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July-August 2002 Volume 90, Number 4

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Atomic structures have been determined for many of the most important ...

FEATURE ARTICLES

Protein Structures: From Famine to Feast *

Helen Berman, David Goodsell, Philip Bourne

Thousands of protein structures are known and accessible. Structural genomics is building on new technology to fill in the missing pieces.

Cluster Dynamics: Fast Reactions and Coulomb Explosion *

A. Welford Castleman, Jr., Lutz Poth, Eric Wisniewski

The femtochemistry of these unusual aggregates reveals much about the fleeting instant between reactant and product

The Evolutionary Ecology of Escherichia coli

Valeria Souza, Amanda Castillo, Luis Eguiarte

Abundantly studied and much feared, E. coli has more genomic plasticity than once believed and may have followed various routes to become a pathogen

Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition *

George Saliba

The medieval Islamic astronomers were not merely translators. They may also have played a key role in the Copernican revolution

Serendipitous Radiation Monitors *

Robert Fleischer

Past radiation doses can be measured by studying the tracks that speeding particles have left in ordinary solids?detectors that just happened to be there

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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF

The Plate Tectonic Revolution

Bernard Coakley

A review of Upheaval from the Abyss: Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution, by David M. Lawrence and Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, Naomi Oreskes, editor (with Homer Le Grand)

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