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COLUMNS
Studies from Life • Accounting for Taste
Women do it better, but everyone who eats could benefit from Linda Bartoshuk's studies of the gustatory sense
THOMAS LEVENSON
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Blackboard Bungle
A Nobel laureate finds that intervention in the schools is a study in the realities of urban life
LEON LEDERMAN
FEATURES
Strange Devices
Strange Devices Welcome to the exotic world of quantum machines: the next leap forward in solid-state technology
SIDNEY PERKOWITZ
Cover Story • Good-bye, Tarzan
For studies of life in the forest canopy, the swashbuckling is over. The science has just begun.
NALINI NADKARNI
On Common Ground • Inside Dimensions
Art and science in the service of anatomy
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Notes from the Underground
If all the dinosaurs died at once, why do their remains just taper off? The answer emerges from signal-processing techniques devised by astronomers.
ALAN CUTLER
REVIEWS
Invisible Empire
Microorganisms have helped found nations, fueled industrial revolutions‹and stopped armies dead in their tracks
LYNN MARGULIS
Books in Brief • Apocalypse Deferred
PLUS: Campy science museums; how not to build a space telescope
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Working Hypotheses • Headless Nails
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
The fate of the Tethys Sea; science cuts from the new majority; patent rights on breast cancer; a material that shrinks when heated; saccades
Strange Matter
What the Hubble Found
ROZ CHAST
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