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August 2001
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; August 2001; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Concorde's Comeback; August 2001; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)
Fixing the supersonic transport to avoid another accident
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Road Map for the Mind; August 2001; by Diane Martindale; 2 Page(s)
Old mathematical theorems unfold the human brain
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The Peak of Success; August 2001; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
The big bang theory clicks together better than ever
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The Post-Genome Project; August 2001; by Karen Hopkin; 1 Page(s)
Whether the human proteome will be successfully mapped in three years depends on how you define "proteome"
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Computing with Light; August 2001; by Graham P. Collins; 1 Page(s)
Classical waves for pseudo quantum computing
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Wireless Wonder; August 2001; by Wendy M. Grossman; 1 Page(s)
A dark-horse standard could win the broadband race
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News Scan Briefs; August 2001; by Steve Mirsky, Philip Yam, Sarah Simpson, Alison McCook; 2 Page(s)
Wrist Watch; Sticky Situation; Fat Kills; Faster Than a Snail's Pace; Crystallizing Sound; When Fish Is Not Brain Food; Data Points: Your Taxes at Work; www.sciam.com/news - Brief Bits
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Staking Claims: Talking Gene Patents; August 2001; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
John J. Doll, director of biotechnology for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, tells Scientific American about granting exclusive rights to make, sell and use a gene
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Profile: Dissident or Don Quixote?; August 2001; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 3 Page(s)
Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H. Duesberg all but excommunicated from the scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that science has got cancer all wrong
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Go Forth and Replicate; August 2001; by Moshe Sipper and James A. Reggia, sidebar by George Musser; 10 Page(s)
Birds do it, bees do it, but could machines do it? New computer simulations suggest that the answer is yes
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The Ice of Life; August 2001; by David F. Blake and Peter Jenniskens; 6 Page(s)
Ice in its earthly guise is hostile to living things. But an exotic form of space ice can actually promote the creation of organic molecules -and may have seeded life on Earth
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Cybernetic Cells; August 2001; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 6 Page(s)
The simplest living cell is so complex that supercomputer models may never simulate its behavior perfectly. But even imperfect models could shake the foundations of biology
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Once Were Cannibals; August 2001; by Tim D. White; 8 Page(s)
Clear evidence of cannibalism in the human fossil record has been rare, but it is now becoming apparent that the practice is deeply rooted in our history
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Taming the Killing Fields of Laos; August 2001; by Daniel Lovering; 6 Page(s)
Live bombs from the Vietnam War continue to kill people and hamper agricultural development in Laos. The cleanup project required deciphering decades-old computer files
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The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer; August 2001; by William W. Hargrove, Forrest M. Hoffman and Thomas Sterling; 8 Page(s)
Scientists have found a cheaper way to solve tremendously difficult computational problems: connect ordinary PCs so that they can work together
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The Trouble with Turtles; August 2001; by Eric Niiler; 6 Page(s)
Despite heroic efforts to protect the nesting beaches of green turtles, fewer and fewer of these endangered creatures reappear every year. Researchers have been stunned to discover that shielding young turtles is only half the battle
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Reviews: A Spin on Spin Foam; August 2001; by Chet Raymo, staff editors; 3 Page(s)
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity describes physicists' search for an ultimate theory of reality. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Endpoints; August 2001; by Staff Editors; 1 Page(s)
Why doesn't stainless steel rust?
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