Building a Market Economy in Poland
How is a previously centralized economy to be transformed? Poland's experience thus far offers lessons for other Eastern European nations and a challenge for the West
Features
The Patch Clamp Technique
A simple procedure can easily isolate ion channels on cell membranes. Its Nobel Prize-winning developers explain what the technique has revealed about cellular signaling
Textures and Cosmic Structure
Particle physics theories offer new clues to the origin of structure In the universe. The authors propose that primordial field defects known as textures seeded galaxies and galaxy clusters...
Why Aromatic Compounds are Stable
Molecules containing benzenelike rings survive intact over geologic time and even persist in the harsh environment of nebulae. Researchers can now mathematically describe the reasons for the exceptional stability...
Spider Webs and Silks
Spiders' silk and web designs are governed by the same rules and constraints that apply to human materials science and structural engineering. So spiders may be able to teach us a thing or two...
Infrared Video Cameras
Similar to home video cameras, these devices can see thermal radiation. This emerging technology offers a host of applications, including night vision, visualization of heat flow and medical analysis...
The Gundestrup Cauldron
An enigmatic bowl found in Denmark 100 years ago has been variously attributed to the Celts, Germans and Thracians. Recent analysis challenges such judgments and the theories on which they are based...
Catching the Wave
Scientists hope to explore the nature of gravity and the frontiers of the universe by detecting gravitational waves. The U.S. government has promised them $211 million to build two kilometer-size detectors...
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: March 1992
Reflecting Differences
Tuning in Hot Signals
Relative Hunger
Unlikely Places
Pointing Fingers
Going through Proper Channels
Trojan Horse
Volcanic Disruption
Add Ozone to the Global Warming Equation
The Lonely Odysseus of Particle Physics
Holey Silicon
Executive Fix
Vested Interests
Drag Race
Objective Data
Getting Out the Bugs
Women and Aids
- Letters
Errata
Letters to the Editors, March 1992
- Recommended
Book Reviews, March 1992
- Amateur Scientist
Seeing Infrared
- Departments
Disarming Developments
