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September 2004
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; September 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Test Drive; September 2004; by Daniel G. Dupont; 2 Page(s)
Will a planned defense shield defeat real missiles?
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Nipah's Return; September 2004; by Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)
The lethal "flying fox" virus may spread between people
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Bad Rap for Nitrate?; September 2004; by JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)
Infamous preservative may help defend against bacteria
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Scaled-Up Darkness; September 2004; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
Could a single dark matter particle be light-years wide?
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Chemical Conversations; September 2004; by Nicole Garbarini; 2 Page(s)
Synapse chip adopts the neuron's tongue
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Piecing the Past; September 2004; by Lisa DeKeukelaere; 1 Page(s)
An algorithm quickly fits together potsherds
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News Scan Briefs; September 2004; by Charles Choi, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
Location, Location, Location; Paleolithic Pensioners; Cracked Caloric Counter; No Place Like Home; Ringed Up; Full Entangled House
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Skeptic: Mustangs, Monists and Meaning; September 2004; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
The dualist belief that body and soul are separate entities is natural, intuitive and with us from infancy. It is also very probably wrong
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Insights: Superhot among the Ultracool; September 2004; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
With atoms near absolute zero, Deborah S. Jin created a Fermi condensate - opening a new realm in physics that might lead to room-temperature superconductivity
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The Patent Clerk's Legacy; September 2004; by Gary Stix; 6 Page(s)
In 1905 the musings of a functionary in the Swiss patent office changed the world forever. His intellectual bequest remains for a new generation of physicists vying to concoct a theory of everything
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Everyday Einstein; September 2004; by Philip Yam; 6 Page(s)
Finding your way out of the woods with GPS? Hanging a picture frame with a laser level? Making photocopies? Better thank Einstein
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Atomic Spin-offs for the 21st Century; September 2004; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 8 Page(s)
A new generation of technologies aims to put Einstein's theories to work in computers, hospitals - even submarines
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Einstein's Compass; September 2004; by Peter Galison; 4 Page(s)
What was it about the magnetism of an iron bar that could divert Einstein from perfecting his celebrated theory of general relativity?
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A Cosmic Conundrum; September 2004; by Lawrence M. Krauss and Michael S. Turner; 8 Page(s)
A new incarnation of Einstein's cosmological constant may point the way beyond general relativity
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The String Theory Landscape; September 2004; by Raphael Bousso and Joseph Polchinski; 10 Page(s)
The theory of strings predicts that the universe might occupy one random "valley" out of a virtually infinite selection of valleys in a vast landscape of possibilities
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Was Einstein Right?; September 2004; by George Musser; 4 Page(s)
Unlike nearly all his contemporaries, Albert Einstein thought quantum mechanics would give way to a classical theory. Some researchers nowadays are inclined to agree
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The Search for Relativity Violations; September 2004; by Alan Kostelecky, sidebar by Graham P. Collins; 10 Page(s)
To uncover evidence for an ultimate theory, scientists are looking for infractions of Einstein's once sacrosanct physical principle
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A Century of Einstein; September 2004; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 4 Page(s)
Scientific American has covered Einstein's theories - and the refinements and reactions to them - ever since scientists began to grasp the import of his landmark 1905 papers. Read on for a sampling of our reports, some by leading physicists of their times
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Forces of the World, Unite!; September 2004; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
In a 1950 Scientific American article, Einstein outlined his unified theory of physics. Too bad it was wrong
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Voyages: Hiking Underground; September 2004; by Marguerite Holloway; 3 Page(s)
The longest cave in the world wends below Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park. Here visitors can view cave formation up close
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Reviews: Existential Terroir in Northern California; September 2004; by Henry Gee, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
The Winemaker's Dance argues that more than a million years of geologic history favors the wines from California's Napa Valley. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Ask the Experts; September 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Why is the fuel economy of a car better in the summer? Why does inhaling helium make one's voice sound strange?
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