scientific american - 2004 07 - will gene doping change the nature of sport

scientific american   -  2004 07  -  will gene doping change the nature of sport

scientific american - 2004 07 - will gene doping change the nature of sport

... dictates the overall course of cosmic events, ordinary matter has the consolation of being the life of the universe, softening the brute forces of na- ture like a flower box in the city. COPYRIGHT 2004 ... measured the or- bital speed of gas clouds within 11 of these systems, giving the first unambiguous mea- surement of the mass of galaxies in the early un...
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scientific american   -  2004 04  -  has science missed half the brain

scientific american - 2004 04 - has science missed half the brain

... the turn of the 20th century.” The stone “contains more lithium than any other stone on the planet” and “emits a signa- ture one -of- a-kind healing energy.” How does the Golden ‘C’ water get these ... matches the natural firing rate of brain cells. They have recog- nized, too, that the axons of the corpus collo- sum, a bundle of nerve fibers in the central cortex that...
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scientific american  special edition  -  1999 vol 10 no1  -  the future of space exploration

scientific american special edition - 1999 vol 10 no1 - the future of space exploration

... leave a record of their trajectory angles. One side of the grid will collect comet particles, whereas the other side will gather interstellar dust stream- ing from other parts of the galaxy. To ... with x-ray-emitting gas. These observations may shed light on the nature of so-called dark matter, the missing mass that scientists believe is holding the clusters togethe...
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scientific american  special edition  -  2003 vol 13 no1  -  the edge of physics

scientific american special edition - 2003 vol 13 no1 - the edge of physics

... the collision of two three-branes. Thus, branes are no longer the ugly ducklings of string theory. They have tak- en center stage as the microscopic con- stituents of M-theory, as the higher-di- mensional ... dimensions, we will not have any trouble recognizing the truth of the fun- damental unified theory. The test will be whether the theory successfully accounts f...
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scientific american  special online issue  -  2002 no 03  -  the science of war  -  nuclear history

scientific american special online issue - 2002 no 03 - the science of war - nuclear history

... federal commit- ment to research the A-bomb. In the spring of 1942 Fermi, Szilard and the rest of the Columbia team moved to the University of Chicago, where they es- tablished a top-secret “metallurgical laboratory” ... director of the Develop- ment of the National Science Education Standards Project at the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. From 1978 to 1988 he was...
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scientific american   -  1993 07  -  telling resonable risks from fools' chances

scientific american - 1993 07 - telling resonable risks from fools' chances

... have organized themselves into self-perpet- uating units at the dawn of life. They show how information can be generat- ed and processed at the molecular lev- el. The essence of their genetic infor- mation ... mu- tations have accumulated, some of them will probably reverse a previous change or duplicate a change in the other se- quence. As a result, the amount of dif-...
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scientific american   -  1994 07  -  how cancers defeat drug therapy

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 ... same region of the evolving solar system. Fi- nally, the hypothesis explains the most diÛcult problem: the angular momen- tum of the earth-moon system...
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scientific american   -  1995 07  -  can implants cure diabetes

scientific american - 1995 07 - can implants cure diabetes

... differences in many of their traits, such as the size of the skull or the width of the teeth. If the distribution of measurements from one group does not overlap those of the other group, the two groups ... further changes. The ice shelf has retreated; a 50-mile-long iceberg has calved; and the northernmost part of the shelf, just above the center of the...
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scientific american   -  1996 07  -  hawking vs penrose

scientific american - 1996 07 - hawking vs penrose

... changes in the ma- terial.) The wavelength of the laser’s light limits the number of pits —and so the amount of data —that can be stored on the disc: the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the ... 13 in a state -of -the- art movie theater knows, high-quality, multichan- nel audio greatly improves the experi- ence. The DVD movie format specifies either Dolby Labo...
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scientific american   -  1997 07  -  an endangered buddha contemplates oblivion

scientific american - 1997 07 - an endangered buddha contemplates oblivion

... formed the company Vision- ics). The software represents topo- graphical features in localized areas of the face the position of the nose rela- tive to the eyes, for instance. Unlike other often ... their paper. Ralston hopes their re- search, at the very least, will force theo- rists to reexamine some of their long- held beliefs about how the universe works. “That wou...
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