scientific american - 1994 12 - nasa''s latest view of the earth
scientific american - 1994 12 - nasa's latest view of the earth
... loners. The
families have very diÝerent char-
acters, which reßect the person-
ality of the matriarch. In the
case of Echo, the family is low-
key and nonaggressive.
How the 50-year-long rela-
tionships ... proÞt-
able segments of the market. Among
the models offered for sale in a given
year, the more fuel-eÛcient ones tend
to be the smaller, slower, bottom -of- the...
scientific american - 1994 06 - was there a race to the moon
... angular
momenta. The eccentricity of the cor-
responding elliptical orbit determines
the spread. The square of the magni-
tude of the wave function gives the
probability for Þnding the electron at ... conditions. At the be-
ginning of the race, the runners line up
at the startÑthat is, they are well local-
ized. Each one runs in one of the quan-
tized Bohr...
scientific american - 1993 12 - taming africanized killer bees
... show their gem
was not man-made. Evident-
ly, a fragment of natural dia-
mond seed slipped into their
sample. Nevertheless, the pro-
cess was correct and eventu-
ally enabled them to synthe-
size ... ag-
gressive in doing what it took to suc-
ceed,Ó laments James C. McGroddy, di-
rector of the research division.
The recent upheavals have accelerat-
ed the linking of the work...
scientific american - 1994 01 - searching for strange quark matter
... professor at and di-
rector of the Environmental Institute at
the University of Massachusetts at Am-
herst. He has studied, among other top-
ics, the behavior of beavers and the as-
sessment of ... Although
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etlands are often as different in their appearance and
in the species they host as they are in the range of sat-
uration t...
scientific american - 1994 02 - do aerosols slow climatic warming
... fertilizing them in vitro and let-
ting them grow to the eight-cell stage.
One or two of the cells are then re-
moved from the embryo and analyzed
by making millions of copies of one bit
of the gene of ... types: the F-117 Stealth Þght-
ers, F-15s and F-16sÑAmericaÕs top -of-
the- line ÞghtersÑand the sturdy A-10
ground-attack airplane. Marine and navy
aviation units wi...
scientific american - 1994 03 - visiting yourself in the past
... which they then use
to make predictions.
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In the ÒnaiveÓ quark model, one of the
three ... wavelengths. An anal-
ysis of the wavelengths and intensities
of these x-rays allows a determination
of the chemical composition of the min-
eral. Collabo...
scientific american - 1994 04 - the dilemmas of prostate cancer
... of his
former critics. Gould, in a review in Na-
ture, lauded The Diversity of Life as Òa
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cycle of the AC Þeld. When the marble
is hopping down the egg tray with the
help of the AC Þeld, augmenting the av-
erage tilt of the egg tray b...
scientific american - 1994 07 - how cancers defeat drug therapy
... returned
the Þrst samples.
The Eagle landed on the surface of a
mare in the Sea of Tranquillity, one of
the dark gray areas that paint the fea-
tures of the man-in -the- moon. They are
the remnants of ... and the earth formed in the same
region of the evolving solar system. Fi-
nally, the hypothesis explains the most
diÛcult problem: the angular momen...
scientific american - 1994 08 - red tides - a growing hazaed
... perpendicular to
the axis of rotation of the EUVE satel-
lite. This axis lies in the plane of the
eclipticÑthat of the earth s orbit around
the sunÑand is pointed toward and
away from the sun. As the satellite ... now sounds, the
young Mayr was not a follower of Dar-
win. Rather, like most other naturalists
of the day, he subscribed to Jean-Bap-
tiste LamarckÕ...
scientific american - 1994 09 - conquering lyme disease
... superanti-
gen, which according to Cleary is wide-
ly believed to be the cause of the strep-
related toxic-shock syndrome.
Cleary also has another study, now
in press with the Proceedings of the Na-
tional ... this so-
called forbidden interaction, they will
have evidence of the presence of a new
particle. They can then add the particle
to the Standard Model, thereby ext...
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