Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 A Positron Named Priscilla; 3 1 Shake, Rattle, and Shine: New Methods of Probing the Sun; 4 2 A Positron Named Priscilla: Trapping and Manipulating Atoms; 5 3 AIDS: Solving the Molecular Puzzle; 6 4 Doubling Up: How the Genetic Code Replicates Itself; 7 5 Magellan; 8 6 Clocks in the Earth? The Science of Earthquake Prediction; 9 7 The Mathematical Microscope: Waves, Wavelets, and Beyond; 10 8 A Family Affair: The Top Quark and the Higgs Particle; 11 9 Bouncing Balls of Carbon: The Discovery and Promise of Fullerences; 12 10 Fold, Spindle, and Regulate: How Proteins Work; 13 Appendix A: Abstracts of Additional Sessions of the Frontiers of Science of Science Symposia; 14 Appendix B: Symposia Programs; 15 Appendix C: About the Authors; 16 Index

About the Author

Marcia F. Bartusiak, Barbara Burke, Andrew Chaikin, Addison Greenwood, T.A. Heppenheimer, Michelle Hoffman, David Holzman, Elizabeth J. Maggio, and Anne Simon Moffat for the National Academy of Sciences