June 2000
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2000; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editors, including Masthead; June 2000; by Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Nanotech Reality

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Cities for H-bombs, Antibiotics for Industry

Letters to the Editors; June 2000; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Toxins on the Firing Range; June 2000; by Williams; 2 Page(s)

Over military protests, the EPA orders cleanups of unexploded ordnance

A Plum of an Island; June 2000; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)

Sensationalism dogs an animal laboratory upgrade

Soothing the Inflamed Brain; June 2000; by Jones; 1 Page(s)

Anti-inflammatories may be the first drugs to halt the progression of Alzheimer's

Throttled; June 2000; by Scott; 1 Page(s)

Manufacturers balk at steering and landing with engine thrust alone

SNPs of Disease; June 2000; by Klotzko; 1 Page(s)

The U.K. plans a national genomic database to study late-onset sickness

The Orwell Awards; June 2000; by Wallich; 3 Page(s)

In recognition of efforts to trample personal liberties on the electronic frontier

By the Numbers: Asthma Worldwide; June 2000; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)

Asthma was rare in 1900, but now it has grown into an epidemic: more than 15 million are affected in the U.S. and up to 10 times that many around the world.

News Briefs; June 2000; by Yam, Musser, Alpert, Nemecek, Collins; 2 Page(s)

The 300-Gigahertz Light Switch; Long Tail of the Comet; Yukon Gold; Yes, Sharks Get Cancer; An Eye for an Eye; Cash Only; Atomic Dead Letter

Profile: Paleontology's Indiana Jones; June 2000; by Wong; 2 Page(s)

From digging to designing, Paul S. Sereno has helped map the evolution of dinosaurs

Tantalizing Tubes; June 2000; by Mirsky; 3 Page(s)

Hype aside, applications for carbon nanotubes progress -- slowly

Cyber View; June 2000; by NA; 1 Page(s)

Accounting for Taste

Special Report: Waging a New Kind of War (Introduction); June 2000; by Musser, Nemecek; 2 Page(s)

What could possibly be new about war? People have always been quite imaginative about finding ways to impose their will by violent force. Rocks and spears, catapults and muskets, mustard gas and nukes: you might think that human civilization has tried it all. Evidently not.

Special Report: A Scourge of Small Arms; June 2000; by Boutwell, Klare; 6 Page(s)

With a few hundred machine guns and mortars, a small army can take over an entire country, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands

Special Report: Invisible Wounds; June 2000; by Mollica, side bar by Clemens, Jr., Singer; 4 Page(s)

Medical researchers have recently begun to address the mental health effects of war on civilians

Special Report: Children of the Gun; June 2000; by Boothby, Knudsen; 5 Page(s)

How do you make a child into a killer? Armed groups worldwide have developed a grim routine: abduct children from their families, inure them to abuse and "promote" them into combat

Dwarf Galaxies and Starbursts; June 2000; by Beck; 6 Page(s)

Diminutive galaxies occasionally experience spectacular bursts of star formation. These starbursts are giving astronomers a glimpse of the universe's early history

Cell Communication: The Inside Story; June 2000; by Scott, Pawson; 8 Page(s)

The tiny cells in our bodies harbor amazing internal communication networks. Understanding how those circuits are organized could help scientists develop new therapies for many serious disorders

Reading the Bones of La Florida; June 2000; by Larsen; 6 Page(s)

New approaches are offering insight into the lives of Native Americans after the Europeans arrived. Their health declined not only because of disease but because of their altered diet and living circumstances

Computing with Molecules; June 2000; by Reed, Tour; 8 Page(s)

Researchers have produced molecules that act like switches, wires and even memory elements. But connecting many of the devices together presents enormous challenges

Looking for Life Below the Bottom; June 2000; by Simpson; 8 Page(s)

Two scientists have a hunch that the largest repository of life is not the oceans but the fractured rock beneath them. Staff writer Sarah Simpson recounts the voyage to find proof

Working Knowledge: A Spaceship for One; June 2000; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)

What the well-dressed astronaut wears.

The Amateur Scientist: Home is Where the ECG Is; June 2000; by Carlson; 3 Page(s)

A homemade heart monitor.

Mathematical Recreations: Paradox Lost; June 2000; by Stewart; 2 Page(s)

Not all paradoxes are created equal.

Books; June 2000; by van Valen, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)

Peter Singer argues that liberals can learn important lessons from Darwinism. Also, The Editors Recommend.

Wonders: The Internet as Hardware; June 2000; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)

A cyber-pinging journey among Web sites near and far

Connections: All at Sea; June 2000; by Burke; 1 Page(s)

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum - buried treasure and pirates, novelists and politics

Anti Gravity: Great Feets; June 2000; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Walking on water takes a man with mighty big shoes to fill