January 1995
Scientific American Magazine

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

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

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

Letters to the Editors; January 1995; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

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

For Whom The Bell Curve Really Tolls; January 1995; by Beardsley; 3 Page(s)

A tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies

Deathbed Revelations; January 1995; by Powell; 1 Page(s)

The "Magellan" spacecraft, which produced spectacular radar images of the surface of Venus, gave its life to science when it plunged into that planet's murky atmosphere on October 12.

The Great Attractors; January 1995; by Leutwyler; 2 Page(s)

Chemical guides direct young neurons to their final destinations

Socializing with Non-Naked Mole Rats; January 1995; by Holloway; 1 Page(s)

Big and hairy, the Damaraland mole rat is not as renowned as its hairless cousin.

Picking Up the Pieces; January 1995; by Powell; 1 Page(s)

Astronomers mull over the lessons of the great comet crash

Mystery of the Missing Dynamo; January 1995; by Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)

Astronomers cannot explain the galaxy's magnetic field

Holes in Ozone Science; January 1995; by Nemecek; 2 Page(s)

Researchers look at loss of the protective layer above our heads

Fear and Self-Loathing in America; January 1995; by Holloway; 1 Page(s)

The U.S. is a nation of immigrants, but newcomers are not very popular these days - the passage of California's Proposition 187 is but one example (the law bars illegal immigrants from medical care and schooling).

Seeing the Cells That See; January 1995; by Holloway; 1 Page(s)

Ever since the eye's rods and cones were discovered, scientists have been trying to observe them alive and in action.

The Analytical Economist; January 1995; by Wallich; 1 Page(s)

Derivatives: Not the Real Thing

Technology And Business; January 1995; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

Second-largest U.S. industrial research center might be sold

The Rights Stuff; January 1995; by Powell; 2 Page(s)

Buying and selling art in a digital world

Secrets in Stereogram; January 1995; by Holloway; 1 Page(s)

They fit the profile of certain illicit drugs: ubiquitous, addictive, the cause of euphoria as well as irritability and lassitude.

On the Road to Nowhere?; January 1995; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

Management failures hold up the development of a clean car

Invasion of the Bean Counters; January 1995; by Wallich; 2 Page(s)

Physician profiles - the good, the bad and the unadjusted

Food for Thought; January 1995; by Holloway; 1 Page(s)

Alert the C.I.A., that is, the Culinary Institute of America. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed removing several substances from its some 22,000-item-long list of registered pesticides.

Profile: Walter H. Munk; January 1995; by Yam; 2 Page(s)

The Man Who Would Hear Ocean Temperatures

Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents; January 1995; by Rothenberg; 6 Page(s)

The digital medium is replacing paper in a dramatic record-keeping revolution. But such documents may be lost unless we act now

The Prion Diseases; January 1995; by Prusiner; 8 Page(s)

Prions, once dismissed as an impossibility, have now gained wide recognition as extraordinary agents that cause a number of infectious, genetic and spontaneous disorders

Earth Before Pangea; January 1995; by Dalziel; 6 Page(s)

The North American continent may be more nomadic than any of its inhabitants

Elastic Biomolecular Machines; January 1995; by Urry; 6 Page(s)

Synthetic chains of amino acids, patterned after those in connective tissue, can transform heat and chemical energy into motion

The Oldest Old; January 1995; by Perls; 6 Page(s)

People in their late nineties or older are often healthier and more robust than those 20 years younger.

The Birth and Disease of Nova V1974 Cygni; January 1995; by Starrfield, Shore; 6 Page(s)

The brightest nova in 17 years answered many questions during its life and raised more in death

Egil's Bones; January 1995; by Byock; 6 Page(s)

An Icelandic saga tells of a Viking who had unusual, menacing features, including a skull that could resist blows from an ax. He probably suffered from an ailment called Paget's disease

Better Than a Cure; January 1995; by Beardsley; 8 Page(s)

The World Health Organization wants industry to step up its efforts to develop new vaccines. Can big business and a public health bureaucracy see eye to eye?

Mathematical Recreations; January 1995; by Stewart; 4 Page(s)

Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do

Book Reviews; January 1995; by Morrison; 4 Page(s)

Reviews

Essay; January 1995; by Timpane; 1 Page(s)

How To Convince a Reluctant Scientist