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September-October 2001 Volume 89, Number 5

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FEATURE ARTICLES

The Shape of the Universe: Ten Possibilities *

Colin Adams, Joey Shapiro

Recent experimental evidence has hinted that the shape of the universe may be found among the ten orientable Euclidean 3-manifolds


An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere *

Armand Delsemme

The evidence suggests that a rain of comets brought the Earth its water, its organic molecules and its atmosphere—key ingredients for life's beginnings


Pathogens, Host-Cell Invasion and Disease

Erich Gulbins, Florian Lang

Invading pathogens can co-opt even the cells of the immune system. New anti-infective drugs may arise from an understanding of this chemical warfare


Life After Death in the Deep Sea *

Richard Lutz, Timothy Shank, Robert Evans

Following immolation by volcanic eruption, the community around a hydrothermal vent recovers spectacularly


Microspheres, Photonic Atoms and the Physics of Nothing *

Stephen Arnold

Light can become trapped within tiny, transparent spheres. The surprising properties that result may turn "microsphere photonics" into an important new technology


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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF

Chemistry's Coming of Age

Anthony Butler

A review of Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements, by Paul Strathern

See all book reviews for this issue.


DEPARTMENTS

COMPUTING SCIENCE

The Computer and the Dynamo

Brian Hayes

How much power do the world's computers consume?

MARGINALIA

Harvard in Peru III

J. Donald Fernie

The last days of Harvard's 19th-century South American observatory

ENGINEERING

Millennium Legacies *

Henry Petroski

Great Britain's Millennium Project and the engineering feats it entailed

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