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
Features
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
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
Departments
Ten Days Under the Sea
Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters
- From the Editor
Microbes from Mars? Maybe
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, October 1996
Erratum
- Recommended
Reviews and Commentaries--Mistakes Were Made
- Anti Gravity
Just Say NO
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Fuel Costs, Cycling Without Breaks and Discovery of Anesthesia
- Wonders
New World and Old: A Matter of Magnitude
- In Brief
In Brief, October 1996
- Profile
Probing Medicine's Outer Reaches
- Mathematical Recreation
Monopoly Revisited
- Amateur Scientist
Working in a Vacuum
- Science and the Citizen
Fish Fight
A Spinning Crystal Ball
On the Tail of the Tiger
Hurricane Hullabaloo?
Unicorn Hunts?
- By the Numbers
Soil Erosion of Cropland in the U.S., 1982 to 1992
- Working Knowledge
Working Knowledge on Photocopiers
- Connections
Making Your Mark
- Cyber View
Television by Any Other Name
- Field Notes
Building a Better T-Bone
- Technology and Business
"X" (Rays) Mark the Tumor
Picking on Cotton
Programming with Primordial Ooze
Recently Netted...
- In Focus
Bugs in the Data?
