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November 2004
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; November 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; November 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Puzzling Courtship; Mysterious Aether; Mythic Life-Forms
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Damage Control; November 2004; by David Labrador; 2 Page(s)
A crackdown to prevent conflicts of interest at the NIH
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Breathing with Hepatitis; November 2004; by Lisa Melton; 3 Page(s)
Does exposure to a liver-inflaming virus prevent asthma?
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Volcanic Sniffing; November 2004; by Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)
Quantum-cascade laser may detect impending eruptions
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Flawed Revelations?; November 2004; by Barry E. DiGregorio; 3 Page(s)
Contamination may undermine Genesis data
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Connection Blues; November 2004; by Wendy M. Grossman; 2 Page(s)
A hole for external control of bluetooth devices
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News Scan Briefs; November 2004; by JR Minkel, Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)
Her Majesty's Secret Service; Check the "In" Box; Piped-in Turbulence; Ear-y Coincidence; Invasion of the Sequences; Beating a Deadly Gas
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Insights: What's in a Name?; November 2004; by Christine Soares; 2 Page(s)
Not much at the moment, thinks biologist Kevin de Queiroz, but names could be made to reflect our modern understanding of life's origins and complexity
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Rebuilding Broken Hearts; November 2004; by Smadar Cohen and Jonathan Leor; 8 Page(s)
Biologists and engineers working together in the fledgling field of tissue engineering are within reach of one of their greatest goals: constructing a living human heart patch
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Black Hole Computers; November 2004; by Seth Lloyd and Y. Jack Ng; 10 Page(s)
In keeping with the spirit of the age, researchers can think of the laws of physics as computer programs and the universe as a computer
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Abrupt Climate Change; November 2004; by Richard B. Alley; 8 Page(s)
Winter temperatures plummeting six degrees Celsius and sudden droughts scorching farmland around the globe are not just the stuff of scary movies. Such striking climate jumps have happened before--sometimes within a matter of years
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Holes in the Missile Shield; November 2004; by Richard L. Garwin; 10 Page(s)
The national missile defense now being deployed by the U.S. should be replaced with a more effective system
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Computing at the Speed of Light; November 2004; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 8 Page(s)
Emerging ways to make photonic connections to electronic microchips may dramatically change the shape of computers in the decade ahead
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Music and the Brain; November 2004; by Norman M. Weinberger; 8 Page(s)
What is the secret of music's strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians
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A Split at the Core; November 2004; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 5 Page(s)
Physics is forcing the microchip industry to redesign its most lucrative products. That is bad news for software companies
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Reviews: Terrified by a Tyrannosaur; November 2004; by Richard Milner, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)
Curious Minds looks at what inspired 27 well-known investigators to take up science. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Anti Gravity: Wild Life; November 2004; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
Of beers, bears, fish and assault with a deadly reptile
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Ask the Experts; November 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
How do scientists know the composition of the Earth's interior? How does decanting red wine affect its taste? And why not decant white?
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