Emerging Viruses
Hemorrhagic fever viruses are among the most dangerous biological agents known. New ones are discovered every year, and artificial as well as natural environmental changes are favoring their spread...
Features
Companions to Young Stars
The surprising finding that even the youngest stars commonly exist in sets of two or three has revised thinking about the birth of star systems
Quantum-Mechanical Computers
Quantum-mechanical computers, if they can be constructed, will do things no ordinary computer can
Demolition by Implosion
Detonation of small quantities of strategically placed explosives can demolish an unwanted high-rise in a matter of seconds
The Molecular Logic of Smell
Mammals can recognize thousands of odors, some of which prompt powerful responses. Recent experiments illuminate how the nose and brain may perceive scents
The Laboratory Notebooks of Thomas Edison
The raw visual and textual evidence of his imagination, Edison's notebooks were the unrevealed talismans of the inventor's career
Can Environmental Estrogens Cause Breast Cancer?
The authors of a provocative hypothesis spell out their reasons for suspecting that hormone-mimicking chemicals in the environment contribute to many unexplained cases of breast cancer
The New Social Darwinists
Psychologists and others try to sidestep old pitfalls—both political and scientific—as they apply evolutionary theory to the clothed ape
Departments
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, October 1995
- Recommended
Reviews--Lunar Odyssey
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Broadcasting from Planes, Louis Pasteur and the Gulf Stream
- Profile
Thinking Globally, Acting Universally
- Mathematical Recreation
The Never-Ending Chess Game
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Beyond Neptune
High Tension
Why so Blue?
A Pox on the Pox
Giving your All
Endangered Again
A Tight Fit
These Feet were made for Walking--And?
Are Band-Aids Enough for Third World Debt?
- By the Numbers
Deaths Caused by Breast Cancer, by County
- Departments
The Controversy over the End of Science
- Science Travel
More Coral Trouble
- Field Notes
3 Rms, Ocean View
- Technology and Business
Slash and Burn
An Acid Test
Writing on the Fringe
Theres No Place like Cyberspace
A Tiny Gutenberg
Soft Wear
