Disarming Lyme Disease
Antibiotics are usually curative. A vaccine is in clinical trials. Next on the research agenda: how to help people suffering from chronic symptoms
Features
Low-Energy Ways to Observe High-Energy Phenomena
By observing interactions that are forbidden in the Standard Model, physicists can peek at super symmetric and other happenings
The Aluminum Beverage Can
Produced by the hundreds of millions every day, the modern can -- robust enough to support the weight of an average adult -- is a tribute to precision design and engineering
The Machinery of Cell Crawling
When a cell crawls, part of its fluid cytoplasm briefly turns rigid. This transformation depends on the orderly assembly and disassembly of a protein scaffold
Solving the Paradox of Deep Earthquakes
For decades, geophysicists have known that earthquakes should not occur at depth inside the earth. But they do. Finally, we know how and why these events happen
Privatizing Public Research
With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research. As it now stands, the idea will probably not work well...
The Scientific Importance of Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign
Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt brought French scientists and engineers to the Nile. Their work, in turn, brought the splendors of the Nile to Europe
Software's Chronic Crisis
Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years-- perhaps decades-- short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information-age society...
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- Letters
Letters to the Editors, September 1994
Erratum
- Recommended
Book Reviews--Unraveling the Past
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50 and 100 Years Ago: Construction of Airports and Inventions at the French War Office
- Profile
A Marriage of Science and Art
- Mathematical Recreation
A Subway Named Turing
- Science and the Citizen
Super Loops
Gone with a Bang
Sick, Sick, Sick
Hot Air
Backfire
Lonesome Cowpokes
Can I Buy you a Drink?
Borrowed Savagery
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Not Worth the Paper it's Printed on
An Ounce of Prevention
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Turning Green
Binary Disinfectants
Heat and Light
Food Fights
Power Medicine
Crabshoot
