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Scientific Journal
American Scientist
1998 - 2008

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American Scientist has the full text of limited articles available on their web sites. The following is a selection of those articles that may be of interest to NSW science teachers.

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Virtual Fossils from 425 Million-year-old Volcanic Ash - November-December 2008
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2008/6/virtual-fossils-from-425-million-year-old-volcanic-ash

Statins: From Fungus to Pharma - September-October 2008
\http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2008/5/statins-from-fungus-to-pharma

Bioplastic Boom - March-April 2008
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/2/bioplastics-boom

Solar Energy's Red Queen - January-February 2008
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/1/solar-energys-red-queen

Sounding Out Muscle Health - January-February 2008
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/1/sounding-out-muscle-health


Safer Salads - November-December 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/6/safer-salads

A Sound Use of Heat - November-December 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2007/11/a-sound-use-for-heat

Penetrating Winds - November-December 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2007/11/penetrating-winds

Genetics and the Shape of Dogs - September-October 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/5/genetics-and-the-shape-of-dogs

Who's Resuscitating the Electric Car? - September-October 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2007/9/whos-resuscitating-the-electric-car

The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed? - July-August 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/shrinking-glaciers

Liquid-Mirror Telescopes - May-June 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/3/liquid-mirror-telescopes

Extreme Microbes - May-June 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/3/extreme-microbes

Plug-in hybrid Vehicles for a Sustainable Future - March-April 2007
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/2/plug-in-hybrid-vehicles-for-a-sustainable-future


First Life - January-February 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/1/first-life

Genetic Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases - May-June 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/3/genetic-strategies-for-controlling-mosquito-borne-diseases

Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks - January-February 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/1/fallout-from-nuclear-weapons-tests-and-cancer-risks

Filaments of Light - March-April 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/2/filaments-of-light

The Source of Europe's Mild Climate - July-August 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/4/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate

The Sounds of Spacetime - November-December 2006
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/6/the-sounds-of-spacetime


Fighting Cancer Through the Study of Sarcomas - September-October 2005
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2005/5/fighting-cancer-through-the-study-of-sarcomas

Biofilms - November-December 2005
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2005/6/biofilms

Investigating a Mega-Mystery (Mass Extinctions) - September-October, 2005
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/investigating-a-mega-mystery


The Design and Function of Cochlear Implants - September-October 2004
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2004/5/the-design-and-function-of-cochlear-implants

Mad-Cow Disease in Cattle and Human Beings - July-August 2004
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2004/4/mad-cow-disease-in-cattle-and-human-beings

The Cosmic Web - January-February 2004
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2004/1/the-cosmic-web


Thorium Fuel for Nuclear Energy - September-October 2003
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2003/5/thorium-fuel-for-nuclear-energy

Alzheimer's Disease - July-September 2003
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2003/4/alzheimers-disease

Dating Ancient Mortar - March-April 2003
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2003/2/dating-ancient-mortar

How the Retina Works - January-February 2003
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2003/1/how-the-retina-works


Managing the Environmental Legacy of U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Production - November-December 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2002/6/managing-the-environmental-legacy-of-us-nuclear-weapons-production

A Worm's View of Human Evolution - November-December 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/a-worms-view-of-human-evolution

Observing the Beginning of Time - September-October 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2002/5/observing-the-beginning-of-time

The Evolutionary Ecology of Escherichia coli - July-August 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.27/past.aspx

The Eurasian Arctic During the Last Ice Age - January-February 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2002/1/the-eurasian-arctic-during-the-last-ice-age

The Real Biodiversity Crisis - January-February 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-real-biodiversity-crisis

Hunting the First Hominid - January-February 2002
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/hunting-the-first-hominid


Health and Human Society - November-December 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/6/health-and-human-society

Pathogens, Host-Cell Invasion and Disease - September-October 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/5/pathogens-host-cell-invasion-and-disease

Protostars - July-August 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/4/protostars

Infecting Other Worlds - July-August 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2001/7/infecting-other-worlds

How Were the Comets Made? - May-June 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/3/how-were-the-comets-made

Preserving Salmon Biodiversity - May-June 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/3/preserving-salmon-biodiversity

Ecology of Transgenic Crops - March-April 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/2/ecology-of-transgenic-crops

The Growing Threat of Biological Weapons - January-February 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2001/1/the-growing-threat-of-biological-weapons

Thermophiles in Kamchatka - January-February 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2001/1/thermophiles-in-kamchatka

Fossil Hunting, by Radar - January-February 2001
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2001/1/fossil-hunting-by-radar



The Power of Sound - November-December 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/6/the-power-of-sound

Gene Chips and Functional Genomics - November-December 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/6/gene-chips-and-functional-genomics

Reengineering the Electric Grid - May-June 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/3/reengineering-the-electric-grid

Biomolecules and Nanotechnology - May-June 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/3/biomolecules-and-nanotechnology

Huxley, Wilberforce and the Oxford Museum - May-June 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2000/5/huxley-wilberforce-and-the-oxford-museum

Tracking Down a Cheating Gene - March-April 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/2/tracking-down-a-cheating-gene

Extremophilic Terraforming - March-April 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2000/3/extremophilic-terraforming

Fishing Down Aquatic Food Webs - January-February 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/1/fishing-down-aquatic-food-webs

The Galactic Environment of the Sun - January-February 2000
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2000/1/the-galactic-environment-of-the-sun


Chemist in the Courtroom - September-October 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1999/9/chemist-in-the-courtroom

Rapid Climate Change - July-August 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/4/rapid-climate-change

Gene Therapy - May-June 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/3/gene-therapy

Globe Watching - May-June 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1999/5/globe-watching

The Gestural Origins of Language - March-April 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/2/the-gestural-origins-of-language

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - January-February 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/1/knowledge-discovery-and-data-mining


How Plants Produce Dioxygen - November-December 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1998/6/how-plants-produce-dioxygen

Printing Plastic Transistors - November-December 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1998/11/printing-plastic-transistors

The Formation of Star Clusters - May-June 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1998/3/the-formation-of-star-clusters

New Medicine for Old Mummies - May-June 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1998/5/new-medicine-for-old-mummies

Metastasis - March-April 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1998/2/metastasis

The Molecular Anatomy of an Ancient Adaptive Event - January-February 1998
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1998/1/the-molecular-anatomy-of-an-ancient-adaptive-event

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