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April 2000
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; April 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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From the Editors; April 2000; by Rennie; 1 Page(s)
Quantum Bits and Reliable Boats
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Fireballs of Free Quarks; April 2000; by Collins, Reichert; 2 Page(s)
CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma - last seen during the big bang
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Outbreak Not Contained; April 2000; by Holloway; 2 Page(s)
West Nile virus triggers a reevaluation of public health surveillance
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A Taste for Science; April 2000; by Nemecek; 1 Page(s)
One researcher's quest to understand how early Americans ate - and their mammoth refrigeration problem
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Car Parts from Chickens; April 2000; by Martindale; 1 Page(s)
Researchers hatch a plan to make plastic from feathers
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Power to the PC; April 2000; by Pescovitz; 2 Page(s)
Distributed computing over the Internet goes commercial
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Throwing in the Tower; April 2000; by Scott; 2 Page(s)
A virtual-reality control tower helps to test new runway designs and traffic patterns
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By the Numbers: Women and the Professions; April 2000; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
Of the 21 million professional jobs in the U.S., women hold 53 percent, but most of these are in fields that generally pay only moderately well, such as public school teaching and nursing.
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News Briefs; April 2000; by Martindale, Mirsky, Musser, Pescovitz, Yam; 2 Page(s)
Whirl-a-Gig; Two Places at Once; Morticians Beware; Budget Boost; The Fifth Taste; So you want to start a family…; Insides Out
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Profile: A Greene Universe; April 2000; by Hayashi; 2 Page(s)
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene has a simple goal--explaining the universe with strings
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Rules of the Game; April 2000; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Friends and foes of genetically modified crops warily sign a deal
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Cyber View; April 2000; by Wallich; 2 Page(s)
Who Wants Privacy?
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The 1999 National Medal of Technology; April 2000; by Staff Editor; 4 Page(s)
The latest winners of the nation's highest honors for innovation are celebrated for outstanding contributions to the growth and commercialization of the Internet, biotechnology, pattern recognition and more
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Quantum Teleportation; April 2000; by Zeilinger; 10 Page(s)
The science-fiction dream of "beaming" objects from place to place is now a reality - at least for particles of light
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Building a Brainier Mouse; April 2000; by Tsien, sidebar by Ezzell; 7 Page(s)
By genetically engineering a smarter than average mouse, scientists have assembled some of the central molecular components of learning and memory
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Understanding Clinical Trials; April 2000; by Zivin; 7 Page(s)
The journey from initial medical research to the bottle in your family's medicine cabinet is complex, time-consuming and expensive. Can the clinical trial process be refined?
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The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs; April 2000; by Basri; 8 Page(s)
Less massive than stars but more massive than planets, brown dwarfs were long assumed to be rare. New sky surveys, however, show that the objects may be as common as stars
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The Aleutian Kayak; April 2000; by Dyson, sidebar by Schlenoff; 8 Page(s)
The Aleuts built the baidarka to suit their life as hunters on the open ocean. The sophisticated design of this kayak is still not entirely understood
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Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs; April 2000; by King, Herring; 6 Page(s)
A new NASA satellite - one of a fleet called the Earth Observing System - is using five state-of-the-art sensors to diagnose the planet's health like never before
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Who Were the Neandertals?; April 2000; by Wong, sidebars by Trinkaus and Duarte, Zilhão and d'Errico, Smith; 10 Page(s)
Controversial evidence indicates that these hominids interbred with anatomically modern humans and sometimes behaved in surprisingly modern ways
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The Amateur Scientist; April 2000; by Carlson; 2 Page(s)
A Furnace in a Thermos: An easy-to-build oven is an essential tool for any basement lab
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Mathematical Recreations; April 2000; by Stewart; 2 Page(s)
Counting the Cattle of the Sun: Some problems are too big to solve by trial and error, says Ian Stewart
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Books; April 2000; by Hamer, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)
Matt Ridley's "Genome" offers a celebrity tour of human DNA, according to Dean H. Hamer. With more from The Editors Recommend.
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Wonders: The Lion Emperors; April 2000; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)
Once Los Angeles was a match for the present plains of the Serengeti
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Connections: Water Music; April 2000; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
In which we visit singers, fiddlers, fertilizers and health freaks - and, James Burke observes, it all goes down the drain
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