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| Volume 93, Number 5 | September-October 2005 | |
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Fighting Cancer Through the Study of Sarcomas Although rare, cancers of the muscle, bone or fat carry the same molecular errors as other tumors, making them ideal subjects for the discovery of new therapies Igor Matushansky, Robert Maki |
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Detecting Illicit Nuclear Materials * The installation of radiological monitoring equipment in the United States and overseas is helping thwart nuclear terrorism Richard T. Kouzes |
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Cheating Viruses and Game Theory * The theory of games can explain how viruses evolve when they compete against one another in a test of evolutionary fitness Paul E. Turner |
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Charting Color from the Eye of the Beholder * A century ago, artist Albert Henry Munsell quantified colors based on how they appear to people; specializations of his system are still in wide scientific use Edward R. Landa, Mark D. Fairchild |
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Water Fountains with Special Effects * Although they were likely invented just to deliver water, fountains became much more than reservoirs early in human history Said Shakerin |
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Computing Science |
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Group Theory in the Bedroom An insomniac's guide to the curious mathematics of mattress flipping Brian Hayes |
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Macroscope |
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Better Collision Insurance Asteroids smaller than those now being actively catalogued constitute a largely neglected natural hazard Russell L. Schweickart, Clark R. Chapman |
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Sightings |
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A Terabyte of a Twister Donna Cox of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications talks about the challenges of working with scientists to create visual representations of severe storms Felice Frankel |
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Marginalia |
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Judging Einstein Before most physicists would believe the claims of relativity, they required proof—which would come in the form of a solar eclipse J. Donald Fernie |
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Engineering |
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Next Slide, Please * As the Kodak Carousel begins its slide into history, it joins a series of previous devices used to add images to talks Henry Petroski |
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Science Observer |
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Investigating a Mega-Mystery Two recent studies try to help unravel the causes of late Pleistocene extinctions Amos Esty |
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Filling up with Hydrogen Chemical hybrides can be used to store hydrogen, an approach that may one day give a H2-powered vehicle reasonable cruising range David Schneider |
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Water Fight At very short time scales, is water still H2O? Fenella Saunders |
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In the News A brief roundup of notable news items |
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Letters to the Editors |
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Play Ball Cracking the Code Scaling the Cycles More Misfoldings Expanding on the Collapse |
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From the President |
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