February 2002
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: A Ready-Made Controversy; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

The crucible of cloning

On the Web; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Boundary of Space, Threshold of Flight, Origins of Man

What Clones?; February 2002; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

Widespread scientific doubts greet word of the first human embryo clones

Paving Out Pollution; February 2002; by Linda Wang; 1 Page(s)

A common whitener helps to clean the air

Coal Control; February 2002; by Sarah Simpson; 2 Page(s)

Tackling the health dangers of China's "dirty" coal

Count to 10; February 2002; by Lisa Melton; 2 Page(s)

Frog eggs may crack the mystery of how anesthesia works

Quieting Killer Waves; February 2002; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)

Aiming to beat hazardous turbulence behind planes

Setback for Super-K; February 2002; by Graham P. Collins; 1 Page(s)

Disaster blinds the world's leading neutrino detector

News Scan Briefs; February 2002; by Steve Mirsky, JR Minkel, Philip Yam, George Musser; 2 Page(s)

Parts of Speech; Sonic Womb; Early Warning; Splitting with Sunshine; Into the Maize; Otherworldly Air; Data Points: Weighty Matters; www.sciam.com/news - Brief Bits

By the Numbers: Assembling the Future; February 2002; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

How international migrants are shaping the 21st century

Innovations: Down with the Bad, Up with the Good; February 2002; by Thomas Maeder; 1 Page(s)

A biotech firm develops a vaccine to raise good cholesterol levels

Staking Claims: Intellectual Improprieties; February 2002; by Steve Ditlea; 1 Page(s)

A leading gadfly picks some of the worst patents of all time

Skeptic: The Gradual Illumination of the Mind; February 2002; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The advance of science, not the demotion of religion, will best counter the influence of creationism

Profile: Telecom's Man of the Moment; February 2002; by Julie Wakefield; 2 Page(s)

Heir to a famed military and political legacy, Michael K. Powell tries to make his mark on the federal agency that regulates cell phones, television and the Internet

The Network in Every Room; February 2002; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 6 Page(s)

Thanks to ingenious engineering, computers and appliances can now communicate through the electrical wiring in a house

The Magic of Microarrays; February 2002; by Stephen H. Friend and Roland B. Stoughton; 8 Page(s)

Research tools known as DNA microarrays are already clarifying the molecular roots of health and disease and speeding drug discovery. They could also hasten the day when custom-tailored treatment plans replace a one-size-fits-all approach to health care

Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets; February 2002; by John J. Flynn and Andre R. Wyss; 10 Page(s)

The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize scientific views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals

Bejeweled Worlds; February 2002; by Joseph A Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton and Mark R. Showalter; 10 Page(s)

What an impoverished universe it would be if Saturn and the other giant planets lacked rings. Planetary scientists are finally working out how gravity has sculpted these elegant ornaments

Television Addiction; February 2002; by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; 7 Page(s)

Understanding how closely compulsive TV viewing resembles other forms of addiction may help couch potatoes control their habit

The Bottleneck; February 2002; by Edward O. Wilson; 10 Page(s)

We have entered the Century of the Environment, in which the immediate future is usefully conceived as a bottleneck: science and technology, combined with foresight and moral courage, must see us through it and out

Working Knowledge: Eye in the Sky; February 2002; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Aerial and satellite imaging

Technicalities: Surrounded by Sound; February 2002; by Fiona Harvey; 2 Page(s)

Ingenious software makes ordinary stereo speakers come alive

Reviews: Treasonous Idealism; February 2002; by Chet Raymo, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)

Nova's intriguing documentary probes misdirected principles - and the unforeseen dangers of government secrecy. Also, The Editors Recommend

Puzzling Adventures: Shifty Witnesses; February 2002; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Skipping the preliminaries, the detective stated his problem: "We have five witnesses whom we don't trust. They have trailed a group of 10 suspected drug dealers. For each suspect, the five witnesses take a vote about whether the suspect has drugs or not.

Anti Gravity: Kabul Session; February 2002; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

A science primer for any readers who richly deserve to get taught a lesson

Endpoints; February 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does it stick to pans? Why are planets round?