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Publisher: Scientific American, Inc. In Focus: Special Report: Lucy's Baby 
 September 2006 feature about the discovery in Ethiopia's Afar region of a skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis child who lived 3.3 million years ago. Features background about the skeleton (found in the same area as area as "Lucy," another A. afarensis skeleton), an interactive graphic of this human ancestor, a photo gallery, and a podcast of an interview with the Lucy discoverer. From the website for Scientific American magazine. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=special-report-lucys-baby Topics: Archaeology, Geology Last updated Oct 5, 2009 Scientific American: Ask the Experts
Sponsored by Scientific American magazine, readers may submit questions to scientific experts and the most interesting questions are archived by topic: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Because of the volume of questions, they cannot promise that all questions will be answered. http://www.scientificamerican.com/section.cfm?id=ask-the-experts Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Science, Science Last updated Sep 9, 2009 The Boom in Bomb Detection: Get Ready to Be Scanned, Sniffed and Zapped
May 2004 article that describes technological advances in the area of bomb detection when materials are carried in cars, packages, or on a person. Methods discussed include X-rays, "the quadruple resonance technology that zaps people with low-frequency radio waves," and "electronic sniffers." From Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-boom-in-bomb-detectio Topics: Terrorism, Transportation Last updated Sep 4, 2009 The Case of the Pilfered Planet: Did the British Steal Neptune?
This 2004 article explores the "story of mathematical sleuthing and telescopic detection of the planet that [French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph] Le Verrier named Neptune ... [and] the controversy set off when, soon after ... the discovery, it emerged that a young and little-known English mathematician, John Couch Adams, had independently tackled the same problem and deduced much the same position -- before Le Verrier had." Includes a related sidebar. From Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-case-of-the-pilfered Topics: Astronomy Last updated Sep 4, 2009 |
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