Here is a list of stories organized by Issue:
1998 | 1997 | 1996
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1998
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ISSUE DATE |
TITLE |
November/December 1998
Adaptive Technologies Encourage Independent Learning |
Adaptive Technologies Encourage Independent Learning (cover) |
Astronomical Monuments |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Bison Help Grasslands Thrive |
Changing Numbers in Academic Employment of Scientists and Engineers |
Computer Interface Helps Deaf-Blind Community (sidebar) |
Rare Coral Reveals Powerful Compound |
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September/October 1998
NSF and the
Ocean Sciences |
Climate Modelers Have ACCE in the Hole |
Core on Deck: Drilling into Earth's Past, Present,
and Future |
Harmful Algal Blooms: Back to Basics |
Iron Key Unlocks Ocean Ecosystems |
The Year of the Ocean |
Underwater Eruptions Challenge Researchers |
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July/August 1998
El Niño:
From Obscurity
to Obsession |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Bayer/NSF Awards Encourage Science-in-Action |
El Niño From Obscurity to Obsession (cover) |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Farmers Learn to Manage Crops with High-Tech Precision |
Grand Canyon Rocks Reveal Continent's Past |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Mt Everest: A Visual Journey to the Top |
Six States Account for Half of Nation's R&D |
Smarter Than the Average Load-Bearing Structure |
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May/June 1998
Cancer Detection
Goes Digital
New Hope in the Fight
Against Breast Cancer |
Cancer Detection Goes Digital (cover) |
Federally Financed Academic R&D Expenditures Hold Firm |
North of Norway: A Natural Lab |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Joining Forces to Track a Seabird |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Nature's Complex Connections |
Snails, Fish, and Gravity Sensors: On a Mission to Find Answers |
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March/April 1998
The Best of Frontiers
1995 - 1997
Special Anniversary Issue
of Frontiers |
A New Way to Learn: Students Argue About Physics [1996] |
A Renaissance in Robotics: Engineers Abandon Human Models [1995] |
Engineering Sight: Advances in Artificial Retina Development [1997] |
NSF Helps Two-Year Colleges Train Tomorrow's Technicians [1995] |
Small Miracles at Nanotechnology Hubs [1996]* |
SRS [Highlights of important SRS research results from 1995-1997] |
Study Pulls the Plug on Arctic's Carbon Sink [1997] |
Taking Apart the Body's Clock [1996] |
Tracking Tornadoes, Nature's Most Powerful Winds [1997] |
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February 1998 |
No issue |
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January 1998
Playing with Our Future:
High-Tech Toys
as Teaching Tools |
Minerals Behave Differently At High Pressures |
Minerals Behave Differently at High Pressures |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Establishing SHEBA |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Recovering from Disasters |
Playing with Our Future High-Tech Toy as Teaching Tools (cover) |
Pow! Bam! Zap! Pollution Fighters Crowd the Horizon* |
Unemployment Rates Show Gender Equality |
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1997
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ISSUE DATE |
TITLE |
December 1997
Swingin' in the Rain:
Life in Forest Treetops |
Climate Played a Role in the American Revolution |
GOALI: Promoting University-Industry Partnerships* |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Finding the Cell Doors |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Thank You for Your Responses: Frontiers Readership Survey Yields Compliments and Insights |
Research and Tuition Hikes Not Connected |
Swingin' in the Rain: Life in the Forest Treetops (cover) |
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November 1997
Shake Rattle and Roll:
The Science and Engineering of Earthquakes |
A Bright Star in Science Education |
Decline in Number of Immigrant Scientists and Engineers |
Disease-Resistant Plants Lock onto Pathogens |
NSF IN THE NEWS
How are America's Children Doing? |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Ocean Algae and Climate Control |
Shake Rattle and Roll! The Science and Engineering Earthquakes (cover) |
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October 1997
Has the Jury Decided?
What Juries Use to Make Up Their Minds |
Bridging the Science Gender Gap: Raising Female Scientists and Engineers |
Has the Jury Decided? What Juries Use to Make Up Their Minds (cover) |
Japan Plans to double Research and Development Budget |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Advances in Male Birth Control |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Forests and Streams |
The End of the World: More Proof of Dinosaurs' Demise |
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September 1997
Getting to the Bottom of the Amazon:
Researchers and Their Fish Stories |
Australia Gets Rocked By Seismic Mystery |
Biotic Surveys Program Uncovers Smallest Frog |
Catching the Wavelet: Mathematical Tool Revolutionizes Data Analysis |
Getting to the Bottom of the Amazon: Researchers and Their Fish Stories (cover) |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Disaster Insurance Coverage Remains Low* |
Taking a Look at National Patterns |
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July/August 1997
Bizarre Life Forms Thrive Beneath Earth's Surface |
Bizarre Life Forms Thrive Beneath Earth's Surface (cover)* |
Engineering Sight: Advances in Artificial Retina Development* |
Minority Students Make Gains in Science and Engineering |
NSF IN THE NEWS
NSF Names New Computer Partnerships |
NSF IN THE NEWS
NSF to Adopt New Merit Review Criteria |
Study Pulls the Plug on Arctic's Carbon Sink |
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June 1997
Seabirds Give New
Meaning to Sibling Rivalry |
Awards Help Research And Education Harmonize on Campus |
Evolutionary Biology: The History of Life (sidebar) |
Laboratory Construction Slows |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Science Takes Center Stage: NSF-funded Films Win Nominations and Awards |
Seabirds Give New Meaning to Sibling Rivalry (cover) |
Sounding Out the Sun's Interior |
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May 1997
Antarctic Research
It's Cool! |
Antarctic Research: It's Cool! (cover) |
Digital Libraries Will Make Information More Accessible |
NSF IN THE NEWS
An Island Grows in Hawaii |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Proof Positive: Meteorite Impact and Dinosaurs' Extinction* |
Science and Engineering Graduate Enrollment Drops |
Scientists Unveil Lake Victoria's Secret* |
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April 1997
Expanding Minds
Creating Engaging Science Outside of the Classroom |
Expanding Minds with Informal Education: Creating Engaging Science Outside of the Classroom (cover) |
National Science and Technology Week 1997: Webs, Wires, and Waves April 20-26 |
Presidential Award Recognizes Importance of Mentoring |
Promoting Diversity in the SMET Workforce |
U.S. Students Earn Average Scores In Global Study |
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March 1997
Greenland Rocks
Tell New Tale of
Life on Earth |
FastLane: The Paperless Grant Management System |
Greenland Rocks Tell New Tale of Life on Earth (cover)* |
Mysteries of the Inner Earth |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Lighting Up Dirty Water* |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Magnolia Surfs the Net* |
R&D Booms in Western Europe |
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February 1997
Tracking Tornadoes
Nature's Most
Powerful Winds |
Mentoring in Montana: Teachers Get Early Career Help |
Nobel Laureates Used NSF Funds for Winning Research* |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Gypsy Moths Stopped by Fungus |
NSF IN THE NEWS
HoloGlobe Exhibit Projects the Big Picture* |
On the Lookout for Debris (Sidebar) |
Tracking Tornadoes, Nature's Most Powerful Winds (cover)* |
U.S. Math and Science Curricula Too Broad |
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January 1997
The Internet
Expanding the Way
We Do Science |
Morals: More Than Nice, They're Evolution |
Non-U.S. Citizens Earn 40% of S&E Doctorates in 1995 |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Gender Gap Theory Collapses Under Scrutiny |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Webs, Wires and Waves: National Science and Technology Week '97 |
Science Improves When Archaeologists Work With Locals |
The Internet: Expanding the Way We Do Science (cover)* |
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1996
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ISSUE DATE |
TITLE |
December 1996
Taking Apart the Body's Clock
How Do Molecules
Tell Us the Time? |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Creating a Fair World Through Math |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Unusual Rock Upsets Geology Theory |
Study Helps Define Innovators and R&D Performers |
Taking Apart the Body's Clock: How Do Molecules Tell Us the Time? (cover)* |
Tomato Research: Ripe for the Picking |
Under the Sea: Exotic New Landscapes |
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November 1996
Biodiversity:
A Productive Way
to Grow |
A New Way to Learn: Students Argue About Physics |
Biodiversity: A Productive Way to Grow (cover) |
NSF IN THE NEWS
President Signs into Law NSF Budget for 1997 |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Recreating a Species: Evolution Turns Predictable |
Replacement Parts: Creating Artificial Tissues and Organs* |
S&E Graduate Students: More Women Enroll |
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October 1996
Tracking a Killer:
Following Cholera With
Every Available Means |
An Electronic Nose for Business, NSF, NASA and Others* |
On the Appointment of The Acting Deputy Director: Letter from Neal Lane |
Preliminary Report: R&D Spending Fell in FY 1996 |
Tracking a Killer: Following Cholera With Every Available Means (cover)* |
Witches' Brew of Weird Bugs |
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September 1996
Footloose on
Earth's Invisible Highways:
How Migrating Animals
Find Their Way
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Congressional Update: NSF Budget Status |
Footloose on Earth's Invisible Highways: How Migrating Animals Find Their Way (cover)* |
High-Tech Systems Provide Health Care Savings* |
Science and Engineering Indicators 96: Trends in Science and Technology |
Solar Storms Disruptions: More Are on the Way* |
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July/August 1996
One Species: One Language
The Universal Nature of Human Languages |
An Epidemic in the Serengeti: Dog Virus Kills Lions |
Crash Testing Black Holes: A Colossal Collision* |
National Math and Science Scores Improve |
New Microwave Tool to the Rescue |
NSF Joins European Physics Project |
One Species: One Language: The Universal Nature of Human Languages (cover) |
Partnership in Service to Society: 1994-1995 Annual Report |
Poverty No Longer Sets Appalachia Apart |
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June 1996
The Minds Eye
Finding Truth In Illusion |
3-D Design Software Makes Computer Objects "Real"* |
Controlling Dangers: The Truth About Risk Assessment |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Star Wars Telescope Used for Solar Study* |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Were Dinosaurs Blown Away?* |
R&D Outpaces Inflation at Colleges and Universities |
The Mind's Eye: Finding Truth in Illusion (cover) |
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May 1996
Recreating The Early Universe |
Cave Dwellers' Survival Skills Are Finally Brought to Light |
Recreating the Early Universe (cover)* |
Science and the American Dream: Healthy or History (Neal Lane) |
Second-Generation Americans Less Driven Than New Arrivals |
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April 1996
Working Toward Fifty-Fifty By 2020:
Women In Science Take Stock |
Frontiers Wins Awards |
Hands-on Projects Turn Children into Scientists For a Week |
Research Group Is Cultivating the Family Tree of Plant Life |
Sparrows Make It Onto Charts With Their Own Renditions |
U.S. Research & Development Concentrated in a Few States |
Working Toward 50-50 by 2020: Women In Science Take Stock (cover)* |
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March 1996
Finding Medicines In The Forest
Can Shamans Point the Way? |
Biotron's Cutaway View Reveals Underside of Life |
Finding Medicines in the Forest: Can Shamans Point the Way? (cover)* |
Foreign-Born Scientist and Engineers Fuel U.S. R & D |
NSF IN THE NEWS
A New Fuel From the Ocean Floor |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Poor Children Fare Worse in America |
Students Demonstrate Research Skills at Fourth Annual Diversity Conference |
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February 1996
Life Like You've Never
Seen It Before |
DNA Samples Bank Proposed for Future Investigations |
Eastern Barrier Islands: Terra Un-Firma* |
Life Like You've Never Seen It Before (cover)* |
S&E Degree Recipients Earn More Than Others |
Small Miracles Happen at Nanotechnology Hubs* |
Take a Stroll Through The Octopus's Garden* |
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January 1996
Reproductive Ecology
Stacking the Deck in the Game of Life |
Early Data Show Decline in 1995 R&D Spending |
EPSCoR |
Joint Venture with Japanese to Further Optics Applications |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Listening to the Sun |
NSF IN THE NEWS
Turning on Flower Power |
Reproductive Ecology: Stacking the Deck in the Game of Life (cover) |
States Use NSF Seed Money to Build Research Capacity |
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