Issues

The availability of a wide choice of polymeric fibers has stimulated great interest in their physical properties and in the principles involved in their manufacture into yarns and fabrics.

A source and detector moving around the patient yield data that, processed by a computer, make visible a two‐dimensional slice of the living human body—at 2‐millimeter resolution.

Near a critical point the behavior of widely diverse systems simplifies to one of a few universal patterns—but fluids for years resisted being fit into the slot that theory had prepared for them.