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John Rennie From the Editors: Warp Drive Goes Here 4--4
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Special Briefing: The Nobel Prizes for
1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Sarah Simpson News and Analysis: Melting Away . . . . 19--20
Barbara Gallagher No Space Sex? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rodger Doyle Going the Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Kate Wongin Denver Mammal Melee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Steve Mirsky When Good Hippos Go Bad . . . . . . . . 28--28
Graham P. Collins Schrödinger's Games . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Tim Beardsley Setting the Course for the Nation's
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Phil Scott Self-Control in the Skies . . . . . . . 36--40
Alden M. Hayashi Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Carol Ezzell Jumbo Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Wendy M. Grossman Making Money the New-Fashioned Way . . . 44--45
Lawrence H. Ford and
Thomas A. Roman Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp
Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Ian Tattersall Once We Were Not Alone . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Yuri Ts. Oganessian and
Vladimir K. Utyonkov and
Kenton J. Moody Voyage to Superheavy Island . . . . . . 63--67
Paul F. Hoffman and
Daniel P. Schrag Snowball Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Jerome M. Siegel Narcolepsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Richard F. Post Maglev: a New Approach . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Malcolm Potts The Unmet Need for Family Planning . . . 88--93
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Detecting
Extraterrestrial Gravity . . . . . . . . 94--96
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Impossibility
Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Chet Raymo Reviews and Commentaries: An
Irresistible Subject . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Roll Back Malaria . . . . . . . 104, 107
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Roll Back Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
James Burke Connections: On the Ball . . . . . . . . 105--106
Stephen R. Herchen Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editor: Fan Mail from the
Fringe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
James Oberg News and Analysis: NASA's not Shining
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--16
Anonymous In Focus: Fast, cheap and out of
control? NASA's strategy shows its
drawbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Alden M. Hayashi An Elemental Mystery . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Graham P. Collins The Nonnegligible Lightness of Gravity 20--20
Steve Mirsky Worth a Thousand Words . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Sarah Simpson Methane Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Rodger Doyle The U.S. Trade Deficit . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Steve Mirsky When the Sky is not the Limit . . . . . 28--30
Meg Turville-Heitz Violent Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
David Pescovitz Please Dispose of Properly . . . . . . . 33--33
Rebecca Renner Asbestos in the Air . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Tim Beardsley Time Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Tim Beardsley Gene Therapy Setback . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Paul Wallich Your First \$20 Free! . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Torrence V. Johnson The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and Its
Moons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
John S. Wettlaufer and
J. Greg Dash Melting Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Patricia M. Rodier The Early Origins of Autism . . . . . . 56--63
Julie Dorsey and
Pat Hanrahan Digital Materials and Virtual Weathering 64--71
Howard Herzog and
Baldur Eliasson and
Olav Kaarstad and
David W. Keith and
Edward A. Parson Capturing Greenhouse Gases . . . . . . . 72--79
Sönke Johnsen Transparent Animals . . . . . . . . . . 80--89
W. Ford Doolittle Uprooting the Tree of Life . . . . . . . 90--95
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Gamma-Ray Bursts
Come Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Real and
Virtual Sculptures . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Kevin Padian Reviews and Commentaries . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Time Travelers in the Field . . 105, 107
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Time Travelers in the Field . . . . . . 105--107
James Burke Connections: Steamboats, land deals and
seismographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
James Burke Movers and Shakers . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Louis A. Bloomfield Working Knowledge: Catalytic Converter 108--108
John Rennie From the Editors: The Second War of the
Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Sasha Nemecek News and Analysis: Granting Immunity . . 15--16
Pat Janowski Running the Dam Gauntlet . . . . . . . . 18--18
Luis Miguel Ariza Burning Times for Hot Fusion . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Carol Ezzell Brain Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Glenn Zorpette Why Go to Mars? The main goal will be to
look for life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Rodger Doyle Minorities and Bachelor's Degrees in the
U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steve Mirsky C-A-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Simon LeVay Brain Invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
George Musser Between Burb and Burg . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Sarah Simpson Bidding On Bones . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Tim Beardsley Working Under Pressure . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Pescovitz Bioagent Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Wendy Grossman Mobilizing the Internet . . . . . . . . 38--38
Glenn Zorpette Special Report: Sending Astronauts To
Mars: Why Go To Mars? . . . . . . . . . 40--43
George Musser and
Mark Alpert How to Go to Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Robert Zubrin The Mars Direct Plan . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
S. Fred Singer To Mars by Way of Its Moons . . . . . . 56--57
James Oberg and
Buzz Aldrin A Bus Between the Planets . . . . . . . 58--60
Sarah Simpson Staying Sane in Space . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Philip Yam Invaders From Hollywood . . . . . . . . 62--63 (Intl. ed. 44)
Michael W. Young The Tick-Tock of the Biological Clock 64--71
Eric Bonabeau and
Guy Théraulaz Cover Story: Swarm Smarts . . . . . . . 72--79
Tim Beardsley Expeditions: Dissecting a Hurricane . . 80--85
Gustavo Martinelli and
Ricardo Azoury Science In Pictures: The Bromeliads of
the Atlantic Forest . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: An Automated
Precision Magnetometer . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: A Strategy for
Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Douglas C. Daly Reviews and Commentaries: A
Whirlybird's-Eye View of the World . . . 100--102
Anonymous The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Sun-Stains . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Sun-Stains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
James Burke Connections: Evolution and ether . . . . 106--107 (Intl. ed. 86)
James Burke Review and Commentaries: Wuff, Wuff . . 106--107
Les Rosenau Working Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From The Editors: From the Editors . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters To The Editors: Letters to the
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50,100 & 150 Years Ago: Einstein, the
H-Bomb and Whale Harpoons . . . . . . . 14--14
Graham P. Collins News & Analysis: Fireballs of Free Quarks 16--18
Marguerite Holloway Outbreak Not Contained . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Sasha Nemecek A Taste for Science . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Diane Martindale Car Parts from Chickens . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Pescovitz Power to the PC . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Phil Scott Throwing in the Tower . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Women and the
Professions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
D. M. Budget Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Diane Martindale Morticians Beware . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
George Musser News Briefs: Whirl-a-Gig . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam Two Places at Once . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous So you want to start a family\ldots . . 34--34
Steve Mirsky The Fifth Taste . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Pescovitz Insides Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Alden M. Hayashi Profile: A Greene Universe . . . . . . . 36--40
Brian Greene Profile: String theorist and physics
star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Tim Beardsley Tecnology & Business: Rules of the Game 42--43
Paul Wallich Cyber View: Who Wants Privacy? . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Special Report: National Medal of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Anton Zeilinger Cover Story: Quantum Teleportation . . . 50--59
Joe Z. Tsien Building a Brainier Mouse . . . . . . . 62--68
Justin A. Zivin Understanding Clinical Trials . . . . . 69--75
Gibor Basri The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs . . . . . 76--83
George B. Dyson The Aleutian Kayak . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Michael D. King and
David D. Herring Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs . . . . . 92--97
Kate Wong Trends In Paleoanthropology: Who Were
the Neandertals? . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--107
Louis A. Bloomfield Working Knowledge: Cleaning Agents . . . 108--109
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: a furnace in a
thermos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Bullish on
mooo-thematics: Counting the Cattle of
the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Matt Ridley Books: A Three-Billion-Year Memoir . . . 114--116
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Lion Emperors . . . . . . . 117, 119
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Lion Emperors . . . . . . . 117--119
James Burke Connections: Water Music . . . . . . . . 118--119
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Mind Reading This? . . . . 120--120
Carol Ezzell From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: 50, 100 & 150
Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Glenn Zorpette News & Analysis: All Doped up --- and
Going for the Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
George Musser What's the Matter? . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Simpson For the Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Graham P. Collins Three-Star Performance . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Eric Niiler A New Rex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Mark Alpert Physician, Heal Thyself . . . . . . . . 32--34
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Productivity . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale From Power Lines to Pantyhose . . . . . 36--36
Sasha Nemecek News Briefs: Formula for Intelligence? 36--36
Philip Yam Jam Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Yeah, You've Got Mail . . . . . . . . . 37--37
D. M. Lending a Helping Leg . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Kate Wong Axes to Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Carol Ezzell Profile: The Biologist and the Cathedral 38--40
David Pescovitz Technology & Business: Wired for Speed 41--42
Wendy Grossman Cyber View: DVDs: Cease and DeCSS? . . . 44--45
Erik Asphaug The Small Planets . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
Jon William Toigo Special Industry Report: Avoiding a Data
Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--74
Frans B. M. de Waal and
Filippo Aureli and
Peter G. Judge Coping with Crowding . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
William J. Nellis Cover Story: Making Metallic Hydrogen 84--90
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Fill 'Er Up . . . . . 92--93
Carol Ezzell Expeditions: Care for a Dying Continent 96--105
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Fun with Flat
Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Rep-Tiling the
Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Jon Entine Books: Tackling Race and Sports . . . . 112--114
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Netting the Deep Sky . . . . . 116, 118
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Netting the Deep Sky . . . . . 116--118
James Burke Connections: What a Nerve . . . . . . . 117--118
Alan Alda Feedback: Curiosity Rhymed the Cat . . . 120--120
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Fields of Dreams . . . . . 122--122
John Rennie From the Editors: Nanotech Reality . . . 8--8
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters To The Editors: Letters to the
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Wendy Williams News & Analysis: Toxins on the Firing
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Glenn Zorpette A Plum of an Island . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Nicola Jones Soothing the Inflamed Brain . . . . . . 24--24
Phil Scott Throttled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Arlene Judith Klotzko SNPs of Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Paul Wallich The Orwell Awards . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Rodger Doyle By the numbers: Asthma Worldwide . . . . 30--30
Mark Alpert Yukon Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
George Musser Long Tail of the Comet . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam News Briefs: The 300-Gigahertz Light
Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Cash Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Graham P. Collins Atomic Dead Letter . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sasha Nemecek Yes, Sharks Get Cancer . . . . . . . . . 34--34
P. Y. An Eye for an Eye . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Paul C. Sereno Profile: Dinosaur Hunter Paul C. Sereno:
Paleontology's Indiana Jones . . . . . . 36--37
Kate Wong Profile: Paleontology's Indiana Jones 36--37
Steve Mirsky Technology & Business: Tantalizing Tubes 40--42
David Pescovitz Cyber View: Accounting for Taste . . . . 44--44
George Musser and
Sasha Nemecek Special Report: Waging a New Kind of War 46--47
Jeffrey Boutwell and
Michael T. Klare A Scourge of Small Arms . . . . . . . . 48--53
Richard F. Mollica Invisible Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Walter C. Clemens, Jr. and
J. David Singer The Human Cost of War . . . . . . . . . 56
Neil G. Boothby and
Christine M. Knudsen Children of the Gun . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Sara C. Beck Dwarf Galaxies and Starbursts . . . . . 66--71
John D. Scott and
Tony Pawson Cell Communication: The Inside Story . . 72--79
Clark Spencer Larsen Reading the Bones of La Florida . . . . 80--85
Mark A. Reed and
James M. Tour Computing with Molecules . . . . . . . . 86--93
Sarah Simpson Expeditions: Looking for Life Below the
Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--101
Anonymous Looking for Life Below the Bottom . . . 94
Anonymous Working Knowledge: A Spaceship for One 102--103
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Home is where the
ECG Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Paradox Lost 108--109
Peter Singer Books: How the Left Got Darwin Wrong . . 110--112
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Internet as Hardware . . . 113, 115
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Internet as Hardware . . . 113--115
James Burke Connections: All at Sea . . . . . . . . 114--115
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Great Feets . . . . . . . 116--116
Mark Fischetti and
Gary Stix When Life Knows No Bounds . . . . . . . 6
Kathryn Brown How Long Have You Got? To 120 years old
and beyond. Plus: World's Oldest
Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Polly Shulman Design for Living: Centenarians can
teach us how to age gracefully . . . . . 18
J. R. Brandstrader From Baby Boom to Geezer Glut . . . . . 22
Robin Marantz Henig Living Longer: What Really Works? . . . 30
Kathryn Brown A Radical Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Mike May Mother Nature's Menders . . . . . . . . 56
Ken Howard Stopping Cancer Before It Starts . . . . 80
Delia K. Cabe Saving Hearts That Grow Old . . . . . . 87
Catherine Johnson Promised Land or Purgatory? . . . . . . 92
Steve Mirsky It Smells of Immortality . . . . . . . . 104
John Rennie From the Editor: Bracing for the
Imminent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letter to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Smoking and
Cancer, Pioneers of Flight (or Fright) 12
George Musser News & Analysis: Boomerang Effect . . . . 14--15
Lisa Melton Age Breakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Daniel G. Dupont Reengineering the Radio . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert Fire in the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The Geography of Death 22--22
Eric Niiler News & Analysis: Diseased Passage . . . . 23--24
Sarah Simpson Raging Rivers of Rock . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Carol Ezzell Age of the Clones . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Julia Karow Nanobending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Diane Martindale News Briefs: Beetle to Bee . . . . . . . 26--26
Graham P. Collins Einstein's Constant . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
George Musser Droids versus Fires . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Julie Wakefield Profile: The Search for Extreme Life . . 30--32
Baruch S. Blumberg Profile: Astrobiologist Baruch S.
Blumberg seeks life's origin . . . . . . 30
Diane Martindale Technology & Business: Scar No More . . . 34--36
Paul Wallich Cyber View: Unplugged but Unbowed . . . 37--37
Ian Crawford Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where
Are They? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Andrew J. LePage Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where
They Could Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
George W. Swenson, Jr. Intragalactically Speaking . . . . . . . 44--47
Carol Ezzell Special Industry Report: The Business of
the Human Genome . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Kathryn Brown The Human Genome Business Today . . . . 50--55
Ken Howard The Bioinformatics Gold Rush . . . . . . 58--63
Carol Ezzell Beyond the Human Genome . . . . . . . . 64--69
Chris Llewellyn Smith The Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . 70--77
Ernst Mayr Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought . . 78--83
David P. Billington The Revolutionary Bridges of Robert
Maillart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Marguerite Holloway The Killing Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Sarah Simpson Working Knowledge: Escape and Survival 100--101
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: PCR at Home . . . 102--103
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Knotting
ventured, knotting gained . . . . . . . 104--105
David Hurst Thomas Books: Whose Past is it, Anyway? . . . . 106--108
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Time Exposures . . . . . . . . 109, 111
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Time Exposures . . . . . . . . 109--109
James Burke Connections: Not What It Seems . . . . . 110--111
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Alcohol, Tobacco and Soy
Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editors: If you can't Stand the
Heat\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Marguerite Holloway News & Analysis: Uncontrolled Burn . . . 16--18
Anonymous The Los Alamos fire's aftermath . . . . 16
Eric Niiler Island Survivors . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Trisha Gura Gene Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
George Musser Magnetic Anomalies . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kate Wong Global Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Meredith F. Small More Than the Best Medicine . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The U.S. Population Race 26--26
Julia Karow News Briefs: DNA Junk and Lupus . . . . 28--28
Diane Martindale Size Doesn't Matter . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
George Musser Cosmic Cartography . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous The Need for Zzz's . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
J. K. Atomic-Force Geckos . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Steve Mirsky A Dose of Our Own Medicine . . . . . . . 29--29
Sarah Simpson Sea Change for Tides . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Glenn Zorpette Profile: Blue Chip . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Bruce Schechter Technology & Business: No Resistance . . 32--33
Wendy Grossman Cyber View: Circles of Trust . . . . . . 34--34
Tillman U. Gerngross and
Steven C. Slater How Green Are Green Plastics? . . . . . 36--41
Thomas P. Ray Fountains of Youth: Early Days in the
Life of a Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Paul R. Epstein Cover Story: Is Global Warming Harmful
to Health? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Arvind Varma Form from Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Nima Arkani-Hamed and
Savas Dimopoulos and
Georgi Dvali The Universe's Unseen Dimensions . . . . 62--69
Irwin Goldstein and
the Working Group Male Sexual Circuitry . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Rachel Laudan Birth of the Modern Diet . . . . . . . . 76--81
Glenn Zorpette Working Knowledge: Focusing in a Flash 82--83
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: How to Rear a
Plankton Menagerie . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: a fractal
guide to tic-tac-toe . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
The Editors Books: Hidden World . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Laws of Calorie Counting . . . 93, 95
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Laws of Calorie Counting . . . 93--93
James Burke Connections: The Grand Plan . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Measure for Measure . . . 96--96
John Rennie From The Editors: Muscle-bound Science 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Science
Greats Look Back --- and Ahead . . . . . 12--13
George Musser News & Analysis: Gully Gee Whiz . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Mars: not beachfront property, but\ldots 14
Tabitha M. Powledge Beyond the First Draft . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Mark Alpert Worrying about Wireless . . . . . . . . 20--21
Eric Niiler Awash in Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Kimberly Masibay Drinking without Harm . . . . . . . . . 22--22
David Appell Unlimited Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Hard Times in the Delta 30--30
Rebecca Lipsitz Down with Dino Birds? . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rebecca Lipsitz Got Statins? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rebecca Lipsitz News Briefs: A Gripping Start . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous No Fun in the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Graham P. Collins Miss-ile Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sarah Simpson What's That Pinging in My Ear? . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Not Slowing with Age . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Marguerite Holloway Profile: Save the Muntjacs . . . . . . . 36--40
Phil Scott Technology & Business: Supersized . . . . 42--44
W. Wayt Gibbs Cyber View: Brace for Impact . . . . . . 46--46
Jesper L. Andersen and
Peter Schjerling and
Bengt Saltin Muscle, Genes and Athletic Performance 48--55
Laurance R. Doyle and
Hans-Jörg Deeg and
Timothy M. Brown Searching for Shadows of Other Earths 58--65
William H. R. Langridge Edible Vaccines . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
John-Mark Hopkins and
Wilson Sibbett Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers: Big Payoffs in
a Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Sasha Nemecek Trends In Archaeology: Who Were the
First Americans? . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Robert Silman The Plan to Save Fallingwater . . . . . 88--95
Mark Alpert Working Knowledge: A Better Black Box 96--97
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Aerial
Photography: Using a Kite as an
Experimental Platform . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Hex Marks the
Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: The
mind-bending challenge of Hex . . . . . 100
Steve Fuller Books: A New Paradigm for Thomas Kuhn 104--106
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: From Protocols to Language . . 107, 110
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: From Prototools to Language . . 107--107
James Burke Connections: The Last Word . . . . . . . 109--110
Anonymous End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Name Recognition . . . . . 112--112
Keay Davidson Our National Passion . . . . . . . . . . 6
Gary Stix and
Mark Fischetti Introduction: Game Theory . . . . . . . 6
Bruce Schechter How Much Higher? How Much Faster? . . . 10
Richard Monastersky Forecasting Is No Picnic . . . . . . . . 12
Rob Neyer A Matter of Size . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glenn Zorpette The Chemical Games . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Eugene Raikhel Decoding the Forecast . . . . . . . . . 20
Jeffrey Rosenfeld The Butterfly That Roared . . . . . . . 22
Gary Taubes Toward Molecular Talent Scouting . . . . 26
Jeffrey Rosenfeld Do We Need the National Weather Service? 28
Robert Henson Billion-dollar Twister . . . . . . . . . 32
Marguerite Holloway The Female Hurt . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Michael Shermer Psyched Up, Psyched Out . . . . . . . . 38
Eugene Raikhet Extreme Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jim Reed Fleeing Floyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Polly Shulman Blowing the Whistle on Concussions . . . 44
Gary Taubes The Famine of Youth . . . . . . . . . . 44
Karen Wright Big Sky, Hot Nights, Red Sprites . . . . 48
Evelyn Strauss Counting the Lives of a Cell . . . . . . 50
Karen Wright Watching Your Steps . . . . . . . . . . 52
Randy Cerveny It's Raining Eels: a Compendium of Weird
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Tim Beardsley Tempests from the Sun . . . . . . . . . 56
Michael Menduno No Way Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
David Pescovitz Spare Parts for Vital Organs . . . . . . 62
Delia K. Cabe Going through the Motions . . . . . . . 64
Daniel Pendick Cloud Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Evelyn Strauss Of Hyperaging and Methuselah Genes . . . 68
Pearl Tesler Asphalt Acrobats . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Phil Scott Weatherproofing Air Travel . . . . . . . 70
Mia Schmiedeskamp Preventing Good Brains from Going Bad 72
Mike May The Athletic Arms Race . . . . . . . . . 74
Laurence Lippseft Beyond El Nino . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bruce Schechter The Unblinking Eye . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Ben Bova Out of This World . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Rita Baron-Faust Under the Weather . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Gary Taubes Deconstructing the Taboo . . . . . . . . 90
Randy Cerveny Lights, Camera, Weather . . . . . . . . 98
Eugene Raikhel Cults of the Undying . . . . . . . . . . 98
Reinout van Wagtendonk Unlikely Domin-ation . . . . . . . . . . 98
Steve Mirsky Channeling the Weather . . . . . . . . . 104
Steve Mirsky A Sphere and Present Danger . . . . . . 104
Diane Martindale Weather on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Kathryn S. Brown Warming To Climate Change . . . . . . . 114
John Rennie From the Editors: Smart Choices . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Sarah Simpson News & Analysis: Killer Waves on the East
Coast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Worries about an East Coast tidal wave
are all wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Simon LeVay Riding the Rumble . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
George Musser The Hole Shebang . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Science on the Canvas . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The Roots of Homicide 22--22
Graham P. Collins Schrödinger's Squid . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Lisa Melton News & Analysis: Womb Wars . . . . . . . 24--26
Rebecca Lipsitz One-Hit Wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Graham P. Collins News Briefs: The Tau of Neutrinos . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Sea of Troubles . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Roadkill Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous The Sky's the Limit . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Julia Karow Stressed for Life . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rebecca Lipsitz Dingy Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
S. M. Down with E-reading? . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
P. Y. Mr. Spock, Phone Home . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Julie Lewis Profile: Six Billion and Counting . . . 30--32
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology & Business: Speech without
Accountability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
W. W. G. How Publius Thwarts Censors . . . . . . 36--36
Wendy M. Grossman Cyber View: Octothorp Standard . . . . . 37--37
Mark Alpert and
George Musser Special Industry Report: The Wireless
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Fiona Harvey The Internet in Your Hands . . . . . . . 40--45
Karen J. Bannan The Promise and Perils of WAP . . . . . 46--49
David Wilson The Future Is Here. Or Is It? . . . . . 50--51
Leander Kahney The Third-Generation Gap . . . . . . . . 54--57
Cornelius Borst Cover Story: Operating on a Beating
Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Susan Blackmore and
Lee Alan Dugatkin and
Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson and
Henry Plotkin The Power of Memes, with counterpoints
by Lee Alan Dugatkin, Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson, and Henry Plotkin 64--73
Joachim Bretschneider Nabada: The Buried City . . . . . . . . 74--81
John A. Swets and
Robyn M. Dawes and
John Monahan Better Decisions through Science . . . . 82--87
Anonymous Working Knowledge: The Hard and the Soft 88--89
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Down among the
Micrograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Million-Dollar
Minesweeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
?. Menzel and
?. D'Aluisio Books: Apocalyptic Optimism . . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous The Editors Recomment . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Hybrid Vigor! . . . . . . . . . 99, 102
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Hybrid Vigor! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
James Burke Connections: Getting High . . . . . . . 100--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Founding Father of
Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: Cloning and
Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Anonymous Letters To The Editors: Letters to the
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Census
1900 More Americans, More Electricity 12--12
Stephen Cole News & Analysis: Robots in the Sky . . . 14--18
Mark Alpert Radioactive Wrecks . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Michael Menduno Atlas Shrugged . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Carol Ezzell Hooking up Biologists . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rodger Doyle Voter Turnout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Naomi Lubick Desert Fridge: Cooling foods when
there's not a socket around . . . . . . 26--26
George Musser Dawn of a New Species? . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Naomi Lubick Stifled Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Steve Mirsky News Briefs: Universal Soldier . . . . . 27--27
N. L. Narcolepsy and the Lost Peptide . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Broadcasting Space Warp . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points: Medium Rare, Please . . . . 30--30
Edward Bell Digital Depictions . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
S. M. One Transgenic Latte, Coming Up . . . . 30--30
Kate Wong Profile: Archaeologist Olga Soffer: The
Caveman's New Clothes . . . . . . . . . 32--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology & Business: Ubiquitous
computing: Homes: As We May Live . . . . 36--40
Paul Wallich Cyber View: Wholesale Computation:
Companies want to sell your computer's
spare processing time. Are there buyers? 42--42
Mark Fischetti Special Report: The Future of Digital
Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Peter Forman and
Robert W. Saint John Creating Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Ken C. Pohlmann Music Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--60
Peter Broderick Moviemaking in Transition . . . . . . . 61--63, 66--69
Peter D. Lubell Digital Cinema is for Reel . . . . . . . 70--71
Alvy Ray Smith Digital Humans Wait in the Wings . . . . 72--78
Glorianna Davenport Your Own Virtual Storyworld . . . . . . 79--82
Robert P. Lanza and
Betsy L. Dresser and
Philip Damiani Cloning Noah's Ark . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Franklin R. Chang Díaz The VASIMR Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Franklin R. Chang Díaz The VASIMR Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Carol Ezzell AIDS Drugs for Africa . . . . . . . . . 98--103
William Lanouette The Odd Couple and the Bomb . . . . . . 104--109
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Pregnancy Tests . . . 110--111
Rebecca Lipsitz Diagnosis At Home: Pregnancy Tests . . . 110--111
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Boids of a
Feather Flock Together . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Spiral Slime:
Mathematics in creatures great and small 116, 118
Claire Panosian Dunavan Books: Politics and Plagues: Laurie
Garrett sounds an alarm for the
disastrous state of global public
health; The Editors Recommend . . . . . 120--122
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Anniversary of needles:
celebrating 400 years of magnetic
understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Anniversary of Needles . . . . 125--127
James Burke Connections: Survivals . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Smart Thinking . . . . . . 128--128
John Rennie From the Editors: The Dragon in the Sea 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Color
Television, 1950; Why Good Sausages Go
Bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Sasha Nemecek News & Analysis: The Second Abortion Pill 16--18
Kate Wong Paleolithic Pit Stop: a French site
suggests Neandertals and early modern
humans behaved similarly . . . . . . . . 18--20
W. Wayt Gibbs Red Team versus the Agents . . . . . . . 20--24
Graham P. Collins The Amazing Acenes . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Naomi Lubick A Trace of the Corona . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Taxes: No Major Change
in Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
D. M. Gotcha! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
D. M. News Briefs: Muscling DNA . . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale Gotcha!: Wanted for arboricide: Asian
longhorned beetle . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale Muscling DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Diane Martindale A One-Way Ticket to Nunavut . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Data Points: The (Somewhat)
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous The Nobel Prizes for 2000 . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous The (Somewhat) Scientific American . . . 36--36
Lynn Conway Profile: Completing the Circuit . . . . 38--42
Paul Wallich Profile: Computer Scientist Lynn Conway:
Completing the Circuit . . . . . . . . . 38, 40, 42--43
David Pescovitz Technology & Business: In the Waiting
Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
David Pescovitz William E. Kelley: Paging Dr. Robot . . 46--46
Wendy M. Grossman Cyber View: Bits of Radio: receiving
digital broadcasts becomes cheaper and
easier --- except in the U.S. . . . . . 50--50
Ryosuke Motani Cover Story: Rulers of the Jurassic Seas 52--59
Philip G. Collins and
Phaedon Avouris Nanotubes for Electronics . . . . . . . 62--69
J. Mayo Greenberg The Secrets of Stardust . . . . . . . . 70--75
Peter H. St George-Hyslop Piecing Together Alzheimer's . . . . . . 76--83
Peter H. St. George-Hyslop Piecing Together Alzheimer's . . . . . . 76--83
Donald D. T. Chen The Science of Smart Growth . . . . . . 84--91
Graham P. Collins Trends in Physics: The Coolest Gas in
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Madhusree Mukerjee Working Knowledge: Diapers: Disposable
Superabsorbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Calibrating with
Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Jumping
Champions: leaping over the gaps between
prime numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Frans B. M. De Waal Books: Laugh and the World Laughs With
You; The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . 108--112
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Gleaning Nuggets: on the
enduring nobility of native metals . . . 113, 116
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Gleaning Nuggets . . . . . . . 113--116
James Burke Connections: Not Nelson's Obelisk . . . 114--116
Anonymous Annual Index 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Final Frontier Exam . . . 120--120
John Rennie From the Editors: The First Optical
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Vaccines
in 1901, the Mosquito's Demise . . . . . 16--16
David Appell News & Analysis: The New Uncertainty
Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Diane Martindale Pink Slip in Your Genes . . . . . . . . 19--20
George Musser Lost Worlds: Evidence for the maverick
view that extrasolar planets are really
small stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Sarah Simpson Aquatic Homebodies: New evidence that
baby fish and shrimp stick close to home
may be the key to saving coral reef
biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Graham P. Collins A Gas of Steel Balls: Marbles are more
difficult to understand than atoms or
molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
W. Wayt Gibbs Neuroscience: Optical Illusions: Side
Splitting: Jokes, ice water and
magnetism can changer your view of the
world --- literally . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Coke, Crack, Pot, Speed
et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Have you got the Right Stuff? . . . . . 28--28
D. M. News Briefs: Jobless in the U.S. . . . . 28--28
Diane Martindale Economics: Jobless in the U.S. . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky That Ball is Gone . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Dynamics: That Ball Is Gone . . . . . . 28--28
P. Y. Cholesterol 1, Aspirin 0 . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Medicine: Cholesterol 1, Aspirin 0 . . . 28--28
Carol Ezzell Profile: Biologist Thomas R. Cech: The
\$13-Billion Man: Why the head of the
{Howard Hughes Medical Institute} could
be the most powerful individual in
biomedicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Julie Wakefield Technology & Business: Complexity theory
software: Complexity's Business Model:
Part physics, part poetry --- the
fledgling un-discipline finds commercial
opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Gary Stix Cyber View: 2001: a Scorecard: How close
are we to building HAL? I'm Sorry, Dave,
I'm afraid we can't do that . . . . . . 36--36
George Musser and
Mark Alpert Brave New Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Robert R. Caldwell and
Marc Kamionkowski Echoes from the Big Bang . . . . . . . . 38--43
Charles L. Bennett and
Gary F. Hinshaw and
Lyman Page A Cosmic Cartographer . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Jeremiah P. Ostriker and
Paul J. Steinhardt The Quintessential Universe . . . . . . 46--53
P. James and
E. Peebles Making Sense of Modern Cosmology . . . . 54--55
João Magueijo Plan B for the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Andrew Whiten and
Christophe Boesch The Cultures of Chimpanzees . . . . . . 60--67
Alfred L. Goldberg and
Stephen J. Elledge and
J. Wade Harper The Cellular Chamber of Doom . . . . . . 68--73
John D. Verhoeven The Mystery of Damascus Blades . . . . . 74--79
Gary Stix Special Report: The Ultimate Optical
Networks: The Triumph of the Light . . . 80--86
David J. Bishop and
C. Randy Giles and
Saswato R. Das The Ultimate Optical Networks: The Rise
of Optical Switching . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
Daniel J. Blumenthal The Ultimate Optical Networks: Routing
Packets with Light . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Anonymous Working Knowledge: The Well-Rounded Flat
Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Naomi Lubick Working Knowledge: The rounded tones of
flat-panel speakers . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Game Theory:
Strategies: Dots-and-Boxes for Experts 102--103
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Particle Physics:
a Canteen Cloud Chamber . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Books: Not Only Fine Feathers\ldots . . 106--108
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: Information Technology, 2500
B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 111
James Burke Connections: Class Acts . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Open-Heart Open . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editors: When Physics Goes Pop 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: The
Common Cold, An Early Dial Telephone,
1901 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
W. Wayt Gibbs Neuroscience: Stem Cells: Biological
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Graham P. Collins Physics: Elementary Particles: Higgs
Won't Fly: CERN declines a massive
opportunity to find the Higgs particle 17--18
Gary Stix Optoelectronics: Lasers: Cheap Light:
Microlasers go deeper into the infrared
to boost optical networking . . . . . . 18--20
Kate Wong Mammoth Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Phil Scott Aviation: Safety: Collision Decision:
New radar systems may prevent deadly
accidents on congested runways . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Simpson Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol: Debit or
Credit? Whether CO$_2$-consuming trees
can offset global warming is far from
certain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The Rich and Other
Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Diane Martindale News Briefs: Copycaps . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Steve Mirsky Carbon Original . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Death Defying . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
P. Y. Stellar Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Mars Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Eric Niiler Bad Breathosaur . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Richard A. Muller Profile: One Disaster After Another . . 30--32
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology & Business: Shrinking to
Enormity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Wendy M. Grossman Cyber View: No E(asy) Cure . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Special Report: Safeguarding Our Water 38--39
The Editors Special Report: Safeguarding Our Water 38--39
Peter H. Gleick Safeguarding Our Water: Making Every
Drop Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Sandra Postel Safeguarding Our Water: Growing More
Food With Less Water . . . . . . . . . . 46--47, 50--51
Diane Martindale and
Peter H. Gleick Safeguarding Our Water: How We Can Do It 52--55
Karin Jegalian and
Bruce T. Lahn Why the Y is So Weird . . . . . . . . . 56--61
M. George Craford and
Nick Holonyak, Jr. and
Frederick A. Kish, Jr. In Pursuit of the Ultimate Lamp . . . . 62--67
Max Tegmark and
John Archibald Wheeler 100 Years of Quantum Mysteries . . . . . 68--75
Robert B. Cialdini The Science of Persuasion . . . . . . . 76--81
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Flue Vaccine:
Preparing for Battle . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Cosmic Rays:
Counting Particles from Space: How to
build a cosmic-ray telescope . . . . . . 84--85, 87
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Geometry:
Opaque Fences: Pursuing Polygonal
Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Jon Cohen Books: Why haven't we Found an AIDS
Vaccine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom? 93, 95
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom? 93--95
James Burke Connections: Home From Home . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous End Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Life Savers . . . . . . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Life Savers . . . . . . . 96--96
John Rennie From the Editors: The Future of Human
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100, &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Martian
Canals, 1901, The Crystal Palace, 1851 14--14
W. Wayt Gibbs Glaciology: Out in the Cold: Ambitious
plans to penetrate icebound Lake Vostok
have slowed to a crawl . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Rebecca Renner Scotchgard Scotched: Following the
fabric protector's slippery trail to a
new class of pollutant . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Naomi Lubick Volcanic Accomplice: Deadly impacts may
have exacerbated massive eruptions . . . 19--19
Gary Stix Pour Me Another: a novel way of
embedding chips in polymers may let you
have your computer and sit on it, too 20--20
Julia Karow Skin So Fixed: a topical lotion with
DNA-repair enzymes cuts down skin
carcinomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Graham P. Collins Trapped over a Chip: Microchips that
control hovering atoms may lead to new
quantum computers . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kate Wong Paleontology: Extinction: Mammoth Kill 22--22
Steven Ashley Senses: Scratching an Old Theory . . . . 23--23
Alison McCook News Briefs: Music of the 'Spheres . . . 23--23
Anonymous Briefs from www.sciam.com . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Fulfilling Your Darwinian Destiny . . . 24--24
A. M. Sloppy Feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
George Musser News Briefs: Copernican
Counterrevolution . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Sprawling into the Third
Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle Economics: Wealth: The Rich and Other
Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kate Wong Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon:
Fighting the Darkness in El Dorado: The
embattled researcher answers a book's
charges that he incited and exaggerated
the violence of the Yanomamö . . . . . . 26--28
Kate Wong Profile: Fighting the Darkness in El
Dorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Diane Martindale Oncology: Copycaps . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Steve Mirsky Chemistry: Carbon Original . . . . . . . 27--27
Matt Collins Data Points: Death Defying . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Ancient Astronomy: Stellar Work . . . . 28--28
Philip M. Yam Planetary Science: Mars Water . . . . . 28--28
Eric Niiler Paleontology: Bad Breathosaur . . . . . 29--29
Mia Schmiedeskamp Plenty to Sniff At: Smaller and more
sensitive electronic noses open up new
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Mia Schmiedeskamp Technology & Business: Plenty to Sniff At 29--30
Daniel Grossman Profile: Astrophysicist Richard A.
Muller: One Disaster After Another . . . 30, 32
Wendy M. Grossman Cyber View: To Protect and Self-Serve:
Will we see hard disks with
copy-preventing codes . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David V. Smith and
Robert F. Margolskee Making Sense of Taste . . . . . . . . . 32--39
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: Gene Chips: Shrinking to
Enormity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
W. Wayt Gibbs Patently Inefficient: a new industry is
thrashed by waves of litigation . . . . 34--34
Michael Gurnis Sculpting the Earth from Inside Out . . 40--47
S. Jay Olshansky and
Bruce A. Carnes and
Robert N. Butler If Humans Were Built to Last . . . . . . 50--55
Arsen R. Hajian and
J. Thomas Armstrong A Sharper View of the Stars . . . . . . 56--63
Jonathan B. Losos Evolution: a Lizard's Tale . . . . . . . 64--69
Jeffrey D. Sachs and
Andrew D. Mellinger and
John L. Gallup The Geography of Poverty and Wealth . . 70--75
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Radar Guns: Gotcha! 76--77
Shawn Carlson The Amateur Scientist: Micro Gravity:
Geotropism, One Last Time: How plants
grow in reduced gravity . . . . . . . . 78--79
Ian Stewart Mathematical Recreations: Algorithms:
Calendar Calculations: Easter Is a
Quasicrystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80, 82--83
Rick Weiss Who Owns Your Body? Lori Andrews and
Dorothy Nelkin uncover some disturbing
answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 86
Lori Andrews and
Dorothy Nelkin Books: Who Owns Your Body? . . . . . . . 84--88
Rick Weiss Books: Who Owns Your Body?; The Editors
Recommend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 86--88
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Needy Porcupine . . . . . . 89, 91
Philip Morrison and
Phylis Morrison Wonders: The Needy Porcupine . . . . . . 89--91
James Burke Connections: French Leave . . . . . . . 90--91
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sound Proof . . . . . . . 92--92
John Rennie SA Perspectives: The 21st-Century
Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Marguerite Holloway News Scan: Aborted Thinking . . . . . . 19--20
Graham P. Collins Ultimate Stop Motion . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Neal Singer Sight Unseen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Simpson Full of Croc? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
George Musser Hole in the Middle . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Phil Scott I, Robonaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Drugs for Bugs . . . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook Disposing of Misfolded Proteins . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook You Look Awfully Familiar . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Take Me to the Ocean . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Mark Alpert Heavenly Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Species-Making Bacteria . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Unexplained Moments . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Lifestyle Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Getting More from Moore's: Marshaling
financial clout and technical
astuteness, Intel has pushed its choice
for the key technology that will extend
silicon chips to their limits . . . . . 32, 34--36
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Code of the Code . . . . 37--37
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's
Dictum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
W. Wayt Gibbs Profile: Art as a Form of Life . . . . . 40--41
Ronald M. Kline Biotech: Whose Blood is it Anyway? . . . 42--49
The Editors Special Report: Genetically Modified
Foods: Are They Safe? . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Kathryn Brown Seeds of Concern . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Karen Hopkin The Risks on the Table . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Sasha Nemecek Does the World Needs GM Foods? . . . . . 62--63
Sasha Nemecek and
Margaret Mellon Does the World Need GM Foods? No . . . . 64--65
Jaron Lanier Computing: Virtually There . . . . . . . 66--75
Robert M. Hazen Chemistry: Life's Rocky Start . . . . . 76--85
James L. Burch Astrophysics: The Fury of Space Storms 86--94
Roy F. Baumeister Psychology: Violent Pride . . . . . . . 96--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Touch Screens: At
Your Fingertips . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Meredith F. Small Reviews: Do Animals Have Culture? An
eminent primatologist challenges
long-held convictions about what makes
humans distinct . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Mark Alpert Look, Ma, No Wires! The Richochet
Wireless Modem is like a Ferrari ---
Fast but Pricey . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109, 111
Dennis. E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: No Tipping . . . . 112--112
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Charmed, I'm Sure: For the
scientifically bright but socially
befuddled, a day of etiquette
instruction might be just what the Ph.D.
ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Save Embryonic Stem
Cell Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
The Editors Save Embryonic Stem Cell Research . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Owen W. Dykema and
Tom Moore and
Paul J. Steinhardt and
Nathan Smith and
Fred W. van Leeuwen Letters to the Editors: January's
Special Report; Getting to Omega;
Marketable Results vs. Good Science?;
Alzheimer's Aberrant Proteins;
Clarifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Clarifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Ill-Fated
Viruses; Accepted Electronics; As the
World Turns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Philip Yam Mad Cow's Human Toll: The Unfolding
Mystery of Prion Disease and its
Ultimate Casualties . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Luis Miguel Ariza Troubles at the Edge: At their Borders,
Reserves May Increase Animal Deaths . . 16--16
Sarah Simpson Deeper Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Sarah Simpson Deeper Impact: Was Yet Another Mass
Extinction the Work of an Asteroid? . . 18--19
Stephen Cole Bright Sky, Dirty City?: Houston, We
Have Ground Strikes, Lots of Them . . . 19--19
Julia Karow Taken to Heart: Brushing Your Teeth May
be Good for your Ticker . . . . . . . . 20--20
Steven Ashley Shape-Shifters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Steven Ashley Shape Shifters: Shape-Memory Polymers
Find Use in Medicine and Clothing . . . 20--21
Anonymous Data Points: The Not So Sheltering Sky 24--24
Alison McCook Hack Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Alison McCook Holier Than Thou . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip Yam Fat into Cartilage . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Alison McCook and
Philip Yam and
Graham P. Collins News Scan: The Not So Sheltering Sky;
Computer: Hack Job; Tissue Engineering:
Fat into Cartilage; Psychology: Holier
Than Thou; Astronomy: Otherworldly
Ocean; Physics: Microscopic Maelstrom;
Medicine: Fetal Cell Setback . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 25--25
Graham P. Collins Microscopic Maelstrom . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Alison McCook Fetal Cell Setback . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Alison McCook Otherworldly Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Rewriting History: How
Statistical Revisions Color Our View of
the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Gary Stix Project Skyhook: a ``smart'' material
that transforms from a liquid to a solid
state on cue is beginning to show up in
prosthetics, automobiles, and other
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Gary Stix Antimicrobe Marinade: a protein from
cow's milk may become a weapon in the
fight against the killer hamburger . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Erotic-Fierce People: The
latest skirmish in the ``anthropology
wars'' reveals a fundamental flaw in how
science is understood and communicated 31--31
Steve Mirsky A Host with Infectious Ideas: Paul W.
Ewald argues that most cancers, heart
disease and chronic ills stem from
infection. If correct, his theory will
change the course of medicine . . . . . 32--33
Tim Berners-Lee and
James Hendler and
Ora Lassila Computing: The Semantic Web . . . . . . 34--43
Brian C. Chaboyer Rip Van Twinkle: The Oldest Stars Have
Been Growing Younger . . . . . . . . . . 44--49, 51--53
K. C. Nicolaou and
Christopher N. C. Boddy Behind Enemy Lines: a close look at the
inner workings of microbes in this era
of escalating antibiotic resistance is
offering new strategies for designing
drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
W. Wayt Gibbs Environment: The Arctic Oil & Wildlife
Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Steven Ashley Warp Drive Underwater: Traveling inside
drag-cutting bubbles, secret torpedoes
and other subsea naval systems can move
hundreds of miles per hour . . . . . . . 70--79
Steven Ashley Weaponry: Warp Drive Underwater . . . . 70--79
Scott O. Lilienfeld and
James M. Wood and
Howard N. Garb Psychology: What's Wrong with this
Picture? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Scott O. Lilienfeld and
James M. Wood and
Howard N. Garb What's wrong with this picture? . . . . 80--87
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Quick Scan . . . . . 88--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Bar-Code Readers:
Quick Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Keay Davidson Reviews: a Case Study for Global
Warming: The Little Ice Age Offers Clues
to How our Society Might Handle a Major
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: War and Peace among the
Pinnipeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Marguerite Holloway War and Peace among the Pinnipeds:
Visiting the Wildlife of Año Nuevo . . . 92, 94--95
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Something Fishy . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Drink and Be Merry: Mumm's
Might Have Been the Word If This Story
Had Remained Solely About Wines. But
When Life Hands You Lemons, You Don't
Need Sour Grapes . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
The Editors Faith-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 8--8
The Editors SA Perspectives: Faith-Based Reasoning 8--8
Robin G. Saunders and
John Lomax and
Robert B. Cialdini and
Albert S. Kirsch and
Sandra Brown and
Laurie A. Wayburn Letters to the Editors: (What you didn't
think you wanted to know about) recycle
wastewater; Unpersuaded; Pythagoras,
Plato and everything; In forests, the
older the better . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Hormones,
Howitzers, Horsepower . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert News Scan: A Touch of Poison . . . . . . 20--21
Mark Alpert A Touch of Poison . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
George Musser Galactic Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Steven Ashley Robotic Bombers . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Graham P. Collins New Trick from Old Dog: a magnesium
compound is a startling superconductor 24--24
Mark A. Garlick Save the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Josephine Hearn Unfair Game: The bushmeat trade is
wiping out large African animals . . . . 24, 26
Josephine Hearn Unfair Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Rodger Doyle The American Terrorist . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: The American Terrorist 28--28
Anonymous Data Points: Get your Proteins . . . . . 30--30
Alison McCook Engineering: The Little Engine that
Might . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alison McCook The Little Engine that Might . . . . . . 30--30
Kate Wong Anthropology: Lucy Meet Ken . . . . . . 30--30
Kate Wong Lucy, Meet Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Philip Yam Astronomy: Not So Watery . . . . . . . . 30--30
Philip Yam Not So Watery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 32--32
Marguerite Holloway Aborted Crime Wave, Part 2 . . . . . . . 32--32
Marguerite Holloway Sociology: Aborted Crime Wave, Part 2 32--32
Alison McCook AIDS: Locating the Latent Enemy . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Boning Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Biology: Boning up . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Computers: Copy Unprotected . . . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Copy Unprotected . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Locating the Latent Enemy . . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix Innovations: The Mice that Warred . . . 34--35
Gary Stix The Mice That Warred: Natural selection
picks the best antibodies to fight
invading microbes --- and it also
determines who survives to sell these
molecules as drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Gary Stix A License for Copycats? A court decision
may clarify what is patentable while
giving a free ride to knockoffs . . . . 36--36
Gary Stix Staking Claims: A License for Copycats? 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Fox's Flapdoodle . . . . . . . 37--37
John Adam Profile: Piloting through Uncharted Seas 38--39
John Adam Piloting through Uncharted Seas: The
privately funded Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute enables scientists
and engineers to engage in radical
pursuits. As long as Marcia K. McNutt
likes their ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Bhola N. Dwivedi and
Kenneth J. H. Phillips Astrophysics: The Paradox of the Sun's
Hot Corona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Bhola N. Dwivedi and
Kenneth J. H. Phillips The Paradox of the Sun's Hot Corona . . 40--47
Michael Dickinson Solving the Mystery of Insect Flight . . 48--50, 54--57
Michael Dickinson Biomechanics: Solving the Mystery of
Insect Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Gregory Hickok and
Ursula Bellugi and
Edward S. Klima Neuroscience: Sign Language in the Brain 58--65
Gregory Hickok and
Ursula Bellugi and
Edward S. Klima Sign Language in the Brain . . . . . . . 58--65
Robert Zubrin North to Mars! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Robert Zubrin Space Travel: North to Mars! . . . . . . 66--69
Ricki L. Rusting Bioscience: Hair: Why it Grows, Why it
Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79
Ricki L. Rusting Hair: Why It Grows, Why It Stops . . . . 70--79
Carol Ezzell Anthropology: The Himba and the Dam . . 80--89
Carol Ezzell The Himba and the Dam . . . . . . . . . 80--89
Steven Ashley A Low-Pollution Engine Solution . . . . 90--95
Steven Ashley Technology: A Low-Pollution Engine
Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--95
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Flight Control . . . 96--97
Mark Fischetti Flight Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Carl Zimmer Dinos and Darwin: Just how important
were the discoveries of dinosaur
fossils? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99, 101
Carl Zimmer Reviews: Dinos and Darwin . . . . . . . 98--100
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Mark Alpert Kibbles and Bytes: How much is that
robotic doggy in the window? . . . . . . 102--104
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Kibbles and Bytes . . . 102--104
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Alternating Liars 105--105
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Nostrildamus . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Mark Ford Endpoints: How is tempered glass made? 107--107
Mark A. Garlick Save the Earth: Delaying our planet's
ultimate demise --- by shifting its
orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
The Editors SA Perspectives: Air Traffic Out of
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
The Editors SA Perspectives: Air Traffic Out of
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Don Saroff and
S. Jay Olshansky and
Bruce A. Carnes and
Robert N. Butler and
Felix Godwin and
Jeffrey D. Sachs and
Andrew D. Mellinger and
John L. Gallup and
Harold A. McAlister and
John Levings and
Michael Gurnis Letters to the Editors: You, Only with a
Better Brain; Institutional Poverty,
Institutional Wealth?; Starring CHARA;
Africa Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Errata: ``A Sharper View of the Stars'' 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Comets; State
Security; The Pharaoh's Emeralds . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Sarah Simpson News Scan: Shrinking the Dead Zone . . . 18--20
Mark Alpert Sailing on Sunlight . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Gary Stix \`A Votre Santé . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Gary Stix \`A Votre Santé: Should Physicians Tell
Some Nondrinkers to Drink? . . . . . . . 24--24
Steven Ashley Fuel Cell Phones: Portable Power from
Fuel Cells Inches Along . . . . . . . . 25--25
Meredith F. Small Sigma Chi Chimpy: Forget the Ladies ---
For Chimps, Hunting is about Fraternity 26--26
Alison McCook Napoleon's Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Alison McCook Napoleon's Revenge: In the U.S., Height
Hits Its Head on the Genetic Ceiling . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Something to Hide? . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook Bigger Snips of DNA . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook Genomics: Bigger Snips of DNA . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam A Crush on Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Electronics: Going Ballistic . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Going Ballistic . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Physics: a Crush on Nitrogen . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Born Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Dwindling Albedo . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Geoscience; Dwindling Albedo . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Neurobiology: Born Again . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Behavior: The Flipper Effect . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam The Flipper Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle In a Dry Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: In a Dry Land: The
Southwest Faces a Dry Future, But There
Are Ways to Cope . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Builders of Light Pipes: Structured
teamwork propels Corning beyond
commodity fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Gary Stix Innovations: Builders of Light Pipes . . 31--32
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Sounding Out Snipers . . 33--33
Gary Stix Sounding Out Snipers: Drawing a bead on
urban warriors who take potshots at
regular troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Starbucks in the Forbidden City 34--35
Julie Wakefield A Mind for Consciousness: Somewhere in
the brain, Christof Koch believes, there
are certain clusters of neurons that
will explain why you're you and not
someone else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Julie Wakefield Profile: A Mind for Consciousness . . . 36--37
Thomas Sterling Computing: How to Build a Hyper computer 38--45
Thomas Sterling How to Build a Hypercomputer . . . . . . 38--45
Michael R. Nash The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis . . . 46--49, 52--55
Michael R. Nash Psychology: The Truth and the Hype of
Hypnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
R. Dean Astumian Making Molecules into Motors . . . . . . 56--64
R. Dean Astumian Nanotechnology: Making Molecules into
Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Lene Vestergaard Hau Frozen Light: Slowing a beam of light to
a halt may pave the way for new optical
communications technology, tabletop
black holes and quantum computers . . . 66--73
Lene Vestergaard Hau Physics: Frozen Light . . . . . . . . . 66--73
J. W. Costerton and
Philip S. Stewart Biotech: Battling Biofilms . . . . . . . 74--81
J. W. Costerton and
Philip S. Stewart Battling Biofilms: The war is against
bacterial colonies that cause some of
the most tenacious infections known. The
weapon is knowledge of the enemy's
communication system . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Sarah Simpson Conservation: Fishy Business . . . . . . 82--89
Sarah Simpson Fishy Business: Cyanide fishing
threatens many of the last pristine
coral reefs in Southeast Asia. Will an
ambitious program to clean up the matine
aquarium be enough to save them? . . . . 82--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Sunscreen: Tan or
Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Tan or Burn . . . . . 90--91
Marguerite Holloway The Universe Atop a Mountain: Gazing at
the Cosmos from Kitt Peak National
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: The Universe atop a Mountain 92--94
Richard Milner Our Evolving View of the Galápagos: The
Famous Islands Before and After Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Richard Milner Reviews: Our Evolving View of the
Galápagos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Dennis E. Shash Puzzling Adventures: Seeing Red, Feeling
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Seeing Red, Feeling
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Out of This World: One UFO
expert says that aliens don't get around
much anymore. But what if that's just
what they want you to think? . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Robert Kenney Endpoints: How can sea mammals drink
saltwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Another Cup of CAFE,
Please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
The Editors SA Perspectives: Another Cup of CAFE,
Please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
David T. Harris and
Ronald M. Kline and
Peter Rose and
Robert M. Hazen and
Scott C. Carvajal and
Andrea J. Romero and
Jeff Ficek and
Veronica Collin and
Elliott Manley and
Philip Yam and
Tobias S. Haller and
Alan P. Burke Letters to the Editors: Cord Blood:
Stat; Amino Acids Through the Looking
Glass; Pride and Praise; What Price
``Purer'' Agriculture; No GM Risks? Hmm,
Sounds Familiar; Restricted Abortion,
Deadly Consequences; Ursula LeGuin,
Where Are You?; Not a Lifestyle Disease 8--10
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Errata: \em At Your Fingertips, \em I,
Robonaut, \em Seeds of Concern . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150, Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Warped
Perception; Hostile Continent; Mad
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Steven Ashley Concorde's Comeback: Fixing the
supersonic transport to avoid another
accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Steven Ashley News Scan: Concorde's Comeback . . . . . 12--13
Diane Martindale Road Map for the Mind: Old Mathematical
Theorems Unfold the Human Brain . . . . 13--14
George Musser The Peak of Success . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
George Musser The Peak of Success: The Big Bang Clicks
Together Better Than Ever . . . . . . . 14--15
Karen Hopkin The Post-Genome Project: Whether the
Human Proteome Will Be Successfully
Mapped in Three Years Depends on How You
Define ``Proteome'' . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Graham P. Collins Computing with Light . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Graham P. Collins Computing with Light: Classical Waves
for Pseudo Quantum Computing . . . . . . 18--18
Rebecca Renner An Environmental Solution . . . . . . . 19--19
Rebecca Renner An Environmental Solution: Ionic Liquids
May Replace Hazardous Solvents . . . . . 19--19
Wendy M. Grossman Wireless Wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Wendy M. Grossman Wireless Wonder: a Dark-Horse Standard
Could Win the Broadband Race . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Data Points: Your Taxes at Work . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky Hematology: Sticky Situation . . . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky Neurology: Wrist Watch . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky Sticky Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Steve Mirsky Wrist Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip Yam Fat Kills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Philip Yam Health: Fat Kills . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 23--23
Alison McCook Toxicology: When Fish is Not Brain Food 23--23
Alison McCook When Fish is not Brain Food . . . . . . 23--23
Sarah Simpson Evolution: Faster Than a Snail's Pace 23--23
Sarah Simpson Faster Than a Snail's Pace . . . . . . . 23--23
Philip Yam Crystallizing Sound . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Philip Yam Physics: Crystallizing Sound . . . . . . 23--23
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: U.S. Workers and the
Law: Labor Rights of Americans Lag
Behind Those of Other Nations . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle U.S. Workers and the Law . . . . . . . . 24--24
Daniel G. Dupont The Company's Company: Venture
capitalism becomes a new mission for the
nation's spymasters . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Daniel G. Dupont Innovations: The Company's Company . . . 26--27
John J. Doll Staking Claims: Talking Gene Patents . . 28--28
John J. Doll Talking Gene Patents . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Deconstructing the Dead . . . . 29--29
W. Wayt Gibbs Dissident or Don Quixote?: Challenging
the HIV theory got virologist Peter H.
Duesburg all but excommunicated from the
scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that
science has got cancer all wrong . . . . 30--32
Moshe Sipper and
James A. Reggia Information Science: Go Forth and
Replicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--43
Moshe Sipper and
James A. Reggia Go Forth and Replicate: Birds do it,
bees do it, but could machines do it?
New computer simulations suggest that
the answer is yes . . . . . . . . . . . 35--39, 42--43
George Musser Robot, Heal Thyself. Computer that fix
themselves are the first application of
artificial self-replication . . . . . . 40--41
David F. Blake and
Peter Jenniskens The Ice of Life: Ice in its earthly
guise is hostile to living things. But
an exotic form of space ice can actually
promote the creation of organic
molecules --- and may have seeded life
on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47, 50
David F. Blake and
Peter Jenniskens Astrochemistry: The Ice of Life . . . . 44--51
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotech: Cybernetic Cells . . . . . . . 52--57
W. Wayt Gibbs Cybernetic Cells: The simplest living
cell is so complex that supercomputer
models may never simulate its behavior
perfectly. But even imperfect models
could shake the foundations of biology 52--57
Tim D. White Anthropology: Once were cannibals . . . 58--65
Tim D. White Once Were Cannibals: Clear evidence of
cannibalism in the human fossil record
has been rare, but it is now becoming
apparent that the practice is deeply
rooted in our history . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Daniel Lovering Public Safety: Taming the Killing Fields
of Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Daniel Lovering Taming the Killing Fields of Laos: Live
bombs from the Vietnam War continue to
kill people and hamper agricultural
development in Laos. The cleanup project
required deciphering decades-old
computer files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
William W. Hargrove and
Forrest M. Hoffman and
Thomas Sterling Computing: The Do-It-Yourself
Supercomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
William W. Hargrove and
Forrest M. Hoffman and
Thomas Sterling The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer:
Scientists have found a cheaper way to
solve tremendously difficult
computational problems: connect ordinary
PCs so that they can work together . . . 72--79
Eric Niiler Conservation: The Trouble with Turtles 80--85
Eric Niiler The Trouble With Turtles . . . . . . . . 80--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Crank It Up!
Human-Powered Electronics . . . . . . . 86--87
Steve Ditlea Touchy-Feely Computing: a new mouse
picks up good vibrations . . . . . . . . 88--90
Steve Ditlea Technicalities: Touchy-Feely Computing 88--90
Chet Raymo Reviews: A Spin on Spin Foam . . . . . . 91--92
Chet Raymo A Spin on Spin Foam: In which the author
takes us to the cutting edge of the
search for the ultimate theory of
reality [Book review: \em Three Roads to
Quantum Gravity, by Lee Smolin] . . . . 91--92
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: The Delphi Flip . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: And the Winner Really Is
\ldots The best years of their lives may
be Oscar winners' extra ones, as they
slow down the journey from here to
eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Michael L. Free Endpoints: Why doesn't stainless steel
rust? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Megabucks for Nanotech 8--8
The Editors Megabucks for Nanotech . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Jimmy Carter and
Ted Stevens and
Frank Murkowski and
Don Young and
Amory B. Lovins and
Robert Redford and
Lisa Merlo and
Douglas Barnett and
Scott O. Lilienfeld and
Rob Lewis and
Tim Berners-Lee and
Winkler G. Weinberg and
Jon Tobey Letters to the Editors: Writes Former
President Jimmy Carter; Your Oil or Your
Wildlife?; All About Inkblots; Semantic
Web: Not Fuzzy; \em E. Coli-Free
Cookouts; Supercavitation, Swimmingly 12--13
Anonymous Erratum: ``Rip Van Twinkle: The Oldest
Stars Have Been Growing Younger'' . . . 13--13
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Salmon Sense;
Okapi Surprise; Yankee Ingenuity . . . . 16--16
Graham P. Collins News Scan: SNO Nus is Good News . . . . 18--19
Graham P. Collins SNO Nus Is Good News . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Diane Martindale Cancer in the Crosshairs . . . . . . . . 19--20
Sarah Simpson Triggering a Snowball: Did Methane
Addiction Set Off Earth's Greatest Ice
Ages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 22
Sarah Simpson Triggering a Snowball . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Eric Niiler Into the Jaguar's Den . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy M. Grossman Surveillance by Design . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Wendy M. Grossman Surveillance by Design: Will a New
Cyberlaw Bypass the U.S. Constitution? 24--25
Phil Scott Eye Spy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Phil Scott Eye Spy: Forget Monitors --- Nomad Puts
Text and Graphics Right Onto the Retina 25--25
Anonymous Data Points: a Demon-Haunted World . . . 26--26
Mariama Orange Built for Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Mariama Orange Communications: Built for Speed . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Astronomy: Moons over Saturn . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Moons over Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Psychology: You Forgot to Remember . . . 26--26
Philip Yam You Forgot to Remember . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 27--27
Alison McCook Evolution: Infectious Selection . . . . 27--27
Alison McCook Infectious Selection . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Mariama Orange Medicine: Pease in the Nonobese . . . . 27--27
Mariama Orange Peace in the Nonobese . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Sarah Simpson Geochemistry: More Than Shade . . . . . 27--27
Sarah Simpson More Than Shade . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle Measuring Bad Behavior . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Measuring Bad Behavior:
FBI Crime Statistics: Use With Caution 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Nano Nonsense and Cryonics . . 29--29
Marguerite Holloway Profile: Young Cells in Old Brains . . . 30--31
Marguerite Holloway Young Cells in Old Brains . . . . . . . 30--31
Gary Stix Little Big Science . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Gary Stix Overview: Little Big Science . . . . . . 32--37
George M. Whitesides and
J. Christopher Love The Art of Building Small . . . . . . . 38--47
George M. Whitesides and
J. Christopher Love Nanofabrication: The Art of Building
Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--47
Michael Roukes Plenty of Room, Indeed . . . . . . . . . 48--51, 54--57
Michael Roukes Nanophysics: Plenty of Room, Indeed . . 48--57
Charles M. Lieber The Incredible Shrinking Circuit . . . . 58--64
Charles M. Lieber Nanoelectronics: The Incredible
Shrinking Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
A. Paul Alivisatos Less Is More in Medicine . . . . . . . . 66--73
A. Paul Alivisatos Nanomedicine: Less is more in Medicine 66--73
K. Eric Drexler Machine-Phase Nanotechnology: a
molecular nanotechnology pioneer
predicts that the tiniest robots will
revolutionize manufacturing and
transform society . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
K. Eric Drexler Nanovisions: Machine-Phase
Nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Richard E. Smalley Of Chemistry, Love and Nanobots . . . . 76--77
Richard E. Smalley Nanofallacies: of Chemistry, Love and
Nanobots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
George M. Whitesides Nanoinspirations: The Once and Future
Nanomachine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
George M. Whitesides The Once and Future Nanomachine . . . . 78--83
Steven Ashley Nanobot Construction Crews . . . . . . . 84--85
Steven Ashley Nanorobotics: Nanobot Construction Crews 84--85
Graham P. Collins Nanofiction: Shamans of Small . . . . . 86--91
Graham P. Collins Shamans of Small . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Killer Drops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Killer Drops . . . . 92--93
Marguerite Holloway Seeing the Earth for Its Faults . . . . 94--96
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Seeing the Earth for Its Faults 94--96
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Keay Davidson Bloated, Whiny and Self-Important: Is
the Scientific Bureaucracy the
Quintessential Special-Interest Group? 98--99, 101
Keay Davidson Reviews: Bloated, Whiny and
Self-Important . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Square Dancing . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Enter the Dragon Exhibit 103--103
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
The Editors SA Perspectives: The Uncloned States of
America? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
George Musser News Scan: Climate of Uncertainty . . . 14--15
George Musser Policy: Climate of Uncertainty: The
unknowns in global warming research
don't have to be showstoppers . . . . . 14--15
W. Wayt Gibbs All in the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
W. Wayt Gibbs Medicine: All in the Mind: Fact or
artifact? The placebo effect may be a
little of both . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Paul Wallich Symmetry Breaking . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Paul Wallich Software: Symmetry Breaking: a legal job
in one country is grounds for arrest in
another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Wendy Williams Conservation: Sound Judgments: Will a
powerful new Navy sonar harm whales? . . 18--18
Wendy Williams Sound Judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Steven Ashley Astronomy: Catching Some Sun: The
Genesis spacecraft will return with a
piece of soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Steven Ashley Catching Some Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Graham P. Collins Magnetic Revelations . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Graham P. Collins Neuroscience: Magnetic Revelations:
Functional MRI highlights neurons \em
receiving signals . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Data Points: Conceived . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale Biology: a Bad Raft for HIV . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale A Bad Raft for HIV . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale Genes Are Not Enough . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale Genetics: Genes Are Not Enough . . . . . 22--22
Alison McCook Physics: a Warmer Superconductor? . . . 22--22
Alison McCook A Warmer Superconductor? . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 23--23
Mariette DiChristina Burning through the Fog . . . . . . . . 23--23
Mariette DiChristina Cosmology: Burning the Fog . . . . . . . 23--23
Alison McCook Civil Engineering: Road Rage . . . . . . 23--23
Alison McCook Road Rage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Rodger Doyle Can't Read, Can't Count . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle By the Numbers: Can't Read, Can't Count 24--24
Tabitha M. Powledge Innovations: Tobacco Pharming . . . . . 25--26
Tabitha M. Powledge Tobacco Pharming: a quest to turn the
killer crop into a treatment for cancer 25--26
Gary Stix Patently Bizarre: Eccentric inventions
may not make their owners rich. But the
Gallery of Obscure Patents ensures that
the best of the weird will not be
forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Patently Bizarre . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: I Was Wrong: Those three words
often separate the scientific pros from
the posers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Kate Wong Profile: Finding \em Homo Sapiens' Lost
Relatives: Continuing a family
tradition, Maeve G. Leakey uncovers the
skeletons in your closet . . . . . . . . 32--33
Carol Ezzell Biotech: Magic Bullets Fly Again . . . . 34--41
Carol Ezzell Magic Bullets Fly Again . . . . . . . . 34--41
Carolyn Meinel Code Red for the Web . . . . . . . . . . 42--47, 50--51
Carolyn Meinel Data Security: Code Red for the Web . . 42--51
Steven Ashley Driving the Info Highway . . . . . . . . 52--58
Steven Ashley Information Technology: Driving the Info
Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--58
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Donald Brownlee and
Peter D. Ward Astrobiology: Refuges for Life in a
Hostile Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Donald Brownlee and
Peter D. Ward Refuges for Life in a Hostile Universe 60--67
Hui Sun and
Jeremy Nathans The Challenge of Macular Degeneration 68--75
Hui Sun and
Jeremy Nathans Medicine: The Challenge of Macular
Degeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Mark Fischetti Civil Engineering: Drowning New Orleans 76--85
Mark Fischetti Drowning New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Mice and Men:
Evolution of the desktop mouse . . . . . 86--87
W. Wayt `Nemesis' Gibbs Technicalities: A Wide Web of Worlds . . 88--90
W. Wayt ``Nemesis'' Gibbs A Wide Web of Worlds: How Internet
browsers add an extra dimension --- but
little depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Paul Raeburn The End of Oil: Will gas lines in the
coming decade make those of 1973 look
short? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Paul Raeburn Reviews: The End of Oil . . . . . . . . 91--92
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Crowns of the
Minotaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Farm Report: a new way
to study farm life makes one wonder:
What if animal behavior were taken
literally? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous From the Editors: Invisible Terrorism 6--6
The Editors SA Perspectives: Invisible Terrorism . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8, 10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Poor Baby,
Sick Baby; Purple Bacteria; Aviation
Milestone, Maybe; The First Nautical
Periscope?; Singer's Sewing Machine;
Colt Revolvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Gary Stix and
Philip Yam News Scan: Facing a New Menace . . . . . 14--15
Graham P. Collins News scan: Plus Ça Change: Has a
Fundamental Constant Varied Over the
Aeons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
George Musser Earth-Shattering Theory . . . . . . . . 18--18
George Musser News scan: Earth-Shattering Theory:
Finally, the Details for Forming the
Moon Work Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 20
Mariama Orange No Power to the People . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Mariama Orange News scan: No Power to the People: Does
Low-Power FM Radio Cause Unacceptable
Interference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Brenda Goodman Acronym Acrimony . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Brenda Goodman News scan: Acronym Acrimony: Do
Whimsical Names Encourages Sales Over
Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Christine Kenneally News scan: Taking the Plunge: Two
Daredevils Plan to Skydive from the
Stratosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Christine Kenneally Taking the Plunge . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle Cleaner Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle News scan: Cleaner Living: a Welcome
Drop in the Hazards of Being an American
Teen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Mark Alpert Surgeons without Borders . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points: Drive Time 2000 . . . . . . 28--28
Alison McCook New Kid on the Block . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
W. Wayt Gibbs Pushing the Fringe . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Diane Martindale Pressure Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook Iron Deficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Julie Wakefield Catching a Buzz: New Internet traffic
watchers aim to elevate marketing to a
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 32
Julie Wakefield Innovations: Catching a Buzz . . . . . . 30--32
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Saying Yes to NO . . . . 34--34
Gary Stix Saying Yes to NO: The Patent Office is
issuing a wealth of patents related to
one of the most celebrated molecules
[nitrous oxide] of the past decade . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Baloney Detection: How to Draw
Boundaries Between Science and
Pseudoscience, Part I . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Daniel Grossman Profile: Dissent in the Maelstrom:
Maverick meteorologist Richard S.
Lindzen keeps right on arguing that
human-induced global warning isn't a
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
W. Wayt Gibbs Biodiversity: On the Termination of
Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
W. Wayt Gibbs On the Termination of Species . . . . . 40--49
Steve Ditlea The Electronic Paper Chase . . . . . . . 50--55
Steve Ditlea Information Technology: The Electronic
Paper Chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
William A. Haseltine Biotech: Beyond Chicken Soup . . . . . . 56--63
William A. Haseltine Beyond Chicken Soup . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Joachim Wambsganss Astronomy: Gravity's Kaleidoscope . . . 64--71
Joachim Wambsganss Gravity's Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Karen R. Rosenberg and
Wenda R. Trevathan Anatomy: The Evolution of Human Birth 72--77
Karen R. Rosenberg and
Wenda R. Trevathan The Evolution of Human Birth . . . . . . 72--77
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and
Dominic J. Brewer and
Adam Gamoran and
J. Douglas Willms Does Class Size Matter? . . . . . . . . 78--85
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and
Dominic J. Brewer and
Adam Gamoran and
J. Douglas Willms Education: Does Class Size Matter? . . . 78--85
Mark Fischetti Current Safety: Ground fault circuit
interrupters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Current Safety . . . 86--87
W. Wayt Gibbs A short stroll through the solar system:
Tour the brain stem of planetary science
--- and see what kind of robot \$1.5
billion buys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
W. Wayt Gibbs Voyages: A Short Stroll through the
Solar System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Truck Stop . . . . 91--91
Rick Weiss Reviews: The World of Ag Biotech: They
shall beat their petunias into pork
chops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dumb, Dumb, Duh Dumb: a
brief collection of anecdotal evidence
to support the notion that ``a little
knowledge'' would in actuality represent
major progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Here's Looking at You 8--8
The Editors SA Perspectives: Here's Looking at You 8--8
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Fun with
Kids; Cool Stuff; Battlefield Nukes;
Nova Persei; Shelled Meat; Warship
Design; Bear Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
George Musser News scan: Better Killing Through
Chemistry: Buying chemical weapons
through the mail is quick and easy . . . 20--21
Ed Regis Bioterrorism: Evaluating the threat:
Does Mass Biopaic Portend Mass
Destruction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Ed Regis Evaluating the Threat . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Steven Ashley News scan: Reseizing the controls:
Remote Piloted Hijack Rescues May Be a
Bad Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Steven Ashley Reseizing the Controls . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Anonymous Inside Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Gary Stix Cure or Poison? . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Gary Stix Defusing Anthrax . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Gary Stix News scan: Inside Attacks; Cure or
Poison?; Plague Redux; Defusing Anthrax 25--25
Gary Stix Plague Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Graham P. Collins News scan: Trillions entwined: Clouds of
atoms are linked by a weird quantum tube 26--26
Graham P. Collins Trillions Entwined . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Carol Ezzel News scan: Stem Cell Showstopper?
Without Cloning, They Aren't Likely to
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Carol Ezzell Stem Cell Showstopper? . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Why Do
Prisons Grow? For the Answers, Ask the
Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle Why Do Prisons Grow? . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook The Nobel Prizes for 2001 . . . . . . . 29--29
Alison McCook News scan: The Nobel Prizes for 2001 . . 29--29
Gary Stix Innovations: The Undying Pulse:
Fiber-optic technology nurtured at Bell
Labs from before divestiture is ready to
go commercial. But will the patience of
its creators yield any competitive
advantage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Staking Claims: Patent Pamphleteer:
Gregory Aharonian's e-mail newsletter
decries the issuance of a flood of bad
patents while dishing dirt about the
goings-on inside the Patent Office . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: More Baloney Detection: How to
Draw Boundaries Between Science and
Pseudoscience, Part II . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sarah Simpson Profile: Thawing Scott's Legacy: a
Pioneer in atmospheric ozone studies,
Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a
fatal polar expedition . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Rakesh K. Jain and
Peter F. Carmeliet Medicine: Vessels of Death or Life . . . 38--45
Rakesh K. Jain and
Peter F. Carmeliet Vessels of Death or Life . . . . . . . . 38--45
Eli Yablonovitch Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51, 54--55
Eli Yablonovitch Optical Circuitry: Photonic Crystals:
Semiconductors of Light . . . . . . . . 46--55
Ian Tattersall Book Excerpt: How we came to be Human 56--63
Ian Tattersall How We Came to Be Human: book excerpt 56--63
Richard B. Larson and
Volker Bromm Astronomy: The First Stars in the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Richard B. Larson and
Volker Bromm The First Stars in the Universe . . . . 64--71
M. V. Ramana and
A. H. Nayyar India, Pakistan and the Bomb . . . . . . 72--83
M. V. Ramana and
A. H. Nayyar Nuclear Weapons: India, Pakistan and the
Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--83
M. Mitchell Waldrop Information Technology: The Origins of
Personal Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
M. Mitchell Waldrop The Origins of Personal Computing . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Electronic Toll
Collection: In the Fast Lane . . . . . . 92--93
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: In the Fast Lane . . 92--93
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Long-Distance Robots . . 94--95
Anne Eisenberg Reviews: Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked 96--97
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anne Eisenberg Reviews: Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked: a
Linguist Looks at Discourse on the
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Fashion Gang . . . 99--99
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Importance of Being
Ernst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: The Importance of Being
Ernst [Mayr]: Thoughts on an evolution
expert who has taken seriously the
warning ``publish or perish'' . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Annual Index 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Is Nuclear Power Ready? 6--6
The Editors SA Perspectives: Is Nuclear Power Ready? 6--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8, 10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: An Unhappy
Reader; Ridenour Replies; Poisonous
Poultry?; Panama Canal; Feeding a
Python; Medicines and Nostrums . . . . . 12--12
W. Wayt Gibbs News scan: Innocence Lost: Is Enough
Being Done to Keep Biotechnology Out of
the Wrong Hands? . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
David McMullin News scan: Lockerbie Insurance: Hardened
Luggage Containers Can Neutralize
Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
David Mcmullin Lockerbie Insurance . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Kate Wong News scan: Taking Wing: a New View of
the Origin of Bird Flight Emerges . . . 16, 18
Kate Wong Taking Wing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Lamont Wood News scan: The World in a Box: Little
Fanfare Greets the Coming Out of a
Pivotal AI Project . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Lamont Wood The World in a Box . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Tabitha M. Powledge Beating Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Tabitha M. Powledge News scan: Beating Abuse: Glutamate May
Hold a Key to Drug Addiction . . . . . . 20--20
Graham P. Collins Fractional Success . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Graham P. Collins News scan: Fractional Success: a New
Theory of Everything? Probably Not . . . 21--21
Anonymous Data Points: Zapped . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale Channel Crossings . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Diane Martindale A Sea Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 23--23
Diane Martindale Warmed-Up Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
JR Minkel Political Watershed . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
George Musser Swirling Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Rodger Doyle Going Solo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Going Solo:
Unwed Motherhood in Industrial Nations
Rises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Julie Wakefield Innovations: Mimicking Mother Nature:
Marrying Art and Science, Nekton
Research Has Developed an Underwater
Robot Inspired by a One-Celled Organism 26--27
Marco Cattaneo and
Sergio Pistoi News scan: Profile: Extreme Medicine: In
a hospital northeast of Kabul, surgeon
Gino Strada is redefining what it means
to provide quality medical care in a
combat zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Marco Cattaneo and
Sergio Pistoi Profile: Extreme Medicine . . . . . . . 28--30
Diane Martindale Staking Claims: Seeing the invisible:
Liquid Crystals May Be Enlisted to
Create Pocket Bioweapons Detectors . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Advanced extraterrestrial
aliens would be indistinguishable from
God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Shermer's Last Law . . . . . . 33--33
Ronald J. Reynolds Astronomy: The Gas between the Stars . . 34--43
Ronald J. Reynolds The Gas between the Stars . . . . . . . 34--43
Jose B. Cibelli and
Robert P. Lanza and
Michael D. West and
Carol Ezzell Exclusive: The First Human Cloned Embryo 44--51
Jose B. Cibelli and
Robert P. Lanza and
Michael D. West and
Carol Ezzell The First Human Cloned Embryo . . . . . 44--51
Thomas H. Lee Information Technology: A Vertical Leap
for Microchips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Thomas H. Lee A Vertical Leap for Microchips . . . . . 52--59
John Rennie and
Stephen Schneider and
John P. Holdren and
John Bongaarts and
Thomas Lovejoy Misleading Math about the Earth . . . . 61--71
Stephen Schneider Environment: Misleading Math About the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
James A. Lake and
Ralph G. Bennett and
John F. Kotek Energy: Next-Generation Nuclear Power 72--81
James A. Lake and
Ralph G. Bennett and
John F. Kotek Next-Generation Nuclear Power . . . . . 72--81
Karl Sigmund and
Ernst Fehr and
Martin A. Nowak The Economics of Fair Play . . . . . . . 82--87
Karl Sigmund and
Ernst Fehr and
Martin A. Nowak Sociology: The Economics of Fair Play 82--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Breathing Easier? . . 88--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Gas Masks: Breathing
Easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: The Glass House in the Desert:
Biosphere 2 Courts Scientists and
Tourists Alike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Richard Milner Reviews: The First Evolutionary
Psychologist: Charles Darwin Sought
Clues to Human Nature by Studying the
Behavior of His Own Children . . . . . . 94--95
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Pinpointing a Polar
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Pinpointing a Polar
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Torre Adoring . . . . . . 97--97
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Torre Adoring: Part of His
Success Can Be Attributed to the
Manager's Use of Yankee Ingenuity in
Applying Some Simple Rules . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: a Ready-Made
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Ready-Made
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Toward Space;
Eugenics; Stonehenge; The Wright Stuff;
Evolution ``Nonsense'' . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Gary Stix News scan: What Clones? Widespread
Scientific Doubts Greet Word of the
First Human Embryo Clones . . . . . . . 18--19
Sarah Simpson News scan: Coal Control; Tackling the
Health Dangers of China's ``Dirty'' Coal 20, 22
Linda Wang News scan: Paving Out Pollution: a
Common Whitener Helps to Clean the Air 20--20
Linda Wang Paving Out Pollution . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sarah Simpson Coal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Lisa Melton News scan: Count to 10: Frog Eggs May
Crack the Mystery of How Anesthesia
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24
Lisa Melton Count to 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Steve Ashley News scan: Quieting Killer Wakes: Aiming
to Beat Hazardous Turbulence Behind
Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Steven Ashley Quieting Killer Wakes . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Graham P. Collins News scan: Setback for Super-K: Disaster
Blinds the World's Leading Neutrino
Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Graham P. Collins Setback for Super-$K$ . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Data Points: Weighty Matters . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Early Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Sonic Womb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Parts of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
George Musser Otherworldly Air . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Into the Maize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Splitting with Sunshine . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Assembling the Future . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Assembling
the Future: How International Migrants
Are Shaping the 21st Century . . . . . . 30--30
Thomas Maeder Innovations: Down with the Bad, Up with
the Good: a biotech firm develops a
vaccine to raise good cholesterol levels 32--33
Steve Ditlea Staking Claims: Intellectual
Improprieties: a leading gadfly picks
some of the worst patents of all time 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Gradual Illumination of the
Mind: The advance of science, not the
demotion of religion, will best counter
the influence of creationism . . . . . . 35--35
Julie Wakefield Profile: Telecom's Man of the Moment:
Heir to a famed military and political
legacy, Michael K. Powell tries to make
his mark on the Federal agency that
regulates cell phones, television, and
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
W. Wayt Gibbs Information Technology: The Network in
Every Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
W. Wayt Gibbs The Network in Every Room . . . . . . . 38--43
Stephen H. Friend and
Roland B. Stoughton The Magic of Microarrays . . . . . . . . 44--49, 52--53
Stephen H. Friend and
Roland B. Stoughton Biotechnology: The Magic of Microarrays 44--53
John J. Flynn and
André R. Wyss Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets . . . . . 54--63
John J. Flynn and
André R. Wyss Paleontology: Madagascar's Mesozoic
Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Joseph A. Burns and
Douglas P. Hamilton and
Mark R. Showalter Astronomy: Bejeweled Worlds . . . . . . 64--73
Joseph A. Burns and
Douglas P. Hamilton and
Mark R. Showalter Bejeweled Worlds: What an impoverished
universe it would be if Saturn and the
other giant planets lacked rings.
Planetary scientists are finally working
out how gravity has sculpted these
elegant forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Robert Kubey and
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychology: Television Addiction is no
mere metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
Robert Kubey and
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Television Addiction Is No Merge
Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
Edward O. Wilson The Bottleneck [book excerpt] . . . . . 82--91
Edward O. Wilson Book Excerpt: The Bottleneck . . . . . . 82--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Aerial and Satellite
Imaging: Eye in the Sky . . . . . . . . 92--93
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Eye in the Sky . . . 92--93
Fiona Harvey Technicalities: Surrounded by Sound:
Ingenious Software Makes Ordinary Stereo
Speakers Come Alive . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Chet Raymo Reviews: Treasonous Idealism: \em Nova's
Intriguing Government Documentary Probes
Misdirected Principles --- And the
Unforseen Dangers of Government Secrecy 96--97
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Shifty Witnesses 98--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Kabul Session . . . . . . 99--99
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Kabul Session: a science
primer for any readers who richly
deserve to get taught a lesson . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Past Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
The Editors SA Perspectives: Treat AIDS Globally . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 12, 14
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Logic
Machines; Turbines Take Over; Mapping
the Simian Brain; Automobile Craze; It's
Not Hogwarts; Smallpox Warning; Nebular
Skepticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Wendy M. Grossman News scan: I Seek You: Are New Security
Technologies Worth the Intrusion and the
Cost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Michael Bahar News scan: Hears to Your Health: a
Sensor Lets Researchers Listen for Germs 20--21
Michael Behar Hears to Your Health . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Daniel Grossman News scan: Throw the Switch? New
Vaccines May Not Be a Reason to Keep
Smallpox Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Daniel Grossman Throw the Switch? . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Phil Scott News scan: Astronaut Boot Camp: NASA
Finds a New Way to Imbue Recruits With
the Right Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24
Phil Scott Astronaut Boot Camp . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy Williams Blowing Out to Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Wendy Williams News scan: Blowing Out to Sea: Offshore
Wind Farms May Finally Reach the U.S. 24--25
George Musser Been There, Done That . . . . . . . . . 25--26
George Musser News scan: Been There, Done That: The
Big Bang May Not Have Been a Singular
Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous Data Points: Taking Stock . . . . . . . 28--28
Graham P. Collins Superfluid Freeze . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Inflamed Blame Game . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Space Rock Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
Steven Ashley Blows to the Nose . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Steve Mirsky Microwaves of Grain . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam Bubble Bath of Death . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Down with Evolution! . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle News scan: By the Numbers: Down with
Evolution! Creationists are Changing
State Educational Standards . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Behar Innovations: Defying Gravity: a small
Swiss firm develops an innovative G suit
for fighter pilots . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Who Owns You? A mock
trial explores the intersection of
patents and genetic-property rights . . 35--35
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Hermits and Cranks: Fifty years
ago, Martin Gardner launched the modern
skeptical movement. Unfortunately, much
of what he wrote about is still current
today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
David Appell Profile: Aspirations in Science and
Civics: From the carbon-nanotube lab to
the corridors of Washington power,
Mildred S. Dresselhaus has followed a
career that combines scientific research
with public service . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
David P. Anderson and
John Kubiatowicz Information Technology: The Worldwide
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
David P. Anderson and
John Kubiatowicz The Worldwide Computer: An operating
system spanning the Internet would bring
the power of millions of the world's
Internet-connected PCs to everyone's
fingertips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
John A. T. Young and
R. John Collier Attacking Anthrax . . . . . . . . . . . 48--51, 54--59
John A. T. Young and
R. John Collier Biotechnology: Attacking Anthrax . . . . 48--59
Günther Hasinger and
Roberto Gilli Astronomy: The Cosmic Reality Check . . 60--67
Günther Hasinger and
Roberto Gilli The Cosmic Reality Check: a celestial
audit suggests that astronomers'
inventory of luminous bodies may soon be
complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Martin H. Teicher Psychology: Scars That Won't Heal: The
Neurobiology of Child Abuse . . . . . . 68--75
Martin H. Teicher Scars That Won't Heal: The Neurobiology
of Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Luann Becker Geochemistry: Repeated Blows . . . . . . 76--83
Luann Becker Repeated Blows: Did extraterrestrial
collisions capable of causing widespread
extinctions pound the Earth not once,
but twice --- or even several times? . . 76--83
Keith Rayner and
Barbara R. Foorman and
Charles A. Perfetti and
David Pesetsky and
Mark S. Seidenberg Education: How Should Reading be Taught? 84--91
Keith Rayner and
Barbara R. Foorman and
Charles A. Perfetti and
David Pesetsky and
Mark S. Seidenberg How Should Reading Be Taught? . . . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Combination Locks:
Secret of Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Secret of Spin . . . 92--93
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Ancient Rituals on the Atlantic
Coast: Full Moon in May Brings Horseshoe
Crabs Ashore to Mate and Migrating Birds
in to Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94, 96--97
Peter G. Brown Reviews: a Good Blue is Hard to Find:
Chemistry and Art Have Advanced Hand in
Hand Through the Ages . . . . . . . . . 98--100
The Editors The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Card counting . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: Divining Comedy: Can
Researchers Dissect Humor Without
Killing the Patient? . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Divining Comedy . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Past Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous SA Perspectives: The Peculiar
Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
The Editors SA Perspectives: The peculiar
institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Clay W. Crites and
R. O. Whitney and
Dudley Miles and
Lloyd Anderson and
Ian Tattersall and
Alexander S. Wegmann Letters to the Editors: Privacy,
Anonymity, and the Difference Between
Them; When SAGE Wasn't; Inventing
Language, Exapting Money . . . . . . . . 10, 11
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Erratum: India, Pakistan and the Bomb 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Million Years Ago: Feets
Don't Fail Me Now; Danger from Above;
Bug Zapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Age of
Antibiotics; Hollerith Number Cruncher;
African Missionary . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Mark Alpert News Scan: Has the Space Age Stalled?
Rocket science proves harder than rocket
scientists had thought . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Tabitha M. Powledge News Scan: Looking at ART [Assisted
Reproductive Technology]: Is it time to
scrutinize assisted reproduction? . . . 20, 23
Tabitha M. Powledge Looking at ART . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Phil Scot News Scan: Aviation: Heads on Tails:
Safety investigators try to find out if
composites for aircraft are strong
enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Phil Scott Heads on Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Sergio Pistoi Mind the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Sergio Pistoi News Scan: Mind the Gap: Is the U.S
Starting to lose its edge in basic
research? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Brenda Goodman Drink Your Shots . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Brenda Goodman News Scan: Drink Your Shots: Getting rid
of the sticking point in allergy therapy 26--26
Steve Nadis Joke Hunter of Science . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Nadis News Scan: Joke Hunter of Science:
Funnyman Marc Abrahams Tackles an
Improbable Role and an Ig Nobel cause 28--28
Rodger Doyle Greenhouse Follies . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle News Scan: Greenhouse Follies:
Prosperity and fertility lie at the root
of global warming, but no one agrees on
the best fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Data Points: Fish Tales . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alison McCook Gene Fiends? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alison McCook News Scan: Transgenic Crops: Gene
Fiends? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Falling in Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. R. Minkel News Scan: Nanotech: Falling in Line . . 30--30
Philip Yam News Scan: In No Uncertain Terms [letter
of Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg] . . 30--30
Philip Yam In No Uncertain Terms . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook Breaking and Entering . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook Early to Rise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook News Scan: Epidemiology: Early to Rise 31--31
Alison McCook News Scan: Evolution: Score One for
Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook News Scan: Virology Breaking and
Entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Alison McCook Score One for Natural Selection . . . . 31--31
Steven Ashley Innovations: It's Not Easy Being Green:
Developing environmentally safe products
is one thing; marketing them is another
matter entirely . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Anonymous Staking claims: Tragedy of the Cyber
Commons: a legal scholar issues a glum
prognosis for the future of innovation
on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Skepticism as a Virtue: An
inquiry into the original meaning of
``skeptic'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Sergio Pistoi Profile: Father of the Impossible
Children: Ignoring nearly universal
opprobrium, Severino Antinori presses
ahead with plans to clone a human being 38--39
Carol Ezzell Biotechnology: Proteins Rule . . . . . . 40--47
Steven K. Feiner Information Technology: Augmented
Reality: A New Way of Seeing . . . . . . 48--55
Laurence D. Hurst and
James P. Randerson Zoology: Parasitic Sex Puppeteers . . . 56--61
W. Wayt Gibbs Physics: Ripples in Spacetime . . . . . 62--71
Mel Rosenberg Health: The Science of Bad Breath . . . 72--79
Kevin Bales Psychology: The Social Psychology of
Modern Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--88
Peter Renz Reviews: ``The World is Broad and
Wide'': a modern mathematician annotates
a classic and gives it yet another
dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous The Editors Recommend . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: A Fairy Tale . . . 91--91
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: a tale of fairies
and pearls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Grow, then Kill . . . 92--93
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: Bring the Net to the
Bedroom: Even an amateur can create a
custom-designed Internet appliance . . . 94--96
Steve Mirksy Antigravity: Copy That: Technology is
making it harder for word thieves to
earn outrageous fortunes . . . . . . . . 98--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Copy That . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Ask the Experts: What is antimatter? Why
does your stomach growl when you are
hungry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
The Editors SA Perspectives: Last Chance for the
Last Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Anonymous Rebuttal: The Skeptical Environmentalist
Replies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Diane Martindale News Scan: Peeling Plaque . . . . . . . 18--20
Krista West Lion versus Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Luis Miguel Ariza Face Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
George Musser R.I.P. for D.I.Y. . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Appell When Markets Go Mad . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Rebecca Renner Drams of Drugs and Dregs . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Deindustrialization . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Too Much of a Good Thing 32--32
Alison McCook As Good as Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Alison McCook Watered-Down Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news Brief Bits . . . . . 35--35
Charles Choi A Crush on Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Charles Choi Triggers against Transplants . . . . . . 35--35
JR Minkel Cascades of Light . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Julie Wakefield Innovations: The Ultimate Clean Fuel . . 36--37
Gary Stix Staking Claims: IP Rights --- and Wrongs 38--38
W. Wayt Gibbs Profile: Survival in an Insecure World 39--40
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Exquisite Balance . . . . . 41--41
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Getting There . . . . 42--43
Peter Libby Biotechnology: Atherosclerosis: The New
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
S. Alan Stern Planetary Science: Journey to the
Farthest Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
David G. Leeper Information Technology: Wireless Data
Blaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Kate Wong Evolution: The Mammals that Conquered
the Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79
Gérard A. Mourou and
Donald Umstadter Physics: Extreme Light . . . . . . . . . 80--86
Jared Hardner and
Richard Rice Environment: Rethinking Green
Consumerism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Trees of the Triassic . . . . . 96--98
Daniel J. Kevles Reviews: Meddling with Human Nature . . 99--100
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Defense in Depth 101--101
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Cold Comfort . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Death Every 30
Seconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Alison McCook News Scan: Lifting the Screen . . . . . 16--17
Steven Ashley Divide and Vitrify . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
George Musser A Philosopher's Stone . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Carol Ezzell The Child Within . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Wendy M. Grossman URLs in Urdu? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--25
JR Minkel Scaling the Quakes . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rodger Doyle Bad Things Happen . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Data Points: Shark Bites Man . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Gain without Pain . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Battling Resistant Bacteria . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Nice Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Double or Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Hit or Miss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Here's Magnet in Your Eye . . . . . . . 29--29
Gary Stix Innovations: Thinking Big . . . . . . . 30--31
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Wanted: More Mothers of
Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Shamans of Scientism . . . 35--35
Gary Stix Profile: Man of Two Cultures . . . . . . 36--37
Carol Ezzell Biotechnology: Hope in a Vial . . . . . 38--45
Guinevere Kauffmann and
Frank van den Bosch Cosmology: The Life Cycle of Galaxies 46--58
Anne Nacey Maggioncalda and
Robert M. Sapolsky Zoology: Disturbing Behaviors of the
Orangutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
David D. Awschalom and
Michael E. Flatté and
Nitin Samarth Information Technology: Spintronics . . 66--73
Darold A. Treffert and
Gregory L. Wallace Psychology: Islands of Genius . . . . . 76--85
Ernesto Illy Chemistry: The Complexity of Coffee . . 86--91
S. Jay Olshansky and
Leonard Hayflick and
Bruce A. Carnes Essay: No Truth to the Fountain of Youth 92--95
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Hidden Guides . . . . 96--97
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: Whatever you Say . . . . 98--100
Claire Panosian Dunavan Reviews: Men, Money and Malaria . . . . 102--103
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Privacy Taboos . . 104--104
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: About the Size of it . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Bad Science and False
Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Paul Wallich News Scan: Who's Who . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
David Appell Ground Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Christine Soares Inner Turmoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
James Oberg Orbital Shouting . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Rebecca Renner A Case of the Vapors . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Steven Ashley Filtering in Reverse . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle Filling the Pipeline . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Waste For Monfy . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi White Light, Less Heat . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Kermit Had It Easy . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Mutation Keeps Going and Going . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits . . . . . 33--33
Charles Choi Stretching Out the Nanotube . . . . . . 33--33
Benjamin Stix Stem Cell Alternative? . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Kate Wong Food for Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Gary Stix Innovations: Breaking the Mold . . . . . 34--35
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Legal Circumvention . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Vox Populi . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Philip Yam Profile: Keeping the Mad Cows at Bay . . 38--39
Thomas Maeder Biotechnology: Sweet Medicines . . . . . 40--47
Anthony Acampora Information Technology: Last Mile by
Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Kenneth C. Catania Zoology: The Nose Takes a Starring Role 54--59
Steve Ditlea Medicine: The Trials of an Artificial
Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
Jan Jolie Physics: Uncovering Supersymmetry . . . 70--77
John Rennie Education: 15 Answers to Creationist
Nonsense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Turn Turn Turn . . . 86--87
W. Wayt Gibbs Voyages: The Power of Gravity . . . . . 88--90
Jeffrey H. Schwartz Reviews: Climatic and Evolutionary
Whiplash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Blind Justice . . . 93--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Heads Up . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Real Pain . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Daniel G. Dupont News Scan: Nuclear Reactions . . . . . . 17--18
Sarah Simpson A Push from Above . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Carol Ezzell Killing the Messenger . . . . . . . . . 19--22
JR Minkel Coherent Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Matt Ridley Crop Circle Confession . . . . . . . . . 25--25
W. Wayt Gibbs From Mouth to Mind . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rodger Doyle Down on the Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Tech Shy . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Eye on the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Stephen Jay Gould, 1941--2002 . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous www.sciam.com Brief Bits . . . . . . . . 29--29
Zeeya Merali Mechanical Reactions . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel What Lies Beneath . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Benjamin Stix Only the Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Gary Stix Innovations: Soft Manufacturing . . . . 30--31
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Deep-Sixing the
Submarine Patent . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Why ET Hasn't Called . . . . . 33--33
Krista West Profile: The Billionaire Conservationist 34--35
Mark A. Lane and
Donald K. Ingram and
George S. Roth Biotechnology: The Serious Search for an
Anti-Aging Pill . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Mordehai Milgrom Cosmology: Does Dark Matter Really
Exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--52
Paul G. Falkowski Environment: The Ocean's Invisible
Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Ivan E. Sutherland and
Jo Ebergen Information Technology: Computers
without Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Ezra S. Susser and
Daniel B. Herman and
Barbara Aaron Psychology: Combating the Terror of
Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
W. Wayt Gibbs Linguistics: Saving Dying Languages . . 78--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Safety at a Cost . . 86--87
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Machine Chic . . . . . . 88--90
Chet Raymo Reviews: Riffs on General Relativity . . 91--92
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Repellanoids . . . 93--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Poultry and Poetry . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
The Editors SA Perspectives: The Chronic Complaint 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marguerite Holloway News Scan: Unsettled Air . . . . . . . . 20--23
Daniel G. Dupont Staying Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Steven Ashley After the Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous Data Points: Closure . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Zeeya Merali Dampened Swings . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Zeeya Merali Science to the Rescue . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Marty Klinkenberg Training for Terror . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Wendy M. Grossman Radio Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi The Terminator's Back . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Affording a Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous www.sciam.com Brief Bits . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Glitch in the Machine . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Polio de Novo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Net Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Smart People Believe Weird
Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Gary Stix Introduction: Real Time . . . . . . . . 36--39
Paul Davies Physics: That Mysterious Flow . . . . . 40--47
George Musser Philosophy: A Hole at the Heart of
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Paul Davies Time Travel: How to Build a Time Machine 50--55
David Labrador Time Facts: From Instantaneous to
Eternal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Karen Wright Biology: Times of Our Lives . . . . . . 58--65
Antonio R. Damasio Neuroscience: Remembering When . . . . . 66--73
Carol Ezzell Anthropology: Clocking Cultures . . . . 74--75
William J. H. Andrewes Technology: A Chronicle of Timekeeping 76--85
W. Wayt Gibbs Future Timepieces: Ultimate Clocks . . . 86--93
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: A Promenade with Prosimians . . 94--95
Shawn Carlson Reviews: Amateurs Take On the Universe 96--97
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Venture Bets . . . 100--100
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Einstein's Hot Time . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
The Editors SA Perspectives: Greenwashing the Car 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
George Musser News Scan: A Pixelated Cosmos . . . . . 18--21
Rebecca Renner From Flush to Farm . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Luis Miguel Ariza The Next Wave of AIDS . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Steve Nadis Planetary Protection . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Dennis Normile Human-Free Kick . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
JR Minkel ``X'' Marks the Spot . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Quality of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points: Nature's P/E Ratio . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Aberration Negation . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel The Fat Just Melts Away . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Sidling Up to the Rich . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Steven Ashley No Strings Attached . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Phylis Morrison, 1927--2002 . . . . . . 36--36
Mike May Innovations: Adding Sugar to Bioscience 38--40
Graham P. Collins Staking Claims: There's No Stopping Them 41--41
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Physicist and the Abalone
Diver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Bob Kirsch Profile: Salve for the Body and Mind . . 44--45
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and
John K. Chapin Interfaces: Controlling Robots with the
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Evan Scannapieco and
Patrick Petitjean and
Tom Broadhurst Astronomy: The Emptiest Places . . . . . 56--63
Lawrence D. Burns and
J. Byron Mccormick and
Christopher E. Borroni-Bird Technology: Vehicle of Change . . . . . 64--73
Nina G. Jablonski and
George Chaplin Biology: Skin Deep . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Rocco Casagrande Defense: Technology Against Terror . . . 82--87
Stephen S. Morse The vigilance Proven Defenes . . . . . . 88--89
Steven H. Voldman Computing: Lightning Rods for
Nanoelectronics . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Vying for Eyes . . . 98--99
Fiona Harvey Technicalities: Computers for the Third
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
Richard Milner Reviews: Putting Darwin in His Place . . 103--104
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Prime Spies . . . . 105--105
Steve Mirsky Antigravity: The 2,000-Year-Old Menace 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
The Editors SA Perspectives: Land of Fire . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
JR Minkel News Scan: Reality Check . . . . . . . . 20--22
Sarah Simpson Headed South? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ken Howard Stringing Along . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Graham P. Collins Revising Relativity . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Steven Ashley Fine Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Charles Choi Bug Blast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Calculus of Happiness . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points: Fit to Print . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Gay Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi So Happy Together . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel In Sickness and in Health . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Charging Up Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
George Musser Doing a 180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Gary Stix Innovations: The Universal Biosensor . . 37--39
Graham P. Collins Staking Claims: Selling the Free Lunch 40--40
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Mesmerized by Magnetism . . . . 41--41
Naomi Lubick Profile: An Ear to the Stars . . . . . . 42--43
Michael Shara Astronomy: When Stars Collide . . . . . 44--51
Jacques Banchereau Biotechnology: The Long Arm of the
Immune System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Joachim Adis and
Oliver Zompro and
Esther Moombolah-Goagoses and
Eug\`ene Marais Zoology: Gladiators: A New Order of
Insect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Michael A. Nielsen Information Technology: Rules for a
Complex Quantum World . . . . . . . . . 66--75
Michael A. Levi and
Henry C. Kelly Antiterrorism: Weapons of Mass
Disruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Douglas Gantenbein Environment: Burning Questions . . . . . 82--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: See the Wind . . . . 90--91
W. Wayt Gibbs Voyages: A Search for All Species . . . 92--94
Robert Sapolsky Reviews: The Loveless Man . . . . . . . 95--96
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Perfect Billiards 97--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Aye (Caramba) on the News 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
The Editors SA Perspectives: In Science We Trust . . 14--14
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Daniel G. Dupont News Scan: Under the Microscope . . . . 24--26
Sonya Senkowsky Cretaceous Park . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Lisa Melton Subduing Suppressors . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Daniel Grossman Parched Turf Battle . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Luba Vikhanski Mendelmania Takes Off . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Gary Stix Making Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Data Points: Crash Course . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Dentures Begone . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Keyboard Cops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Tariq Malik Nucleotide Nanotubes . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous The Nobel Prizes for 2002 . . . . . . . 37--37
Rodger Doyle Deinstitutionalization . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Captain Kirk Principle . . 39--39
Amanda Gefter Profile: Throwing Einstein for a Loop 40--41
Anonymous Technology Leaders: The
\booktitleScientific American 50 . . . . 43--83
Neil Gehrels and
Luigi Piro and
Peter J. T. Leonard Astronomy: The Brightest Explosions in
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Elena Cattaneo and
Dorotea Rigamonti and
Chiara Zuccato Biotechnology: The Enigma of
Huntington's Disease . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Robert A. Bindschadler and
Charles R. Bentley Climate Change: On Thin Ice? . . . . . . 98--105
William R. Leonard Evolution: Food for Thought . . . . . . 106--115
Richard P. Taylor Information Technology: Order in
Pollock's Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Superhot Dots . . . . 122--123
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Getting Real . . . . . . 124--126
Dean H. Hamer Reviews: The Twisted Road to the Double
Helix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Plumbers . . . . . 130--130
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Members Only . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Annual Index 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . 135--138
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Self and Circuitry . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
David Appell News Scan: Getting under Your Skin . . . 18--20
Mark Alpert Back to the Moon? . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Carol Ezzell Fixing Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
George Musser Color Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Graham P. Collins Heat and Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Charles Choi Shake, Waddle and Stroll . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle Warming Up America . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Data Points: Short-Staffed . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Choi Nuclear Close Call? . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Sonic Boon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Steven Ashley A Stretch for Strong Copper . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Choi Ice That Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Kate Wong Flipper Flip-Flop . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Mike May Innovations: Type It Anywhere . . . . . 32--33
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Fair Use and Abuse . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Digits and Fidgets . . . . . . 35--35
David Appell Profile: Science to Save the World . . . 36--37
Nick Lane Therapy: New Light on Medicine . . . . . 38--45
Peter Vettiger and
Gerd Binnig Information Technology: The Nanodrive
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Kate Wong Paleoanthropology: An Ancestor to Call
Our Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Walter C. Willett and
Meir J. Stampfer Nutrition: Rebuilding the Food Pyramid 64--71
Ross S. Stein Geology: Earthquake Conversations . . . 72--79
Gérard Liger-Belair Physics: The Science of Bubbly . . . . . 80--85
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Scratch Match . . . . 86--87
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Peering into the Earth . . . . 88--89
Douglas Jehl Reviews: Out of Sight, Out of Mind . . . 90--91
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Protein Chime . . . 93--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Good Fellows . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
The Editors SA Perspectives: No Immunity to Pork . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Madhusree Mukerjee News Scan: Greenhouse Suits . . . . . . 14--15
Gunjan Sinha Bad Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Daniel G. Dupont Storm before the Calm . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Diane Martindale T Cell Triumph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Charles Choi Scaled-Up Superposition . . . . . . . . 19--20
Phil Scott Nothing but Net . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Data Points: Oil in Water . . . . . . . 23--23
Sarah Graham Water or Not? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Tariq Malik Taking the Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Sarah Simpson Fire and Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Simpson Regenerating the Heart . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Philip Yam The Olmec's Write Stuff . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle Religion in America . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Take a Number . . . . . 27--27
Gary Stix Innovations: Reverse-Engineering
Clinical Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Psychic Drift . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Sally Lehrman Profile: The Reality of Race . . . . . . 32--33
Chryssa Kouveliotou and
Robert C. Duncan and
Christopher Thompson Astrophysics: Magnetars . . . . . . . . 34--41
Carol Ezzell Neuro Biology: Why? the Neuroscience of
Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
John R. Koza and
Martin A. Keane and
Matthew J. Streeter Information Technology: Evolving
Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Andrew R. Blaustein and
Pieter T. J. Johnson Environment: Explaining Frog Deformities 60--65
Michael Puttré Weaponry: Satellite-Guided Munitions . . 66--73
Arthur L. Klatsky Medicine: Drink to Your Health? . . . . 74--81
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Carbon Copy . . . . . 82--83
George Musser Technicalities: Robots That Suck . . . . 84--86
Joseph F. Traub Reviews: The Next Big Thing? . . . . . . 88--89
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Five Trusty Flares 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sheer Lunacy . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Total Information
Overload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Erratas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Sally Lehrman News Scan: From Lab to Embassy . . . . . 24--26
Wendy M. Grossman Connect the Pings . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Kate Wong Out on a Limb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Graham P. Collins Getting Warmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Naomi Lubick Triggered Swarms . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Gary Stix Sustainable Surgery . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Rodger Doyle Sizing Up Evangelicals . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Data Points: Too Early Spring . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Self-Organized Scenery . . . . . . . . . 38--38
George Musser Has a Nice Ring to It . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Brief: Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Charles Choi Unnatural at 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
JR Minkel Immunity Sapped . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Steve Mirsky Re-evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Gary Stix Innovations: The Relentless Storm . . . 42--45
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Some Rights Reserved . . 46--46
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Demon-Haunted Brain . . . . . . 47--47
Steve Nadis Profile: Man Against a Mountain . . . . 48--49
David B. Cline Physics: The Search for Dark Matter . . 50--59
Matthew L. Wald Energy and Environment: Dismantling
Nuclear Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
Clifford J. Rosen Biotechnology: Restoring Aging Bones . . 70--77
Harvey B. Feigenbaum Infotech and Culture: Digital
Entertainment Jumps the Border . . . . . 78--83
Richard O. Prum and
Alan H. Brush Evolution: Which Came First, the Feather
or the Bird? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93
Robert Sapolsky Essay: Bugs in the Brain . . . . . . . . 94--97
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: No Two Alike . . . . 98--99
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Follies and Foucault's Pendulum 100--102
Erica Goode Reviews: The Neurologist and the
Philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Safecracking . . . 108--108
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Rael Thing . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Get Real . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Mark Alpert News Scan: Rethinking the Shuttle . . . 22--23
Luis Miguel Ariza Oiling Up Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Sarah Simpson Foiling a Faint Sun . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
George Musser A Tale of Two C's . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Emily Harrison Out of the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Carol Ezzell Ma's Eyes, Not Her Ways . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Defining Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Data Points: Invaded Nation . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Motoring with RNA . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Bits through Ballistics . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Skipping for Smarties . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Choi Another Chance at Life . . . . . . . . . 33--33
George Musser Unfolding the MAP . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Kathryn Brown Innovations: Working Weeds . . . . . . . 34--36
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Razing the Tollbooths 37--37
Michael Shermer Skeptic: I, Clone . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Arthur B. McDonald and
Joshua R. Klein and
David L. Wark Astrophysics: Solving the Solar Neutrino
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
Robert Langer Biotechnology: Where a Pill Won't Reach 50--57
Tom Pfeiffer Volcanology: Mount Etna's Ferocious
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
James D. Watson and
Francis H. C. Crick Celebrating The Genetic Jubilee:
Celebrating the Genetic Jubilee: A
Conversation with James D. Watson . . . 66--69
Sarah Simpson Life Science: Questioning the Oldest
Signs of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Ian Foster Information Technology: The Grid:
Computing without Bounds . . . . . . . . 78--85
Paul E. Gold and
Larry Cahill and
Gary L. Wenk Medicine: The Lowdown on \em Ginkgo
Biloba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Potent Patches . . . 92--93
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Screen Writing . . . . . 94--96
Philip Morrison Reviews: Was Light Faster in the Past? 97--98
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: The Graph of Life 100--100
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Truth in Advertising . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Misguided Missile
Shield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert News Scan: Spotty Defense . . . . . . . 20--23
W. Wayt Gibbs A Digital Slice of Pi . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Wendy M. Grossman A Man, a Plan, Spam . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Carol Ezzell The Race Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Krista West Sounding Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
George Musser Interstellar Pelting . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Anonymous Data Points: Icy Surge . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Pulling the Lever . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam A Face in the Car Crowd . . . . . . . . 32--32
Philip Yam Not So Happy Together . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Choi Seeing Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Rodger Doyle Reducing Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Packing 'Em On . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Philip Yam Insulin from Bone Marrow . . . . . . . . 33--33
Steven Ashley Innovations: X-Ray Proofing . . . . . . 34--35
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Make your Own Rules . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Show me the Body . . . . . . . 37--37
Gary Stix Insights: Wired Superstrings . . . . . . 38--39
Max Tegmark Cosmology: Parallel Universes . . . . . 40--51
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and
Edward M. Hubbard Neuroscience: Hearing Colors, Tasting
Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Albert-László Barabási and
Eric Bonabeau Information Technology: Scale-Free
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
James H. Dickson and
Klaus Oeggl and
Linda L. Handley Archaeology: The Iceman Reconsidered . . 70--79
Thomas Maeder Biotechnology: The Orphan Drug Backlash 80--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Catch a Wave . . . . 88--89
Gary Stix Voyages: Desert Metropolis . . . . . . . 90--92
Kristin Leutwyler Reviews: Math's Most Wanted . . . . . . 94--95
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Bounded Regrets . . 96--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Doing what Comes
Unnaturally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Pound of Flesh . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Christine Soares News Scan: Caught Off Guard . . . . . . 18--19
David Appell Acting Locally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steven Ashley Hybrids Take Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Madhusree Mukerjee Boxed Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
JR Minkel Law and Disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Not All Wet . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Sexy and Delicious . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Why Neutrons Outweigh Protons . . . . . 28--28
Sarah Simpson Rising Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Corrupted Clones . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Sarah Simpson The Unusual Suspects . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Trade Globalization . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Innovations: The Abyss Transit System 32--33
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Sign Here . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Codified Claptrap . . . . . . . 35--35
Gary Stix Insights: One Last Look . . . . . . . . 36--37
Philip Yam Emerging Diseases: Shoot this Deer . . . 38--43
Arden L. Albee Astronomy: The Unearthly Landscapes of
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Armando Fox and
David Patterson Computing: Self-Repairing Computers . . 54--61
Robin Marantz Henig Biotechnology: Pandora's Baby . . . . . 62--67
Gordon Kane Physics: The Dawn of Physics Beyond the
Standard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Charles H. Bennett and
Ming Li and
Bin Ma Information Science: Chain Letters and
Evolutionary Histories . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: To Hear Again . . . . 82--83
Fiona Harvey Technicalities: Name that Tune . . . . . 84--86
Carol Tavris Reviews: A Polite Smile or the Real
McCoy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Prime Squares . . . 89--89
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dropping By . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Three Lessons of SARS 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Otto Pohl News Scan: Disease Dustup . . . . . . . 18--20
George Musser Frozen Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Graham P. Collins Holographic Control . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
W. Wayt Gibbs Sugar Added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Steven Ashley Alloy by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Carol Ezzell The Price of Pills . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Data Points: Space Worms . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Choi Sugar and Spice and Everything
Nice\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Choi Sound Off on Tires . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Philip Yam Pass the Sushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Choi Mystery Meson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Steve Mirsky Ant Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Laura Wright Muscle Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle Winners and Losers . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Gary Stix Innovations: Signal Jammer . . . . . . . 29--31
Gary Stix Staking Claims: You can Patent That? . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Bottled Twaddle . . . . . . . . 33--33
Kimberly Weaver Astronomy: The Galactic Odd Couple . . . 34--41
Daniel Pauly and
Reg Watson Environment: Counting the Last Fish . . 42--47
Martin Cooper Information Technology: Antennas Get
Smart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: Untangling the Roots of
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Archaeology: Uncovering the Keys to the
Lost Indus Cities . . . . . . . . . . . 66--75
Bruce Stutz Medicine: Pump Head . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Sally Lehrman Insights: Terms of Engagement . . . . . 82--83
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Fine Focus . . . . . 84--85
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Through a Glass Deeply . . . . 86--87
Ian Tattersall Reviews: Drenched in Symbolism . . . . . 88--89
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: High Spies . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Yanked Clippers . . . 92--92
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
The Editors SA Perspectives: Houston, you have a
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
David Appell News Scan: Hot Words . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
David J. Epstein Secret Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Kate Wong Sourcing Sapiens . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Sarah Simpson Deep Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Alexander Hellemans View from VIRGO . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Rodger Doyle Energy Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Trigger Happy . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Not So Friendly Hydrogen . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi If U Cn Rd Ths\ldots . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Buzz Off, Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Forced Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Sarah Simpson Fueling Predictions . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Philip Yam See under the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Gary Stix Innovations: Hands of Light . . . . . . 30--31
Gary Stix Staking Claims: What a Little Limeade
can do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Ignoble Savage . . . . . . 33--33
Nelson C. Lau and
David P. Bartel Biotechnology: Censors of the Genome . . 34--41
Mark Warschauer Information Technology: Demystifying the
Digital Divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
James M. Bower and
Lawrence M. Parsons Nueroscience: Rethinking the ``Lesser
Brain'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Jacob D. Bekenstein Physics: Information in the Holographic
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
John R. Hale and
Jelle Zeilinga De Boer and
Jeffrey P. Chanton and
Henry A. Spiller Archaeology: Questioning the Delphic
Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
David R. Begun Evolution: Planet of the Apes . . . . . 74--83
Steve Nadis Insights: Keeper of the Objects . . . . 84--85
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Seeing Green . . . . 86--87
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: Converging on the Couch 88--90
George Musser Reviews: Better Red Than Dead . . . . . 91--92
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Short Taps . . . . 93--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: This is Only a Test . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
The Editors SA Perspectives: A Vote for Neuroethics 13--13
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
W. Wayt Gibbs News Scan: Public Not Welcome . . . . . 24--26
Graham P. Collins Fatal Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Rebecca Renner Nietzsche's Toxicology . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Wendy M. Grossman Handicaps in CAPPS . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Daniel Cho Photovoltaic Finesse . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Steven Ashley Next-Generation GPS . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Data Points: Close to Home . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Bacterial Motor Works . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Dennis Watkins Peace With Peanuts . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Dennis Watkins Reviving Retinas . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Charles Choi Speed Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Philip Yam New Light on Old Sol . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Philip Yam Punch Buggy Black and Blue . . . . . . . 37--37
Rodger Doyle Fertility Volatility . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Domesticated Savage . . . . 40--40
Carol Ezzell Insights: A Biomedical Politician . . . 42--43
Gary Stix Introduction: Ultimate Self-Improvement 44--45
Fred H. Gage Neurogenesis: Brain, Repair Yourself . . 46--53
Stephen S. Hall Enhancement: The Quest for a Smart Pill 54--65
Mark S. George Treatment: Stimulating the Brain . . . . 66--73
Philip Ross Imaging: Mind Readers . . . . . . . . . 74--77
Marguerite Holloway Plasticity: The Mutable Brain . . . . . 78--85
Robert Sapolsky Neurochemistry: Taming Stress . . . . . 86--95
Steven E. Hyman Psychiatry: Diagnosing Disorders . . . . 96--103
Arthur L. Caplan Neuroethics: Is Better Best? . . . . . . 104--105
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: On the Money . . . . 106--107
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Friable Flowers . . . . . . . . 108--109
Steve Mirsky Reviews: Biting Us and the Dust . . . . 110--110A
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Missing Hiker . . . 113--113
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: A Mighty Wind . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
The Editors SA Perspectives: Biotech's Clean Slate 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Daniel G. Dupont News Scan: Food Fears . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Sally Lehrman Return of the Fleece . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Graham P. Collins The Next Big Chill . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
W. Wayt Gibbs Musical Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Dennis Watkins Hormone Hysteria? . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Daniel Cho Weight Watching . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rodger Doyle The Progress of Love . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Data Points: RIP'N'ROAR . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Missing: One-Quarter Hydrogen . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Vostok Pop Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Leaning Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Rethinking Siberian Americans . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi A Shot against West Nile . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Barrier-Free Nanotubes . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Steven Ashley Innovations: Alchemy of a Supermetal . . 38--40
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Kick Me, Myself and I 42--42
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Remember the Six Billion . . . 43--43
Marc Airhart Insights: Cleaning Up after War . . . . 44--45
Stephen E. Zepf and
Keith M. Ashman Astronomy: The Unexpected Youth of
Globular Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Steven Ashley Materials: Artificial Muscles . . . . . 52--59
Matthew Sturm and
Donald K. Perovich and
Mark C. Serreze Environment: Meltdown in the North . . . 60--67
Dirk M. Nettelbeck and
David T. Curiel Biotechnology: Tumor-Busting Viruses . . 68--75
James Oberg Human Spaceflight: China's Great Leap
Upward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Kaushik Basu Economics: The Economics of Child Labor 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Cool Shirt . . . . . 92--93
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: The Infinite Arcade
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
Michael M. Sokal Reviews: Thinking inside the Box . . . . 98--99
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Strategic Bullying 101--101
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: What's Wrong with This
Picture? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
The Editors SA Perspectives: Penny-Wise,
Planet-Foolish . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
JR Minkel News Scan: Healing the Grid . . . . . . 18--20
W. Wayt Gibbs Malcode Melee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
George Musser All Screwed Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Philip Yam Light Sails to Orbit . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Dennis Watkins Brain Not Inflamed? . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Krista West Restoring the Rio . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Rodger Doyle Why Women Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Cutting Calories . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Cleaner Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Killing the Competition . . . . . . . . 32--32
Gary Stix Edward Teller, 1908--2003 . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Bacterial Batteries . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Black Hole Life Preserver . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Weekend Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Lee Bruno Innovations: Baffling the Bots . . . . . 36--38
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Shrink-Wrapping the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Candle in the Dark . . . . . . 43--43
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: The Unseen Genome: Gems
among the Junk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Russell L. Schweickart and
Edward T. Lu and
Piet Hut and
Clark R. Chapman Space Technology: The Asteroids Tugboat 54--61
Robert Grabowski and
Luis E. Navarro-Serment and
Pradeep K. Khosla Robotics: An Army of Small Robots . . . 62--67
Anonymous Physics: The Future of String Theory . . 68--73
Kate Wong Human Evolution: Stranger in a New Land 74--83
Steven Ashley Aviation: Flying on Flexible Wings . . . 84--91
Jerome M. Siegel Neuroscience: Why We Sleep . . . . . . . 92--97
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Staying Power . . . . 98--99
W. Wayt Gibbs Voyages: Waiting for Liftoff . . . . . . 100--102
Phil Scott Reviews: Limited Visibility . . . . . . 103--104
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Liquid Switchboard 105--105
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: A Bridge Too Far . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
The Editors SA Perspectives: Racing to Conclusions 14--14
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Gary Stix Innovations: Breath Takers . . . . . . . 26--28
Peg Brickley News Scan: Science v. Law . . . . . . . 30--32
Madhusree Mukerjee Circles for Space . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Steven Ashley Down to the Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Phil Scott Lowering the Boom . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Brenda Goodman Two-Second Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
David Labrador Refining Green Gold . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Rodger Doyle Measuring Modernity . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
David Appell High Prize for Low Temperatures . . . . 42--42
Philip Yam Outside Looking In . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous Data Points: Hospital Pains . . . . . . 44--44
Charles Choi Leaving Alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Charles Choi Shrinking to Enlarge . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Sarah Simpson Scarred Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Chris Jozefowicz The Methane Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
JR Minkel Fly by Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
JR Minkel A Tunnel for Better Wireless . . . . . . 46--46
W. Wayt Gibbs Staking Claims: Can Cells Be Generic? 48--48
Michael Shermer Skeptic: What's the Harm? . . . . . . . 50--50
Steve Nadis Insights: The Cells That Rule the Seas 52--53
Anonymous Technology Leaders: The
\booktitleScientific American 50 . . . . 55--76
Michael J. Bamshad and
Steve E. Olson Biology: Does Race Exist? . . . . . . . 78--85
Paul D. Spudis Planetary Science: The New Moon . . . . 86--93
Daniel C. Schlenoff Aviation: The Equivocal Success of the
Wright Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
David A. Kring and
Daniel D. Durda Geoscience: The Day the World Burned . . 98--105
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: The Unseen Genome: Beyond
DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: At the Moment . . . . 114--115
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Science for Cops . . . . 116--118
John P. Holdren Reviews: The Quest for Affordable Energy 119--120
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: You Don't Say! . . 122--122
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Quod Error Demonstrandum 123--123
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Annual Index 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
The Editors SA Perspectives: Can Biologists Be
Trusted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Daniel G. Dupont News Scan: NECTAR for Your Health . . . 16--18
Gunjan Sinha Uncertain Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Laura Wright String Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Lisa Melton Aching Atrophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Graham P. Collins Seeing Single Photons . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Luis Miguel Ariza Planning for Prestige . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Rodger Doyle Living Together . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points: Conjoined . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Choi Gut Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Choi Holding in Suspense . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Choi Slip and Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Chris Jozefowicz Blasts, Bursts and Flashes . . . . . . . 31--31
JR Minkel A Pulse for Magnetic Memory . . . . . . 31--31
JR Minkel Snoop Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Gary Stix Innovations: Supercharging Protein
Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Gary Stix Staking Claims: In Search of Better
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Bunkum! . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
W. Wayt Gibbs Insights: Why Machines Should Fear . . . 37--37A
Bart P. Wakker and
Philipp Richter Astronomy: Our Growing, Breathing Galaxy 38--47
Daniel C. Javitt and
Joseph T. Coyle Neural Pharmacology: Decoding
Schizophrenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Roy Want Information Technology: RFID: A Key to
Automating Everything . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Lee Smolin Physics: Atoms of Space and Time . . . . 66--75
Ian Hodder Archaeology: Women and Men at Çatalhöyük 76--83
Daniel Grossman Environment: Spring Forward . . . . . . 85--91
Cliff Stoll Invention: The Curious History of the
First Pocket Calculator . . . . . . . . 92--99
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Phantom Gain . . . . 100--101
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: A Great Echelon of Birds . . . 102--103
Philip Morrison Reviews: Metaphorical Suns\ldots . . . . 104--105
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Verifying Your
Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Check Those Figures . . . 108--108
A. Kokacy Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous SA Perspectives: A Waste of Energy . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Wendy M. Grossman News Scan: Ballot Breakdown . . . . . . 16--18
Sarah Simpson Not So Icy Stares . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Wendy Williams When Blade Meets Bat . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Steven Ashley Doping by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Kate Wong Becoming Behemoth . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Phil Scott Lash Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle The Great Migration . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Data Points: Down By Degrees . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Memorable Nanorings . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel When in Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Steve Mirsky Aroma Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Choi AIDS Resistance Thanks to Smallpox? . . 27--27
Charles Choi Inverting the Doppler Shift . . . . . . 27--27
Gary Stix Innovations: Micro(mechanical)phones . . 28--30
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Working the System . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: A Bounty of Science . . . . . . 33--33
Marguerite Holloway Insights: Talking Bacteria . . . . . . . 34--35
Donald W. Landry and
Juan A. Oliver Biotechnology: Insights into Shock . . . 36--41
George Musser Special Report: Four Keys to Cosmology 42--43
Wayne Hu and
Martin White The Cosmic Symphony . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Michael A. Strauss Reading the Blueprints of Creation . . . 54--61
Adam G. Riess and
Michael S. Turner From Slowdown to Speedup . . . . . . . . 62--67
Georgi Dvali Out of the Darkness . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Webster E. Howard Information Technology: Better Displays
with Organic Films . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Richard Rosenfeld Criminology: The Case of the Unsolved
Crime Decline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Data Driven . . . . . 90--91
Mark Clemens Technicalities: A Walk in the Woods . . 92--94
Blake Edgar Reviews: Good with their Feet . . . . . 95--96
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: All or Nothing . . 97--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: It is High, It is Far . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Roz Chast Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Perspectives: The Climate Leadership
Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Karen Hopkin News Scan: Egg Beaters . . . . . . . . . 16--18
David Appell Dream Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Mark Alpert The Fog of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Charles Choi Drawing the Lines . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
Krista West Storm Spotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Steven Ashley Cryogenic Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle Rise of the Black Ghetto . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Maddening World . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Getting into the Swing . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Choi Making and Unmaking Memories . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Strangeness in Our Midst? . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi A Super Superstar . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel All Gassed Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Turning Back the Clock . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Working the System II 41--41
Michael Shermer Skeptic: None So Blind . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Gary Stix Innovations: Nano Patterning . . . . . . 44--46
Christine Soares Insights: A Strategy of Containment . . 48--50
George Musser Planetary Science: The Spirit of
Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
W. Wayt Gibbs Information Technology: A New Race of
ROBOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--67
James Hansen Climatology: Defusing the Global Warming
TIME BOMB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--77
Eric J. Nestler and
Robert C. Malenka Biotechnology: The Addicted Brain . . . 78--85
Peter Cervelli Earth Science: The Threat of Silent
Earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Partha Dasgupta and
Eric Maskin Electoral Systems: The Fairest Vote of
all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Rock Clock . . . . . 98--99
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Passport in Time . . . . . . . 100--102
Michael Shermer Reviews: The Major Unsolved Problem in
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Grid Speed . . . . 108--108
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Regulation Rag . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
The Editors SA Perspectives: Breaking Out of Orbit 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert News Scan: Fly Me to the Moon . . . . . 20--22
Sally Lehrman Sobering Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy M. Grossman Missing Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Emily Harrison Magnetic Moods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Appell Shattered Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Rebecca Renner Double Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rodger Doyle A Surplus of Women . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Data Points: Heavy Going . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Rooting Out Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel New Path to Ammonia . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel A Regal Bearing . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Leaving the Host Behind . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Red with Prejudice . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Gary Stix Innovations: Making Proteins without DNA 38--40
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Patent Enforcement . . . 42--42
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Magic Water and Mencken's Maxim 43--43
Philip E. Ross Insights: Draining the Language out of
Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
R. Douglas Fields Neuroscience: The Other Half of the
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
David R. Ardila Planetary Science: The Hidden Members of
Planetary Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Barry Schwartz Psychology: The Tyranny of Choice . . . 70--75
G. Dan Hutcheson Information Technology: The first
Nanochips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Stephen J. Freeland and
Laurence D. Hurst Biotechnology: Evolution Encoded . . . . 84--91
Joan C. Horvath Space Flight: Blastoffs on a Budget . . 92--97
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Complete Burn . . . . 98--99
W. Wayt Gibbs Technicalities: Plug-and-Play Robots . . 100--103
Barbara Smuts Reviews: The Brain in Love . . . . . . . 104--105
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Bluffhead . . . . . 108--108
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Visiting Royalty . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Bush-League Lysenkoism 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Christine Soares News Scan: Body Building . . . . . . . . 20--22
Charles Choi Burning Down to Rock . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Tom Valeo Downsized Target . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Graham P. Collins High-Temp Knockout . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Sonya Senkowsky The Oil and the Otter . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Christina Reed Splash of Cold Water . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Rodger Doyle Blue-Collars in Eclipse . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Data Points: Big Beyond Pluto . . . . . 38--38
Charles Choi More Eggs in One Basket . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Choi Power Sludge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Alexander Hellemans Attosecond Laser Pulses . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
JR Minkel Foreshadowing Flashes in the Planum . . 40--40
JR Minkel Nonstick Sliding . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Ian Steer Close Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Gary Stix Innovations: Making Drugs, Not Profits 42--44
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Enchanted Glass . . . . . . 46--46
Gary Stix Staking Claims: Patents on Ice . . . . . 48--48
Julie Wakefield Insights: Science's Political Bulldog 50--52
Gabriele Veneziano Cosmology: The Myth of the Beginning of
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--65
Matthew L. Wald Energy: Questions about a Hydrogen
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
W. Wayt Gibbs Biotechnology: Synthetic Life . . . . . 75--81
Mark Solms Neuroscience: Freud Returns . . . . . . 82--88
J. Allan Hobson Counterpoint: Freud Returns? Like a Bad
Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Per Enge Information Technology: Retooling the
Global Positioning System . . . . . . . 90--97
Steven J. Dick Planetary Science: The Transit of Venus 98--105
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Clear Favorite . . . 106--107
W. Wayt Gibbs Voyages: In the Land of the Dreamtime 108--111
Henry Fountain Reviews: AI at the Inception . . . . . . 112--113
Dennis E. Shasha Puzzling Adventures: Jump Snatch . . . . 118--118
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Television Coverage . . . 119--119
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
The Editors SA Perspectives: Stem Cells: A Way
Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Sarah Simpson News Scan: Diving for Dead Wood . . . . 24--25
Gary Stix \em Homo carnivorous . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Phil Scott Eye on the Junk . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Marina Krakovsky Sitcoms on the Brain . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steven Ashley Power-Thrifty PCs . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Tabitha M. Powledge The 17-Year Itch . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Rodger Doyle Civic Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
JR Minkel Read My Lips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
JR Minkel Outer Quantum Limits . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Toddler Troubles . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Rewritable Appetite . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Philip Yam The First Pet Cats . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Gary Stix Innovations: A Confederacy of Smarts . . 40--45
Gary Stix Staking Claims: The Silent Revolution 46--46
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Death by Theory . . . . . . . . 48--48
Madhusree Mukerjee Insights: A Transparent Enigma . . . . . 49--50
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Deep Silence . . . . 52--53
Jonathan I. Lunine Planetary Science: Saturn at Last! . . . 56--63
Nadrian C. Seeman Molecular Engineering: Nanotechnology
and the Double Helix . . . . . . . . . . 64--75
Jim Robbins Ecology: Lessons from the Wolf . . . . . 76--81
David E. Culler and
Hans Mulder Information Technology: Smart Sensors to
Network the World . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Robert Lanza and
Nadia Rosenthal Biotechnology: The Stem Cell Challenge 92--99
Daniel G. Dupont Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Explosions in
Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--107
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Security at Your
Fingertips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Claire Panosian Dunavan Reviews: Deploying Science to Desperate
Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Take This Job and Do It 113--113
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Testing Madness . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rebecca Renner News Scan: Leading to Lead . . . . . . . 22--24
Diane Martindale Mickey Has Two Moms . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Graham P. Collins Magnetic Soot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Kate Wong Baby Talk Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
George Musser Growing Pains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
JR Minkel Bugging for Guidance . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Rodger Doyle Undercutting Fairness . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Data Points: Seed Money . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Hot Stuff Coming Through . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi Permian Percussion . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi When Air Quality Hits ``Mutant'' . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Choi Beta from Beta . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Mixing in Mitochondria . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Rover and Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Gary Stix Innovations: Overcoming Self . . . . . . 40--41
Gary Stix Staking Claims: If It's Broke, Fix It 44--44
Michael Shermer Skeptic: God's Number is Up . . . . . . 46--46
Julie Wakefield Insights: Doom and Gloom by 2100 . . . . 48--49
Bruce Balick and
Adam Frank Astronomy: The Extraordinary Deaths of
Ordinary Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
H. Lee Sweeney Genetic Engineering: Gene Doping . . . . 62--69
Stuart A. Solin Information Technology: Magnetic Field
Nanosensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
James F. Kasting Atmospheric Science: When Methane Made
Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Stanley B. Prusiner Biotechnology: Detecting Mad Cow Disease 86--93
Graham P. Collins Mathematics: The Shapes of Space . . . . 94--103
Gordon Rugg Cryptography: The Mystery of the Voynich
Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Big Air . . . . . . . 110--111
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Stars atop a Silent Volcano . . 112--113
Nicholas D. Kristof Reviews: Where the Wild Things Were . . 114--115
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Einstein's Parrot . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
The Editors SA Perspectives: The Green Gene
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
David Appell News Scan: The Darkening Earth . . . . . 16--18
Steven Ashley Bumpy Flying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Wendy M. Grossman Anonymous Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Govert Schilling Sloshing in Space . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Gunjan Sinha Outsourcing Drug Work . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Elizabeth Querna A Plan for Water . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Rodger Doyle Middle of the Country . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Data Points: Seti@Home at Five . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi May Cause Wakefulness . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Salmon versus Salmon . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel I Don't Brake for Bogotá . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Machine Made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Sexual Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Soaping up without Guilt . . . . . . . . 29--29
Steven Ashley Innovations: Penny-wise Smart Labels . . 30--31
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Miracle on Probability Street 32--32
W. Wayt Gibbs Insights: From Finish to Start . . . . . 33--34
Stephen A. Goff and
John M. Salmeron Biotechnology: Back to the Future of
Cereals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Enrico Lorenzini and
Juan Sanmartín Spaceflight: Electrodynamic Tethers in
Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Hunter G. Hoffman Medical Treatments: Virtual-Reality
Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Michael Levi Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Bunker Buster
Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Graham P. Collins Information Technology: Next Stretch for
Plastic Electronics . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Lawrence M. Krauss Cosmology: Questions that Plague Physics 82--85
A. Mushtaque and
R. Chowdhury Public Health: Arsenic Crisis in
Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Seeing Inside . . . . 92--93
Mike Corder Technicalities: Crippled but Not Crashed 94--95
Madhusree Mukerjee Reviews: Speaking for the Animals . . . 96--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: One Hundred Years of
Magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Einstein = Man of
Conscience$^2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Daniel G. Dupont News Scan: Test Drive . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Charles Choi Nipah's Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
JR Minkel Bad Rap for Nitrate? . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
George Musser Scaled-Up Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Nicole Garbarini Chemical Conversations . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Lisa DeKeukelaere Piecing the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Oil Haves and Have-Nots . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Data Points: High Fliers . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Location, Location, Location . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi Paleolithic Pensioners . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Cracked Caloric Counter . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Choi No Place Like Home . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Full Entangled House . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Ringed Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Mustangs, Monists and Meaning 38--38
Marguerite Holloway Insights: Superhot among the Ultracool 40--42
Gary Stix Introduction: The Patent Clerk's Legacy 44--49
Philip Yam Consumer Electronics: Everyday Einstein 50--55
W. Wayt Gibbs Technology: Atomic Spin-Offs for the
21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Peter Galison Experimental Work: Einstein's Compass 66--69
Lawrence M. Krauss and
Michael S. Turner General Relativity: A Cosmic Conundrum 70--77
Raphael Bousso and
Joseph Polchinski Unified Field Theory: The String Theory
Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--87
George Musser Quantum Mechanics: Was Einstein Right? 88--91
Alan Kostelecký Special Relativity: The Search for
Relativity Violations . . . . . . . . . 92--101
Daniel C. Schlenoff Looking Back: A Century of Einstein . . 102--105
George Musser From Our Pages: Forces of the World,
Unite! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Alan Lightman Essay: Einstein and Newton: Genius
Compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Working Knowledge: String Theory . . . . 110--111
Marguerite Holloway Voyages: Hiking Underground . . . . . . 112--114
Henry Gee Reviews: Existential Terroir in Northern
California: 140 Million Years of
Geologic History in a Bottle of Wine . . 118--120
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Terror Bull . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Perspectives: Breathing Difficulties . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
W. Wayt Gibbs News Scan: An Uncertain Defense . . . . 20--24
Mark Alpert Readying for a Relaunch . . . . . . . . 26--27
Cathryn M. Delude Transfer Troubles . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Nicole Garbarini Heartbeat Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Graham P. Collins Hawking a Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Lisa Dekeukelaere The Service of Siblings . . . . . . . . 34--35
Rodger Doyle Energy Geopolitics . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Data Points: Man Alive? . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Fever in, Schizophrenia Out . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Surf's Up-Way Up . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Whale Today, Gone to Marrow . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Charles Choi Francis Crick, 1916--2004 . . . . . . . 41--41
Charles Choi The Phantom Menace . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Charles Choi Trout from Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Myth is the Message . . . . 42--42
David Appell Insights: Father of Spirit and
Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Omer Blaes Astrophysics: A Universe of Disks . . . 48--57
John S. Mattick Molecular Biology: The Hidden Genetic
Program of Complex Organisms . . . . . . 60--67
Ross N. Hoffman Meteorology: Controlling Hurricanes . . 68--75
Neil Gershenfeld and
Raffi Krikorian and
Danny Cohen Information Technology: The Internet of
Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Ralf Dahm Physiology: Dying to See . . . . . . . . 82--89
Ted Selker Policy: Fixing the Vote . . . . . . . . 90--97
Gary Stix Biotechnology: Hitting the Genetic Off
Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Shock Absorbed . . . 102--103
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Gadget Envy . . . . . . 104--107
Carl Zimmer Reviews: Faith-Boosting Genes . . . . . 110--111
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Six-Legged Cinema . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
The Editors SA Perspectives: Political Science . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
David Labrador News Scan: Damage Control . . . . . . . 18--20
Lisa Melton Breathing with Hepatitis . . . . . . . . 20--22
Charles Choi Volcanic Sniffing . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Barry E. Digregorio Flawed Revelations? . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Wendy M. Grossman Connection Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Data Points: All Wet . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Choi Check the ``In'' Box . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Her Majesty's Secret Service . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Piped-in Turbulence . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Beating a Deadly Gas . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Choi Invasion of the Sequences . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Ear-y Coincidence . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Getting Sicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
The Editors Gerard Piel (1915-2004) . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Flying Carpets and Scientific
Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Christine Soares Insights: What's in a Name? . . . . . . 36--38
Smadar Cohen and
Jonathan Leor Biotechnology: Rebuilding Broken Hearts 44--51
Seth Lloyd and
Y. Jack Ng Physics: Black Hole Computers . . . . . 52--61
Richard B. Alley Environment: Abrupt Climate Change . . . 62--69
Richard L. Garwin Defense: Holes in the Missile Shield . . 70--79
W. Wayt Gibbs Information Technology: Computing at the
Speed of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Norman M. Weinberger Neuroscience: Music and the Brain . . . 88--95
W. Wayt Gibbs Innovation: A Split at the Core . . . . 96--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Keep the Beat . . . . 102--103
Richard Milner Reviews: Terrified by a Tyrannosaur . . 104--105
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Wild Life . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Marijuana Research . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Marina Krakovsky News Scan: Register or Perish . . . . . 18--20
Steven Ashley Firing on Half-Cylinders . . . . . . . . 20--22
Diane Martindale Muscle Twitch Switch . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Patrick Dijusto Nanosize Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Mark Alpert Stormy Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Graham P. Collins Back to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Thwarting Big Brother . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Choi The Beat Goes On . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Choi So Much for Green Salvation . . . . . . 34--34
Kate Wong A Mini Human Species . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Aimee Cunningham Stressing Violence . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Excluding Inclusion Bodies . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Wave-Riding Electrons . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Common Sense . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Gary Stix Insights: Geographer of the Male Genome 40--42
Anonymous Technology Leaders: The
\booktitleScientific American 50 . . . . 43--66
Roger A. Nicoll and
Bradley E. Alger Drug Development: The Brain's Own
Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
David G. Stork Science In Art: Optics and Realism in
Renaissance Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Anthony R. Fiorillo Paleontology: The Dinosaurs of Arctic
Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
William Sheehan and
Nicholas Kollerstrom and
Craig B. Waff Astronomy: The Case of the Pilfered
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Luis P. Villarreal Biology: Are Viruses Alive? . . . . . . 100--105
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Crowded Skies . . . . 106--107
Nicole Garbarini Technicalities: More Than Just Music . . 108--111
Barbara Smuts Reviews: Orangutan Technology . . . . . 112--115
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Number One . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Worth a Pound of Cure 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
Personality Clash War Worries Heavenly
Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Christine Soares News Scan: Polio Postponed . . . . . . . 18--20
Steven Ashley A Bad Fix for Hubble? . . . . . . . . . 20--22
David Kosub Sound Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Graham P. Collins A Glimpse of Supersolid . . . . . . . . 24--25
Charles Q. Choi Through Titan's Haze . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Aimee Cunningham Snaking Its Way In . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Mercurial Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Shaky Gravity Boost . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Alternative Reality . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Eyeing Stem Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Face Painters, Begone! . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Nurses in Short Supply . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Quantum Quackery . . . . . . . 34--34
Chip Walter Insights: You, Robot . . . . . . . . . . 36--37A
Luke A. J. O'Neill Life Sciences: Immunity's Early-Warning
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Amy J. Barger Astrophysics: The Midlife Crisis of the
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
W. Wayt Gibbs Information Science: Considerate
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Jeffery K. Taubenberger and
Ann H. Reid and
Thomas G. Fanning Biotechnology: Capturing a Killer Flu
VIRUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Emily Harrison Science In Pictures: Eye of the Beholder 72--77
Gary Stix Innovation: Best-Kept Secrets . . . . . 78--83
Roy F. Baumeister and
Jennifer D. Campbell and
Joachim I. Krueger and
Kathleen D. Vohs Psychology: Exploding the Self-Esteem
Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Open Sesame . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Reviews: How Are the Mighty Fallen? . . 94--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Captive Audience . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Beyond the Big
\copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Sara Beardsley News Scan: Avoiding Another Vioxx . . . 16--18
Charles Q. Choi Hungry for Dino Meat . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Claudio Angelo Punctuated Disequilibrium . . . . . . . 22--23
Christina Reed Into the Abyss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Govert Schilling String Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
JR Minkel More Bits in Pits . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Melting at the Top . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Data Points: Time Spent . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Cardio Therapy for the Mind . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Parched Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Say It, Don't Spray It . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Q. Choi Planet-Making 101 . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Golden Zipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Shrinking Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Abducted! . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Sally Lehrman Insights: Performance without Anxiety 36--37
Martin J. Blaser Biotechnology: An Endangered Species in
the Stomach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Jakob Reichel Applied Physics: Atom Chips . . . . . . 46--53
Kate Wong Paleoanthropology: The Littlest Human 56--65
Javed Mostafa Information Science: Seeking Better Web
Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
R. Douglas Fields Neuroscience: Making Memories Stick . . 74--81
Gary Stix Innovation: Nanotubes in the Clean Room 82--85
Steve Mirsky Technology: The NEW College Try . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Reducing a Roar . . . 92--93
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Every Breath You Take 94--96
Anonymous Reviews: Big Bang vs. Steady State . . . 98--100
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sticker Shock . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Relief Is Not Enough 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Madhusree Mukerjee News Scan: The Scarred Earth . . . . . . 18--20
Charles Q. Choi Back to Square One . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Gunjan Sinha The Diet That Fits . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Kate Wong Rooting the River Horse . . . . . . . . 24--25
Steven Ashley Aerial Base Station . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Phil Scott No Bath Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Rodger Doyle Gay and Lesbian Census . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Vector without Virus . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Remote-Controlled Hump . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Off Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi KC & the Sunshine Cow . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
JR Minkel Broadband to the People . . . . . . . . 31--31
JR Minkel Whales on a Bender . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David Appell Insights: Behind the Hockey Stick . . . 34--35
Charles H. Lineweaver and
Tamara M. Davis Cosmology: Misconceptions about the Big
Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--45
William F. Ruddiman Climatology: How Did Humans First Alter
Global Climate? . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Chris L. Barrett and
Stephen G. Eubank and
James P. Smith Information Technology: If Smallpox
Strikes Portland \ldots . . . . . . . . 54--61
Steven Ashley Innovation: On the Road to Fuel-Cell
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Moncef Zouali Biotechnology: Taming Lupus . . . . . . 70--77
W. Bernard Carlson Biography: Inventor of Dreams . . . . . 78--85
Patricia D. Moehlman Conservation: Endangered Wild Equids . . 86--93
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Take My Pixel . . . . 94--95
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Fossil Fallacy . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Reviews: An Institution between Covers 96--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Meteorwrongs . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Okay, We Give Up . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Nobel
Viruses $ \blacksquare $ Noble Gases $
\blacksquare $ King of Fertilizers . . . 18--18
Diane Martindale News Scan: Reactive Reasoning . . . . . 20--22
Mark Alpert Strange New World . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
JR Minkel Leafy Letdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Graham P. Collins CT Scan for Molecules . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Charles Q. Choi Qubit Twist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle The Lion's Share . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Bankrupt Health . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Procrastinate Later . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Aurora Born of Radio . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Steve Mirsky Ernst Mayr (1904--2005) . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief: Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Crustaceans against Dengue Fever . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Descent of the Ants . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel One Small Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Dennis Flanagan (1919--2005) . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Feynman--Tufte Principle 38--38
Sam Jaffe Insights: In the Business of Synthetic
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Joshua Goodman and
David Heckerman and
Robert Rounthwaite Information Technology: Stopping Spam 42--49
Gary A. Glatzmaier and
Peter Olson Earth Science: Probing the Geodynamo . . 50--57
Gil Ast Biotechnology: The Alternative Genome 58--65
Steven W. Popper and
Robert J. Lempert and
Steven C. Bankes Decision Making: Shaping the Future . . 66--71
Frans B. M. de Waal Behavioral Economics: How Animals Do
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Paul C. Canfield and
Sergey L. Bud'Ko Materials Science: Low-Temperature
Superconductivity is Warming Up . . . . 80--87
Gary Stix Innovation: A Toxin against Pain . . . . 88--93
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Uniform Variety . . . 94--95
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Hot Stuff . . . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous Reviews: Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Eye off the Ball . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Human Inventory Control 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Christine Soares News Scan: Cooping Up Avian Ful . . . . 20--22
George Musser Too Cold for Comfort . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Luis Miguel Ariza Defensive Eating . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Sara Beardsley Bending to Bar Codes . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Barry E. DiGregorio Doubts on Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Charles Q. Choi Processing for Science . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Measuring Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points: Stroke Signs . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Wings with a Snap . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Discerning Intent . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Martian Lake View . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Dead Bones to Life . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
W. Wayt Gibbs Hans Albrecht Bethe, 1906--2005 . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Muons for Defense . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Turn Me On, Dead Man . . . . . 37--37
Marguerite Holloway Insights: When Medicine Meets Literature 38--39
Larry Cahill Neuroscience: His Brain, Her Brain . . . 40--47
Bernard J. Carr and
Steven B. Giddings Physics: Quantum Black Holes . . . . . . 48--55
Kwabena Boahen Information Technology: Neuromorphic
Microchips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Joseph R. Dwyer Meteorology: A Bolt Out of The Blue . . 64--71
David M. Ojcius and
Toni Darville and
Patrik M. Bavoil Can Chlamydia Be Stopped? . . . . . . . 72--79
Alan E. Rubin Planetary Science: What Heated the
Asteroids? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Gary Stix Biotechnology: Molecular Treasure Hunt 88--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Thin Is In . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Resource: How to Listen to Birds . . . . 94--96
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Crime Scene Instigation 100--100
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Bring Back the OTA . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
JR Minkel News Scan: RNA to the Rescue . . . . . . 20--22
Govert Schilling Rare Flare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25
Lisa Melton Snoring Suspects . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Steven Ashley Solid (State) Progress . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Philip E. Ross Math without Words . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Kate Wong Desert Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Rodger Doyle Leveling the Playing Field . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Brain-Destroying Algae? . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Laser Bug-Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Twice Burned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Decloaking Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi No-Splash Liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Can't Get g Out of My Head . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Fahrenheit 2777 . . . . . . . . 38--38
Diane Martindale Insights: A Culture of Death . . . . . . 44--46
Mark B. Roth and
Todd Nystul Biomedical Technology: Buying Time In
Suspended Animation . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
John D. Barrow and
John K. Webb Cosmology: Inconstant Constants . . . . 56--63
Andy Aaron and
Ellen Eide and
John F. Pitrelli Information Technology: Conversational
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
W. Wayt Gibbs Nutrition and Health: Obesity: An
Overblown Epidemic? . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Graham P. Collins Physics: Making Cold Antimatter . . . . 78--85
Kate Wong Archaeology: The Morning of the Modern
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
David Michaels and
Mindy Jones Public Safety and Policy: Doubt Is Their
Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Lean and Mean . . . . 102--103
Philip Yam Technicalities: The Multipath to Clarity 104--107
Anonymous Reviews: A Customer Base of One . . . . 110--112
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dim Wits . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Lost in Space . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Mark Alpert News Scan: Feeling the Pinch . . . . . . 16--18
George Musser Flaw of Averages . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Marina Krakovsky Reaching in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Adam Minter Breeding Snail Fever . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Gunjan Sinha Training the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Lamont Wood Copper for Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle Baby Boom Origins . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Data Points: Don't Drink The Water . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Pressure Sensitive . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Really Cold Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Grain Freeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
JR Minkel What's Smell Got to Do with It? . . . . 27--27
James T. Rogers Philip Morrison, 1915--2005 . . . . . . 27--27
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Hope Springs Eternal . . . . . 28--28
Sally Lehrman Insights: He'll Pay for That . . . . . . 30--31
Philip R. Christensen Planetary Science: The Many Faces of
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Gordon Kane Physics: The Mysteries of Mass . . . . . 40--48
Robert H. Socolow Climate Change: Can We Bury Global
Warming? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
John R. Horner and
Kevin Padian and
Armand de Ricql\`eS Paleontology: How Dinosaurs Grew So
Large --- And So Small . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Gary Stix Information Technology: Shrinking
Circuits with Water . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Andres M. Lozano and
Suneil K. Kalia Biotechnology: New Movement in
Parkinson's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Timothy A. Kohler and
George J. Gumerman and
Robert G. Reynolds Archaeology: Simulating Ancient
Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Make It Quick . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Reviews: The Future of Humankind . . . . 90--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Big Dig . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Great Teller's Ghost 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
Prescription Faith Flying Rebuttal
Medical Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Krista West News Scan: Rebuilding a Volcano . . . . 16--18
Kate Wong Footprints to Fill . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Steven Ashley Making Light of Silicon . . . . . . . . 20--20
Cathryn M. Delude Widening the Window . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Marguerite Holloway When Extinct Isn't . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
W. Wayt Gibbs Cosmic CAT Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
Rodger Doyle Coming to America . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Charles Q. Choi About Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Scents of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Sponge-Nose Smarty Pants . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Dinner Slime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Cancer's John Hancock . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel The Next Little Thing . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Full of Holes . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Chip Walter Insights: Kryder's Law . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Paul T. Sharpe and
Conan S. Young Biotechnology: Test-Tube Teeth . . . . . 34--41
David J. Bottjer Paleontology: The Early Evolution of
Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Glenn D. Starkman and
Dominik J. Schwarz Cosmology: Is the Universe Out of Tune? 48--55
Reinhold Koch Information Technology: Morphware . . . 56--63
John A. Elefteriades Medicine: Beating a Sudden Killer . . . 64--71
Judy S. DeLoache Psychology: Mindful of Symbols . . . . . 72--77
W. Wayt Gibbs Innovations: Nanobodies . . . . . . . . 78--83
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Ease the Grind . . . 84--85
Steven Ashley Technicalities: Heavenly Music in Your
Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Roger Atwood Reviews: The Story of the Iraq Museum 90--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Kha-Nyou Smell a Rat? . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Science at the
Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rebecca Renner News Scan: Mapping Mercury . . . . . . . 20--22
Patrick Di Justo Blue-Green Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy M. Grossman Flagging Copy Rights . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Horgan Clash in Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Steven Ashley Silicon Sniffer . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Charles Q. Choi Chatting Up Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Myths of the City . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points: Egging On . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Back-Channel Chatter . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Battle of the Sexes . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Working Corridors . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel A Better Time Machine . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel The Comet's White Glare . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel In Meatro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Rumsfeld's Wisdom . . . . . . . 38--38
Sally Lehrman Insights: A Proposition for Stem Cells 40--42
George Musser Introduction: The Climax of Humanity . . 44--47
Joel E. Cohen Demographics: Human Population Grows Up 48--55
Jeffrey D. Sachs Poverty: Can Extreme Poverty Be
Eliminated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Stuart L. Pimm and
Clinton Jenkins Biodiversity: Sustaining the Variety of
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Amory B. Lovins Energy: More Profit with Less Carbon . . 74--83
Paul Polak Agriculture and Water: The Big Potential
of Small Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Barry R. Bloom Disease: Public Health in Transition . . 92--99
Herman E. Daly Economics: Economics In A Full World . . 100--107
W. Wayt Gibbs Policy: How Should We Set Priorities? 108--115
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Private and Cool . . 116--117
Anonymous Reviews: Everything That Isn't Nature 118--120
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Go Fourth . . . . . . . . 123--123
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Fill This Prescription 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Hornyak News Scan: The Biggest Dig . . . . . . . 18--21
Diane Martindale One Face, One Neuron . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Alexander Hellemans A Force to Reckon With . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Charles Q. Choi Transistor Flow Control . . . . . . . . 26--26
Graham P. Collins Quantum Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Kaspar Mossman Parsing Parasites . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
JR Minkel Crawling Sensation . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Soaping Up . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Clues to the Earth's Heat . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Missing in Maize . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Worlds without End . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Extreme Star Formation . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Remember Wrong to Eat Right . . . . . . 33--33
Rodger Doyle More Boys Than Girls . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Unweaving the Heart . . . . . . 36--36
Marguerite Holloway Insights: The Beauty of Branes . . . . . 38--40
Françoise Combes Astrophysics: Ripples in a Galactic Pond 42--49
Terry Kenakin Biotech: New Bull's-Eyes for Drugs . . . 50--57
John W. Valley Earth Science: A Cool Early Earth? . . . 58--65
John Horgan Neuroscience: The Forgotten Era of Brain
Chips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Gary Stix Innovations: Better Than a Dog . . . . . 74--77
Dennis Drayna Genetics: Founder Mutations . . . . . . 78--85
Alex Hills Communications and Infotech: Smart Wi-Fi 86--94
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Paving the Way . . . 96--97
Gary Stix Technicalities: Heavy-Metal Sweat . . . 98--103
Anonymous Reviews: Science Abuse . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Additions and Corrections 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Preparing for the Worst 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Mark Fischetti News Scan: Protecting against the Next
Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
George Musser Comet Dust Bunny . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Charles Q. Choi Baby to Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Wendy M. Grossman Wait a Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Mark Alpert Red Star Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Gunjan Sinha Bugs and Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
Rodger Doyle Fewer Men, More Crime . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points: Anxious Moments . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Replenished Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel No Sleep, No Problem . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Take Your Breath Away . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Road Assault on Water . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Relative Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Use Your Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Rupert's Resonance . . . . . . 38--38
Krista West Insights: Scoping Out the Planet . . . . 40--42
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Christine Soares Special Report: Preparing for a Pandemic 44--54
Juan Maldacena Physics: The Illusion of Gravity . . . . 56--63
David Warmflash and
Benjamin Weiss Planetary Science: Did Life Come from
Another World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Philip J. Kuekes and
Gregory S. Snider and
R. Stanley Williams Information Technology: Crossbar
Nanocomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--80
Alex P. Meshik Geoscience: The Workings of an Ancient
Nuclear Reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91
Carl Zimmer Neuroscience: The Neurobiology of the
Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
Gary Stix Biotechnology: The Land of Milk & Money 102--105
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Case Cracked . . . . 106--107
Anonymous Reviews: Making Tracks on Mars . . . . . 108--111
Steven Mirsky Anti Gravity: Naming Names . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Running on Empty . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
JR Minkel News Scan: Trials for the Poor . . . . . 18--20
Christine Soares Cold War Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Graham P. Collins Cheaper Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Philip E. Ross Grow Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Steven Ashley Lean Gene Machine . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
George Musser Martian Claymation . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Rodger Doyle Forgive Us Our Debts . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous The 2005 Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi One Small Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Christine Soares Killer Resurrected . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Going the Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Going through the Brownian Motions . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Tilting at Asteroids . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Weakening HIV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Mr. Skeptic Goes to Esalen . . 38--38
W. Wayt Gibbs Insights: Breaking the Mold . . . . . . 42--44
Anonymous Technology Leaders: \booktitleScientific
American 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Aimee Cunningham \booktitleScientific American 50: Woo
Suk Hwang, Seoul National University . . 48--48
Lamont Wood Google, Inc., Mountain View, Calif. . . 49--49
Michelle Press Fred Kavli, Founder, Kavli Foundation,
Santa Barbara, Calif. . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Christine Soares Getting Serious about Flu . . . . . . . 52--52
George Musser More Power to Solar . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Charles Q. Choi Stem Cell Imperative . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Charles Q. Choi Repairing Broken Hearts . . . . . . . . 54--54
Mark Alpert Protections for the Earth's Climate . . 55--55
Graham P. Collins A Future in Plastics . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Aimee Cunningham New Offensives against HIV . . . . . . . 56--57
W. Wayt Gibbs Creative Paths to Open Access . . . . . 57--58
Gary Stix A Force for Change . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
JR Minkel Waiting for Wi-Far . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Michael Szpir Designing Artificial Life . . . . . . . 59--60
Steven Ashley New Aircraft, Big and Small . . . . . . 60--61
Michael Szpir Watching the Brain at Work . . . . . . . 61--62
JR Minkel Practical Nanotubes . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Kaspar Mossman True Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Charles Q. Choi Hope for Fixing Gene Defects . . . . . . 65--65
Kaspar Mossman Photons, Electrons and Silicon . . . . . 66--66
Theodore A. Jacobson and
Renaud Parentani Physics: An Echo of Black Holes . . . . 68--75
Claire Panosian Dunavan Medicine: Tackling Malaria . . . . . . . 76--83
William H. Hannum and
Gerald E. Marsh and
George S. Stanford Energy: Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste . . 84--91
Robert Sapolsky Public Health: Sick of Poverty . . . . . 92--99
Jennifer A. Clack Evolution: Getting a Leg Up on Land . . 100--7
Darold A. Treffert and
Daniel D. Christensen Neuroscience: Inside the Mind of a
Savant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113
Patrick Merrell Crossword: Wormhole . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Better Exposure . . . 116--117
Kaspar Mossman Technicalities: Easy Rider . . . . . . . 118--121
Anonymous Reviews: Tricky, Turbulent, Tribal . . . 124--126
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Trials of Life . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Saving Animals and
People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Luis Miguel Ariza News Scan: Virtual Jihad . . . . . . . . 18--21
JR Minkel T Cells for Brain Cells . . . . . . . . 21--22
Charles Q. Choi Un-Killing the Messenger . . . . . . . . 22--24
Philip E. Ross Half-Brained Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Rebecca Renner Clean and Green . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Sarah Todd Davidson Pumped-Up Performance . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rodger Doyle Modern Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Caffeine Fiends . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Descent in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Protein by the Splice . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel On the Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Q. Choi Biggest Losers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Plight of the Condor . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Underwater Speeding Violation . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Murdercide . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Appell Insights: Easing Jitters when Buildings
Rumble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Subhanjoy Mohanty and
Ray Jayawardhana Astrophysics: The Mystery of Brown Dwarf
Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
George M. Church Cover Story: Biotechnology: Genomes for
All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54
Eric L. Geist and
Vasily V. Titov and
Costas E. Synolakis Earth and Ocean Science: Tsunami: WAVE
of CHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
W. Wayt Gibbs Artificial Intelligence: Innovations
From A Robot Rally . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Craig Howard Kinsley and
Kelly G. Lambert Neurobiology: The Maternal Brain . . . . 72--79
Gary Stix Information Technology: Recognition
Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Alan M. Goldberg and
Thomas Hartung Toxicology: Protecting More Than Animals 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: No More Gears . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Reviews: Getting a Rational Grip on
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: and Science for All . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous SA Perspectives: To Banish a Cancer . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: Polar Satellite Freeze . . . 18--20
Kate Wong Food for Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steven Ashley Bouncy Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Christina Reed Talking Up Enlightenment . . . . . . . . 23--24
Patrick Di Justo Winner Takes All . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
JR Minkel Pinching Out Sulfur . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Anonymous Data Points: Googling It . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Greener Cretaceous Pastures . . . . . . 28--28
George Musser Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright . . . . . . 28--28
Philip Yam Sight for Bee Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Catch as Quantum Can . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel The Devil You Know . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Fiber Irregularities . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Sizing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: It's Dogged as Does It . . . . 34--35
Steve Mirsky Insights: Teach the Science . . . . . . 36--38
Chandrashekhar Joshi Cover Story: Physics: Plasma
Accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Daniel M. Davis Immunology: Intrigue at the Immune
Synapse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Alexander Glaser and
Frank N. von Hippel Defense: Thwarting Nuclear Terrorism . . 56--63
Mark Fischetti Engineering: Protecting New Orleans . . 64--71
Charles Q. Choi Innovations: Miniaturized Power . . . . 72--75
Gary Stix Biotechnology and The Law: Owning the
Stuff of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Jeffrey H. Schwartz Information Technology and Imaging:
Putting a Face on the First President 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Into the Breach . . . 92--93
Mark Alpert Technicalities: My Virtual War . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Reviews: A Tour of Turing . . . . . . . 98--100
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bait and Switch . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Con Men in Lab Coats 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Geology
Uproar Big-Gun Battleships Horsepower
for Horse Dung . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Sara Beardsley News Scan: Down in Flames . . . . . . . 20--22
Charles Q. Choi Going to Bat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24B
Graham P. Collins Ion Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Daniel G. Dupont Software Insecurity . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Mark Alpert Crater Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
JR Minkel In the Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Sense and Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Where the Bacteria Roam . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Testing Lethality . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi What You See Is What You Say . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Reefer Sanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Rodger Doyle The Honeymoon Is Over . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Nanoparticles Can't Hide . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Cures and Cons . . . . . . . . 35--35
Marina Krakovsky Insights: Experiments at Work . . . . . 36--38
Eugene N. Parker Astronautics: Shielding Space Travelers 40--47
David A. Sinclair and
Lenny Guarente Cover Story: Biotechnology: Unlocking
the Secrets of Longevity Genes . . . . . 48--57
Scott C. Doney Ocean Ecology: The Dangers of Ocean
Acidification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Steven Ashley Information Technology: Cognitive Radio 66--73
Gregory Chaitin Chemistry: The Limits of Reason . . . . 74--81
Terrence J. Collins and
Chip Walter Little Green Molecules . . . . . . . . . 82--90
Gary Stix Innovations: The Elusive Goal of Machine
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Spin and Swing . . . 96--97
Jonathan Weiner Reviews: From Surmise to Sunrise . . . . 98--101
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Annual Rapport . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: The Collider Calamity 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
George Musser News Scan: The Check Is in the Mail . . 18--20
Michael Dumiak Lifting the Winter Dark . . . . . . . . 20--21
Christine Soares Turning Yellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Sandra Upson Taking Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Sarah Simpson Survival of the Smallest . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Crystal Steer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Rodger Doyle Lady Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points: Cancer Deaths . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Finding a Lost World . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Fat Chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Singular Is the New Binary . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Genetic Changes from Bullying . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Musseling In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel When a Fungus Has a Ball . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: As Luck Would Have It . . . . . 35--35
Madhusree Mukerjee Insights: The Prostitutes' Union . . . . 36--37
Gordon D. Holman Astrophysics: The Mysterious Origins of
Solar Flares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Roger I. Glass Medicine: New Hope For Defeating
Rotavirus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
Graham P. Collins Cover Story: Information Technology:
Computing with Quantum Knots . . . . . . 56--63
Carel Van Schaik Intelligence and Evolution: Why Are Some
Animals So Smart? . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Joseph J. Romm and
Andrew A. Frank Transportation: Hybrid Vehicles Gain
Traction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Gary Stix Biotechnology: An Antibiotic Resistance
Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Pranab Bardhan Economics: Does Globalization Help or
Hurt the World's Poor? . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Big Squeeze . . . . . 92--93
Steven Ashley Technicalities: Sharp Shooter . . . . . 94--97
Jim Holt Reviews: Beyond the Standard Model . . . 98--100
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Short Takes . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Don't Rob the Cradle 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Paul Raeburn News Scan: Legislating Integrity . . . . 14--16
David Biello Mixing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Graham P. Collins Chaos in the Crater . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Gunjan Sinha Pumping Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steven Ashley Enhanced Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Eric Smalley Light Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle Welfare Woes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Cannibal Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Origami from DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Powering Off for Safety . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Cold Faithful . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Eyeing Redness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
JR Minkel Artificial Gravity with Magnetism . . . 29--29
Michael Shermer Skeptic: SHAM Scam . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Tim Hornyak Insights: Android Science . . . . . . . 32--34
Michael Riordan and
William A. Zajc Cover Story: Physics and Cosmology: The
First Few Microseconds . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Ehud Shapiro and
Yaakov Benenson Information Technology: Bringing DNA
Computers To Life . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Carina Hoorn Earth Science: The Birth of the Mighty
Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Gary Stix Biotechnology: Blockbuster Dreams . . . 60--63
Roberto Gilmozzi Astronomy: Giant Telescopes of the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Michael S. Wolfe Medicine: Shutting Down Alzheimer's . . 72--79
Cliff Stoll History of Technology: When Slide Rules
Ruled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Cutting Work . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Reviews: What Makes a Revolution? . . . 90--93
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Proof Is on the
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous SA Perspectives: How to Kill Synthetic
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Sara Beardsley News Scan: The End of the Everglades? 14--15
Daniel G. Dupont Disruptive Threats . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Sally Lehrman Trace Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Christine Soares No Prayer Prescription . . . . . . . . . 20--20
JR Minkel Hard Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
George Musser NASA's Reverse Thrust . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Lisa Melton Body Blazes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Bottoms Up --- or Maybe Down . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel The Lure of Punishment . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Viral Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Q. Choi Fish Out of Water . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Q. Choi The Other, Other White Meat . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Q. Choi Peaking Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Flipping Point . . . . . . 28--28
Jeffrey Sachs Sustainable Developments: The New
Geopolitics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Sally Lehrman Insights: The Implicit Prejudice . . . . 32--34
Ilya N. Bindeman Earth Science: The Secrets of
Supervolcanoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
David Baker and
George Church and
Jim Collins and
Drew Endy and
Joseph Jacobson and
Jay Keasling and
Paul Modrich and
Christina Smolke and
Ron Weiss Cover Story: Biotechnology: Engineering
Life: Building a FAB for Biology . . . . 44--51
Michael A. Mallin Ecology: Wading In Waste . . . . . . . . 52--59
Allan I. Basbaum and
David Julius Medicine: Toward Better Pain Control . . 60--67
Daniel Jackson Information Technology: Dependable
Software by Design . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Gary Stix Pharmacology: A New Assault on HIV . . . 76--78
Jean-Paul Delahaye Mathematics: The Science behind Sudoku 80--87
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Carbon Hooch . . . . 88--89
Philip Yam Technicalities: The Ultimate Blood Test 90--92
Anonymous Reviews: Favored by the Gods . . . . . . 93--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Up the Lazy Creek . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Cell Phones on a Plane 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Paul Raeburn News Scan: A Regulation on Regulations 18--20
Jeneen Interlandi An Immune Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Graham P. Collins A Hint of Axions . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Charles Q. Choi Not So Super . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Wendy M. Grossman Who Pays? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Steven Ashley A New Take on Hybrids . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle Virtual Skulduggery . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi From Brain to Heart . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi New Way to Create Elements . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel What Role for New Neurons? . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Q. Choi Mass Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Island of Resistance . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
JR Minkel Traces of Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Political Brain . . . . . . 36--36
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Ecology and
Political Upheaval . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Ray Kurzweil Forum: Reprogramming Biology . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Insights: Dangling a Carrot for Vaccines 39--40
Mario Livio Astronomy: Hubble's Top10 . . . . . . . 42--51
Michael F. Clarke and
Michael W. Becker Biomedicine: Stem Cells: The Real
Culprits in Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
John B. Pendry and
David R. Smith Physics and Optics: The Quest for the
Superlens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Timothy H. Goldsmith Life Science: What Birds See . . . . . . 68--75
Paul M. Grant and
Chauncey Starr and
Thomas J. Overbye Energy: A Power Grid for the Hydrogen
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Max M. Houck Forensics: CSI: Reality . . . . . . . . 84--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Expanding Use . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Reviews: Standing Up to Dance and Sing 96--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: For the Birds . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Keep the Net Neutral 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Gunjan Sinha News Scan: Soccer Goes Green . . . . . . 18--20
Mark Alpert The Neutrino Frontier . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Christina Reed Sequencing Sea World . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
George Musser Venus de Seismo . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Paul Raeburn Slow-Acting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Paleolithic Juvenilia . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rodger Doyle The Crystal Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Alight Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi A Firm Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Solitary Briny Confinement . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi A Place for RNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Lasers from Sound . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Platonic Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Folk Science . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Virtuous
Circles and Fragile States . . . . . . . 35--35
Alexander Hellemans Insights: The Geometer of Particle
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Mihail C. Roco Forum: Nanotechnology's Future . . . . . 39--39
David Jewitt and
Scott S. Sheppard and
Jan Kleyna Astronomy: The Strangest Satellites in
the Solar System . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Mark Gerstein and
Deyou Zheng Life Science: The Real Life of
Pseudogenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Thomas A. Jackson Aerospace: Power for a Space Plane . . . 56--63
Philip E. Ross Cover: Psychology and Brain Science: The
Expert Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Kip Hodges Earth Science: Climate and the Evolution
of Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
W. Wayt Gibbs Information Technology: A Great Leap in
Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Scott M. Gende and
Thomas P. Quinn Ecology: The fish & the forest . . . . . 84--89
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Going Vertical . . . 90--91
Mark Alpert Technicalities: Weather Gets Personal 92--94
Andrew Hodges Reviews: Reality Show . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Monumental Error . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Cooling Our Heels . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Sally Lehrman News Scan: Missing No Longer . . . . . . 18--20
Graham P. Collins The Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Charles Q. Choi Old MacDonald's Pharm . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steven Ashley Mach 3 Hunter-Killer . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Christina Reed Hot Trails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Tim Hornyak Thinking of Child's Play . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Dumbing Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Magical Mushroom Tour . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Pre-Plastic Fantastic . . . . . . . . . 36--36
George Musser Direct Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Biodiesel Is Better . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Camera Shy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Support for the Stick . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Fake, Mistake, Replicate . . . 40--40
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Lower
Fertility: A Wise Investment . . . . . . 42--42
Tom Leighton Forum: The Net's Real Security Problem 44--44
Gary Stix Introduction: A Climate Repair Manual 46--49
Robert H. Socolow and
Stephen W. Pacala Strategy: A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check 50--57
John B. Heywood Automotive Answers: Fueling Our
Transportation Future . . . . . . . . . 60--63
Eberhard K. Jochem Energy Efficiency: An Efficient Solution 64--67
David G. Hawkins and
Daniel A. Lashof and
Robert H. Williams Carbon Capture and Storage: What to do
about Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
John M. Deutch and
Ernest J. Moniz Role For Fission: The Nuclear Option . . 76--83
Daniel M. Kammen Clean Power: The Rise of Renewable
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93
Joan Ogden Fuel Cells and More: High Hopes for
Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--101
W. Wayt Gibbs Revolutionary Energy Sources: Plan B for
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--114
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Tall Task . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous Reviews: The Inelegant Universe . . . . 118--120
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Requiem for a Heavyweight 124--124
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Let There Be Light . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
David Biello News Scan: A Better Defense . . . . . . 18--21
JR Minkel Uninformed Consent . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Brie Finegold Inpaint by Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Christine Soares Digestive Decoys . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Daniel G. Dupont Far-Out Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
John Dudley Miller Contentious Calculation . . . . . . . . 29--30
Charles Q. Choi Fat Side of the Moon . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Bubble Adhesion . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Charles Q. Choi Fido's Transmissible Tumor . . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Dust Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Cotton-Picking Results . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel That Way Lies Confusion . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Womb Woes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Rodger Doyle To Serve Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Darwin on the Right . . . . . . 38--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Fiddling while
the Planet Burns . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Andrew Lippman Forum: The New Age of Wireless . . . . . 40--40
Wolfgang Hillebrandt and
Hans-Thomas Janka and
Ewald Müller Cover: Astrophysics: How to Blow Up A
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Philip E. Ross Infotech: Viral Nano Electronics . . . . 52--55
Zoltan Fehervari and
Shimon Sakaguchi Cell Biology: Peacekeepers of the Immune
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Peter D. Ward Earth Science: Impact From the Deep . . 64--71
Ralph Hollis Robotics: Ballbots . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
S. Christopher Caran and
James A. Neely Anthropology: Hydraulic Engineering in
Prehistoric Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Klaus Mosbach Biotechnology: The Promise of Molecular
Imprinting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Steady Cam . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Reviews: Scientists on Religion . . . . 94--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Drawing to an Inside Flush 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous SA Perspectives: California, Here We
Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
Experimental Violence ``Father of
Aviation'' The New Iron Age . . . . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: Blastomere Blowup . . . . . . 18--22
Rebecca Renner Keeping CO$_2$ Down . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Steven Ashley Muscling Up Color . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Sarah Simpson Catchy Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Christina Reed Martian Field Test . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
David Biello Not Imagining It . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
David Biello Dark Matter Discovery . . . . . . . . . 36--36
David Biello Engineered Cells Beat Back Cancer . . . 36--36
Anonymous Too Many Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
David Biello Washing Hands to Remove Moral Taint . . 37--37
JR Minkel Anemic Phytoplankton . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Kate Wong Lucy's Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Rodger Doyle Myth: Red-Blue States . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Wronger Than Wrong . . . . . . 40--40
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Welfare
States, Beyond Ideology . . . . . . . . 42--42
Stuart A. Kauffman Forum: The Evolution of Future Wealth 44--44
Abraham Loeb Cosmology: The Dark Ages of the Universe 46--53
Giacomo Rizzolatti and
Leonardo Fogassi and
Vittorio Gallese Special Section: Neuroscience: Mirrors
In The Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and
Lindsay M. Oberman Broken Mirrors: A Theory of Autism . . . 62--69
Mikko Hypponen Information Technology: Malware Goes
Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Laurence Mee Ecology: Reviving Dead Zones . . . . . . 78--85
Kent D. Irwin Sensor Technology: Seeing with
Superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Bradley E. Schaefer Archaeology and Astronomy: The Origin of
the Greek Constellations . . . . . . . . 96--101
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Gunk-Free Fiber . . . 102--103
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Uncommon Scents . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Old Baby in the New
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sally Lehrman News Scan: Partial to Crime . . . . . . 28--29
David Biello Organic Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Mark Fischetti Call It Beetle Guard . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Charles Q. Choi Voting with the Heart . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Gary Stix Send in the Terminator . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
David Biello Brain Zaps for Generosity . . . . . . . 38--38
Emily Harrison Looking Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Blood Blocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Light-Matter Teleportation . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous The 2006 Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . 40--40
David Biello Earth's Precession, Species Procession 40--40
David Biello Moles' Cancer Brake . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
George Musser A Reason for a Moonless Venus . . . . . 40--40
Rodger Doyle Not So Revolutionary . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Bowling for God . . . . . . . . 44--44
Philip E. Ross Insights: Putting Up with Self . . . . . 45--45
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Challenge
of Sustainable Water . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Anonymous Technology Leaders: The
\booktitleScientific American 50 . . . . 49--49
JR Minkel \booktitleScientific American 50: Angela
Belcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
JR Minkel Swiss Re . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
JR Minkel and
Gary Stix Al Gore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Michelle Press More Than Government Grants . . . . . . 52--52
Steven Ashley On the Road to Green . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Christine Soares Unlocking Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . . 53--53
George Musser Beginning to See the Light . . . . . . . 54--54
Gary Stix The Promise of the Mother Cell . . . . . 54--55
Mark Alpert Smart Tags Get Smarter . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Graham P. Collins Chicken-Wire Electronics . . . . . . . . 55--55
Brie Finegold and
Gary Stix Growing Replacement Parts . . . . . . . 56--56
Charles Q. Choi DNA Sequencing on the Cheap . . . . . . 57--57
Brie Finegold Robots on the Move . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Charles Q. Choi Material Progress . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
Charles Q. Choi Sight Savers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Anonymous Of Brain Maps and Saving the Internet 59--59
Jim Bell Planetary Science: The Red Planet's
Watery Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and
Sidarta Ribeiro Brain Science: Seeking the Neural Code 70--77
Kate Wong Special Report: Lucy's Baby . . . . . . 78--85
Robert R. Alfano Photonics: The Ultimate White Light . . 86--93
David J. Waters and
Kathleen Wildasin Medicine: Cancer Clues from Pet Dogs . . 94--101
Ian Robinson Metrology: Weighty Matters . . . . . . . 102--109
Patrick Merrell Crossword: Set Theory . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Hot Commodity . . . . 112--113
Anonymous Reviews: Darwin at the Zoo . . . . . . . 114--119
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: News from Down Under . . . 123--123
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Perspectives: Meet Resistance Head-On 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Graham P. Collins News Scan: Kim's Big Fizzle . . . . . . 18--18
Sarah Simpson Seismic Sentries . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Charles Q. Choi Pollution in Solution . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Mike Simmons Seeing Stars in Iraq . . . . . . . . . . 23--25
Christine Soares Here Come the X-Mice . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Steven Ashley Real Stinkers Reformed . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Nikhil Swaminathan Moon Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello Language Trumps Innate Spatial Cognition 28--28
JR Minkel I Don't See the Light . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Nikhil Swaminathan Being Cool for a Longer Life . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello Brain Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Alison Snyder Partners in Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Rodger Doyle Teen Sex in America . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Airborne Baloney . . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Neglected
Tropical Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Steven Soter Astrophysics: What is a Planet? . . . . 34--41
Matthew L. Wald Energy: Is Ethanol for the Long Haul? 42--49
Jeffrey E. Barrick and
Ronald R. Breaker Molecular Biology: The Power of
Riboswitches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Bill Gates Information Technology: A Robot in Every
Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Carl Zimmer Life Science: Evolved for Cancer? . . . 68--75
Roy B. Van Arsdale and
Randel T. Cox Earth Science: The Mississippi's Curious
Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--82
Gary Stix Innovations: Better Ways to Target Pain 84--88
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Grass vs. Plastic . . 90--91
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sweet and Soiled Science 92--92
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Perspectives: Truth Time in Washington 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100
and 150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: A Stroke for Stem Cells . . . 14--15
Marina Krakovsky Unsettled Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18
Anna Griffith Chipping In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
George Musser Martian Rope Trick . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Wendy M. Grossman Dial ``I'' for Internet . . . . . . . . 22--22
Mark Alpert The Triangular Universe . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Ciara Curtin Think of Money, Be Less Helpful . . . . 25--25
JR Minkel Cordless Charging . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Nikhil Swaminathan Deciphering Neandertal's Faded Genes . . 25--25
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Biello Methane Flatline . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
JR Minkel Free Flow on Mars . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Nikhil Swaminathan Edible Cottonseeds --- If You Want to
Eat Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rodger Doyle License to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Eat, Drink and Be Merry . . . . 29--29
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Moving beyond
Kyoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Marguerite Holloway Insights: Graft and Host, Together
Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Christopher J. Conselice Cosmology: The Universe's Invisible Hand 34--41
Raymond R. Rogers and
David W. Krause Paleontology: Tracking an Ancient Killer 42--51
Frank Keppler Atmospheric Science: Methane, Plants and
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Bahram Jalali Information Technology: Making Silicon
Lase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Gary Stix Innovations: Spice Healer . . . . . . . 66--69
Michael Antonoff Consumer Electronics: Digital TV at last 70--75
Christian E. Schafmeister Nanotechnology: Molecular Lego . . . . . 76--82B
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Song Beams . . . . . 84--85
Steven Ashley Technicalities: Power Walker . . . . . . 86--88
Karen A. Frenkel Reviews: Why Aren't More Women
Physicists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Kindest Cut . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous SA Perspectives: The Beef with Cloned
Meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Alison Snyder News Scan: Sight for Sore Eyes . . . . . 18--20
Alexander Hellemans Alone at the Top . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Christine Soares Deadly Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Charles Q. Choi Pole Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Wendee Holtcamp Sympathy for the Devil . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Mark Fischetti Scoring Your Identity . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Biello Back to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Biello The Long and Short of It . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Biello Titanic Lakes of Methane . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi A Gene for Aging Smartly . . . . . . . . 30--30
Alison Snyder Cutting Back, Not Cutting Down . . . . . 30--30
Alison Snyder The Password Is G-L-O . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rodger Doyle Breaking the Mold . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Threats of
War, Chances for Peace . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: (Can't Get No) Satisfaction . . 34--34
Gary Stix Insights: Graph Theory and Teatime . . . 37--40
Wallace Tucker and
Harvey Tananbaum and
Andrew Fabian Astrophysics: Black Hole BLOWBACK . . . 42--49
Francis S. Collins and
Anna D. Barker Biotechnology: Mapping the Cancer Genome 50--57
Gordon Bell and
Jim Gemmell Information Technology: A Digital Life 58--65
Jane C. Marks Environment: Down Go The Dams . . . . . 66--71
Abner Louis Notkins Medicine: New Predictors of Disease . . 72--79
Steven Ashley Energy: Diesels come Clean . . . . . . . 80--89
John S. Werner and
Baingio Pinna and
Lothar Spillmann Neuroscience: Illusory Color & the Brain 90--95
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Restoring Flow . . . 96--97
Anonymous Reviews: A New Journey into Hofstadter's
Mind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Tough to Swallow . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Caution: Sharp Edges 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
David Biello News Scan: Conservative Climate . . . . 16--19
Mark Alpert The Autism Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Gary Stix Selfless Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
George Musser The Not-So-Dark Matter . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Steven Ashley Natural Gas Rockets . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Jeneen Interlandi Chemo Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rodger Doyle Darkness on the Water . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello Hot Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Artificial Market Power . . . . . . . . 28--28
JR Minkel Shrinking by Hafnium . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Lavender's Hormone Havoc . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Evidence from the Shire . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Stop-and-Go Light . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Free to Choose . . . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Rapid
Victories against Extreme Poverty . . . 34--34
Marina Krakovsky Insights: The Science of Lasting
Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Rodrigo Ibata and
Brad Gibson Astronomy: The Ghosts of Galaxies Past 40--45
John I. Nurnberger, Jr. and
Laura Jean Bierut Biotechnology: Seeking the Connections:
Alcoholism and Our Genes . . . . . . . . 46--53
Harry A. Atwater Information Technology: The Promise of
Plasmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Bernd Heinrich and
Thomas Bugnyar Animal Behavior: Just How Smart are
Ravens? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Frank Werblin and
Botond Roska Neuroscience: The Movies in Our Eyes . . 72--79
Sunita Satyapal and
John Petrovic and
George Thomas Energy: Gassing Up With Hydrogen . . . . 80--87
Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr. Medicine: A Cure for Rabies? . . . . . . 88--95
Anonymous Working Knowledge: Steer Clear . . . . . 96--97
Philip Yam Technicalities: The Car Doctor Is In . . 98--100
Anonymous Reviews: Is Beauty Truth and Truth
Beauty? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Doughnut Try This at Home 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous SA Perspectives: When Pariahs Have Good
Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: Structured Settings . . . . . 20--23
Christine Soares Codon Spell Check . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Michael Antonoff Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Alexander Hellemans Escape from the Nucleus . . . . . . . . 26--27
Sally Lehrman Dialing In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Tim Hornyak Microchips with Heart . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Rodger Doyle Food Boom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Data Points: Big Bang of Bits . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Rat-Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Medieval Quasicrystals . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Spooky Action at a Greater Distance . . 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
David Biello Drought-Making Pollutants . . . . . . . 37--37
Charles Q. Choi Sweet (Scented) Dreams . . . . . . . . . 37--37
JR Minkel No Glare There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Bush's Mistake and Kennedy's
Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Road to
Clean Energy Starts Here . . . . . . . . 39--39
Claudio Angelo Insights: Prime Directive for the Last
Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Sushil K. Atreya Cover Story: Space Science: The Mystery
of Methane on Mars & Titan . . . . . . . 42--51
Peter Duesberg Medicine: Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer 52--59
Massoud Amin and
Phillip F. Schewe Energy: Preventing Blackouts . . . . . . 60--67
John J. Flynn and
André R. Wyss and
Reynaldo Charrier Paleontology: South America's Missing
Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
George Gruner Information Technology: Carbon Nanonets
Spark New Electronics . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Steven Laureys Neuroscience: Eyes Open, Brain Shut . . 84--89
Rachel Hillmer and
Paul Kwiat Physics: A Do-It-Yourself Quantum Eraser 90--95
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Psst\ldots Hey, You 96--97
Anonymous Reviews: The Interplay of Art and
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Ale's Well with the World 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous SA Perspectives: Serengeti in the
Dakotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rebecca Renner News Scan: Green Gold in a Shrub . . . . 20--23
Luis Miguel Ariza Atomic Fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Charles Q. Choi ``Memjet'' Momentum . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Madeline Bodin A Good Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Steven Ashley Beam Weapons Get Real . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Matt Mossman Fish That Go Skin-Deep . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Karen A. Frenkel Silicon Smackdown . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Anonymous Data Points: Collision Decision . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Martian Cave Dwellings . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Stick It to the Kids . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Nikhil Swaminathan Brain Damage for Easier Moral Choices 36--36
Anonymous Brief Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Thania Benios Brain Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Rodent Roy G. Biv . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Nikhil Swaminathan Collagen from \em T. Rex . . . . . . . . 38--38
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The (Other) Secret . . . . . . 39--39
Sally Lehrman Insights: Going beyond $X$ and $Y$ . . . 40--41
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Climate Change
Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Robert Shapiro Biology: A Simpler Origin for Life . . . 46--53
Beverley A. Orser Medicine: Lifting the Fog around
Anesthesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
David Kiser Particle Cosmology: When Fields Collide 62--69
C. Josh Donlan Ecosystems: Restoring America's Big,
Wild Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Michelle Effros and
Ralf Koetter and
Muriel Médard Information Technology: Breaking Network
Logjams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Stuart F. Brown Innovations: Seeing Triple . . . . . . . 86--86
Kaushik Basu Game Theory: The Traveler's Dilemma . . 90--95
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: The Write Type . . . 96--97
Anonymous Reviews: The Editors Recommend . . . . . 98--99
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dumb Cup . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: A Little Revolution . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Do You See What I See? . . . . 10--13
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: Warming to Law . . . . . . . 18--20
David Biello Reasonable Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Mark Fischetti Treading Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--24
George Musser An Ear for Spacetime . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Wendy M. Grossman Jam Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Michael Dumiak Pieces of a Paranoid Past . . . . . . . 26--29
Christine Soares All in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Seed Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
JR Minkel Beer Head with Numbers . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Nikhil Swaminathan Twenty Percent Recall . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Steven Ashley No-Pressure Diamond Scratchers . . . . . 34--34
Mark Fischetti Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Editors Opinions: Bad Execution . . . . . . . . 36--37
Jeffrey D. Sachs The Promise of the Blue Revolution . . . 37--38
Jose Goldemberg Forum: The Limited Appeal of Nuclear
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Prospects for \em Homo
economicus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dog Bites Dog Story . . . 42--43
Kevin E. Trenberth Climate Change: Warmer Oceans, Stronger
Hurricanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Joe Z. Tsien Brain Science: The Memory Code . . . . . 52--59
Gray Stix Immunology: A Malignant Flame . . . . . 60--67
Stephen J. O'Brien and
Warren E. Johnson Genetics: The Evolution Cats . . . . . . 68--75
Alan Weisman Environment: An Earth Without People . . 76--81
Mohsen Kavehrad Information Technology: Broadband Room
Service by Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Lawrence M. Krauss and
Richard Dawkins Debate: Should Science Speak To Faith 88--91
Chip Walter Insights: A Little Privacy, Please . . . 92--95
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: In or Out? . . . . . 96--97
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
David Biello Fact or Fiction? . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: Little Black Pills . . 6--7
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Alison Snyder News Scan: Protein Pretense . . . . . . 18--20
John Dudley Miller Laboratory Letdowns . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Mark Fischetti A Return on Redwoods . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Linda Baker On the Rebound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Christine Soares Attitude Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Mark Alpert Dimensional Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Tim Hornyak Playing It by Ear . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Data Points: Healthy Investing . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Quantum Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Roots of Science Hatred . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Catch the Laser Rainbow . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel New Ways for More Stem Cells . . . . . . 30--30
The Editors Opinion: Worse Than Gasoline . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Making Development Less Risky . . . . . 33--36
Jim Bell Have Brain, Must Travel . . . . . . . . 36--38
Steve Mirsky Floral Derangement . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Jonathan Kahn Public Policy: Race in a Bottle . . . . 40--45
Patricia Andrews and
Mark Finney and
Mark Fischetti Modeling: Predicting Wildfires . . . . . 46--55
Susana Martinez-Conde Neuroscience: Windows on the Mind . . . 56--63
William Collins and
Robert Colman and
James Haywood and
Martin R. Manning and
Philip Mote Environment: The Physical Science behind
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
R. Douglas Fields Biology: The Shark's Electric Sense . . 74--81
Jerry D. Glover and
Cindy M. Cox and
John P. Reganold Agriculture: Future Farming: A Return to
Roots? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
M. Mitchell Waldrop Innovations: Data Center in a Box . . . 90--93
JR Minkel Insights: The Gedanken Experimenter . . 94--96
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Blu-ray vs. HD DVD 98--99
Michelle Press Reviews: Cosmic Questions; Baboon
Melodrama; Cold Coors . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Ciara Curtin Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions on
a Pen Able to Write in Space . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: All You Can't Eat . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters: Martian Molecules Cancer
Quantum Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Emily Harrison News Scan: Suffering a Slow Recovery . . 22--25
Charles Q. Choi Speaking in Tones . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Mark Wolverton Muons for Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Anna Griffith Healing Broken Nerves . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Sourish Basu Déj\`a Vu Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Alexander Hellemans Dangling a COROT . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Life Not as We Know It . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Ulcers from the Deep . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Jonathan Scheff Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Prions against Alzheimer's . . . . . . . 36--36
Nikhil Swaminathan Developmental Disorder in Mice Reversed 36--36
Editors Opinion: Take Nutrition Claims with a
Grain of Salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Jeffrey D. Sachs Breaking the Poverty Trap . . . . . . . 40--42
C. Konrad Gelbke Full Speed Ahead for an Accelerator . . 42--44
Michael Shermer Rational Atheism . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Steve Mirsky What's the Big Idea? . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Marguerite Holloway Insights: What Visions in the Dark of
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Gary Stix Introduction: A Question of Sustenance 54--58
Marion Nestle Nutrition: Eating Made Simple . . . . . 60--69
Paul Raeburn Health: Can Fat Be Fit? . . . . . . . . 70--71
Jeffrey S. Flier Physiology: What Fuels Fat . . . . . . . 72--81
Kristin Leutwyler Ozelli Obesity and Addiction: This is Your
Brain on Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Barry M. Popkin Emerging Problems: The World is Fat . . 88--95
Per Pinstrup-Andersen Malnutrition: Still Hungry . . . . . . . 96--103
Terri Raney Biotechnology: Sowing a gene Revolution 104--111
Mark Fischetti Security: Is Your Food Contaminated? . . 112--117
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Fresh from the Sea 118--119
Anonymous Reviews: Cyclic Universe World of Words
Nuclear Terror . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Ciara Curtin Fact or Fiction?: Do Living People
Outnumber the Dead? . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
John Rennie From the Editor: Choosing Targets . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Rewilding Network Coding
Traveler's Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Updates: Helium Shortage $ \blacksquare
$ Cytokine Storm $ \blacksquare $
Martian Dust Threat $ \blacksquare $
Novel HIV Drug . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Mark Alpert News Scan: Saving Gas and Lives . . . . 20--23
Sourish Basu Oceangoing Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
John Dudley Miller Surviving Side Effects . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Charles Q. Choi New Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Steven Ashley Liquid Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Appell Toxic Bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Tabitha M. Powledge Easing Hormone Anxiety . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Sourish Basu Data Points Hit or Miss . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Paddle-Free Swimming . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi When Clean Living Isn't Longer Living 36--36
JR Minkel Hot Tails from the Squirrel . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
David Biello Bursting with Words . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Cohabitating Hominids . . . . . . . . . 38--38
The Editors Opinion: Racing past the Moon . . . . . 40--40
Jeffrey D. Sachs Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa . . . . 42--44
Michael Shermer The Really Hard Science . . . . . . . . 44--46
Steve Mirsky Carrots, Sticks and Robot Picks . . . . 48--48
Peter Kareiva and
Michelle Marvier Environment: Conservation for the People 50--57
Steven Ashley and
George Musser Special Report: The Future of Space
Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Charles Dingell and
William A. Johns and
Julie Kramer White To the Moon and Beyond . . . . . . . . . 62--68
George Musser 5 Essential Things to Do in Space . . . 69--75
Christof Koch and
Susan Greenfield Debate: How Does Consciousness Happen? 76--83
David D. Awschalom and
Ryan Epstein and
Ronald Hanson Physics: The Diamond Age Diamond Age of
Spintronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Beryl Lieff Benderly Medicine: Experimental Drugs On Trial 92--99
Charles Q. Choi Innovations: Big Lab on a Tiny Chip . . 100--103
David Biello Insights: The Trouble with Men . . . . . 104--107
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Heating Up . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Reviews: Rapturous Sociability $
\blacksquare $ Armageddon Avoided $
\blacksquare $ The Allure of Venus . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Nikhil Swaminathan Fact or Fiction?: Do Helmets Attract
Cars to Cyclists? . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: The Best Defense . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi News Scan: The Genetics of Politics . . 18--21
David Appell Repairs without Rivets . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Gary Stix A Simple Mimic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Melinda Wenner Scared Off Silicone . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Steven Ashley Rotor in Motor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Sarah Simpson Higher Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Govert Schilling Dark Riddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Biello Explaining Out-of-Body Experiences . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Molecules with Antimatter . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Red Giant Survival . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Cross-Circuiting to Nanotubes . . . . . 36--36
Nikhil Swaminathan No Monkeying Around . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Editors Opinions: Build Diplomacy, Not Bombs . . 37--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Climate Change and the Law . . . . . . . 38--40
Robert Zubrin Don't Wreck the Mars Program . . . . . . 40--42
Michael Shermer Weirdonomics and Quirkology . . . . . . 45--45
Steve Mirsky Profit Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Ed Regis Insights: The Forgotten Code Cracker . . 50--51
Cliff Burgess and
Fernando Quevedo Cosmology: The Great Cosmic
Roller-Coaster Ride . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Luz E. Tavera-Mendoza and
John H. White Biology: Cell Defenses and the Sunshine
Vitamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--72
Anonymous Special Report: Nuclear Weapons in a New
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Mark Fischetti The Nuclear Threat . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
David Biello A Need for New Warheads? . . . . . . . . 80--85
Patrick Aebischer and
Ann C. Kato Medicine: Playing Defense Against Lou
Gehrig's Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
M. Mitchell Waldrop Information Technology: Brilliant
Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
Sheri Fink Humanitarian Relief: The Science of
Doing Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--106
Emily Harrison Object Lesson: Blood Cells for Sale . . 108--109
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Two Technologies
Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Michelle Press Reviews: Peking Man . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Charles Q. Choi Fact or Fiction?: Can a Cockroach Live
without Its Head? . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: Worlds Apart . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters: Global Warming Race-Specific
Drugs Eye Tics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Philip Yam Updates: Absent Southpaws $ \blacksquare
$ Alzheimer's as Diabetes? $
\blacksquare $ Turtle Clues $
\blacksquare $ Missing Mass . . . . . . 22--22
Bianca Nogrady News Scan: T Cell Turnoff . . . . . . . 24--26
Coco Ballantyne Losing Scents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
David Biello A Stash in Every Flush . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Charles Q. Choi Glow for the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Steven Ashley Supersonic Pulse Power . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Don Monroe Deadly Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Luis Miguel Ariza Evolution in a Petri Dish . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Charles Q. Choi Eye on the Tiger . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Charles Q. Choi Not So Neutral Neutron . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Nikhil Swaminathan Use It or Lose It . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel A Qubit Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Nikhil Swaminathan Punishment for Harmony . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Nikhil Swaminathan Something to Remember . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Editors Opinion: Enough Hot Air Already . . . . 40--42
Jeffrey D. Sachs Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks . . . 42--44
Rob Dunn Our Evolving Present . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Michael Shermer An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science 48--49
Steve Mirsky Apples and Cheese . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Marguerite Holloway Insights: Bigfoot Anatomy . . . . . . . 50--53
William B. Atwood and
Peter F. Michelson and
Steven Ritz Astronomy: Window on the Extreme
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Paul Davies Biology: Are Aliens Among Us? . . . . . 62--69
David G. Victor and
Danny Cullenward Environment: Making Carbon Markets Work 70--77
Emily Harrison Gallery: Radiant Information . . . . . . 78--83
Laura Hercher Genetics: Diet Advice from DNA? . . . . 84--89
Lee Feigenbaum and
Ivan Herman and
Tonya Hongsermeier and
Eric Neumann and
Susie Stephens Information Technology: The Semantic Web
in Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
Peter Byrne History of Physics: The Many Worlds of
Hugh Everett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
Patrick Merrell Crossword: In Boxes . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Progress Accelerates 108--109
Anonymous Reviews: Books to Give Books to Get . . 112--112
Anonymous Ask the Experts: How do short-term
memories become long-term memories? . . 114--114
Alison Snyder Fact or Fiction?: Chocolate Is Poisonous
to Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: Big and Small Solutions 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Obesity Weight and Mortality
Caloric Beverages . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner News Scan: Regaining Lost Luster . . . . 18--19
Diane Martindale A Dash of Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Mark Alpert Neutron Oddball . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Whitfield Paging Dr. Doolittle . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Scott Dodd Making Space for Time . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Dan Eatherley Relative Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
JR Minkel Food for Symbolic Thought . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous No Mercy from MRSA . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Bt-Beating Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Bone Sweat Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Weight Loss on Shaky Ground . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
David Biello Signs of a Green Revolution . . . . . . 32--32
Nikhil Swaminathan Psychiatric Disorders from No Sleep? . . 32--32
The Editors Opinion: Congress Fails Science . . . . 33--34
Jeffrey D. Sachs Primary Health for All . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Anonymous The Editors' Blog . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Eva Kaplan A Better Mosquito Net . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Michael Shermer Evonomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Steve Mirsky What's in a (Latin) Name? . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Technology Leadership:
\booktitleScientific American 50 . . . . 41--41
Kaspar Mossman The Wellcome Trust Case Control
Consortium, U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Kaspar Mossman Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville,
Calif. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Kaspar Mossman X Prize Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif. 43--43
Mark Fischetti Connections to an Untethered Future . . 44--44
Christine Soares Getting from Here to There . . . . . . . 44--45
Steven Ashley Fueling Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Mark Alpert Fighting Toxins in the Home . . . . . . 46--46
Steven Ashley Advances in Ultrameasurement . . . . . . 46--47
Mark Fischetti Mosquitoes Enlisted to Beat Malaria . . 47--47
Graham P. Collins and
Charles Q. Choi Material World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Gary Stix Neurological Insights . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Graham P. Collins Light Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Gary Stix Progress against Prions . . . . . . . . 50--50
Mark Alpert Sun Power Gets a Boost . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Christine Soares Stem Cell Control . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
George Musser Squirt and Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
George Musser Making Them Whole . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Peter Sergo The Fastest Way to Get There . . . . . . 53--53
Charles Q. Choi See-Through Technology and Better Sleep 54--54
Rakesh K. Jain Medicine: Taming Vessels to Treat Cancer 56--63
Ken Zweibel and
James Mason and
Vasilis Fthenakis Big Ideas: A Solar Grand Plan . . . . . 64--73
Dan Fagin Public Health: Second Thoughts about
Fluoride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Zhong Lin Wang Engineering: Self-Powered Nanotech . . . 82--87
John A. Tarduno Earth Science: Hot Spots Unplugged . . . 88--93
Ingo R. Titze Physiology: The Human Instrument . . . . 94--101
Rachael Moeller Gorman Insights: Cooking Up Bigger Brains . . . 102--105
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Perpetual Reset
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous Reviews: Beasts with Soul Machines with
Brains Bubble Baths with Meaning . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
John Matson Fact or Fiction?: Does Infinity Come in
Different Sizes? . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editor: Presidential Science 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Drug Access Conservation
Strategy Consciousness . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
JR Minkel News Scan: Potent Alternative . . . . . 16--18
Charles Q. Choi Arabian Brainpower . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Melinda Wenner Disease for Darwinism . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Steven Ashley Aerial Stealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Sally Lehrman From Race to DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Daniel G. Dupont Proactive Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Alison Snyder Turning a Blind Eye? . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Ounces of Prevention . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
David Biello Reduced Catch for Net Gain . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Brain of the Beholder . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Fungus Cowboys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Going with the Persistent Flow . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Brightest Supernova May Reignite . . . . 30--30
The Editors Opinion: Pay for What Works . . . . . . 32--32
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and
Fernando Haddad and
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Brazil's Option for Science Education 33--33
Jeffrey D. Sachs Crisis in the Drylands . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Michael Shermer The Mind of the Market . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Steve Mirsky Remembrance of Things Future . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous Special Report: The Future of Physics 38--38
Graham P. Collins The Discovery Machine . . . . . . . . . 39--45
Chris Quigg The Coming Revolutions in Particle
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Barry Barsh and
Nicholas Walker and
Hitoshi Yamamoto Building The Next-Generation Collider 54--59
Robin E. Bell Climate Change: The Unquiet Ice . . . . 60--67
Tim Hornyak Innovations: RFID Powder . . . . . . . . 68--71
J. Lee Nelson Medicine: Your Cells Are My Cells . . . 72--79
Christine Soares Science and Society: Building a Future
on Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Nikhil Swaminathan Insights: Maverick against the
Mendelians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Leap of Faith . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Reviews: Oil vs. Autos Science Imitates
Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Coco Ballantyne Fact or Fiction?: Fact or Fiction . . . 96--96
John Rennie From the Editor: Looking Both Ways . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Environment and ALS $
\blacksquare $ The Genetic Code $
\blacksquare $ Vitamin D . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Madhusree Mukerjee News Scan: Perilous Pursuit . . . . . . 18--20
John Whitfield Lovers, Not Fighters? . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Mark Wolverton Stirling in Deep Space . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Mark Alpert Fiasco at Fermilab . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
JR Minkel Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Christina Reed Voyagers to the End . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Charles Q. Choi Eye-Opening Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Biello Better Ethanol through Grass . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi New World, New Disease . . . . . . . . . 30--30
JR Minkel Magnetic Control of Cells . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Cleared for Takeoff . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Crystal Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Philip Yam Choosiness for Cooperation . . . . . . . 31--31
The Editors Opinion: Fishing Blues . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Climate Change after Bali . . . . . . . 33--34
Thomas Graham, Jr. and
Russell L. Schweickart NASA's Flimsy Argument for Nuclear
Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Michael Shermer Adam's Maxim and Spinoza's Conjecture 36--37
Steve Mirsky Nothing to Sneeze At . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Gary Stix Prediction Science: When Markets Beat
the Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Lawrence M. Krauss and
Robert J. Scherrer Space: The End of Cosmology? . . . . . . 46--53
R. Douglas Fields Brain Science: White Matter Matters . . 54--61
Scott Aaronson Information Technology: The Limits of
Quantum Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Richard Ellis Environment: The Bluefin in Peril . . . 70--77
Theresa Hitchens Defense: Space Wars . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
Carole Bass Public Health: Solving A Massive Worker
Health Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
Charles Q. Choi Insights: Not Tonight, Dear, I Have to
Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: The Switch Is On . . 98--99
Anonymous Reviews: ``Shields Up!'' The Whale Trial
Antimatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Charles Q. Choi Fact or Fiction?: Do You Need Only Half
Your Brain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: Future Facts . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Letters: The Semantic Web $ \blacksquare
$ Many Worlds $ \blacksquare $ Emissions
Trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Philip Yam Updates: Nanotubes Offshore Wind Power
Synthetic Genome Stress at Work . . . . 22--22
Gary Stix News Scan: Volatility Kills . . . . . . 24--25
David Biello Digital Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Sarah Simpson Dropping Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
George Musser Catching No Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Charles Q. Choi Double-Helix Double Up . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Graham P. Collins Wipeout? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Steven Ashley Cellulose Success . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous More Sleep, Less Fat . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Larry Greenemeier Knee-Jerk Power . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Philip Yam Mercury Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Lost City, Found Hydrocarbons . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi The New Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam Eye on the Illusion . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Opinion: Let the Games Begin! . . . . . 38--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Keys to Climate Protection . . . . . . . 40--40
Robert Nadeau The Economist Has No Clothes . . . . . . 42--42
Michael Shermer Wag the Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Steve Mirsky Attack on the Clones . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Nancy Y. Kiang Space Science: The Color of Plants on
Other Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Ken Muneoka and
Manjong Han and
David M. Gardiner Medicine: Regrowing Human Limbs . . . . 56--63
Philip Micklin and
Nikolay V. Aladin Ecology: Reclaiming the Aral Sea . . . . 64--71
Steven Cundiff and
Jun Ye and
John Hall Physics: Rulers of light . . . . . . . . 74--81
Michael Shermer Sports Psychology: The Doping Dilemma 82--89
Andre K. Geim and
Philip Kim Materials: Carbon Wonderland . . . . . . 90--97
Thomas B. Cochran and
Matthew G. McKinzie National Security: Detecting Nuclear
Smuggling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--104
Thania Benios Insights: At the Edge of Life's Code . . 106--109
Anonymous Reviews: Beautiful Science $
\blacksquare $ Project Nim $
\blacksquare $ Looking for E.T. . . . . 108--108
Stuart F. Brown Working Knowledge: Weapons Revealed . . 110--111
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Christie Nicholson Fact or Fiction?: Does ``Spring Fever''
Exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: Do-It-Yourself . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Fluoridation Solar Power
Congress and Science . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Sally Lehrman News Scan: Taking Genomes Personally . . 20--22
Peter Brown When I'm Sixty-Four . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Charles Q. Choi Copy That . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Adam Hinterthuer Following the Money . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Fredric Heeren Finding Fossils Faster . . . . . . . . . 28--30
John Whitfield Naps for Better Recall . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Wendy M. Grossman Down to the Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Preparing for Doomsday . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Graham P. Collins Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917--2008 . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Self-Healing Rubber . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Split Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Smokestack Soak-Up . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Nikhil Swaminathan Do You See What I See? . . . . . . . . . 38--38
The Editors Opinion: Taking Heed . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Jeffrey D. Sachs The African Green Revolution . . . . . . 42--42
Mark Alpert The Mad Scientist Myth . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Michael Shermer A New Phrenology? . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Steve Mirsky Are You Buying This? . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Douglas N. C. Lin Astronomy: The Genesis of Planets . . . 50--59
Sean B. Carroll and
Benjamin Prud'homme and
Nicolas Gompel Evo-devo: Regulating Evolution . . . . . 60--67
M. Mitchell Waldrop Information Technology: Science 2.0 . . 68--73
Vojo Deretic and
Daniel J. Klionsky Biology: How Cells Clean House . . . . . 74--81
Joseph R. DiFranza Neuroscience: Hooked from the First
Cigarette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Frank N. von Hippel Nuclear Policy: Nuclear Fuel Recycling 88--93
Patrick Skelly Health: Fighting Killer Worms . . . . . 94--99
David Appell Insights: Dark Forces at Work . . . . . 100--102
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Living Cover . . . . 104--105
Michelle Press Reviews: Animated Dimensions Desperate
Contentment Crucial Numbers . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editor: Escaping from Time . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Land ``Tides'' Polar Ice Sheets
Market Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Kate Wong News Scan: Hobbit Hullabaloo . . . . . . 22--24
Charles Q. Choi A New Iron Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Melinda Wenner Your Brain on Diabetes . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Larry Greenemeier Fight in White Space . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
David Biello Need for Speed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Jessica Wapner The Healthy Type . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
George Musser A Science Fête Project . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Cereal Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Destroyer of Worlds\ldots and Ozone . . 36--36
Keren Schultz Asbestos Action . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Charles Q. Choi Punishing Scents . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
JR Minkel Black Hole Data Retrieval . . . . . . . 38--38
Nikhil Swaminathan Skin Job on Parkinson's . . . . . . . . 38--38
Editors Opinion: Climate Fatigue . . . . . . . . 39--39
Jeffrey D. Sachs Surging Food Prices and Global Stability 40--40
Michael Shermer Expelled Exposed . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Steve Mirsky Call of the Reviled . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Sean M. Carroll Cosmology: The Cosmic Origins of Time's
Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Francisco J. Esteva and
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi Medicine: Gaining Ground on Breast
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Hany Farid Information Technology: Digital Image
Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Carl Zimmer Evolutionary Biology: What Is a Species? 72--79
Luca Gasperini and
Enrico Bonatti and
Giuseppe Longo Astronomy: The Tunguska Mystery . . . . 80--86
Paul J. Zak Brain Science: The Neurobiology of Trust 88--95
John Broome Policy: The Ethics of Climate Change . . 96--102
Alexander Hellemans Insights: Beating the Flu in a Single
Shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Stuart F. Brown Working Knowledge: Library to Go . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Reviews: Thriller Physics Virtual Life
Nerd-dom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
John Rennie From the Editor: Minds in Motion . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Schizophrenia Markets vs. Polls
Expanding Universe . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50,100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Peter Brown News Scan: Polar Express . . . . . . . . 18--20
Melinda Wenner Bring In the Noise . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Tim Hornyak Roping the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Christine Soares Ancient Gene, New Tricks . . . . . . . . 24--26
Charles Q. Choi Saving Kermit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Christina Reed Life in Old Lava . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Charles Q. Choi A Bug's Sex Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous People in Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Cancerous Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Eating with Tension . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Keren Blankfeld Schultz A Milk-Diabetes Connection? . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel and
Lisa Stein GINA Becomes Genuine . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Keren Blankfeld Schultz Preemptive Strike against Mindless
Mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
The Editors Opinion: Private, Historical and Genetic
Truths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Jeffrey D. Sachs A Deadline on Malaria . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Sacred Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Steve Mirsky The Joys of Summarized Cinema . . . . . 40--40
Jan Ambjòrn and
Jerzy Jurkiewicz and
Renate Loll Physics: The Self-Organizing Quantum
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Pramod K. Srivastava Medicine: New Jobs for Ancient
Chaperones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Gary Stix Human Origins: Traces of a distant past 56--63
Stuart F. Brown Innovations: Hands-on Computing . . . . 64--67
David R. Huggins and
John P. Reganold Agriculture: No-Till: The Quiet
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Steven Brown and
Lawrence M. Parsons Brain Biology: The Neuroscience of Dance 78--83
Igor Kriz and
Paul Siegel Fun With Numbers: Simple Groups at Play 84--89
Melinda Wenner Insights: Going with His Gut Bacteria 90--92
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Nimble Skyscrapers at
Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Reviews: Fossils in America $
\blacksquare $ Science and Religion $
\blacksquare $ A Giant Moon . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Ask the Experts: Ask the experts . . . . 100--100
John Rennie From the Editor: Helping China . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Doping in Sports Economics
Plant Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates: Genomic Exit Mind-Controlled
Limbs Ad Hoc Networks Isolated Peoples 16--16
Gary Stix News Scan: Lighting Up the Lies . . . . 18--20
Emily Harrison Change in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Sarah Simpson Didn't Hear It Coming . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Philip Yam Seeing Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Keren Blankfeld Schultz The Puzzling Inferno . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Jessica Wapner Bills of Health . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steven Ashley Sunny Days for Silicon . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Anonymous Hurricane Hubbub . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi DEET Beaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Iron-Tough Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Nikhil Swaminathan Reconstructing the Very First Cell . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Keren Blankfeld Schultz Monogamy and the Queen Bee . . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam Is That Your Final Offer? . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Opinion: We Can Do More . . . . . . . . 38--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Millennium Goals at the Midpoint . . . . 40--40
Michael Shermer Wheatgrass Juice and Folk Medicine . . . 42--42
Steve Mirsky Looking for a Sign . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Peter Rogers Environment: Facing the Freshwater
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
David W. Dodick and
J. Jay Gargus Medicine: Why Migraines Strike . . . . . 56--63
Christopher R. Monroe and
David J. Wineland Quantum Physics: Quantum Computing With
Ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Dan Fagin Public Health: China's Children of Smoke 72--79
Sten F. Odenwald and
James L. Green Planetary Science: Bracing for a solar
superstorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Peter Forbes Materials Science: Self-Cleaning
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95
Melinda Wenner Innovations: Magnifying Taste . . . . . 96--99
Sally Lehrman Insights: No More Cloning Around . . . . 100--102
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Warming and Cooling 104--105
Anonymous Reviews: The Universe in a Nutshell Lost
Tribes Science and Romance in China . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editor: Here in the Fishbowl 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Nuclear Recycling Snow Line
Dark Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates: Jovian Protector $ \blacksquare
$ Personal Gene Tests $ \blacksquare $
Anesthesia and Pain $ \blacksquare $
Valdez Payout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Mark Wolverton News Scan: The New Radio Sky . . . . . . 18--20
Lizzie Buchen Primate Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
David Appell A Solar Big Gulp . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Lucas Laursen Listening to a Mix . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Christine Soares First in Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Charles Q. Choi Mammoth Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Mark Alpert A New Neutrino Hunt . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Greenhouse TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Not So Rapid Eye Movement . . . . . . . 34--34
Barbara Juncosa Germ-Spreading Playdates . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Larry Greenemeier Who Will Die? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Barbara Juncosa Another Gene for Alzheimer's . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam The New Stone Age . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Opinion: Seven Paths to Privacy . . . . 37--37
Jeffrey D. Sachs The Specter of Malthus Returns . . . . . 38--38
Michael Shermer Folk Numeracy and Middle Land . . . . . 40--40
Steve Mirsky The Bird Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Peter Brown Introduction: Privacy in an Age of
Terabytes and Terror . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Esther Dyson Keynote: Reflections On Privacy 2.O . . 50--55
Whitfield Diffie and
Susan Landau Internet Eavesdropping: Brave New World
of Wiretapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Mark A. Rothstein Online Medicine: Keeping Your Genes
Private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Steven Ashley Surveillance: Tools of the Spy Trade . . 70--71
Katherine Albrecht I.D. Chips: RFID Tag --- You're It . . . 72--77
Anil K. Jain and
Sharath Pankanti Biometrics: Beyond Fingerprinting . . . 78--81
Simson L. Garfinkel Data Fusion: Information of The World,
Unite! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Anna Lysyanskaya Cryptography: How to Keep Secrets Safe 88--95
Anonymous Industry Roundtable: Improving Online
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Daniel J. Solove The Road Ahead: The End of Privacy? . . 100--106
Adam Hinterthuer Insights: Safety Dance over Plastic . . 108--111
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Dry Dyes . . . . . . 112--113
Anonymous Reviews: Math Fix for Unfair Elections
Physics Fix for Uninformed Voters . . . 114--114
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
John Rennie From the Editor: All Together Now . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Climate Change Ethics Trust
Baby Universes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Barbara Juncosa News Scan: Suffocating Seas . . . . . . 20--22
Krista West The New Ice Doctors . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Michael Tennesen Calls of the Wild . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steve Mirsky Green Pay Dirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Steven Ashley Annotating the Real World . . . . . . . 27--28
Charles Q. Choi Danger in the Forest . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Melinda Wenner Rethinking the Wrinkling . . . . . . . . 30--33
Anonymous Smoke-Free Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Making a Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Scale Model for Armor . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel Microscope on a Dime . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
JR Minkel No Ruling Out Life . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Philip Yam Infection Correction . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Opinion: Questions for Would-be
Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Jeffrey D. Sachs Coping with a Persistent Oil Crisis . . 38--38
Michael Shermer A Random Walk through Middle Land . . . 40--40
Steve Mirsky Fuel's Errand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Martin Bojowald Cosmology: Follow the Bouncing Universe 44--51
Gero Miesenböck Neuroscience: Lighting up the Brain . . 52--59
Carl Zimmer Cognition: The Search for Intelligence 68--75
Nigel Shadbolt and
Tim Berners-Lee Information Technology: Web Science
Emerges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Mark Y. Stockle and
Paul D. N. Hebert Life Science: Barcode of Life . . . . . 82--88
Sam Boykin Innovations: With Open-Source Arms . . . 90--95
Heather Wax Insights: Outcalculating the Competition 96--99
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Competing Candidates 100--101
Anonymous Reviews: A Very Human Obsession Physics
Out of Whack The World of the Small . . 102--102
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
John Rennie From the Editor: Hope and HIV . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: No-Till Farming Spacetime
Triangles Dancing Animals . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenof 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Dudley Miller News Scan: After the Anthrax . . . . . . 20--22
Jessica Wapner Confidence Booster . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Vivian B. Martin Going beyond Fair and Balanced . . . . . 24--27
Barbara Juncosa Random Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Marina Krakovsky Less Wash, More Dry . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Steven Ashley Plastic Coolers . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Christine Soares Getting a (New) Leg Up . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Hurts So Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Biello Space Suits Them . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Charles Q. Choi Blow Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
JR Minkel Star Making around Holes . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Hockey Head Trick . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Survival of the Luckiest . . . . . . . . 36--36
The Editors Opinion: Overshadowing Difficulties . . 38--38
Jeffrey D. Sachs Looking after the Future . . . . . . . . 40--40
Michael Shermer Stage Fright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Steve Mirsky Hungry for Change . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Robert Kunzig Geoengineering: A Sunshade for Planet
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
Gary Stix Neuroscience: Jacking into the Brain . . 56--61
J. Miguel Rubí Physics: The Long Arm of the Second Law 62--67
Anonymous Special Report: HIV 25 Years Later: The
Big Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
David I. Watkins The Vaccine Search Goes On . . . . . . . 69--76
Mario Stevenson Can HIV Be Cured? . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Joanne Macdonald and
Darko Stefanovic and
Milan N. Stojanovic Information Science: DNA Computers for
Work and Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--91
Bernhard Blümich Innovations: The Incredible Shrinking
Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--98
Sally Lehran Insights: The Christian Man's Evolution 100--102
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Dinner and a Show . . 104--105
Anonymous Reviews: Quantum Drama Insect Societies
The Unification of Forces . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editor: Beacons in the Night 12--12
Anonymous Letters: Water Cycle Fighting Hunger
Migraine and Aura . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Linda Baker News Scan: Turf Battles . . . . . . . . 22--24
Gary Stix Into the Uncanny Valley . . . . . . . . 24--28
Barbara Juncosa Stations in the Seas . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
George Musser Quantum Brinkmanship . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
David Appell Deeper into the Void . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Peter Brown No Accounting in Iraq . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Lizzie Buchen Patches for Faces . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Charles Q. Choi Blocking Sound with Holes . . . . . . . 42--42
Charles Q. Choi More Fluid Mileage . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Charles Q. Choi Sacrificial Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
David Biello Explosive-Free Mix . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
David Biello Vanishing Act for Mammals . . . . . . . 44--44
The Editors Opinion: After the Crash . . . . . . . . 45--45
Jeffrey D. Sachs Priorities for Fixing the Financial
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Michael Shermer Patternicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Steve Mirsky Tabula Non Rasa . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Carolyn Porco Planetary Science: The Restless World of
Enceladus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--63
Peter E. Nielsen Biotechnology: A New Molecule of Life? 64--71
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Neuroscience: Magic and the Brain . . . 72--79
The Editors Microscopy: The Light Fantastic . . . . 80--85
Steven Ashley Auto Technology: Driving Toward
Crashless Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Nancy B. Simmons Biology: Taking Wing . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Lorrie Faith Cranor Computer Security: Can Phishing Be
Foiled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110
Tim Hornyak Insights: Turning Back the Cellular
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Where on Earth You
Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous Reviews: Visual Science . . . . . . . . 120--120
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
John Rennie From the Editor: Dynamic Darwinism . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Privacy $ \blacksquare $ Animal
Testing $ \blacksquare $ RFID Tags $
\blacksquare $ Tidal Bulge . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Defending
Scopes $ \blacksquare $ Wrong on
Earthquakes $ \blacksquare $ Comet
Cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Wendee Holtcamp News Scan: Environmental Payoff . . . . 16--18
Melinda Wenner Virus in the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Mark Wolverton Big Little Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
George Musser Space Sticker Shock . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Charles Q. Choi Neighborhood Darkness . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Kate Wong Decoding the Mammoth . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Jesse Emspak Chasing Rainbows . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Take Two Pills and Don't Call Me in the
Morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello Climate Control of Dynasties . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Seeing on Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Sounds like Thunder . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Politics of Blank Looks . . . . . . . . 31--31
Larry Greenemeier Fungal Clue in Mystery Bat Deaths . . . 31--31
Editors Opinion: A Theory for Everyman . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Blackouts and Cascading Failures . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Telephone to the Dead . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Steve Mirsky Flies and Projectors and Bears, Oh My 37--37
Gary Stix Introduction: Darwin's Living Legacy . . 38--43
H. Allen Orr Modes of Selection: Testing Natural
Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Steve Mirsky What's Good for the Group . . . . . . . 51--51
David M. Kingsley Sources of Variation: From Atoms to
Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Kate Wong Family Tree: The Human Pedigree . . . . 60--63
Neil H. Shubin Anatomy: This Old Body . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Peter Ward Futurism: What Will Become of \em Homo
Sapiens? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
David J. Buller Behavior: Four Fallacies of Pop
Evolutionary Psychology . . . . . . . . 74--81
David P. Mindell Applications: Evolution in the Everyday
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Ed Regis Recreation: The Science of Spore . . . . 90--91
Glenn Branch and
Eugenie C. Scott Education: The Latest Face of
Creationism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Charles Q. Choi Insights: A Theory of a Deadly Fusion 100--103
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: New Designs Going Up 104--105
Anonymous Reviews: Ancient Engineering Waste Not
Earth Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
John Rennie From the Editor: A Molecular Checkup . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Intelligence $ \blacksquare $
Loop Quantum Gravity $ \blacksquare $
Monty Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
\booktitlePravda on Education $
\blacksquare $ Teddy Roosevelt's Navy $
\blacksquare $ Mass-Produced Ironwork 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jessica Wapner News Scan: Spreading the Health . . . . 18--20
Linda Baker Detours by Design . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Paul Voosen Plague in the Prairie . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Charles Q. Choi Quantum Afterlife . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Kate Wong Shell Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Gary Stix Childhood Recovered . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Charles Q. Choi Acid Bath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Truncated Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi New Kind of Thermometer . . . . . . . . 30--30
Gary Stix Amnio Alternative . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Booby Traps for Bacteria . . . . . . . . 31--31
Jordan Lite Rx Generics via Electronics . . . . . . 31--31
Susannah F. Locke Bug vs. Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
The Editors Opinion: A Scientific Stimulus for the
U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Transforming the Auto Industry . . . . . 33--33
Michael Shermer Darwin Misunderstood . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Steve Mirsky Not a Close Shave . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Pankaj S. Joshi Physics: Naked Singularities . . . . . . 36--43
James R. Heath and
Mark E. Davis and
Leroy Hood Medicine: Nanomedicine Targets Cancer 44--51
Peter B. Kelemen Earth Science: The Origin of the Land
under the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Edgar Y. Choueiri Space Technology: New Dawn for Electric
Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Claus C. Hilgetag and
Helen Barbas Neuroscience: Sculpting the Brain . . . 66--71
Nathan Fiala Climate Change: The greenhouse hamburger 72--75
Paul Raeburn Insights: Chaos and the Catch of the Day 76--78
Mark Fischetti Working Knowledge: Touch Screens
Redefine the Market . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous Reviews: The Fourth Dimension $
\blacksquare $ Extraterrestrial Life $
\blacksquare $ Happy Birthday, Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Rennie From the Editor: The Unromantic Killer 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Geoengineering Brain Interface
Stage Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Observing
Evolution Seagoing Safety Anti--Bad Luck 12--12
Philip Yam Updates: Whatever happened to\ldots ? 14--14
Michael Moyer News Scan: Stick 'Em Up . . . . . . . . 15--16
Gary Stix Taming the Madness of Crowds . . . . . . 16--16
Bianca Nogrady Bug for a Bug for a Bug . . . . . . . . 17--17
Charles Q. Choi Spring Forward or Not? . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Graham P. Collins Impossible Inferences . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Steven Ashley Grinding Out Graphene . . . . . . . . . 20--21
John Matson More Mysterious Methane . . . . . . . . 21--21
Michael Tennesen Crawling to Oblivion . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Charles Q. Choi Silkworms: What the Astronauts Eat? . . 23--23
George Musser Galactic Chicken and Egg . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Energizing Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Biello Cometary Wipeout of Mammals . . . . . . 24--24
Charles Q. Choi Explaining the Aperture Illusion . . . . 24--24
Jordan Lite Mountain Thin Air . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
The Editors Opinion: Acceptable Risks for Arms
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Jeffrey D. Sachs The Need for Stable Policies . . . . . . 26--26
Michael Shermer The Art of the Con . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Steve Mirsky Playing by Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
David Z. Albert and
Rivka Galchen Physics: A Quantum Threat to Special
Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Ed Regis Nanotechnology: The World's Smallest
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Tracey J. Shors Neuroscience: Saving New Brain Cells . . 46--54
Matthew L. Wald Alternative Energy: The Power of
Renewables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Clifton E. Barry III and
Maija S. Cheung Medicine: New Tactics Against
Tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Paul G. Richards and
Won-Young Kim International Security: Monitoring for
Nuclear Explosions . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
David Appell Insights: Escape from the Killing Fields 78--80
Michelle Press Reviews: Monks and monkeys You are not
your brain Miraculous anticipation? . . 82--83
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Rennie From the Editor: Nothing Special . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Letters: Financial Crisis Car Tech
Earthrise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: The
Mohole Analog Voice Recognition Our
Patent Business . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
W. Wayt Gibbs News Scan: Evolution in a Bottle . . . . 18--21
Elaine Schattner A Chip against Cancer . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Davide Castelvecchi Colliding Philosophies . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Brendan Borrell Finding Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Marina Krakovsky Thriving on Selfishness . . . . . . . . 26--27
Michael Tennesen Snakebit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--29
Anonymous Tree Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi A Beetle's Menu Change . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Sonic Heat for Genes . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Kate Wilcox Anti-Loudness Protein . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Math against Profiling . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David Biello No Nets in the Arctic . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi A Calcium Conundrum Explained . . . . . 31--31
Editors Opinion: Healthy Growth for U.S. Farms 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Needed: A Fiscal Framework . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Inside the Outliers . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Steve Mirsky Boobs at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Diana Cox-Foster and
Dennis vanEngelsdorp Life Science: Saving the Honeybee . . . 40--47
Timothy Clifton and
Pedro G. Ferreira Cosmology: Does Dark Energy Really
Exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Gerald H. Jacobs and
Jeremy Nathans Evolution: The Evolution of Primate
Color Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
David Dobbs Psychology: The Post-Traumatic Stress
Trap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Shuji Nakamura and
Michael Riordan Materials Science: The Dawn of Miniature
Green Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Nathan Wolfe Public Health: Preventing the Next
Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Anonymous Reviews: Human Mysteries Mathematical
Mysticism Resistance of the Real . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Rennie From the Editor: See No Evil? . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Creationism $ \blacksquare $
NASA Budget $ \blacksquare $
Evolutionary Psychology . . . . . . . . 10--11
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Eye and
Spectrum Calling Mars Ratwear . . . . . 12--12
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Horgan News Scan: Taming the Urge to War . . . 16--17
Christine Soares Primal Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Melinda Wenner Don't Talk, Reproduce . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Kate Wilcox Free Radical Shift . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Gary Stix Turn It Up, Dear . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
George Musser Spectral Sensation . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Stuart Fox Leapin' Lizards . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous Buzzed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Logic That Feels the Noise . . . . . . . 26--26
Coco Ballantyne Planning of the Apes . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Q. Choi Bug Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Float Your Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Half Empty or Half Full . . . . . . . . 28--28
The Editors Opinion: Designing Rules for Designer
Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Jeffrey D. Sachs Paying for What Government Should Do . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Creationism in $3$-D . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Steve Mirsky The Bradypus Bunch . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David C. Catling and
Kevin J. Zahnle Planetary Science: The Planetary Air
Leak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Katherine S. Pollard Evolution: What Makes Us Human? . . . . 44--49
Lester R. Brown Environment: Could Food Shortages Bring
Down Civilization? . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
W. Wayt Gibbs Security: How to Steal Secrets without a
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Ali Khademhosseini and
Joseph P. Vacanti and
Robert Langer Biotechnology: Progress in Tissue
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Thomas E. Mallouk and
Ayusman Sen Nanotechnology: Powering Nanorobots . . 72--77
Anonymous Reviews: Dark Universe $ \blacksquare $
Manhattan circa 1609 . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
John Rennie From the Editor: Inspirational Orbits 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Naked Singularities Serious
Games Beef Production . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
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Food Zeppelin II Safe Passage . . . . . 14--14
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Madhusree Mukerjee News Scan: A Mechanism of Hot Air . . . 18--21
Charles Q. Choi Rumble Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Kate Wilcox A Bead on Disease . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Melinda Wenner Too Little, Too Much . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Krista West Sled Dog Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Erica Westly A Real Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Michael Moyer Pulling Up Worms . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous A Flash of Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi On the Other Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Charles Q. Choi Point Taken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Kate Wong Living Alike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Charles Q. Choi Electromagnetic Chatter . . . . . . . . 32--32
Larry Greenemeier Laser Beams That Curve . . . . . . . . . 32--32
The Editors Opinion: Reality Check for Stem Cells 33--33
Jeffrey D. Sachs Rethink the Global Money Supply . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Agenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Steve Mirsky An Immodest Proposal . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Michael W. Werner and
Michael A. Jura Astronomy: Improbable Planets . . . . . 38--45
J. V. Chamary and
Laurence D. Hurst Medicine: The Price of Silent Mutations 46--53
David A. Vaccari Sustainability: Phosphorus: A Looming
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Anonymous Technology Leadership:
\booktitleScientific American 10 . . . . 60--67
Carlos A. Driscoll and
Juliet Clutton-Brock and
Andrew C. Kitchener and
Stephen J. O'Brien Evolution: The Taming of the Cat . . . . 68--75
Stuart S. P. Parkin Infotech: Data in the Fast Lanes of
Racetrack Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Anonymous Reviews: Dinochicken Acts of God
Nature's Masterpiece . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Rennie From the Editor: My Moon Landing . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Renewable Energy Tuberculosis
Special Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Electrons
Clarified Baseball Illuminated Chess
Excoriated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Christine Soares News Scan: Eyes on the Swine . . . . . . 15--16
Zeeya Merali Blasts from the Past . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Kate Wong Hitching a Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Charles Q. Choi Juvenile Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Eugenie Samuel Reich The Specter of Fraud . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Bianca Nogrady Deep into the Red . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Michael Tennesen Avatar Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Anonymous The New Boomers . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello A Lower High-Water Mark . . . . . . . . 29--29
John Matson Ants: ``I'm Not Dead Yet'' . . . . . . . 29--29
Steve Mirsky Do Rain Forests Make Rain? . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Temptation Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Q. Choi Working on the Railroad . . . . . . . . 30--30
The Editors Opinion: Act Now on Global Warming . . . 31--31
Jeffrey D. Sachs Still Needed: A Climate Plan . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer I Want to Believe . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
Harrison H. Schmitt Spaceflight: From the Moon to Mars . . . 36--43
Christopher T. Walsh and
Michael A. Fischbach Medicine: New Ways to Squash Superbugs 44--51
George W. Huber and
Bruce E. Dale Biofuels: Grassoline at the Pump . . . . 52--59
Peter F. MacNeilage and
Lesley J. Rogers and
Giorgio Vallortigara Neuroscience: Origins of the Left & Right
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Samuel K. Wasser and
Bill Clark and
Cathy Laurie Conservation: The Ivory Trail . . . . . 68--76
Gary Stix Economics: The Science of Bubbles & Busts 78--85
Anonymous Recommended: Moon Walking $ \blacksquare
$ Becoming Human $ \blacksquare $
Amazing Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Species and Spaces . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Ptsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Making
Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Philip Yam Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Michael Moyer News Scan: The Third Way . . . . . . . . 15--16
Peter Brown Night Stalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
David Appell Stumbling over Data . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
David Jay Brown Salvia on Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Davide Castelvecchi Hypersphere Exotica . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
John Matson Cloaking Made Simpler . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Kate Wong Weak Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Killer Smile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Charles Q. Choi Nitro Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Gallons per Mile . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Q. Choi Cancer Clue from Down Syndrome . . . . . 27--27
The Editors Opinions: A Seedy Practice . . . . . . . 28--28
Jeffrey D. Sachs Good News on Malaria Control . . . . . . 29--29
Michael Shermer Shakespeare, Interrupted . . . . . . . . 30--30
Steve Mirsky Waste Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Kate Wong Human Evolution: Twilight of the
Neandertals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Eduardo Guéron Physics: Adventures in Curved Spacetime 38--45
Matthew L. Wald Energy Policy: What Now for Nuclear
Waste? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Alessio Fasano Medicine: Surprises from Celiac Disease 54--61
Graham P. Collins Electronics: An Iron Key to
High-Temperature Superconductivity? . . 62--69
Melinda Wenner Innovations: A New Kind of Drug Target 70--76
Anonymous Recommendations: Celestial Views . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Starter Menu . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Global Famine Big Government
Big Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Radiation
Punched Cards Earthworms . . . . . . . . 12--12
Melinda Wenner News Scan: Tribulations of a Trial . . . 14--15
Brendan Borrell Swine Ebola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Larry Greenemeier Radio for Responders . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Michael Moyer Chlorophyll Power . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Madhusree Mukerjee Conflicted Conservation . . . . . . . . 18--21
David Farley The Not So Green Skies . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Michael Tennesen Animals by the Numbers . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Charles Q. Choi Surviving in the Suburbs . . . . . . . . 24--25
The Editors Perspectives: Fossils for All . . . . . 26--26
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Prioritize the
Carbon Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Paranoia Strikes Deep . . . . . 30--30
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: C. P. Snow in New York 32--32
The Editors Introduction: In The Beginning . . . . . 35--35
Michael S. Turner Cosmology: Origin of the Universe . . . 36--43
Marc Hauser Neuroscience: Origin of the Mind . . . . 44--51
Alonso Ricardo and
Jack W. Szostak Biology: Origin of Life on Earth . . . . 54--61
Martin Campbell-Kelly Information Technology: Origin of
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
The Editors Origins Roundup: The Start of Everything 70--70
George Musser Rainbows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Ricki Rusting Flying Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Kate Wong Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
George Musser Asteroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Christie Nicholson Digital Audio Player . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Davide Castelvecchi Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Christine Soares External Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Davide Castelvecchi Scotch Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Bruce Grierson Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Michael Moyer Artificial Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Jessica Snyder Sachs Antibiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Peter Brown Ball Bearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Graham P. Collins Coriolis Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Michael Moyer Egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Christine Soares Teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Christine Soares Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Gary Stix The Stirrup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Gary Stix Lsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Melinda Wenner Cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
George Musser Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Kate Wong Legs, Feet and Toes . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Mara Hvistendahl Paper Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Mara Hvistendahl The Vibrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Davide Castelvecchi Economic Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Philip Yam Buckyballs and Nanotubes . . . . . . . . 82--82
Davide Castelvecchi Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Davide Castelvecchi The Placenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
George Musser Graphical Perspective . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Peter Brown The Paper Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Bruce Grierson Anthrax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Davide Castelvecchi The Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Gary Stix Intermittent Windshield Wipers . . . . . 86--86
Michael Moyer Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Christine Soares The Pill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Jonathon Keats The Mechanical Loom . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Davide Castelvecchi Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Philip Yam Mad Cow Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Jonathon Keats The Blueprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Christine Soares Feathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Christine Soares AIDS and HIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Christine Soares Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Michael Moyer Recorded Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Moyer Religious Thought . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Peter Brown The Color Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
George Musser Gamma Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Kate Wong Facial Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Davide Castelvecchi Chocolate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
George Musser Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Michael Moyer Internal-Combustion Engine . . . . . . . 97--97
George Musser Cupcakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Christine Soares Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Graham P. Collins Tectonic Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Michael Moyer The Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Recommendations: Babies' Brains Naming
Life Fictional Reads . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Cache and Carry . . . . . 104--104
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Playing the Averages 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Obama's Science Phosphorus Bugs
Cats and Rats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Kidney
Transplantation Plant Misinformation
Saving Civilization . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Gary Stix News Scan: Return of a Problem Child . . 18--20
Melinda Wenner Nuclear Architecture . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Mandy Kendrick Tasting the Light . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Charles Q. Choi Going with Golgi . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Naomi Lubick Hunting a Croc Killer . . . . . . . . . 25--25
John Matson Not Set in Stone (or Ice) . . . . . . . 26--26
Michael Moyer The Way the Wind Blows . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Linda Baker Shifting Gears . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
The Editors Perspectives: Too Little, Too Late . . . 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Crisis of
Public Management . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Captain Hook Meets Adam Smith 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: Space, the Final
Frontier? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Carlos Barceló and
Stefano Liberati and
Sebastiano Sonego and
Matt Visser Astrophysics: Black Stars, Not Holes . . 38--45
Gary Stix Neuroscience: Turbocharging the Brain 46--55
Leonardo Maugeri Energy: Squeezing More Oil from the
Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Michael J. Heckenberger Archaeology: Lost Cities of the Amazon 64--71
Nathalie Garçon and
Michel Goldman Medicine: Boosting Vaccine Power . . . . 72--79
Seth Lloyd Security: Privacy and the Quantum
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
Anonymous Industry Perspectives: Biotech's Plans
to Sustain Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 86--94
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Recommended: Humane Humans Tree ID
Diamonds on Display . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Birth of a Notion . . . . 100--100
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: From the Sources . . . 2--2
Anonymous Letters: Grassoline Science and God $
\blacksquare $ Left and Right . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
Nutcracker Man Hookworm Target Nascent
Oil Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
JR Minkel News Scan: Putting Madness in its Place 16--19
Christine Soares Pandemic Payoff . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Katherine Harmon Shelling Out for Eggs . . . . . . . . . 20--21
David Appell Still Hotter Than Ever . . . . . . . . . 21--22
David Biello Burying Climate Change . . . . . . . . . 23--25
George Musser Easy Go, Easy Come . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
John Matson Monopole Position . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Katherine Tweed Sewage's Cash Crop . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
The Editors Perspectives: Keys to Copenhagen . . . . 32--32
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: A Clunker of a
Climate Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Will E.T. Look Like Us? . . . . 36--36
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: How Women Can Save the
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Simon F. Portegies Zwart Astronomy: The Long-Lost Siblings of the
Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
R. Douglas Fields Neuroscience: New Culprits in Chronic
Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Mark Z. Jacobson and
Mark A. Delucchi Energy: A Path to Sustainable Energy by
2030 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Kate Wong Human Evolution: Rethinking the Hobbits
of Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Michael Moyer Information Technology: The Everything
TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Dickson Despommier Sustainability: The Rise of Vertical
Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Stuart F. Brown Automotive Technology: The Future of
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
Anonymous Recommended: African Wildlife $
\blacksquare $ Nuclear Proliferation $
\blacksquare $ Ancient Alcohol . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: You Nerd a Vacation . . . 96--96
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Wanted: Bright Ideas 10--10
Anonymous Letters: Nukes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Fuzzy
Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Zeeya Merali News Scan: Splitting Time from Space . . 18--21
Charles Q. Choi Extreme Monotremes . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Kate Wong Tinier Tyrannosaurs . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Melinda Wenner Inflammatory Clues . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Katherine Harmon Conditional Consciousness . . . . . . . 27--28
Mark Wolverton Piercing the Plasma . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Davide Castelvecchi The Shape of Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
David Biello Setting Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
The Editors Perspectives: Zoning for Oceans . . . . 34--34
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Transgressing
Planetary Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Political Science . . . . . . . 38--38
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: War is Peace . . . . . . 40--40
Avery E. Broderick and
Abraham Loeb Astronomy: Portrait of a Black Hole . . 42--49
The Editors Innovation: World Changing Ideas . . . . 50--50
Christopher Mims The No-Money-Down Solar Plan . . . . . . 50--51
Christopher Mims More Ideas to Watch . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Amanda Schupak Delivering the U.S. from Oil . . . . . . 52--53
Michael Moyer Bus Rapid Transit . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Sarah Simpson Ocean Overhaul . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
John Pavlus More Ideas to Watch . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
John Pavlus The Power of Garbage . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
Gregory Mone The Omnipotence Machines . . . . . . . . 58--59
Gregory Mone The Do-Anything Robot . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Gregory Mone Pocket Translator . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Melinda Wenner Know if Disease Grows Inside You . . . . 60--61
Katherine Harmon Satellites Diagnose Disease Outbreaks 61--61
Melinda Wenner More Ideas to Watch . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Alexander S. Bradley Origin of Life: Expanding the Limits of
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Katey Walter Anthony Environment: Methane: A Menace Surfaces 68--75
Tony Freeth Archaeology: Decoding an Ancient
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Baljit S. Khakh and
Geoffrey Burnstock Medicine: The Double Life of ATP . . . . 84--92
Gary Stix Microscopy: Illuminating the Lilliputian 94--99
Kate Wong Recommended: Science in Pictures . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Crack Research . . . . . . 104--104