August 1995
Scientific American Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

Misreading Dyslexia; August 1995; by Tashman; 2 Page(s)

Researchers debate the causes and prevalence of the disorder

It's All in the Timing; August 1995; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)

Neurons may be more punctual than had been supposed

Blast from the Past; August 1995; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)

This past February, Charles C. Schnetzler, a planetary scientist who spends most of his time in an office at the Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland, was wondering just how he found himself being tossed about the cab of a truck in the jungles of southern Laos.

Coming in; August 1995; by Yam; 2 Page(s)

The long-sought Bose-Einstein condensate turns up

What the Keck?; August 1995; by Powell; 2 Page(s)

The world's largest telescope quietly transforms astronomy

Quasimodal; August 1995; by Madhusree; 2 Page(s)

Quasicrystals, discovered in 1984, shattered the wisdom that shapes having fivefold, sevenfold or other designated symmetries cannot fit together to tile a surface.

High Tidings; August 1995; by Stock; 2 Page(s)

Ancient, erratic changes in sea level suggest a coming swell

The Mystery of SIDS; August 1995; by Horgan; 3 Page(s)

A murder conviction revives questions about infant deaths

Down to Earth; August 1995; by Beardsley; 3 Page(s)

Biosphere 2 tries to get real

How to Catch a Fly Ball; August 1995; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)

You're Barry Bonds, ace leftfielder for the San Francisco Giants, watching carefully as Lenny Dykstra, leadoff hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies, comes to the plate.

Putting Bombs Away; August 1995; by Nemecek; 2 Page(s)

A controversial exhibit about World War II is canceled

Testing's Toll; August 1995; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)

In the 50 years since Little Boy and Fat Man destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2,034 tests of nuclear bombs have been conducted worldwide, according to Robert S. Norris and William M. Arkin of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Fast Cash; August 1995; by Wallich; 1 Page(s)

Fast Cash

Beyond Binary; August 1995; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

New optical technology may challenge CD-ROMs and videotape

Sweet Success; August 1995; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)

Sugary drugs may stick it to disease

I.T., Phone Home; August 1995; by Browning; 2 Page(s)

Cheap calls on the Internet shake everyone up

Going Down; August 1995; by DeKoker; 2 Page(s)

Japan invests in an alternative source of energy

Metal Detectors; August 1995; by Powell; 2 Page(s)

It's very different from the normal interaction between art and science," muses Mel Chin, an artist at the University of Georgia, as he tries to explain Revival Field - is it an idea, an experiment, a living installation?

Profile: Stephen Jay Gould; August 1995; by Horgan; 3 Page(s)

Escaping in a Cloud of Ink

Recollections of a Nuclear War; August 1995; by Morrison; 5 Page(s)

Two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan 50 years ago this month. The author, a member of the Manhattan Project, reflects on how the nuclear age began and what the post-cold war future might hold

Tornadoes; August 1995; by Davies-Jones; 8 Page(s)

The storms that spawn twisters are now largely understood, but mysteries still remain about how these violent vortices form

How HIV Defeats the Immune System; August 1995; by Nowak, McMichael; 8 Page(s)

A plausible hypothesis suggests the immune devastation that underlies AIDS stems from continuous - and dangerous - evolution of the human immunodeficiency virus in the body

The Benefits of Background Noise; August 1995; by Moss, Wiesenfeld; 4 Page(s)

Stochastic resonance, the phenomenon by which background noise boosts weak signals, is creating a buzz in physics, biology and engineering

The Physiology of Decompression Illness; August 1995; by Moon; 9 Page(s)

For more than a century, researchers have known that exposure to high pressure can injure or kill. Gradually, they are beginning to understand the underlying mechanisms

Frog Communication; August 1995; by Narins; 6 Page(s)

In striving to be heard by rivals and mates, these amphibians have evolved a plethora of complex strategies

Comet; August 1995; by Levy, Shoemaker, Shoemaker; 8 Page(s)

Images of a comet that broke apart and plummeted into Jupiter continue to dazzle astronomers a year afterward

Trends: Lost Science in the Third World; August 1995; by Gibbs; 8 Page(s)

Many researchers in the developing world feel trapped in a vicious circle of neglect and - some say - prejudice by publishing barriers they claim doom good science to oblivion

The Amateur Scientist; August 1995; by Garver, Moss; 3 Page(s)

Detecting Signals with Noise

Reviews; August 1995; by McGavin, Bullough, Pasachoff; 4 Page(s)

Love those bugs; Seven Samurai versus the cosmos; Sex counts

Essay; August 1995; by Zuger; 1 Page(s)

We see all comers in the mid-Manhattan HIV clinic where I work, from healthy asymptomatic carriers of the virus to emaciated men and women suffering from the last stages of AIDS.