January 2000
Scientific American Magazine

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

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

From the Editors; January 2000; by Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Warp Drive Goes Here

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

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

The Nobel Prizes for 1999; January 2000; by Collins, Ezzell, Nemecek, Zorpette; 4 Page(s)

Explanations of the science underlying the world's most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and physiology - plus a look at the prizes for peace, won by a physicians organization, and economics

In Focus: Melting Away; January 2000; by Simpson; 2 Page(s)

The shrinking of an immense swath of Antarctic ice threatens to raise sea level - and there may be no stopping it

No Space Sex?; January 2000; by Gallagher; 1 Page(s)

Despite a push to understand human behavior in space, NASA remains squeamish about sex

By the Numbers: Going the Distance; January 2000; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)

Every year about 14 million Americans move to another county, and about 840,000 legal immigrants enter the country.

In Brief; January 2000; by Martindale, Yam; 2 Page(s)

The Story of X and Y; Placing the Blame; Transistor Twist; Perfect-Pitch Men; Origin of the Kennewick Skeleton; Pollution Data Flawed

Mammal Melee; January 2000; by Wong; 2 Page(s)

New fossils impugn leading model of early mammal origins

Anti Gravity: When Hippos Go Bad; January 2000; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Imagine a sport-utility vehicle interested in mating.

Schrodinger's Games; January 2000; by Collins; 2 Page(s)

For quantum prisoners, there may be no dilemma

Profile: Setting the Course for the Nation's Health; January 2000; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

How Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health, went from science to administration - and boosted medical research

Self-Control in the Skies; January 2000; by Scott; 2 Page(s)

An onboard device for flying closer together more safely

Winds of Change; January 2000; by Hayashi; 2 Page(s)

Can skyscrapers withstand stronger hurricanes?

Jumbo Trouble; January 2000; by Ezzell; 2 Page(s)

Is it time to cull some elephant populations in southern Africa and sell the ivory?

Cyber View; January 2000; by Grossman; 2 Page(s)

Making Money the New-Fashioned Way

Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp Drive; January 2000; by Ford, Roman; 8 Page(s)

The construction of wormholes and warp drive would require a very unusual form of energy. Unfortunately, the same laws of physics that allow the existence of this "negative energy" also appear to limit its behavior

Once We Were Not Alone; January 2000; by Tattersall; 7 Page(s)

Today we take for granted that Homo Sapiens is the only hominid on Earth. Yet for at least four million years many hominid species shared the planet. What makes us different?

Voyage to SUPERHEAVY Island; January 2000; by Oganessian, Utyonkov, Moody; 5 Page(s)

The synthesis of element 114 confirmed decades-old theoretical predictions of a little patch of nuclear stability in a sea of short-lived superheavy nuclei

Snowball Earth; January 2000; by Hoffman, Schrag; 8 Page(s)

Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed

Narcolepsy; January 2000; by Siegel; 6 Page(s)

Although people with the disorder do not fall face-first into their soup as in the movies, narcolepsy is still a mysterious disease. But science has new leads

Maglev: A New Approach; January 2000; by Post; 6 Page(s)

The Inductrack promises a safer, cheaper system for magnetically levitating trains. The same technology can also be used to launch rockets

The Unmet Need for Family Planning; January 2000; by Potts; 6 Page(s)

Women and men in many countries still lack adequate access to contraceptives. Unless they are given the option of controlling their fertility, severe environmental and health problems loom in the coming century throughout large parts of the world

The Amateur Scientist; January 2000; by Carlson; 3 Page(s)

Detecting Extraterrestrial Gravity

Mathematical Recreations; January 2000; by Stewart; 2 Page(s)

Impossibility Theorems

Reviews; January 2000; by Raymo, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)

"Strange Beauty": the quirks and quarks of Murray Gell-Mann; Galileo's daughter, the conquest of cold, Dyson on life and more

Wonders: Roll Back Malaria; January 2000; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)

The coevolved menace of malaria

Connections: On the Ball; January 2000; by Burke; 2 Page(s)

Ballpoint pens and weatherproof coats

Working Knowledge; January 2000; by Herchen; 1 Page(s)

Instant Film