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January 1997
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; January 1997; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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The 1996 Nobel Prizes in Science; January 1997; by Staff Editors; 4 Page(s)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has again recognized four sets
of researchers for their outstanding contributions. Here is a look at the work
behind these achievements in chemistry, physics, medicine and economics
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In Focus: Flight of Fancy; January 1997; by Schneider, Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Will a new kind of submersible
truly benefit research?
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Steps To Recovery; January 1997; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Researchers find ways of coaxing
spinal nerves to regrow
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Field Notes: Suburban Amber; January 1997; by Mukerjee; 1 Page(s)
The moist, black lignite breaks into rough planes studded with weathered grains of red amber.
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In Brief; January 1997; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Women Gain on Pain; Not So Smart Cards; Femtosecond Flash; Earliest Earthlings; Preventive Payback; Making a Better Brew; Genetic Junkyards; The Price of Silence; Under the Wire; Young Planets Shine Brightly
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All In The Timing; January 1997; by Powell; 2 Page(s)
A quick-seeing satellite catches
cosmic cannibals in the act
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Awaiting The Big Bang?; January 1997; by Schneider; 3 Page(s)
Scientists grapple with
Montserrat's live volcano
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Anti Gravity: Chewing the Fat; January 1997; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
In any list of history's greatest inventions, the usual suspects include the telephone, the automobile, the computer.
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By the Numbers: Threatened Mammals; January 1997; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
For some time, many naturalists have felt that the world is entering a period of major species extinction, rivaling five other periods in the past half a billion years.
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Fetal Checkup; January 1997; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
A simple blood test can replace invasive procedures such as amniocentesis
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Chilling Chips; January 1997; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Microjets of air can cool chips,
but . . . speak up!
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More Gallons Per Mile; January 1997; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Chemical signals narrow
the search for petroleum
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Bandwidth, Unlimited; January 1997; by Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
Optical devices moving to market
could boost telephone company
profits - or wipe them out
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Cyber View; January 1997; by Browning; 1 Page(s)
No More 9 to 5
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Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier; January 1997; by Cronin, Gaisser, Swordy; 6 Page(s)
These particles carry more energy than
any others in the universe. Their origin
is unknown but may be relatively nearby
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Understanding Parkinson's Disease; January 1997; by Youdim, Riederer; 8 Page(s)
The smoking gun is still missing, but growing evidence
suggests highly reactive substances called free radicals
are central players in this common neurological disorder
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Tackling Turbulence with Supercomputers; January 1997; by Moin, Kim; 7 Page(s)
Computers only recently became powerful enough
to illuminate simple examples of this great classical problem.
In some cases, they will let engineers control it
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Transgenic Livestock as Drug Factories; January 1997; by Velander, Lubon, Drohan; 5 Page(s)
By introducing key human genes into mammals, biologists can induce dairy animals to produce therapeutic proteins in their milk
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How the Blind Draw; January 1997; by Kennedy; 6 Page(s)
Blind and sighted people use many of the same
devices in sketching their surroundings, suggesting
that vision and touch are closely linked
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Experimental Flooding in Grand Canyon; January 1997; by Collier, Webb, Andrews; 8 Page(s)
Scientists monitor a controlled deluge that was staged
in the early spring of 1996 solely for the benefit
of the environment in and around the Colorado River
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The Einstein-Sziland Refrigerator; January 1997; by Dannen; 6 Page(s)
Two visionary theoretical physicists
joined forces in the 1920s to reinvent
the household refrigerator
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Science versus Antiscience?; January 1997; by Staff Editors; 6 Page(s)
Movements lumped under the term "antiscience" have disparate causes, and not all pose as much of a threat as has been claimed
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Reviews; January 1997; by Hayflick, Powell, Wallich; 5 Page(s)
Reviews
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Wonders: Doing the Poincaré Shuffle; January 1997; by Morrison; 2 Page(s)
Happy New Year! On January 1, 1997, at about 6 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Earth will come nearer to the sun than at any other time that year.
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Connections: A Bit of a Flutter; January 1997; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
I suppose my view of history tends away from the orderly and more toward the chaotic, in the sense of that
much overused phrase from chaos theory about the movement of a butterfly's wing in China causing storms on the other side of the world
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