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COLUMNS
Works in Progress • Unnatural Appetites
Training bacteria to snack on plastic waste
MARGARET WERTHEIM
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Fall from Grace
The deep gash in science funding suffered in the great Washington budget war is just the latest insult in a long decline. Now scientists are learning to flex their political muscles.
ROBERT L. PARK
FEATURES
Shooting the Solar Breeze
The Ulysses mission to the sun's polar regions is answering the question, What lies between us and the stars?
EDWARD J. SMITH and RICHARD G. MARSDEN
On Common Ground • The Yellow Leaf Road
Evolution is as apt to end up in Kansas as it is to go over the rainbow
Photographs by ROSAMOND PURCELL
Text by STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Desert Storm
Drought, wind and dust, not failing leadership or military conquest, brought destruction to the first of the ancient civilizations
Photographs by ROSAMOND PURCELL
HARVEY WEISS
Cover Story • You Must Remember This
Finding the master switch for long-term memory
Photographs by ROSAMOND PURCELL
JOHN B. CONNOLLY and TIME TULLY
REVIEWS
Doubts About Doubts About Science
A journalist mounts a lyrical assault on the claim of science to absolute truth
JOHN HORGAN
Books in Brief • Hidden Variable
PLUS: The world of the hamadryas baboon; science vs. the forces of darkness
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Health: Choices, Choices, Choices
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
When Why birds of a feather flock together; why days are getting shorter; new muscle in the jaw? mystery star is born; glueballs by supercomputer
Strange Matter
New Items from the House of Surplus
ROZ CHAST
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