scientific american - 2001 04 - whose blood is it anyway
scientific american - 2001 04 - whose blood is it anyway
... undertake
major projects on an as-needed basis
without the huge overhead of a central
research facility.
Whether Intel’s buy -it- when-you-need-
it strategy can work more generally re-
mains to be seen. The ... Gluckman
of Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris and their
co-workers reported curing Fanconi ane-
mia
—a potentially fatal genetic disorder—
in a five-year-old boy using blood from
his b...
scientific american - 1993 04 - controlling the quantum jitters of atoms
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scientific american - 1994 04 - the dilemmas of prostate cancer
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more lethal diseases do, even though
they aÝect a lot fewer people.Ó
Endometriosis is a disease of rene-
gade cells. Ti...
scientific american - 1995 04 - machines that learn from hints
... represen-
tative of what NIST is trying to do to-
dayÓÑor, to be more precise, of what
the White House is trying to do.
It was very obvious when this admin-
istration came in that NIST was part of
its ... Steve Fenton cre-
ated the full-page advertisement to raise the profile of his
pro bono client, the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). This
$5.4-million-a-year charity has, since 1953, r...
scientific american - 1996 04 - smart rooms
... was likewise left with
little to show for its nearly $150-million
investment and dropped IBM, with some
critics accusing IBM of promising tech-
nology it could not deliver.
IBM and its successor ... Indeed, it is
now clear that the political repercussions
from Chornobyl accelerated the col-
lapse of the Soviet empire.
Because of the importance of this ca-
lamity for all of humanity, it...
scientific american - 1997 04 - why things go wrong
... seismic activity in the area, is
particularly impressed with what Wessel
was able to achieve using only the posi-
tions of seamounts, without their dif -
cult-to-determine ages. It s phenome-
nal ... Analysis Scientific American April 1997 29
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t has been said that “Internet secu-
rity” is an oxymoron. Privacy, ac-
countability and restri...
scientific american - 1998 04 - the unwired world
... some committed them-
selves to violence as a political act. The
Internet
—with its varied cast of charac-
ters and its penchant for political discus-
sion
is in some ways very reminiscent
of ... with
computers. Now, as Tama-
gotchis, the most famous
brand of virtual pet, become
the rage for girls, the lessons
are shifting. “The transition
is from objects-to-think-with
to objects-to-nurtur...
scientific american - 1999 04 - endless space (maybe not)
... long-lasting water on
Mars. Philip R. Christensen, a ge-
ologist at Arizona State Universi-
ty, disclosed that it had located a
vast deposit of coarse-grained
hematite, an iron-bearing miner-
al. ... should steadily in-
crease with distance. But it is easy to
explain in an accelerating universe, be-
cause acceleration decreases with dis-
tance: earlier on in cosmic history, the
density...
scientific american - 2000 04 - quantum teleportation
... information is at risk. As an ex-
ample, he cites this winter’s admission by
Web-advertising giant Doubleclick that it
was matching its years-long database of
Web-browsing habits with the names ... have
missed it until we had an iso-
late of the virus as well,” Reisen
comments.
This is true even though Cal-
ifornia, unlike New York State,
has an extensive, $70-million-
a-year mosquito...
scientific american - 2001 01 - brave new cosmos - a special report
... considers discrimina-
tion based on genetic traits to
be illegal under the Ameri-
cans with Disabilities Act of
1990, which safeguards the
disabled from employment-
based discrimination. The
commission ... in the U.S.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which is de-
signed to safeguard the disabled from employment-based
discrimination, may have backfired. According to econo-
mist Rich...