The author, a physicist, chemist, and geologist, describes the new frontiers of scientific research. (Editor/RK)

Summarizes Charles Wheatstone's 1843 paper introducing the Wheatstone bridge and the rheostat. (SL)

Presents background information on Dixy Lee Ray, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and on Elizabeth Scholtz, director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (PS)

Global Atmospheric Research Program is envisaged to study various aspects of the environment for the whole globe. Describes programs undertaken and the international problems involved in implementing results of such research on a global level. (PS)

Reviews the problems that have confronted science and government in the past and present. Includes organizational responses, the role of science in industrialization, and the problems of science in a small country. (AL)

This issue presents 821 abstracts of research in physiology. Ten abstracts resulting from mini-seminars presented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are also given. (SA)

The demographics of academic science are changing with the increase in the number of doctoral level researchers who are excluded from the traditional faculty tenure track, but hold research posts on open-ended terms. (Author/BB)

Expresses the opinions of several successful research scientists towards research. All agree that, while the thrill of discovery is essential to science, excitement competes increasingly with the frustrations of big science. There is a belief that the spirit of science is thwarted by activities such as grantsmanship games. (MA)

This article highlights the scientific contributions of nineteenth-century German researchers in describing neuropsychologic dysfunction and in conceptualizing and cerebrally localizing clinical syndromes associated with learning disabilities. Noted are contributions of Pierre Paul Broca, Carl Wernicke, Ludwig Lichtheim, Hugo Karl Liepmann, B.…

A new view of science that goes beyond conventional perceptions of science as either good or bad is proposed. The new perspective sees science as process rather than product, bringing together scientific skills and human insight. It is seen as important for the public to understand that expert disagreement is part of the scientific enterprise.…

Describes a project where students were given a small but real scientific question and allowed to deal with all aspects of the project just as a professional scientist would, rather than work on the science part only. (JRH)

Explores scientific fraud, asserting that while few scientists actually falsify results, the field has become so competitive that many are misbehaving in other ways; an example would be unreasonable criticism by anonymous peer reviewers. (EV)

This article assesses the importance of the so-called protest movement in science by reference to certain classic problems of ideology and the sociology of knowledge. For journal availability see SO 504 516. (Author/RM)

Summarizes the discussions and research presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference pertaining to the study of meteorites. (MR)