solar car's goal was to win the World Solar Challenge race. Its longer-term benefit may be in getting people to think about practical alternatives to fuel-burning vehicles
The Roman Aqueduct of Nîmes
New analyses of the once magnificent water-supply system suggest that the structural and hydraulic engineers who designed it 2,000 years ago were more sophisticated than is generally thought...
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: March 1989
Clearing the Air
To our Health
Cosmic News
A Gothic Tale
A Snowball's Chance
The Summer of '88
Beyond Understanding?
Time Bomb
Thinking in Circles
The Blood-Brain Barrier
Tat's Surprising
The Syphilized World
Lukewarm Turkey
Competitive Climate
Decaying Orbit
An Economic Animal
Litigation Thwarts Innovation in the U.S.
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, March 1989
- Recommended
Books, March 1989
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Scientist, March 199
- Departments
Computer Recreations, March 1989
