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physics

• OPTICS AND ART: Framing the Evidence (21 December 2001)
• PHYSICS: Explaining Time's Arrow (13 july 2001)
• THEORETICAL PHYSICS: Offbeat Lenses Promise Perfect Fidelity (10 November 2000)
• Imaging (27 June 1997)
• Photonic Crystal Made to Work at an Optical Wavelength (5 December 1997)
• Slicing an Electron's Charge Into Three (19 September 1997) "
• Conjuring Matter From Light (29 August 1997)
• A Fine-Grained Look at Forces in Sand (11 April 1997)
• Optical Communications: Chaos Keeps Data Under Wraps (2 May 1997)
• Case for Neutrino Mass Gathers Weight (4 July 1997)
• OPTICAL PHYSICS: Solitons Made Simple (6 June 1997)
• Neutron Research: Europeans Plan Their Next Big Source (9 May 1997)
• RADIATION PROTECTION: France Distributes Iodine Near Reactors (28 March 1997)

   

  mathematical physics

  • Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth (8 December 2000)
  • Triple Star Systems may do Crazy eights (17 March 2000)

    astrophysics, planetary science, solar physics, space science

  • PLANETARY SCIENCE: What Is the Moon Made of? (7 September 2001)
  • CASSINI-HUYGENS: Mission to Saturn Rises From Ashes (13 July 2001)
  • PLANETARY SCIENCE: News from the Edge of Interstellar Space (6 July 2001)
  • METEORITICS: A Meteoriticist Speaks Out, His Rocks Remain Mute (31 August 2001)
  • ASTRONOMY: Weird New Exoplanets Leave Theory Behind (19 January 2001)
  • Historical review of astrophysics/cosmology: Piecing Together the Biggest Puzzle of All (8 December 2000)
  • A Dripping Wet Early Mars Emerging From New Pictures (8 December 2000)
  • PLANETARY SCIENCE: Halley's Origins Mysterious No More? (10 November 2000)
  • Evidence for Recent Groundwater Seepage and Surface Runoff on Mars (30 June 2000)
  • X-rays Hint at Space Pirouette (7 November 1997)
  • Mars Pathfinder (5 December 1997)
  • Putative Martian Microbes Called Microscopy Artifacts (5 December 1997)
  • Io and the Plasma Torus (10 October 1997)
  • Company Targets Asteroid--and Profits (19 September 1997)
  • Does Mathilde Have a Broken Heart? (4 July 1997)
  • New Proof Hides Cosmic Embarrassment (4 April 1997)
  • Bringing the Stars Down to Earth (18 April 1997)
  • An Ocean Emerges on Europa (18 April 1997)
  • Farsighted Gravity Lens Sees Stars (7 March 1997)
  • Small Missions Lift Planetary Science (12 September 1997)
  • SOHO Traces the Sun's Hot Currents (5 September 1997)
  • BLACK-HOLE OBSERVATIONS: The Gathering Darkness (24 January 1997)
  • The Origin of Gravitational Lensing: A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper (10 January 1997)
  • Stardust Memories (28 March 1997)
  • PLANETARY SCIENCE: Martian Magnetic Whisper Detected (26 September 1997)
  • Magnetoconvection Dynamos and the Magnetic Fields of Io and Ganymede (16 May 1997)
  • Cosmology: Cosmic Age Controversy Is Overstated (16 May 1997)
  • Shock Forges Piece of Jovian Interior (22 march 1996)
  • Does the Sun Trigger Outbursts From Earth's Magnetosphere? (15 March 1996)

  quantum and atomic physics

  • QUANTUM PHYSICS: Spooky Twins Survive Einsteinian Torture (9 November 2001)
  • QUANTUM PHYSICS: No Mere Anarchy (13 July 2001)
  • Observation of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling Between Islands of Stability. (13 July 2001)
  • QUANTUM PHYSICS: Standing Room Only at the Quantum Scale (20 March 2001)
  • Furtive glances trigger radioactive decay (2 June 2000)
  • !!! Artificial Atoms: New Boxes for Electrons (5 December 1997) ###!!!
  • !!! Coupled Quantum Dots Fabricated by Cleaved Edge Overgrowth: From Artificial Atoms to Molecules (5 December 1997)
  • Quantum Squeeze Wrings Uncertainty From Atom Waves (14 March 1997)
  • Flaw Found in a Quantum Code (16 May 1997)
  • Atoms Take a turn for the better (14 Febraruy 1997)
  • Searching a Quantum Phone Book (31 January 1997)
  • Prime Formula Weds Number Theory and Quantum Physics (20 December 1996)

biology

• CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: When Is a Coho Salmon Not a Coho Salmon? (30 November 2002)
• ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: New Data Reveal the Sisterhood of Lions (27 July 2001)
• ECOLOGY: Galápagos Takes Aim at Alien Invaders (27 July 2001)
• The biology of music (29 June 2001)
• NEUROSCIENCE: The Song Does Not Remain the Same (30 March 2001)
• animal behavior: Texas Elephants Stomp to Victory (2 February 2001)
• ECOLOGY: A Roaring Debate Over Ocean Noise (27 January 2001)
• The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music (5 January 2001)
• The Music of the Hemisphere (5 January 2001)
• Ecology: Mount St. Helens, Revisited (2 June 2000)
• Chimps in the Wild Show Stirrings of Culture (25 June 1999)
• Life--and Death--in the Forest (25 June 1999)
• Are Our Primate Cousins 'Conscious'? (25 June 1999)
• In Labs, Organ Grinders Take Up Tools (25 June 1999)
• New Clues to Why Size Equals Destiny (4 June 1999)
• DRUG ADDICTION: Marijuana: Harder Than Thought? (27 June 1997)
• Human-Dominated Ecosystems (25 July 1997)
• World's Oldest Plant? (25 July 1997)
• PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Biologists Cut Reductionist Approach Down to Size (25 July 1997)
• WILDLIFE BIOLOGY: In Search of Africa's Forgotten Forest Elephant (7 March 1997)
• ECOLOGY: Does Diversity Lure Invaders? (29 August 1997)
• Frontiers in Neuroscience: The Science of Substance Abuse (3 October 1997)
• The serpent world a book review (26 September 1997)
• Biorhythmicity: New Clues Found to Circadian Clocks--Including Mammals' (16 May 1997)
• neuroscience: Estrogen Stakes Claim to Cognition (2 May 1997)
• Biodiversity: Dams Drain the Life Out of Riverbanks (2 May 1997)
• Geomicrobiology: Life Goes to Extremes in the Deep Earth--and Elsewhere? (2 May 1997)
• Where Smokers Rule
• A New View of How Leg Muscles Operate on the Run (21 February 1997)
• Ocean yields hottest life yet (14 February 1997)
• ECOLOGY: Hybrids Consummate Species Invasion (18 July 1997)
• ECOLOGY: Resurgent Forests Can Be Greenhouse Gas Sponges (18 July 1997)
• How Male Animals Gain an Edge in the Mating Game (18 july 1997)
• Computers in Biology (2 August 1996)

   

  health

  • BIOCHEMISTRY: Body's Secret Weapon: Burning Water? (7 September 2001)
  • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY: Inconceivable' Bugs Eat Methane on the Ocean Floor (20 July 2001)
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Malaria's Beginnings: On the Heels of Hoes? (20 July 2001)
  • NEUROBIOLOGY: How Cannabinoids Work in the Brain (30 March 2001)
  • THE 1918 PANDEMIC: Killer Flu With a Human-Pig Pedigree? (11 May 2001)
  • medicine:  Gulf War Illness (2 February 2001)
  • NEUROSCIENCE: Noise Makes Sense in Neuronal Computing (8 December 2000)
  • pharmacology: How the Body's Garbage disposal may inactivate Drugs (5 January 2001)
  • AIDS in a New Millennium (7 July 2000)
  • Alternative Medicine: Stephen Straus's Impossible Job (2 June 2000)
  • World AIDS--The Worst Is Still to Come and Probing Procrastination (5 December 1997)
  • Life in the Balance: Cell Walls and Antibiotic Resistance (5 December 1997) by Christine Jacobs
  • Apocalypse Not (7 November 1997)
  • High Living Good for Runners[Live high, train low] (8 August 1997)
  • How Much Pain for Cardiac Gain? (30 May 1997)
  • Antibiotic Basis for Spice Use (July 18 1997)
  • Magnetic Field-Cancer Link: Will It Rest in Peace? (4 july 1997)
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASE: The Flu Pandemic That Might Have Been (12 September 1997)
  • EXOTIC DISEASES: Is an Old Virus Up to New Tricks? (18 July 1997)
  • Healthy Gums for a Happy Heart (11 April 1997)
  • Why the Rise in Asthma Cases? (13 June 1997)
  • Rise in Asthma Cases [letter] (7 November 1997)

  evolutionary biology, paleontology, paleoanthropolgy, developmental biology, evolutionary sociobiology, anthropology etc.

  • OLDEST ART: From a Modern Human's Brow--or Doodling? (11 january 2002)
  • ARCHAEOLOGY: Did Plaster Hold Neolithic Society Together? (14 December 2001)
  • Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force (7 September 2001)
  • Archaeology in Iraq (6 July 2001)
  • ARCHAEOLOGY: Writing Gets a Rewrite (29 June 2001)
  • ARCHAEOLOGY: Unwrapping a Modern Mummy Mystery (29 June 2001)
  • PALEOECOLOGY: Mass Extinctions Pinned on Ice Age Hunters (8 June 2001)
  • PALEONTOLOGY: Digging Up Fresh Clues About the Origin of Mammals (25 May 2001)
  • HUMAN ANTHROPOLOGY: Modern Men Trace Ancestry to African Migrants (11 May 2001)
  • MARINE MAMMALOGY: River Dolphins Add Branches to Family Tree (30 March 2001)
  • ARCHAEOLOGY: What Drives Societal Collapse? (27 january 2001)
  • Evolutionary Genetics: Horses Domesticated Multiple Times (19 January 2001)
  • PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Oldest Human DNA Reveals Aussie Oddity (12 January 2001)
  • PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Skull Study Targets Africa-Only Origins (12 January 2001)
  • EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Twinned Genes Live Life in the Fast Lane (10 November 2000)
  • The Diversity of Evolution (25 June 1999)
  • A New Look Into Neandertals' Noses (2 July 1999)
  • The Diversity of Evolution (25 June 1999)
  • Sex Frees Viruses From Genetic 'Ratchet' (28 November 1997)
  • Native Claims Muddy Waters in Fight Over Australian Lake (28 November 1997)
  • Will Fossil From Down Under Upend Mammal Evolution? (21 November 1997)
  • Does Evolutionary History Take Million-Year Breaks? (24 october 1997)
  • The Forward March of the Bird-Dinosaurs Halted? (24 october 1997)
  • Mass Extinction and Evolution (24 october 1997)
  • Human Groups as Units of Selection (20 June 1997)
  • Coloring Fossils (15 August 1997)
  • A New Face for Human Ancestors (30 May 1997)
  • Into the Pit of Human History (30 May 1997)
  • Developing a New View of Evolution (4 July 1997)
  • Crab Legs and Lobster Claws (4 July 1997)
  • Early Humans and Rapidly Changing Holocene Sea Levels in the Queen Charlotte Islands-Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada (4 July 1997)
  • Oldest Dino Embryo Unearthed (4 July 1997)
  • Archaeobiology: Squash Seeds Yield New View of Early American Farming (9 mqy 1997)
  • The Origin of Dogs: Running With the Wolves (13 June 1997)
  • Biology Recapitulates Phylogeny (11 April 1997)
  • Phylogenetic Methods Come of Age: Testing Hypotheses in an Evolutionary Context (11 April 1997)
  • How Reptiles Took Wing (7 march 1997)
  • Human evolution: Y Chromosome Shows That Adam Was an African (31 October 1997)
  • PALEONTOLOGY: Fossilized Hatchling Heats Up the Bird-Dinosaur Debate (6 June 1997)
  • Evolutionaary sociobiology: Book Review: Nonhuman Kindness (16 May 1997)
  • Morphologists Learn to Live With Molecular Upstarts (16 May 1997)
  • Paleoanthropology: Bone Sizes Trace the Decline of Man (and Woman) (9 May 1997)
  • Femous Felids: book review of The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives. An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History. ALAN TURNER. Illustrations by Mauricio Anton. Columbia University Press, New York, 1997. xx, 233 pp., illus., + plates. $39.95. ISBN 0-231-10228-3. (9 May 1997)
  • Catching Lizards in the Act of Adapting (2 May 1997)
  • Predator-Free Guppies Take an Evolutionary Leap Forward
  • EXTINCTIONS: A Piece of the Dinosaur Killer Found? (29 March 1996)

earth science, geochemistry, geophysics, geoscience, geology, oceanography

• Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau (23 November 2001)
• GEOPHYSICS: Silent Slip on the Cascadia Subduction Interface (25 May 2001)
• CLIMATE CHANGE: It's Official: Humans Are Behind Most of Global Warming (26 January 2001)
• GEOLOGY: Thermal Features Bubble in Yellowstone Lake (25 May 2001)
• Nature's Gold Factory (25 June 1999)
• Hydrogen: An Important Constituent of the Core? (5 December 1997)
• Linking Trees to Tsunamis (7 November 1997)
• The Biggest, Baddest Extinction Gets Worse and For Mammals, Bigger Is (Usually) Better
• Do Continents Part Passively, or Do They Need a Shove (10 October 1997)
• Australian Cave Breakthrough (13 June 1997)
• From Clouds to Cores at the Spring Geophysics-Fest (13 June 1997)
• The Ongoing Eruption in Montserrat (18 April 1997)
• Ocean Floor Is Laid Bare by New Satellite Data (26 September 1997)
• Permo-Triassic Boundary Superanoxia and Stratified Superocean: Records from Lost Deep Sea (11 April 1997)
• Earthquakes Cannot Be Predicted (14 March 1997)
• Why the West Stands Tall (14 March 1997)
• Is a Great Plateau Slip-Sliding Away? (14 March 1997)
• OCEANOGRAPHY: Indonesia Opens the Door for Global Climate Studies (5 December 1997)

   

  atmospheric and climate science

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Birds May Miss the Worms (30 march 2001)
  • Thermohaline Circulation, the Achilles Heel of Our Climate System: Will Man-Made CO2 Upset the Current Balance? (28 November 1997)
  • Kyoto and Beyond by Robert M. May (5 December 1997)
  • Indonesia Opens the Door for Global Climate Studies (5 December 1997)
  • Twentieth-Century Sea Surface Temperature Trends (14 Feburary 1997)
  • Upstart Ice Age Theory Gets Attentive But Chilly Hearing (11 July 1997)
  • Tropospheric Processes (16 May 1997)
  • Climate Change: Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy (16 May 1997)
  • Climate Change: Model Gets It Right--Without Fudge Factors (16 May 1997)
  • Paleoclimatology: Second Clock Supports Orbital Pacing of the Ice Ages (2 May 1997)
  • River Meandering as a Self-Organization Process (22 march 1996z0

cognition, linguistics, speech development, neuroscience

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• Sleep Dreams and Memory (2 November 2001)
• ADDICTION: 'Behavioral' Addictions: Do They Exist? (2 November 2001)
• ADDICTION: Beyond the Pleasure Principle (2 November 2001)
• COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: Moral Reasoning Relies on Emotion (14 September 2001)
• LINGUISTICS: From the Mouths (and Hands) of Babes (7 September 2001)
• PSYCHOLOGY: Is God All in the Mind? (6 July 2001)
• The Mapmaking Mind (9 July 1999)
• Is Art Lawful? (30 July 1999)
• Overstimulated by Early Brain Research? (28 November 1997)
• New Insights Into How Babies Learn Language (1 August 1997)
• Areal Segregation of Face-Processing Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex (7 November 1997)
• Cognitive neuroscience special reprort (14 March 1997)
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  Getting a Grasp on Working Memory
  Working Memory Linked to Intelligence
  Visual System Provides Clues to How the Brain Perceives
  Language Acquisition and Use: Learning and Applying Probabilistic Constraints
  Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar
• Special Place for Faces in the Brain (3 October 1997)
• Scientists Probe Feelings Behind Decision-Making (28 February 1997)
• book review:Language in Cognitive Development (14 March 1997)

archeology

• ARCHAEOLOGY: Spreading the Word, Scattering the Seeds (2 November 2001)
• PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: What--or Who--Did In the Neandertals? (14 September 2001)
• The Cradle of Agriculture (2 June 2000)
• Bible's Bad Boys Weren't Such Philistines After All (2 July 1999)
• How Aztecs Played Their Rubber Matches (18 June 1999)
• Kennewick Man Still in Play (7 march 1997)
• Back to Africa ( 25 April 1997)
• Living Fossil' Fish Is Dethroned (5 September 1997)
• Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered (5 September 1997)
• Biodiversity in a Vial of Sugar Water (17 October 1997)
• DNA From an Extinct Human
• Human evolution: The women's movement (31 October 1997)
• Evidence Mounts for Our African Origins--and Alternatives (8 March 1996)
• Tracing the Identity of the First Toolmakers (4 April 1997)
• Location, Location, Location: The First Farmers (14 november 1997)
• New Respect for Metal's Role in Ancient Arctic Cultures (8 August 1997)
• Oldest Mound Complex Found at Louisiana Site (19 September 1997)
• rchaeologists Rediscover Cannibals (1 August 1997)
• Ice Age Communities May Be Earliest Known Net Hunters (29 August 1997)
• The Balance of Power in Ancient Ireland (17 October 1997)
• how to prepare a bog body (26 September 1997)
• Early Music
• ARCHAEOLOGY: Tooling Around--Dates Show Early Siberian Settlement (28 February 1997)
• Death in Norse Greenland (14 Feburary 1997)
• PACIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY: Rock Chemistry Traces Ancient Traders (20 December 1996)

computer science and engineering

• NETWORK ANALYSIS: The Structure of the Web (30 November 2001)
• WORLD TRADE CENTER: After the Fall (23 November 2001)
• SUPERCOMPUTING: High-Powered GRAPEs Take On the Cosmos (13 July 2001)
• Model Explains Internet 'Storms' (25 July 1997)
• COMPUTER ENGINEERING: Computer Design Meets Darwin (26 September 1997)
• ROBOTICS: 'RoboCup' Soccer Match Is a Challenge for Silicon Rookies (26 September 1997)
• NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING: Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain? (26 September 1997)
• COMPUTER ENGINEERING: A Subtler Silicon Cell for Neural Networks (26 September 1997)
• ARTIFICIAL LIFE: After 50 Years, Self-Replicating Silicon (26 September 1997)
• Model Explains Internet 'Storms' (25 July 1997)

  mathematics

• math education: Academy Report Aims to Quiet Debate (2 February 2001)
• Number Theorists Embark on a New Treasure Hunt (21 November 1997)
• Making 'Hard' Problems to the Limit (14 March 1997)
• Homage to an Itenerant Master (7 February 1997)
• Prime Formula Weds Number Theory and Quantum Physics (20 December 1996)
• Fermat Prover Points to Next Challenges
• Basins of Attraction (8 March 1996)
• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: The Search for Mr. Goodfile Generates New Online Tools (6 June 1997)

  history

• FORENSIC SCIENCE: Tales Told by Loops, Whorls, and Ridges (7 September 2001)
• book review: Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories. (18 July 1997)
• Book Reviews: biography: David Bohm: Infinite Potential, reviewed by S. Goldstein (28 march 1997)