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July 1995

July 1995
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Cover; July 1995; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; July 1995; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Masthead; July 1995; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters To The Editors; July 1995; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

50 and 100 Years Ago; July 1995; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Darwin Denied; July 1995; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

Opponents of evolution make gains in schools

On the Level; July 1995; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)

Central Asia's inland seas curiously rise and fall

Bashing Black Holes; July 1995; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)

Theorists twist relativity to eradicate an astronomical anomaly

Artistic Genes; July 1995; by Nemecek; 2 Page(s)

Putting a date on ancient art can be tough, and resolving the list of ingredients in the paint is particularly difficult.

Fright of the Bumblebee; July 1995; by Mirsky; 2 Page(s)

Bugs at the scene of the crime aid police

The Waterfall Illusion; July 1995; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)

An odd optical puzzle yields clues to consciousness

In the Atomic Corral; July 1995; by Yam; 1 Page(s)

IBM may bring to mind drab blue suits and corporate mores, but that impression is hardly the fault of its scientists.

Toxins Abounding; July 1995; by Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)

Despite the lessons of Bhopal, chemical accidents are on the rise

Just Scratch It; July 1995; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)

Itch remains the most mysterious of cutaneous sensations - of all sensations, perhaps," says Jeffrey D. Bernhard, director of dermatology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester.

An Inside Job; July 1995; by Leutwyler; 1 Page(s)

IL-12 attacks tumors on two fronts, but can it win the battle?

A River (of Mud) Still Runs Through It; July 1995; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)

Four years ago Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines awoke from six centuries of slumber, sending a mass of volcanic material skyward.

Computation Outstrips Analysis; July 1995; by McCloskey; 1 Page(s)

Computation Outstrips Analysis

Environmental Secrets; July 1995; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

Medea brings intelligence in from the cold

It's Melting, It's Melting; July 1995; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)

Antarctica is heating up, and the evidence is in the ice - or at least in its melt.

Food Indigo; July 1995; by Zorpette; 1 Page(s)

Peering apprehensively at the green image in their night-vision goggles, Secret Service agents watched as then President George Bush fed the bacteria.

When Smog Gets in Your Eyes; July 1995; by Nemecek; 2 Page(s)

Cooking, not cars, may explain much of Mexico City's pollution

A Prime Patent; July 1995; by Garfinkel; 1 Page(s)

Legal rights to a number upset programmers and lawyers

Follow the Money; July 1995; by Browning; 2 Page(s)

A new stock market arises on the Internet

Ceramic Superwire; July 1995; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

A superconductor moves nearer the real world

A Skeptically Inquiring Mind; July 1995; by Yam; 2 Page(s)

A Skeptically Inquiring Mind

The Problematic Red Wolf; July 1995; by Wayne, Gittleman; 6 Page(s)

Is the red wolf a species or a long-established hybrid of the gray wolf and the coyote? Such distinctions may affect ongoing efforts to save a variety of endangered species

Protecting the Greenback; July 1995; by Schafrik, Church; 7 Page(s)

Digital color systems can reproduce paper money with disconcerting accuracy. The U.S. government's response is a new series of notes

Treating Diabetes with Transplanted Cells; July 1995; by Lacy; 7 Page(s)

The implants, islet cells of the pancreas, can potentially cure many cases of diabetes. A prime obstacle to wide use - lack of a safe way to avoid immune attacks on the grafts - now seems to be crumbling

Light in the Ocean's Midwaters; July 1995; by Robison; 6 Page(s)

Beneath the surface of the ocean, sunlight is gradually extinguished, but the resulting darkness yields to a host of bioluminescent creatures

Light in the Ocean's Midwaters; July 1995; by Robison; 3 Page(s)

Fish such as hake, as well as some squids, arefast-moving, wide-ranging predators, but they often linger near Ventana, attracted to the lights of the ROV.

The Trebuchet; July 1995; by Chevedden, Eigenbrod, Foley, Soedel; 6 Page(s)

Recent reconstructions and computer simulations reveal the operating principles of the most powerful weapon of its time

Cookstoves for the Developing World; July 1995; by Kammen; 4 Page(s)

Traditional wood, charcoal and coal stoves are used in hundreds of millions of homes. Their redesign can have a dramatic effect on energy usage, the environment and community health

J. Robert Oppenheimer:; July 1995; by Rigden; 6 Page(s)

Although Oppenheimer is now best remembered for his influence during World War II, he made many important contributions to theoretical physics in the 1930s

Plastics Get Wired/Trends in Material Science; July 1995; by Yam; 6 Page(s)

By tailoring the electrical properties of conducting polymers, researchers hope to render electronics a bit more organic

Mathematical Recreations; July 1995; by Stewart; 2 Page(s)

Election Fever in Blockvotia

Review; July 1995; by Sunquist, Sunquist, Abernethy, Silk; 4 Page(s)

Serengeti studies; Crowd control; The physics of God?

Essay; July 1995; by Eisenberg; 1 Page(s)

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