The Sciences
Food for Thought
Dietary change was a driving force in human evolution
Features
On Thin Ice?
How soon humanity will have to move inland to escape rising seas depends in great part on how quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinks. Scientists are finally beginning to agree on what controls the size of the sheet and its rate of disintegration
Order in Pollock's Chaos
Computer analysis is helping to explain the appeal of Jackson Pollock's paintings. The artist's famous drips and swirls create fractal patterns, similar to those formed in nature by trees, clouds and coastlines
The Enigma of Huntington's Disease
Nearly 10 years after scientists isolated the gene responsible for Huntington's, they are still searching for how it wreaks its devastation
The Scientific American 50
Our first annual celebration of visionaries from the worlds of research, industry and politics whose recent accomplishments point toward a brighter technological future for everyone
Departments
The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
- Letters
Letters
Erratum
- Advances
Under the Microscope
Cretaceous Park
Making Do
Mendelmania Takes Off
Parched Turf Battle
Subduing Suppressors
Nucleotide Nanotubes
Keyboard Cops
Dentures Begone
The Nobel Prizes for 2002
- Recommended
The Twisted Road to the Double Helix
- Skeptic
The Captain Kirk Principle
- Anti Gravity
Members Only
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Fishy Sex -- Expensive Scenery -- TB Plague
- Perspectives
In Science We Trust
- In Brief
Data Points: December 2002
Brief Points: December 2002
- Puzzling Adventures
Plumbers
- Profile
Throwing Einstein for a Loop
- By the Numbers
Deinstitutionalization
- Technicalities
Getting Real
- Working Knowledge
Superhot Dots
- Departments
Annual Index 2002
Fuzzy Logic
- Ask the Experts
Ask the Experts: December 2002
