| Plastics get wired P Yam Scientific American 273 (1), 82-87, 1995 | 106 | 1995 |
| Exploiting zero-point energy P Yam Scientific American 277 (6), 82-85, 1997 | 52 | 1997 |
| The pathological protein: mad cow, chronic wasting, and other deadly prion diseases P Yam Copernicus, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| Bringing Schrödinger¢s cat to life P Yam Scientific American 276 (6), 124-129, 1997 | 29 | 1997 |
| Noisy nucleotides P Yam Scientific American 267 (3), 23-27, 1992 | 27 | 1992 |
| Talking trash. P Yam Scientific American 272 (3), 24-24, 1995 | 20 | 1995 |
| Seeing the bonds P Yam Scientific American 281, 28, 1999 | 18 | 1999 |
| Intelligence Considered-Most people can identify intelligent signals, be they from a person, animal or machine. But can brainpower be measured, quantified and changed? Is human … P Yam Scientific American, 6-11, 1998 | 17 | 1998 |
| Catching a Coming Crime Wave P Yam Scientific American 274 (6), 40-44, 1996 | 13 | 1996 |
| Polymer electronics P Yam Sci. Am 273 (7479), 10, 1995 | 12 | 1995 |
| Everyday Einstein P Yam Scientific American 291 (3), 50-55, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Branching out. P Yam Scientific American 271 (5), 26-27, 1994 | 10 | 1994 |
| Surreal science. P Yam Scientific American 268 (2), 103-104, 1993 | 10 | 1993 |
| Mad cow¢s human toll P Yam The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion …, 2003 | 9 | 2003 |
| Das zähe Leben von Schrödingers Katze P Yam Spektrum d. Wiss. Digest 1 (1999), 28-34, 1997 | 9 | 1997 |
| Acacia trees kill antelope in the Transvaal. P Yam Scientific American 263 (6), 28-28, 1990 | 9 | 1990 |
| Science versus antiscience? G Stix, S Nemecek, P Yam Scientific American 276 (1), 96-101, 1997 | 7 | 1997 |
| Plastics get wired. P Yam Scientific American 8 (1), 90-96, 1997 | 7 | 1997 |
| Trends in superconductivity P Yam Scientific American;(United States) 269 (6), 1993 | 7 | 1993 |
| Reflecting Differences M Holloway, P Yam Scientific American 266 (3), 13-18, 1992 | 7* | 1992 |
