Natural Oil Spills
In the Gulf of Mexico, a region famous for its many oil and gas fields, most of the petroleum flowing into the ocean leaks naturally from fissures in the seabed
Features
The Day the Sands Caught Fire
A desert impact site demonstrates the wrath of rocks from space
The Search for Greenland's Mysterious Meteor
Caught on camera, the fireball that streaked across Arctic skies last December appeared to move too fast for anything from this solar system. A month long expedition on this island of ice hunted for remains--and answers...
Glueballs
Gluons, which hold protons together, can also clump into globs of pure glue
Evolution and the Origins of Disease
The principles of evolution by natural selection are finally beginning to inform medicine
Mating Strategies of Spiders
Spiders have evolved intriguing behaviors to woo their occasionally cannibalistic mates
Simulating Water and the Molecules of Life
Computer modeling reveals how water affects the structures and dynamics of biological molecules such as proteins, yielding clues to their functions
100 Years of Magnetic Memories
Although the technology is ubiquitous today, magnetic recording had a sluggish start. The underlying science was something of a mystery, applications were slow to emerge, and business and politics stifled development...
Departments
- From the Editor
Who and What We Lost
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, November 1998
Errata
- Recommended
Reviews and Commentaries: Three Material Witnesses
The Editors Recommend
- Anti Gravity
Lucky Laima
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 And 150 Years Ago: Cybernetics, Remote Control and A Famous Neurology Case
- Wonders
Numbers: Prime or Choice?
- In Brief
In Brief, November 1998
- Profile
Monstrous Moonshine is True
- Mathematical Recreation
Resurrection Shuffle
- Amateur Scientist
Floating a Challenge
- Science and the Citizen
Inconstant Constants
Down Detection
The E. Coli Are Coming
- By the Numbers
How Congress Voted on the Environment
- Connections
Oops
- Departments
Patent Blunder
- Cyber View
This is not a Hoax!
- Field Notes
Tool Time on Cactus Hill
- Technology and Business
Rough Sailing for Smart Ships
Shutting Down a Gene
Little Bangs
- In Focus
Dogma Overturned
