Solving the Mystery of Insect Flight
Insects use a combination of aerodynamic effects to remain aloft
Features
Technology
A License for Copycats?
A court decision may clarify what is patentable while giving a free ride to knockoffs
Environment
The Himba and the Dam
A questionable act of progress may drown this African tribe's way of life. Similar dramas are playing out around the world
The Paradox of the Sun's Hot Corona
Like a boiling teakettle atop a COLD stove, the sun's HOT outer layers sit on the relatively cool surface. And now astronomers are FIGURING OUT WHY
Sign Language in the Brain
How does the human brain process language? New studies of deaf signers hint at an answer
North to Mars!
TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A MISSION TO MARS, A BAND OF SCIENTISTS DECIDED TO GO TO THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
Hair: Why it Grows, Why it Stops
Scientists are rapidly discovering the molecules that control hair production. In so doing, they could be unearthing the key to combating both baldness and excessive hair growth
A Low-Pollution Engine Solution
CLEAN-BURNING, SPARKLESS-IGNITION AUTO ENGINES MAY OFFER THE BEST CHANCE OF MEETING NEW EXHAUST EMISSIONS STANDARDS
Departments
- From the Editor
From the Editors
- Letters
Letters
Erratum
- Advances
New Trick from Old Dog
A Touch of Poison
Unfair Game
Galactic Archaeology
Save the Earth
Robotic Bombers
The Little Engine that Might
Not So Watery
Lucy, Meet Ken
Copy Unprotected
Locating the Latent Enemy
Aborted Crime Wave, Part 2
Boning Up
- Skeptic
Fox's Flapdoodle
- Anti Gravity
Nostrildamus
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
- In Brief
Data Points - Get Your Proteins
Brief Bits, June 2001
- Puzzling Adventures
Alternating Liars
- Reviews
Dinos and Darwin
- Profile
Piloting through Uncharted Seas
- Innovations
The Mice That Warred
- By the Numbers
The American Terrorist
- Technicalities
Kibbles and Bytes
- Working Knowledge
Flight Control
- Departments
End Points
