Single Mothers and Welfare

For the first time since the Great Depression, large numbers of families are homeless. Recent welfare revisions will put even more women and children on the streets

Microbes Deep Inside the Earth

Recently discovered microorganisms that dwell within the earth's crust could reveal clues to the origin of life

Friction at the Atomic Scale

Long neglected by physicists, the study of friction's tomic-level origins, or nanotribology, indicates that the force tems from various unexpected sources, including sound energy

Controlling Computers with Neural Signals

Electrical impulses from nerves and muscles can command computers directly, a method that aids people with physical disabilities

Ten Days Under the Sea

Living underwater in the world's only habitat devoted to science, six aquanauts studied juvenile corals and fought off "the funk"

Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters

When the scientific establishment put a spiritualist on trial, the co-discoverers of natural selection took opposing sides

Confronting Science's Logical Limits

The mathematical models now used in many scientific fields may be fundamentally unable to answer certain questions about the real world. Yet there may be ways around these problems

Sounding Out Science