Science Notes
1999Text-only Version
From the UCSC Science
Communication Program
SCIENCE NOTES is written and illustrated by the students in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
C o n t e n t s
A fledgling journalist on deadline either
has the mother of all science news stories or something else
entirely.
By Oliver Baker
Scientists hasten to predict and prepare
for a monster wave threatening California’s coast.
By Krista Conger
When sea lions started dying in Monterey
Bay, scientists raced to discover the cause.
By Liese Greensfelder
The hated hypodermic may soon be replaced
by a painless microscopic needle on a silicon
chip.
By Kathleen Wong
A maverick linguist has devised a new way
to scope out what our ancestors were up to 50,000 years
ago.
By Robert Adler
An aerospace engineer has designed an
airplane that could fly at ten times the speed of sound by
skipping off the top of the atmosphere. But will it ever
fly?
By Beate Kittl
A child psychologist plays with words to
explore how we learn language.
By Bryn David Nelson
After 10 years of hard
work punctuated by serendipity, leaps of faith, and
intuition, an unsinkable team of scientists devise an
ingenious system to clean water contaminated with carbon
tetrachloride, a toxic chemical.
By Marina
Chicurel
Astronomers may have solved the mystery
of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
By Adrian Cho
In the race for mammal efficiency the
results are in, and its a draw.
By Mark Schrope
SCIENCE NOTES is published once a year—look for the next issue in July of 2000.
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