Was the Race to the Moon Real?
In 1961 President John F. Kennedy made the goal to be first on the moon a matter of national honor. But were the Soviets truly in the running?
Features
The Classical Limit of an Atom
By creating ultralarge atoms, physicists hope to study how the odd physics of the quantum world becomes the classical mechanics of everyday experience
Emotion, Memory and the Brain
The neural routes underlying the formation of memories about primitive emotional experiences, such as fear, have been traced
Adaptive Optics
Technology developed during the cold war is giving new capabilities to ground-based stronomical telescopes
Early Andean Cities
Some 3,800 years ago Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke and Taukachi-Konkan were carefully laid-out urban centers that housed many hundreds of people
The Sensory Basis of the Honeybee's Dance Language
Novel experiments, such as training bees to respond to sounds and recruiting them using a robot, have ended several debates surrounding the dance language
The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug Discovery
Medicinal plants discovered by traditional societies are proving to be an important source of potentially therapeutic drugs
Grading the Gene Tests
From just a snippet of DNA, geneticists can sometimes forecast a patient's health. But ethical problems surrounding this testing are as ominous as the diseases themselves
Departments
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, June 1994
Errata
- Recommended
Book Reviews--Albert en Famille
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50 and 100 Years Ago: Television for World Peace and Oscillation of Stars
- Profile
The Last Universal Mathematician
- Amateur Scientist
Genetically Altering Escherichia coli
- Science and the Citizen
Population Summit
Gathering String
Sanity Check
Bright Spot
La Ronde
It's Just a Phase
Shooting the Rapids
- Departments
For Sale: One Country, As Is
The Art of the Scientific Insult
- Technology and Business
Cyberspace Cadets
Good-bye, Taki 183
Requiem for Alpha?
Immuno-Logistics
Little Winners
