Curiosity Rhymed the Cat
Alan Alda reports on readers' winning responses to his limerick challenge
Features
Care for a Dying Continent
In Zimbabwe--where AIDS is prematurely killing a generation of adults--counselors and researchers struggle against social customs, viral resourcefulness and despair.
Avoiding a Data Crunch
The Small Planets
Asteroids have become notorious as celestial menaces but are best appreciated in a positive light, as surreal worlds bearing testimony to the origin of the planets
Making Metallic Hydrogen
By re-creating extreme conditions like those in Jupiter's core, physicists have at long last turned hydrogen into a metal
Departments
Tackling Race and Sports
Physician, Heal Thyself
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Early Robots, Burst Bubbles and Old Mummies
Coping with Crowding
- From the Editor
Africa's Suffering
- Letters
Letters to the Editor, May 2000
- Anti Gravity
Fields of Dreams
- Wonders
Netting the Deep Sky
- In Brief
Yeah, You've Got Mail
- Profile
The Biologist and the Cathedral
- Mathematical Recreation
Rep-Tiling the Plane
- Amateur Scientist
Fun with Flat Fluids
- Science and the Citizen
For the Bees
Three-Star Performance
What's the Matter?
A New Rex
All Doped Up--and Going for the Gold
Formula for Intelligence?
Jam Session
From Power Lines to Pantyhose
Axes to Grind
Lending a Helping Leg
- By the Numbers
Productivity
- Working Knowledge
Fill 'Er Up
- Connections
What a Nerve
- Cyber View
DVDs: Cease and DeCSS?
- Technology and Business
Chilly Crystals
Wired for Speed
