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.
Curiosity Rhymed the Cat
Alan Alda reports on readers' winning responses to his limerick challenge
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
Coping with Crowding
Making Metallic Hydrogen
By re-creating extreme conditions like those in Jupiter's core, physicists have at long last turned hydrogen into a metal
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Physician, Heal Thyself
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All Doped Up--and Going for the Gold
From Power Lines to Pantyhose
Formula for Intelligence?
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