Prospecting for Planets
by Richard J. Terrile
Do other solar systems exist? They almost certainly do, and new techniques to reduce
diffracted and scattered light may enable us to find them.
Where Are Our Efforts Leading?
A conference honoring Murray Gell-Mann's birthday invited a group of eminent guests to
speculate on the state of the world (and of physics) in the coming decades.
Beckman Institute Becomes Concrete
Its resource centers should make fundamental contributions to chemistry and biology.
E&S looks at what the centers are and how they got there.
Departments
Obituaries: Frederick Lindvall, Paco Lagerstrom
Lab Notes: Hooked on Proteins
Books: Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan by Robert Rosenstone