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Pathogens,
Host Cell Invasion and Disease
Microspheres,
Photonic Atoms and the Physics of Nothing
An
Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
The
Shape of the Universe: Ten Possibilities
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Volume
89, No. 5 September-October 2001
From
the President (PDF)
Letters
to the Editors
Computing
Science
The computer and the
dynamo
Brian Hayes
Engineering
Millennium legacies
Henry Petroski
Marginalia
Harvard in Peru III
J. Donald Fernie
Sigma
Xi Today (PDF)
Pathogens,
Host Cell Invasion and Disease
Understanding how cells are co-opted is crucial to designing
anti-infective drugs
Erich Gulbins and Florian Lang
Microspheres,
Photonic Atoms and the Physics of Nothing
Light trapped within tiny, transparent spheres has surprising optical
properties
Stephen Arnold
Life
After Death in the Deep Sea
The community around a hydrothermal vent recovers after a volcanic
eruption
Richard A. Lutz, Timothy M. Shank and Robert Evans
An
Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
Comets may have brought Earth its water, organic molecules and
atmosphere
Armand H. Delsemme
The
Shape of the Universe: Ten Possibilities
One of ten orientable Euclidean 3-manifolds may describe the shape
of the universe
Colin Adams and Joey Shapiro
Books
Pulp nonfiction
• Nothing doing
Moth magic • Math memoir
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