Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 54: Nov-Dec 1987

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Archaeology

• 300,000-YEAR-OLD SITE IN BRAZIL
• Egyptian pyramids actually made of synthetic stone?

Astronomy

• Icebergs and crouching giants
• Big-bang bashers
• Fractals, fractals everywhere

Biology

• Instances of observed speciation
• Plants are not color blind!
• Electric-power plants!
• Honest, this is the last "plant" item!
• The insects' revenge

Geology

• Now, it's comet showers that did it
• The changing magnetic climate: does it affect civilizations?
• Huge underground electrical circuit
• What heats the earth

Geophysics

• Toads fall to squashy fate
• Ball lightning in bavaria

Psychology

• A HOAX ADMITTED
• Esp of atoms?

Chemistry and physics

• Through a peephole tantalizingly

Unclassified

• The uncertainty of knowledge