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January-February 1998 (Volume 86, Number 1)

"The Molecular Anatomy of an Ancient Adaptive Event," by Antony M. Dean
"Sinkholes in Evaporite Rocks," by Jospeh D. Martinez, Kenneth S. Johnson and James T. Neal
"Confronting the Boundaries of Human Longevity," by S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes and Douglas Grahn
"Solving Polynomials with Computers," by Victor Y. Pan
"Physiology of Helping in Florida Scrub-Jays," by Stephan J. Schoech

March-April 1998 (Volume 86, Number 2)

"Metastasis," by Cornelis J. F. Van Noorden, Linda C. Meade-Tollin and Fred T. Bosman
"Mathematics and Tensegrity," by Robert Connelly and Allen Back
"Transporting Water in Plants," by Martin J. Canny
"Creationism's Geologic Time Scale," by Donald U. Wise
"Is Beauty a Sign of Truth in Scientific Theories?," by James W. McAllister

May-June 1998 (Volume 86, Number 3)

"Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration," by Dominic W. Massaro and David G. Stork
"Sampling and Census 2000: The Concepts," by Tommy Wright
"Chemical Ecology in Antarctic Seas," by James McClintock and Bill Baker
"The Formation of Star Clusters," by Bruce Elmegreen and Yuri Nikolaevich Efremov
"Polyembryony in Armadillos," by W. J. Loughry, Paulo A. Prodöhl, Colleen McDonough and John C. Avise

July-August 1998 (Volume 86, Number 4)

"Animal Contests as Evolutionary Games," by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons and Eldridge S. Adams
"Good Vibrations," by Joyce McLaughlin
"Spider-Eating Spiders," by Robert R. Jackson and R. Stimson Wilcox
"The First Digit Phenomenon," by Theodore P. Hill
"Is Combustion of Plastics Desirable?," by Bruce Piasecki, David Rainey and Kevin Fletcher

September-October 1998 (Volume 86, Number 5)

"How the Ribosome Works," by Joachim Frank
"Reproductive Thermoregulation in Marine Mammals," by Sentiel A. "Butch" Rommel, Ann Pabst and William McLellan
"How to Boil a Nucleus," by Vic Viola and Kris Kwiatkowski
"From Society to Genes with the Honey Bee," by Gene E. Robinson
"Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals," by Thomas J. Walker

November-December 1998 (Volume 86, Number 6)

"The Mystery of Cloud Electrification," by Robert Black and John Hallett
"Elasticity in Arteries," by Robert E. Shadwick
"How Plants Produce Dioxygen," by Veronika A. Szalai and Gary W. Brudvig
"The Lancelet," by M. Dale Stokes and Nicholas D. Holland

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