Magazine

1998 Issues

  • November-December - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 6

    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

  • September-October - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 5

    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

  • July-August - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 4

    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

  • May-June - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 3

    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

  • March-April - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 2

    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

  • January-February - 1998 - Volume: 86 - Number: 1

    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