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Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Life Quest . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: The First Computer . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American:
Sensational Press . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
David Biello News Scan: Climate Numerology . . . . . 14--15
Katherine Harmon Renewed Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
M. A. Woodbury Back into the Folds . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Gary Stix A Light in the Brain . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Larry Greenemeier Sound Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Davide Castelvecchi Warp-Speed Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Charles Q. Choi Machismo Mayhem . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
George Musser A Large Lump of Coal . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
The Editors Perspectives: Big Need for a Little
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Need for
Open Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Kool-Aid Psychology . . . . . . 39--39
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: The Doomsday Clock Still
Ticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Anonymous Recommended: Cosmic revelations . . . . 98--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Careful What You Wish For 100--100
Alejandro Jenkins and
Gilad Perez Cosmology: Looking for Life in the
Multiverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
John D. Young and
Jan Martel Biology: The Rise and Fall of
Nanobacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Sarah Simpson Earth Science: Violent Origins of
Continents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Richard Heeks Information Technology: Real Money from
Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Alan Robock and
Owen Brian Toon Environment: Local Nuclear War, Global
Suffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
The Editors Computers: The Next 20 Years Of
Microchips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Peter Jay Hotez Medicine: A Plan to Defeat Neglected
Tropical Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 90--96
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Continuum of Change . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: The Oil Crisis . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Cosmic
Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Madhusree Mukerjee News Scan: Poisoned Shipments . . . . . 14--15
David Biello Negating ``Climategate'' . . . . . . . . 16--16
Michael Tennesen Python Boom: Big snakes poised to change
U.S. ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Megan Scudellari Mouse Mash-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Katherine Harmon Testosterone-Fueled Sociability . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi Lost Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Carina Storrs Hearing with Skin . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Susan Kuchinskas Naked Gaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Michael Moyer Bigger, Better Broadband . . . . . . . . 26--26
Crispin T. S. Little Ask the Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
The Editors Perspectives: Comparatively Easy . . . . 26--26
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Fixing the
Broken Policy Process . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Cultivate Your Garden . . . . . 30--30
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: The Real Promise of
Synthetic Biology . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Recommended: The Science of Bling . . . 87--87
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Greenhouse Bananas . . . . 88--88
Erick T. Young Astronomy: Cloudy with a Chance of Stars 34--41
Nina G. Jablonski Evolution: The Naked Truth . . . . . . . 42--49
Ben Knight Transportation: Better Mileage Now . . . 50--55
B. Brett Finlay Medicine: The Art of Bacterial Warfare 56--63
Alan R. Townsend and
Robert W. Howarth Environment: Fixing the Global Nitrogen
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Vincent A. Billock and
Brian H. Tsou Perception: Seeing Forbidden Colors . . 72--77
Crispin T. S. Little Life Science: The Prolific Afterlife of
Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Limits of Perception 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Renewables . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Soil
Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Michael Moyer News Scan: The Deadliest Catch . . . . . 14--17
David Biello Carbon Rock Lock: Storing CO$_2$ on the
East Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Carina Storrs Stem Cell Vitamin Boost . . . . . . . . 17--18
Katherine Harmon Mutant Cholesterol Fends Off Dementia 18--18
Charles Q. Choi Heavy Brows, High Art . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Linda Baker Numbers War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Charles Q. Choi Dark Side of Black Holes . . . . . . . . 22--24
Davide Castelvecchi Supersonic Bathtub Physics . . . . . . . 23--23
Jim Nash Easy Flier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Davide Castelvecchi Invasion of the Drones . . . . . . . . . 25--27
The Editors Perspectives: Start Science Sooner . . . 28--28
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Breaking the
Climate Debate Logjam . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Surviving Death on Larry King
Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: End-of-Days Danger . . . 34--34
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Scooting toward Oblivion 84--84
Kate Wong Recommended: Amazing Animals . . . . . . 84--84
Ralph Lorenz and
Christophe Sotin Planetary Science: The Moon That Would
Be a Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Marcus E. Raichle Neuroscience: The Brain's Dark Energy 44--49
Michael Moyer Energy: Fusion's False Dawn . . . . . . 50--57
Robert M. Hazen Geology: Evolution of Minerals . . . . . 58--65
Rui Wang Medicine: Toxic Gas, Lifesaver . . . . . 66--71
Kenneth Catania Animal Behavior: Worm Charmers . . . . . 72--76
Stan D. Wullschleger and
Maya Strahl Environment: Climate Change: A
Controlled Experiment . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Small World . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Hydrothermal Vents . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Lethal
Dose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Michael Moyer News Scan: Internet Ideology War . . . . 14--16
John Matson Unfree Spirit: NASA's Mars Rover Appears
Stuck for Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Davide Castelvecchi Problem Solved, LOL . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Carina Storrs Humans Might Have Faced Extinction . . . 18--18
Kate Wong Swept Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Biello Biofuel from Bacteria . . . . . . . . . 21--22
David Biello Higher Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Melinda Wenner Moyer Static over Statins . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
Lynne Peeples Making Scents of Sounds . . . . . . . . 28--29
Katherine Harmon Carcinogens Detected from ``Thirdhand
Smoke'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
The Editors Perspectives: Chemical Controls . . . . 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Expert Systems
Fight Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Sensed-Presence Effect . . 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: Dark Matters . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Recommended: Imperiled Species . . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Wonders of Life . . . . . 88--88
Edward Bell Astronomy: 8 Wonders of the Solar System 36--43
Thomas R. Insel Neuroscience: Faulty Circuits . . . . . 44--51
The Editors Special Report: Sustainability: Living
on a New Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Jonathan Foley Boundaries for a Healthy Planet . . . . 54--57
Anonymous Solutions to Environmental Threats . . . 58--60
Bill McKibben Exclusive Excerpt: Breaking the Growth
Habit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
Mark Fischetti Bill McKibben, Challenged: Is Zero
Growth Really Necessary? . . . . . . . . 66--67
Charles C. Della Santina Medicine: Regaining Balance with Bionic
Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Michelle Effros and
Andrea Goldsmith and
Muriel Médard Technology: The Rise of Instant Wireless
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
James M. Trappe and
Andrew W. Claridge Biology: The Hidden Life of Truffles . . 78--84
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Society and Science . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Antimatter . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Early
Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Christine Soares News Scan: Portrait in DNA . . . . . . . 14--17
John Matson Shields Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Katherine Harmon Cold Snap: A Secret of The Chameleon's
Tongue Revealed . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Melinda Wenner Moyer Carbs against Cardio . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Kate Moisse One's enough: Kidney Donors Live Just as
Long as Nondonors . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Katherine Harmon Genetics in the Gut . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
David Biello Sex-Changing Weed Killer . . . . . . . . 24--27
David Biello IPCC Errors Prompt a Review on Climate
Science Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Michael Tennesen More Food from Fungi? . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Larry Greenmeier PET Project: Organic Catalysts Could
Increase Plastics Recycling . . . . . . 28--28
The Editors Perspectives: Underage, Overweight . . . 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Flying Blind
in Policy Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Doing Science in the Past . . . 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: Human Uniqueness and the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Recommended: Decoding Weather . . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: 140-Character Study . . . 88--88
Graciela B. Gelmini and
Alexander Kusenko and
Thomas J. Weiler Astrophysics: Through Neutrino Eyes . . 38--45
Konrad Hochedlinger Medicine: Your Inner Healers . . . . . . 46--53
Stuart F. Brown Transportation: Revolutionary Rail . . . 54--59
Beatrice de Gelder Neuroscience: Uncanny Sight in the Blind 60--65
Matthew Sturm Climate Change: Arctic Plants Feel the
Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Mike May Innovations: A Better Lens on Disease 74--77
Nagib Nassar and
Rodomiro Ortiz Food Science: Breeding Cassava to Feed
the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Think Forward . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters: Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 10--10
Kate Wong News Scan: Fossils of Our Family . . . . 12--14
George Musser A Simple Twist of Fate . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Davide Castelvecchi ``Quantum Microphone'' Puts Visible
Object in Two Places at Once . . . . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi Expert Education . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Jessica Wapner Adoption Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Bob Roehr Bad Wraps on Viruses . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Mark Fischetti Traffic Avoided . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
David Biello Stringing Offshore Turbines for
Uninterrupted Power . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Davide Castelvecchi Look, Ma --- No Junctions! . . . . . . . 26--26
Larry Greenemeier Acoustic Lens Turns Sound into Sonic
Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
The Editors Perspectives: Terror in a Vial . . . . . 28--28
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Millennium
Development Goals at 10 . . . . . . . . 30--30
Michael Shermer Skeptic: When Ideas Have Sex . . . . . . 32--32
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: Why I Love Neutrinos . . 34--34
Anonymous Recommended: Industrious Ants . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Presidential Harrisment 92--92
The Editors What The Future Holds: 12 Events That
Will Change Everything . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Charles Q. Choi Cloning of a Human . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
George Musser Extra Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
John Matson Extraterrestrial Intelligence . . . . . 40--40
Philip Yam Nuclear Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
David Biello Creation of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Michael Moyer Room-temperature Superconductors . . . . 43--43
Larry Greenemeier Machine Self-awareness . . . . . . . . . 44--45
David Biello Polar Meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Katherine Harmon Pacific Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Michael Moyer Fusion Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Robin Lloyd Asteroid Collision . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Katherine Harmon Deadly Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Gary Stix Medicine: Alzheimer's: Forestalling the
Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Craig Callender Physics: Is Time an Illusion? . . . . . 58--65
Klaus S. Lackner Environment: Washing Carbon Out of the
Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Anonymous Archaeology: Did Neandertals Think Like
Us? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Kei Hirose Earth Science: The Earth's Missing
Ingredient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Ken Coleman and
Raymond A. Zilinskas Security: Fake Botox, Real Threat . . . 84--89
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Global Affair . . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters: Math Wars . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Live
Births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
David Biello News Scan: Lasting Menace . . . . . . . 16--18
Kate Wong Our Inner Neandertal . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
John Matson Damp Rocks from Space . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ingrid Wickelgren Under Threat, Women Bond and Men
Withdraw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Katherine Harmon Microscopic Giants . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John Matson Eye-Candy Solar Science . . . . . . . . 22--22
Christine Soares Putting Addiction to Bed . . . . . . . . 23--24
Melinda Wenner Moyer Heartburn Headache . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Michael Moyer Manipulation of the Crowd . . . . . . . 26--28
Larry Greenemeier Patent Still Pending . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
The Editors Perspectives: Terminate the Terminators 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Get Serious
about Budget Deficits . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: When Scientists Sin . . . . . . 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: No Country Is an Island 36--36
Anonymous Recommendations: Earth sans Ice Caps . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: An Apple a Day for a Week 88--88
Tamara M. Davis Cosmology: Is the Universe Leaking
Energy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--47
Matthew P. Morrow and
David B. Weiner Medicine: DNA Drugs Come of Age . . . . 48--53
Michael Moyer Transportation: The Dirty Truth about
Plug-in Hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
P. W. Singer Robotics: War of the Machines . . . . . 56--63
Jane Braxton Little Energy: Clean Energy from Filthy Water 64--69
Gareth Dyke Evolution: Winged Victory . . . . . . . 70--75
Alison Gopnik Psychology: How Babies Think . . . . . . 76--81
Mark Fischetti Environment: The Drillers Are Coming . . 82--85
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Celebrating Science . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: Vertical
Takeoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
David Biello News Scan: Biological Breakdown . . . . 14--17
David Biello and
Katherine Harmon Tools for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Beryl Lieff Benderly Danger in School Labs . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Anonymous Martin Gardner, 1914--2010 . . . . . . . 20--20
John Matson An Extra Quiet Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Ferris Jabr Night Sight: Rapid Eye Movements Seem to
Scan the Actions in Our Dreams . . . . . 22--22
JR Minkel Hereditary Acquisitions . . . . . . . . 22--24
Katherine Harmon Worts and All . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Mark Fischetti Charge under Control . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Larry Greenemeier Robot Test Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Matson NASA's Plan to Use Commercial Rockets
Lifts Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
The Editors Perspectives: Catastrophic Thinking . . 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: Market
Reforms, 20 Years Later . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Our Neandertal Brethren . . . . 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: Faith and Foolishness . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Arctic
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Take Me Out of the Ball
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Dimitar D. Sasselov and
Diana Valencia Space: Planets We Could Call Home . . . 38--45
Anonymous Special Report: Origins . . . . . . . . 46--46
Brendan Borrell All In The Family . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Melinda Wenner Moyer Cheese Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Mike May Electronic Pathogens . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Brendan Borrell Before Mickey Mouse . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Brendan Borrell Is Sex Really Necessary? . . . . . . . . 48--49
Mike May On the Parasite's Trail . . . . . . . . 48--49
Mike May Snap, Crackle, Bang . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Mike May Thorny Fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Mike May Scrubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Melinda Wenner Moyer Moral Animal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Melinda Wenner Moyer Urban Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Mike May Former Life of the Electric Car . . . . 51--51
Brendan Borrell The First Humvee . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Brendan Borrell Gravity's Tug . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Melinda Wenner Moyer Rainbow Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Brendan Borrell Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Mike May Noodling the Noodles . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Curtis W. Marean When the Sea Saved Humanity . . . . . . 54--61
Paolo Dario and
Arianna Menciassi Medicine: Robot Pills . . . . . . . . . 62--65
Marah J. Hardt and
Carl Safina Environment: Threatening Ocean Life from
the Inside Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Ahmed H. Zewail Imaging: Filming the Invisible in $4$-D 74--81
John Villasenor Technology: The Hacker in Your Hardware 82--88
Jennifer Ackerman Object Lesson: Plastic Surf . . . . . . 88--89
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Start of the End . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters: Pathology . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 12--12
Zeeya Merali News Scan: Rummaging for a Final Theory 14--17
John Matson Lunar Pencil Lead . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Sally Lehrman Undifferentiated Ethics . . . . . . . . 18--20
Erica Westly Fat Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Gary Stix Social Analgesics . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Michael Tennesen Sour Showers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
David Biello Doubts on Dispersants . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Davide Castelvecchi Quantum Light Switch . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
John Matson Origami Sheets That Fold Themselves . . 28--28
The Editors Perspectives: Snake Oil in the
Supermarket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Jeffrey D. Sachs Sustainable Developments: The Deepening
Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Democracy's Laboratory . . . . 34--34
Lawrence M. Krauss Critical Mass: A Year of Living
Dangerously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Ask the Experts: How does Geothermal
Drilling Trigger Earthquakes? . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Extreme
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Shaky Grounds . . . . . . 104--104
Michael Moyer Introduction: Eternal Fascinations with
the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Thomas Kirkwood Medicine: Why Can't We Live Forever? . . 42--49
Robin Marantz Henig Bioethics: When Does Life Belong to the
Living? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Arpad A. Vass Forensics: Dust to Dust . . . . . . . . 56--59
Wade Davis Anthropology: Last of Their Kind . . . . 60--67
Anonymous Technology: Good Riddance . . . . . . . 68--73
Michael Moyer Environment: How Much Is Left? . . . . . 74--81
John Matson and
John Pavlus Risk Analysis: Laying Odds on the
Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
George Musser Cosmology: Could Time End? . . . . . . . 84--91
Anonymous Restart: What Comes Next . . . . . . . . 92--97
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: New yet Familiar . . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 102--102
The Editors Science Agenda: Competition and the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Melissa Hathaway Forum: Power Hackers . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Michael Moyer Advances: The Biggest Bang Theory . . . 18--18
Kate Wong The First Butchers . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Michael Moyer Death and Chocolate . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Nicholette Zeliadt Trash Is Her Treasure . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Science Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Davide Castelvecchi Just How Small Is the Proton? . . . . . 24--24
Ferris Jabr The Power of Sniff . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Melinda Wenner Moyer A View to a Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anna Kuchment What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Ferris Jabr Flight of the Squid . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi There's Wisdom in Those Tweets . . . . . 29--29
Anna Kuchment Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Q. Choi Getting GPS out of a Jam . . . . . . . . 30--30
Andrew Gelman When Small Numbers Lead to Big Errors 31--31
Larry Greenemeier What's Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Gary Stix Craving a Cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Christine Gorman The Science of Health: Closing the
Health Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Question Time . . . . . . . 38--38
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 96--97
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Can You Hear Me Now? . . . . . 98--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Real Skyscrapers . . . . . 100--100
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Dying to Eat . . . . . 104--104
Jonathan K. Pritchard Evolution: How We Are Evolving . . . . . 40--47
Robert Irion Astronomy: Origami Observatory . . . . . 48--55
Anonymous Exclusive Poll: In Science We Trust . . 56--59
Stephen S. Hall Medicine: Revolution Postponed . . . . . 60--67
Stephen Hawking and
Leonard Mlodinow Physics: The (Elusive) Theory of
Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Michael Anderson and
Susan Leigh Anderson Robotics: Robot Be Good . . . . . . . . 72--77
Frank W. Grasso Biology: Sensational Sucker . . . . . . 78--79
Nancy Shute Mind: Desperate for an Autism Cure . . . 80--85
Antonio Regalado Energy: Reinventing the Leaf . . . . . . 86--89
Michael Moyer Information Science: Digitizer in Chief 90--94
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Teachable Moment . . . 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Science Agenda: Hearing the Music,
Honing the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Scott O. Lilienfeld Forum: Fudge Factor . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Michael Moyer Advances: Window Shopping for Electric
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Jeneen Interlandi Finding a Killer's Achilles' Heel . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Davide Castelvecchi Hawking vs. God . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Charles Q. Choi Bugs in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Adam Piore Fit for a Princess . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Melinda Wenner Moyer Nice Germs Finish Last . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Kate Wong The Iceman's Last Stand . . . . . . . . 26--26
Jeneen Interlandi Getting It Right on Stem Cells . . . . . 27--27
David Biello Darwin Was a Punk . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John H. Tucker To Breed a Better Bird . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Laser Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anna Kuchment Patent watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
George Musser Going with the Flow . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
John H. Tucker Status Update: ``I'm So Glamorous'' . . 32--32
Anna Kuchment What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Thomas Kirkwood The Science of Health: Why Women Live
Longer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Trouble with E-Readers 36--36
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Skeptic's Skeptic . . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Oh, We Have Liftoff All
Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Great Chemical
Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Jonathan Feng and
Mark Trodden Cosmology: Dark Worlds . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Karl Deisseroth Neuroscience: Controlling the Brain with
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Matthew L. Wald Engineering: How to Build the Supergrid 56--61
Mark Fischetti Ecology: Phosphorus Lake . . . . . . . . 62--63
Amir D. Aczel Physics: Dr. Unification . . . . . . . . 64--67
Mary Carmichael Global Health: Halting the World's Most
Lethal Parasite . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Fiorenzo Omenetto and
David Kaplan Technology: From Silk Cocoon to Medical
Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Michael D. Lemonick Environment: Climate Heretic . . . . . . 78--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Science That Matters 10--10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Science Agenda: Defying Politics . . . . 16--16
Hank Greely Forum: To Tell the Truth . . . . . . . . 18--18
Bryn Nelson Advances: Black Plants and Twilight
Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Mary Carmichael Pinning Down a Deadly Shape Shifter . . 21--21
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold The Incredible, Edible Foam . . . . . . 22--22
John Matson Hawking Was Right (Probably) . . . . . . 24--24
Anna Kuchment Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Kate Wong Out with a Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anna Kuchment What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Christine Gorman A Global Call to Action on Chronic
Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anna Kuchment Dear Santa: Please Send Owl Puke . . . . 29--29
Michael Moyer Know the Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Charles Seife The Science of ``Disestimation'' . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Lisa Song A Click of the Tongue . . . . . . . . . 32--32
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Christine Gorman The Science of Health: The Heart-Brain
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Talk to the Machine . . . . 40--40
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 100--100
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Conspiracy Theory Detector 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Fatuous Fantasies . . . . 104--104
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Silent Seas . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Innovation: World Changing Ideas . . . . 42--42
John Pavlus The Game of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
John Pavlus Human Number Crunchers . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Tom Vanderbilt Know-It-All Toll Roads . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Elizabeth Svoboda The DNA Transistor . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Melinda Wenner Moyer A Killer Water Filter . . . . . . . . . 48--48
John Pavlus A Wandering, Plant-Eating Robot . . . . 48--48
John Pavlus Borrowing Nature's Code . . . . . . . . 49--49
Mary Carmichael One Hundred Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Matthew L. Wald Gas from Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Melinda Wenner Moyer The Importance of Junk DNA . . . . . . . 53--53
Anonymous World Changing Videos . . . . . . . . . 53--53
A. Garrett Lisi and
James Owen Weatherall Physics: A Geometric Theory of
Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Mary H. Schweitzer Paleontology: Blood from Stone . . . . . 62--69
Davide Castelvecchi Biology: Life Unseen . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Roland R. Griffiths and
Charles S. Grob Health: Hallucinogens as Medicine . . . 76--79
Tim Berners-Lee Information Science: Long Live The Web 80--85
Kate Wong Life Science: Jane of the Jungle . . . . 86--87
David H. Freedman Space Exploration: Jump-Starting the
Orbital Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Michel M. Maharbiz and
Hirotaka Sato Robotics: Cyborg Beetles . . . . . . . . 94--99
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Casting a Wide Net . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Political Wish List 12--12
David G. Victor Forum: Diplomacy's Meltdown . . . . . . 14--14
Michael Moyer Advances: A Whole Lot of Nothing . . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer How Old Is Your Cancer? . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
John Allen Paulos Animal Instincts . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jeneen Interlandi Breaching the Brain Barrier . . . . . . 20--20
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Darren Naish Will It Float? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold The Science of Sous Vide . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anna Kuchment Practically Green . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Carrie Arnold Why Sleep Is Good for You . . . . . . . 26--26
Anna Kuchment Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anna Kuchment For Whom the Nobel Tolls . . . . . . . . 27--27
Lauren Rubenzahl The Bright Spots of Kids' TV . . . . . . 28--28
Gary Stix Donate Your Brain, Save a Buck . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Veronique Greenwood The Science of Health: Curing the Common
Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Don't Worry about Who's
Watching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Science of Right and Wrong 83--83
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: They're Young, and They're
Restless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Money for Science . . . 88--88
John A. Long Evolution: Dawn of the Deed . . . . . . 34--39
Tim Folger Space: Contact: The Day After . . . . . 40--45
Helen Branswell Infectious Disease: Flu Factories . . . 46--51
Mark Fischetti Energy: In Search of the Radical
Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Anna Kuchment Ecology: Seeds of the Amazon . . . . . . 56--57
Carl Zimmer Neuroscience: 100 Trillion Connections 58--63
Alex de Sherbinin and
Koko Warner and
Charles Ehrhart Environment: Casualties of Climate
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Ross D. King Computer Science: Rise of the Robo
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Brianna Rego Public Health: Radioactive Smoke . . . . 78--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Too Much and Not Enough 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Science Agenda: Fear and Its
Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Francesca Grifo Forum: The Bright Side of Gridlock . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer Advances: Which Pills Work? . . . . . . 20--20
Ferris Jabr They Like Your Guts . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Alla Katsnelson Does This Collar Make Me Look Fat? . . . 22--22
Anonymous The Bird Man of Baghdad . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Davide Castelvecchi Not Your Parents' Carbon . . . . . . . . 25--25
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Beer Batter Is Better . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Laura Spinney You Smell Flowers, I Smell Stale Urine 26--26
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
George Musser Forces to Reckon With . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Jessica Wapner Charging against the Flu . . . . . . . . 28--28
Melinda Wenner Moyer Blame It on Winter . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Amir D. Aczel Particles That Flock . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Carrie Arnold When Earth Was a Snowball . . . . . . . 32--32
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John Allen Paulos Why You're Probably Less Popular Than
Your Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Katie Moisse The Science of Health: The YouTube Cure 34--37
David Pogue TechnoFiles: An Open Question . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Houdini's Skeptical Advice . . 89--89
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: La Bummer . . . . . . . . 89--89
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Your Brain in Love . . 92--92
David H. Freedman Health: How to Fix the Obesity Crisis 40--47
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang and
Bob Twiggs Space: Citizen Satellites . . . . . . . 48--53
Sarah Simpson Sustainability: The Blue Food Revolution 54--61
Lera Boroditsky Cognitive Psychology: How Language
Shapes Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65
Tom Misteli Biology: The Inner Life of the Genome 66--73
Brendan Borrell Ecology: A Friend to Aliens . . . . . . 74--77
Fiona Harrison and
Charles J. Hailey Astrophysics: X-ray Vision . . . . . . . 78--79
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Neuroprosthetics: Mind Out of Body . . . 80--83
Lee Dugatkin History Of Science: Jefferson's Moose 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Spaces and Places . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: Keep the Internet Fair 12--12
Jonathan Zittrain Forum: Freedom and Anonymity . . . . . . 13--13
David Biello Advances: Coal Fires Burning Bright . . 14--14
Rebecca Coffey Bison vs. Mammoths . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Larry Greenemeier Can You See Me Now? . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tia Ghose A Little Help from Their Friends . . . . 17--17
John Matson Feeling the Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Melinda Wenner Moyer Organs-on-a-Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
John Matson Scrivener to the Stars . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Davide Castelvecchi The Smallest Mind . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Charles Q. Choi From iPhones to SciPhones . . . . . . . 22--22
Alison McCook She's 11, Going on 2,500 . . . . . . . . 22--22
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold A New Spin on Cooking . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Uninformed
Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Gadget Politics . . . . . . 26--26
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Financial Flimflam . . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Future Is Now . . . . 78--78
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Death by Asteroid . . . 80--80
Gary Stix Psychology: The Neuroscience of True
Grit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
Scott L. Murchie and
Ronald J. Vervack, Jr. and
Brian J. Anderson Space Science: Journey to the Innermost
Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Stephen S. Hall Medicine: Diseases in a Dish . . . . . . 40--45
Carl Schoonover Imaging: Signals in a Storm . . . . . . 46--47
William Underhill Archaeology: Putting Stonehenge in Its
Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Mark G. Raizen Physics: Demons, Entropy and the Quest
for Absolute Zero . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Julian P. Sachs and
Conor L. Myhrvold Climate Change: A Shifting Band of Rain 60--65
Mary Carmichael Public Health: Not Just an Illness of
the Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Paul C. Sereno Paleontology: Dinosaur Death Trap . . . 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Reflections from
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: Our Big Pig Problem . . 12--12
Lawrence M. Krauss Forum: Rethinking the Dream . . . . . . 14--14
Rebecca Coffey Advances: Outsmarting Dengue Fever . . . 16--16
Charles Q. Choi Tame Your Inner Tiger . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Michael Moyer Watson Looks for Work . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By the numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Thea Singer My, What Long Telomeres You Have . . . . 22--22
Carla Power Too Contagious to Fail . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Davide Castelvecchi Cracking a Century-Old Enigma . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Sudip Mazumdar Arid Land, Thirsty Crops . . . . . . . . 26--26
Melinda Wenner Moyer Too Much Information? . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous By the numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Michael Easter Getting to Know You . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Funkhouser Crab Love Nest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Carrie Arnold To Share and Share Alike . . . . . . . . 30--31
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Veronique Greenwood The Science of Health: Why Are Asthma
Rates Soaring? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Seeing Forever . . . . . . 34--34
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: UFOs, UAPs and CRAPs . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Killer Entertainment . . . 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Clean Tech Rising . . . 96--96
Paul J. Steinhardt Cosmology: The Inflation Debate . . . . 36--43
Maryn McKenna Medicine: The Enemy Within . . . . . . . 46--53
Michael S. Gazzaniga Imaging: Neuroscience in the Courtroom 54--59
Eitan Haddok Environment: Can the Dead Sea Live? . . 60--65
Graham P. Collins Artificial Intelligence: Solving the
Cocktail Party Problem . . . . . . . . . 66--67
A. Keith Dunker and
Richard W. Kriwacki Cell Biology: The Orderly Chaos of
Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Richard Allen Seismology: Seconds Before the Big One 74--79
Brendan Borrell Sustainability: Food Fight . . . . . . . 80--83
Kenneth C. Catania Animal Behavior: Natural-Born Killer . . 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Risks vs. Gains . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: Dr. No Money . . . . . . 10--10
Daniel T. Willingham Forum: Trust Me, I'm a Scientist . . . . 12--12
David Biello Advances: Warning: Flooding Ahead . . . 16--16
Rebecca Coffey Coral in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anna Kuchment When Cars are Greener than People . . . 18--18
Melinda Wenner Moyer Cancer Testing? There's an App for That 20--20
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sid Perkins Bracing for the Big One . . . . . . . . 22--22
David Biello The Newest Nuclear Plants . . . . . . . 22--22
Charles Q. Choi Steel Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jeneen Interlandi Beating Back the Bugs . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Michael Easter The Prices Are Right . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Erica Westly HIV vs. Measles . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Why Bayes Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Sonya Collins A Cure within Sight? . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
David Biello ``Let's Go for It'' . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Nancy Shute The Science of Health: Beyond Mammograms 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Gadgets are Garbage . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Extrasensory Pornception . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: O Mercaptan, My Mercaptan 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Exposed . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Sustainability: 7 Radical Energy
Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
James E. Geach Cosmology: The Lost Galaxies . . . . . . 46--53
Ignacio Provencio Neuroscience: The Hidden Organ in Our
Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
John C. Baez and
John Huerta Mathematics: The Strangest Numbers in
String Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Alan Aderem Medicine: Fast Track to Vaccines . . . . 66--71
George Musser Physics: The Space Station's Crown Jewel 72--73
Jerry Adler Agriculture: The Growing Menace from
Superweeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Peter Forbes Natural History: Masters of Disguise . . 80--83
Alicia Anstead Creativity: Inner Sparks . . . . . . . . 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Quantum Leap . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Science Agenda: Coming Clean about
Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John P. A. Ioannidis Forum: An Epidemic of False Claims . . . 16--16
Larry Greenemeier Advances: Hack My Ride . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Amanda Rose Martinez The Smallest Hitchhikers . . . . . . . . 21--21
Michael Easter A Batter for a Batter . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Sonya Collins Treating Tourette's . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Melinda Wenner Moyer Spies Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Mark Fischetti Will the Internet Stop on June 8? . . . 25--25
W. Wayt Gibbs Material Poet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Carrie Arnold Off the Tree, Ready to Eat . . . . . . . 28--28
George Musser A Mystery Wrapped in a Crystal . . . . . 28--28
John Allen Paulos No X-aggeration . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Tim Requarth and
Meehan Crist How Brains Bounce Back . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Joan Raymond Join the F***ing Club . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Virginia Hughes The Science of Health: Shades of Grief 34--35
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Critical Mass . . . . . . . 36--36
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Myth of the Evil Aliens . . 89--89
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Dining and Dancing . . . . 90--90
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Up in Flames . . . . . 92--92
Vlatko Vedral Physics: Living in a Quantum World . . . 38--43
Christof Koch and
Giulio Tononi Neuroscience: A Test for Consciousness 44--47
Adam Piore Nuclear Energy: Planning for the Black
Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Ferris Jabr Biology: A Nobel Celebration . . . . . . 54--63
Jeffrey Bartholet Technology: Inside the Meat Lab . . . . 64--69
Anna Kuchment and
staff editor Microbiology: The Smartest Bacteria on
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Menna E. Jones and
Hamish McCallum Health: The Devil's Cancer . . . . . . . 72--77
Edward J. Larson History Of Science: Greater Glory . . . 78--83
Michael D. Lemonick Global Warming: ``I Stick to the
Science'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Honors and Activities 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: Physician, Heal the
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Timothy Searchinger Forum: A Quick Fix to the Food Crisis 14--14
David Biello Advances: Tortoises to the Rescue . . . 16--16
John Matson International Particle of Mystery . . . 19--19
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
John Scott Lewinski Light at the End of the Racetrack . . . 20--20
Anna Kuchment Itch Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Bryn Nelson Big Buzzword on Campus . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Carrie Madren A Wild, Weedy Scourge . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rebecca Coffey Beauty and the Beasts . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Nina Bai Donor Fatigue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Al Qaeda and the Internet . . . . . . . 26--26
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Ultrasonic French Fries . . . . . . . . 27--27
David Biello From Nuclear Plant to Nuclear Park? . . 28--28
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Jessica Wapner The Science of Health: Poor Man's Burden 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Why Gadgets Flop . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Believing Brain . . . . . . 85--85
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Rules of the Road . . . . 86--86
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Baby's Life, Mother's
Schooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Douglas Fox Neuroscience: The Limits of Intelligence 36--43
Ken Croswell Astrophysics: The Periodic Table of the
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Sharon Begley Health Care: The Best Medicine . . . . . 50--55
Lee R. Kump Climate Change: The Last Great Global
Warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Anna Kuchment and
staff editor Engineering: Underground Railroad . . . 62--63
Trevor D. Lamb Biology: Evolution of the Eye . . . . . 64--69
David M. Nicol Cybersecurity: Hacking the Lights Out 70--75
John R. Carlson and
Allison F. Carey Disease Control: Scent of a Human . . . 76--79
Peter Byrne Cosmology: Bad Boy of Physics . . . . . 80--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Future with Science 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: Stand and Deliver . . . 14--14
Kenneth I. Kaitin and
Christopher P. Milne Forum: A Dearth of New Meds . . . . . . 16--16
Tim Requarth Advances: Mental Illness in a Dish . . . 18--18
Anne-Marie Hodge A Skill Better than Rudolph's . . . . . 20--20
John Matson Ageless. No Plastic Surgery Required . . 20--20
Francie Diep Parsing the Twitterverse . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Carrie Arnold Anatomy of an Outbreak . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Mary Carmichael All Together Now . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Christine Gorman \em E. coli on the March . . . . . . . . 26--26
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Jessica Wapner Going Viral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Francie Diep Mouth Wide Open . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Charles Seife The Mind-Reading Salmon . . . . . . . . 30--30
Madhumita Venkataramanan Where House Cats Roam . . . . . . . . . 30--30
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Cryogenic Cooking . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Cassandra Willyard The Science of Health: How Do Tumors
Grow? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Perils of Copy
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Globaloney . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Out of the Brains of Babes 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Bombarded . . . . . . . 96--96
George F. R. Ellis Cosmology: Does the Multiverse Really
Exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Rachel Caspari Human Origins: The Evolution of
Grandparents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Gary Stix Neuroscience: How to Build a Better
Learner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
David Biello Energy: The False Promise of Biofuels 58--65
Nina Bai Life Science: Treasure in the Trees . . 66--67
Steven M. Rowe and
J. P. Clancy and
Eric J. Sorscher Medicine: A Breath of Fresh Air . . . . 68--73
Franklin E. Zimring Sociology: How New York Beat Crime . . . 74--79
Mario Livio Philosophy Of Science: Why Math Works 80--83
Jeffrey Bartholet Archaeology: Guardian of the Pharoahs 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: City Lights . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Science Agenda: In Fairness to Cities 14--14
Michael R. Bloomberg Forum: The Best and the Brightest . . . 16--16
Alla Katsnelson Advances: The Stress of Crowds . . . . . 18--18
Jeneen Interlandi New Help for Smokers . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Matson What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
John Matson Her Summer Pastime? Cancer Research . . 22--22
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Cooking that Sucks . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Charles Q. Choi Can You See Me Now? . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Joan Raymond The Shape of a Nose . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Larry Greenemeier After Shock and Awe . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Alla Katsnelson The Pitfalls of Positive Thinking . . . 28--28
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Less Bang, More Bubbles . . . . . . . . 28--28
Francie Diep Cocaine's Newest Risks . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Tim Requarth One Brainy Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Matthew F. Daley and
Jason M. Glanz The Science of Health: Straight Talk
about Vaccination . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Password Prevented . . . . 36--37
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 90--90
Michael Shermer Skeptic: What is Pseudoscience? . . . . 92--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Noble Nobel Faces . . . . 94--94
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 95--95
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Human Cost of
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Cities: Smarter, Greener, Better:
Street-Savvy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Carlo Ratti and
Anthony Townsend Smarter: The Social Nexus . . . . . . . 42--48
Edward Glaeser Engines of Innovation . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Luís M. A. Bettencourt and
Geoffrey B. West Bigger Cities Do More with Less . . . . 52--53
Robert Neuwirth Global Bazaar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Gordon McGranahan and
David Satterthwaite Better Health for the Uncounted Urban
Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Edward Glaeser Brains over Buildings . . . . . . . . . 64--64
David Biello Greener: How Green is My City . . . . . 66--69
Cynthia Rosenzweig All Climate is Local . . . . . . . . . . 70--73
Mark Fischetti The Efficient City . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Mark Lamster Better: Castles in the Air . . . . . . . 76--83
Michael Easter and
Gary Stix Street Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
William Gibson Life in the Meta City . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Back to School . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: Ban Chimp Testing . . . 12--12
Patricia Hunt Forum: Toxins All around Us . . . . . . 14--14
Sharon Begley Advances: More Than Child's Play . . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer Is It Safe to Drink? . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Francie Diep Outsmarting Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Francie Diep Clearing the Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Eric Michael Johnson ``I've Got Your Back'' . . . . . . . . . 22--22
George Hackett News Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Charles Q. Choi Instant Health Checks for Buildings and
Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Michael Moyer The Trouble with Armor . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Davide Castelvecchi A Tale of Math Treasure . . . . . . . . 26--26
Larry Greenemeier Gig.U Is Now in Session . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Quotable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Spherical Eats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Elizabeth Svoboda Putting Diabetes on Autopilot . . . . . 28--28
Laura Blue The Science of Health: The Ethnic Health
Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Big Progress on the Little
Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Decline of Violence . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Surface Tension . . . . . 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Data Theft: Hackers
Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Leo Blitz Astrophysics: The Dark Side of the Milky
Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--45
Anonymous Special Year Of Chemistry Celebration:
Atom Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Philip Ball 10 Unsolved Mysteries . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Deborah Blum The Scent of Your Thoughts . . . . . . . 54--57
Sarah Simpson Geology: Afghanistan's Buried Riches . . 58--65
Eric von Hofe Medicine: A New Ally against Cancer . . 66--71
Anna Kuchment and
staff editor Forensics: How Skulls Speak . . . . . . 72--73
Tim Folger Physics: Waiting for the Higgs . . . . . 74--79
Gareth Dyke Paleontology: The Dinosaur Baron of
Transylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Thea Singer Biology: Actuary of the Cell . . . . . . 84--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Paths Taken . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Science Agenda: Safety First, Fracking
Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Scott Borg Forum: A Cybersecurity Nightmare . . . . 14--14
John Matson Advances: On the Trail of Space Trash 18--18
John Allen Paulos Bigger Plates, More Food --- Or Is It
the Other Way Around? . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Godkin Olympians of the Sky . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anna Kuchment Zombie Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jeneen Interlandi Social Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Biello Halting Hurricanes . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Suspect Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anne-Marie Hodge Meet Your Newest Ancestor . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Suspect Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Larry Greenemeier $3$-D, Hold the Glasses . . . . . . . . 27--27
Jason G. Goldman Of Flash Mobs and Four Loko . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi Instant Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Julia Galef You Say Embryo, I Say Parthenote . . . . 30--30
Bryn Nelson Low Taxes, High Rhetoric . . . . . . . . 30--30
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Francie Diep The Science of Health: Cholesterol
Conundrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Joke's on Your Computer 34--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 92--92
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Real Science behind
Scientology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Balancing Act . . . . . . 96--96
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Computers vs. Brains 104--104
Heather Pringle Archaeology: The First Americans . . . . 36--45
Peter H. Smith Planetary Science: Digging Mars . . . . 46--54
David Warmflash Experimental Astrobiology: The Smallest
Astronauts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Joshua Knobe Experimental Philosophy: Thought
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Jonathan A. Foley Sustainability: Can We Feed the World &
Sustain the Planet? . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Sid Perkins Geology: Sleeping Giant . . . . . . . . 66--67
Bijal P. Trivedi Biotechnology: The Wipeout Gene . . . . 68--75
David H. Freedman Computing: A Formula for Economic
Calamity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Chris Mooney Energy: The Truth about Fracking . . . . 80--85
Brendan Borrell Diagnostics: The Medical Sleuth . . . . 86--90
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Emergent Genius . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Science Agenda: Stop the Genetic Dragnet 14--14
Edward T. Lu Forum: Stop the Killer Rocks . . . . . . 16--16
Sharon Begley Advances: Can't Touch This Feeling . . . 18--18
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Microwaves and the Speed of Light . . . 20--20
Anonymous Suspect Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Tim Requarth and
Greg Wayne A Circuit in Every Cell . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anne-Marie C. Hodge Vitamins, Minerals and MicroRNA . . . . 22--22
Charles Q. Choi Fluid Dynamics in a Cup . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jonathan Zittrain Freedom Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anna Kuchment This Year, Give them Brains . . . . . . 26--27
Davide Castelvecchi Why Neutrinos Might Wimp Out . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Yawn of the Tortoise . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Moyer Universal Alignment . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Rose Eveleth From Pollen to Polyester . . . . . . . . 32--32
David Biello What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Swapping Germs 34--36
David Pogue TechnoFiles: How to See the Invisible 38--39
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 100--100
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Sacred Salubriousness . . . . . 102--102
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Respect for Evidence . . . 104--104
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Links We Love . . . 110--110
Anonymous Technology Special Report: World
Changing Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Elizabeth Svoboda The Forever Health Monitor . . . . . . . 42--42
Christopher Mims A Chip that Thinks Like a Brain . . . . 43--43
Christopher Mims The Wallet in Your Skin . . . . . . . . 44--44
Francie Diep Computers that Don't Freeze Up . . . . . 45--45
Morgen Peck Currency without Borders . . . . . . . . 46--46
Sarah Fecht Microbe Miners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Christopher Mims Crops that Don't Need Replanting . . . . 48--48
Christopher Mims Liquid Fuel for Electric Cars . . . . . 50--51
Elizabeth Svoboda Nano-Size Germ Killers . . . . . . . . . 51--51
David Weinberger The Machine that Would Predict the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Damon Landau and
Nathan J. Strange Space Exploration: This Way to Mars . . 58--65
Gary Stix and
staff writer Biology: Dazzling Miniatures . . . . . . 66--71
John A. Carey Climate Change: After the Deluge . . . . 72--75
Eric J. Nestler Neuroscience: Hidden Switches in the
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Mark W. Moffett Animal Behavior: Ants & the Art of War 84--89
Colleen Fitzpatrick Forensics: Arm in the Ice . . . . . . . 90--93
Brendan Borrell Education: Speaking Out on the ``Quiet
Crisis'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--99
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Science of Staying
Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 87--87
Sharon Begley Advances: Anything Boys Can Do \ldots 25--25
David Biello Tweaking Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . 21--21
David Biello Pond Scum to the Rescue . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Zoë Corbyn No Spring Chickens . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Rose Eveleth The Little Engine That Could . . . . . . 24--24
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Healing Kansas 28--30
Peter H. Gleick and
Matthew Heberger Forum: The Coming Mega Drought . . . . . 14--14
Jane Braxton Little Advances: Plight of the Condors . . . . 18--18
John Matson Why It's Raining Satellites . . . . . . 26--26
John Matson Graphic Science: Buying a Better Bulb 92--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Physics Uncowed . . . . . 86--86
Jennifer Ouellette Advances: Your Birdsong Stays on My Mind 26--26
John Allen Paulos Weighing the Positives . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Adam Piore Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Silicon Superego . . . . . 31--31
Michael Shermer Skeptic: In the Year 9595 . . . . . . . 85--85
Gary Stix Advances: Photographic Memory . . . . . 24--24
John Villasenor Here Come the Drones . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Kate Wong Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 84--84
Anonymous Science Agenda: Read My E-mail? Get a
Warrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Advances: Suspect Science . . . . . . . 18--18
Brendan Borrell Environment: Dust Up . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Davide Castelvecchi Animal Behavior: The Compass Within . . 48--53
Christine Gorman Health: Five Hidden Dangers of \ldots
Obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Jenny E. Greene Cosmology: Goldilocks Black Holes . . . 40--47
Katherine Harmon Immunology: The Patient Scientist . . . 54--59
H. Moysés Nussenzveig Physics: The Science of the Glory . . . 68--73
David Stipp Biology: A New Path to Longevity . . . . 32--39
James Vlahos Technology: The Department of Pre-Crime 62--67
Michael E. Webber Sustainability: More Food, Less Energy 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Sea of Spacetime
Foam? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: Unschooled in Hard
Knocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
David Kaplan Forum: Science and Prejudice . . . . . . 11--11
John Matson Advances: Tensions Over Taikonauts . . . 12--12
Jeneen Interlandi A Man-Made Contagion . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Melissa Gaskill It Detects Earthquakes and Lactose
Intolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anne Pycha Just a Click Away . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
John Matson The Not So Hot Hand . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Joan Raymond Mom Is My Wingman . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rose Eveleth Peeling Away Microbes . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ferris Jabr Gumming Up Appetite . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Katherine Harmon A Long Flight but No Baggage . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sandra Upson Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ 21--21
W. Wayt Gibbs and
Nathan Myhrvold Making Liquids Go Bipolar . . . . . . . 22--22
John Matson In Sync, on a Quantum Level . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Glendon Mellow Storybook Wishes for Martian Rovers . . 24--24
David Wogan The Impracticality of a Cheeseburger . . 24--24
Katherine Harmon Oral Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: A Diabetes
Cliffhanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--28
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Future Is for Fools . . 29--29
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 82--83
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Lies We Tell Ourselves . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: When Animals Accidentally
Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: How Science Degrees
Stack Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Michael Moyer Physics: Is Space Digital? . . . . . . . 30--37
Marc B. Garnick Medicine: The Great Prostate Cancer
Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Jeffrey Bartholet Environment: Swept from Africa to the
Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Kenneth F. Haynes Public Health: Sleeping with the Enemy 50--55
Kalee Thompson Citizen Science: All Hands on Deck . . . 56--59
Harold Schmitz and
Howard-Yana Shapiro Sustainable Agriculture: The Future of
Chocolate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Jeffrey Bartholet Brain Science: The Collision Syndrome 66--71
Claudia Kalb Anatomy: Fetal Armor . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Gareth Cook Bioengineering: The Brittle Star's
Apprentice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Moving Mind . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Neglect of Mental
Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Donald Q. Lamb Forum: Big Computers for Little
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Elizabeth Grossman Advances: Remains of the Day . . . . . . 11--11
Gary Stix Forget Cramming . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Charles Q. Choi It Watches Your Wallet . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Katherine Harmon Body-Snatching Flies . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Matson Know Your Space Tycoons . . . . . . . . 14--14
Carrie Arnold Backseat Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
John Matson A New Wrinkle in Time . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Rose Eveleth Probing the Depths . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Beryl Lieff Benderly Are University Labs Criminally
Dangerous? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Larry Greenmeier It's All in the Tail . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Biello Soot Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Kelly Oakes Stars That Go Out with a Bang . . . . . 22--22
Rob Dunn Your Appendix Could Save Your Life . . . 22--22
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Time to Kill Off Captchas 23--23
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Nature That
Nurtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--77
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Opting Out of Overoptimism . . 78--78
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Unkindest Cut . . . . 80--80
John Matson Graphic Science: The Dwindling Web . . . 88--88
Fred H. Gage and
Alysson R. Muotri Neuroscience: What Makes Each Brain
Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Donald Goldsmith Astrophysics: The Far, Far Future of
Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Scott D. Sampson Paleontology: Dinosaurs of the Lost
Continent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Davide Castelvecchi Energy: Gather the Wind . . . . . . . . 48--53
Carl June and
Bruce Levine Medicine: Blocking HIV's Attack . . . . 54--59
Julian Dibbell Information Technology: The Shadow Web 60--65
Robin Marantz Henig Biotechnology: Lifting the Black Cloud 66--71
David Biello Climate: Hit Them with the Hockey Stick 72--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Story Begins . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: Who Owns the Past? . . . 9--9
Stuart Firestein Forum: What Science Wants to Know . . . 10--10
Gary Stix Advances: The Mind Recovery Act . . . . 12--12
Charles Q. Choi Scanning for E.T.'s Calls . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Ferris Jabr Hopeful Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Carrie Madren Picky Eaters Club . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Rose Eveleth Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anne Pycha Fast Talkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Lucas Laursen Blue Bacteria in Bloom . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Rose Eveleth Coffee Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi Textbooks Come Alive . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
John Matson Swimming on Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Katherine Harmon What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Caleb A. Scharf Cold Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Christie Wilcox This Is What a Scientist Looks Like . . 24--24
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Food Poisoning's
Hidden Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Technology's Friction
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Climbing Mount Immortality . . 82--82
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Doctor Is Way Out . . 84--84
John Matson Graphic Science: Space Age Wasteland . . 88--88
Kate Wong Human Evolution: First of Our Kind . . . 30--39
Steven Carlip Physics: Quantum Gravity in Flatland . . 40--47
Amy Arnsten and
Carolyn M. Mazure and
Rajita Sinha Neuroscience: This is Your Brain in
Meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Michael Belfiore Space Science: Bound for the Moon . . . 54--59
Helen Branswell Public Health: Polio's Last Act . . . . 60--65
William Swanson History Of Science: Birth of a Cold War
Vaccine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Richard Milner Paleontology: Time Traveler . . . . . . 70--73
Michael J. Parkes Physiology: The Limits of Breath Holding 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: New Physics and Future
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: Fresh Fruit, Hold the
Insulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Alice P. Gast Forum: Boundary Conditions . . . . . . . 14--14
Davide Castelvecchi Advances: Is Supersymmetry Dead? . . . . 16--18
Cheryl Lyn Dybas Bright Microbes . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Cheryl Katz Bugs in the Ice Sheet . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Science Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Melinda Wenner Moyer Weighing the Risks . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Davide Castelvecchi Goldbach's Prime Numbers . . . . . . . . 23--23
Rose Eveleth Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Biello ``It's Almost Science Fiction'' . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Michael Moyer Does Digital Piracy Really Hurt Movies? 25--25
Rose Eveleth What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
James E. Oberg Not Ready for Takeoff . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Elie Dolgin Real Males Eat Yogurt . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Marc Kuchner Stars to the Rescue . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Michael Moyer How to Tell Who's Tracking You Online 28--28
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Return of the
Clap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Trouble with Wi-Fi . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 84--85
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Much Ado about Nothing . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Math Rules . . . . . . . . 92--92
John Matson Graphic Science: High and Dry in the
Food Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Zvi Bern and
Lance J. Dixon and
David A. Kosower Quantum Physics: Loops, Trees and the
Search for New Physics . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Nancy Shute and
Ferris Jabr and
Katherine Harmon Future Health Special Report: Tomorrow's
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Kristina A. Curry Rogers and
Michael D. D'Emic Evolution: Triumph of the Titans . . . . 48--55
Jerry Adler Neuroscience: Erasing Painful Memories 56--61
Daniel Chamovitz Botany: What a Plant Smells . . . . . . 62--65
Ann Chin Forensic Medicine: Telltale Hearts . . . 66--67
Jane Lubchenco and
Jack Hayes Meteorology: A Better Eye on the Storm 68--73
Philip Ball Photonics: Nature's Color Tricks . . . . 74--79
Larry Greenemeier Innovation: Professional Seer . . . . . 80--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: We the People . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Science Agenda: Protect Women's Health 12--12
Graham T. Allison Forum: Slinking Toward the Bomb . . . . 14--14
Melinda Wenner Moyer Advances: The Motherhood Gap . . . . . . 16--16
John Matson Fire and Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Davide Castelvecchi What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ferris Jabr Microbial Mules . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi Thar She Blows! . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Meehan Crist Old Neurons, New Tricks . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rose Eveleth When Cockroach Legs Dance . . . . . . . 23--23
Frank Wilczek Happy Birthday, Electron . . . . . . . . 24--24
William J. Cook The Case of the Traveling Salesman . . . 26--26
David Biello Primeval Precipitation . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Sid Perkins Go with the Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rose Eveleth It's Not ``Like Growing Grass'' . . . . 27--27
Christie Wilcox Lice Don't Lie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Ferris Jabr Beautiful Mutants . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Philip T. B. Starks and
Brittany L. Slabach The Science of Health: The Scoop on
Eating Dirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Down with Double Data Fees! 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 84--85
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Science of Righteousness 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Freaks and Tweaks . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Water In, Water Out . . 96--96
Jennifer Ackerman Medicine: The Ultimate Social Network 36--43
Avishay Gal-Yam Astrophysics: Super Supernovae . . . . . 44--49
Henry Markram Neuroscience: The Human Brain Project 50--55
Geoff Brumfiel Technology: Fusion's Missing Pieces . . 56--61
Rose Eveleth Ecology: Busy Bee . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Fred Guterl Infectious Disease: Waiting to Explode 64--69
David Kaiser and
Angela N. H. Creager History Of Science: The Right Way to Get
It Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Ivan Chase Sociobiology: Life Is a Shell Game . . . 76--79
Brendan Borrell Virology: Resistance Fighter . . . . . . 80--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Succeeding Together . . 8--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: To the Moons, NASA . . . 14--14
Francis Collins Forum: How to Fulfill the True Promise
of ``mHealth'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Susan H. Greenberg Advances: A Home on the Range . . . . . 18--19
David Biello Trashing the ``Element from Hell'' . . . 19--19
Rebecca Coffey Fact Finder: Digit Divide . . . . . . . 19--19
Melinda Wenner Moyer Why Sneezing Is Good for You . . . . . . 20--20
Amy N. Langville and
Carl D. Meyer Who's #1? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
David Biello Bad for Bugs and Brains? . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rose Eveleth It's Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rebecca Coffey Some Like It Too Hot . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Roxanne Nelson The Last Worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Daisy Grewal How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith
in God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Carrie Madren Tracking Turtles from Space . . . . . . 27--27
George Musser Particles for Peace . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anna Kuchment How Spiders ``Balloon'' . . . . . . . . 28--28
Ariel Bleicher The Science of Health: Perils of Newborn
Screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Technology That Doesn't Fly 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Rabid: A
Cultural History of the World's Most
Diabolical Virus . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable
Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of
Human Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers
You Can't Count On . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anna Kuchment Also notable: Family Books . . . . . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Aunt Millie's Mind . . . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bred and Circuses . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Graphic Science: Medal Migrations . . . 92--92
Martin A. Nowak Evolution: Why We Help . . . . . . . . . 34--39
John P. Grotzinger and
Ashwin Vasavada Space: Reading the Red Planet . . . . . 40--43
Bruce D. Walker Health: Secrets of the HIV Controllers 44--51
Larry Greenemeier Engineering: Fleet of Foot . . . . . . . 52--53
Douglas Fox Polar Science: Witness to an Antarctic
Meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
John Matson and
Ferris Jabr Physics: Nobel Pursuits . . . . . . . . 62--73
Jesse Bering Animal Behavior: The Rat that Laughed 74--77
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa Artificial Intelligence: Machines that
Think for Themselves . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Destroyers that Create 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Science Agenda: Can the U.S. Get an
``A'' in Science? . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Arturo Casadevall and
Ferric C. Fang Forum: Winner Takes All . . . . . . . . 13--13
Melinda Wenner Moyer Advances: Not Just ``Small Adults'' . . 18--18
Ferris Jabr Why Some Tomatoes Taste Better . . . . . 20--20
Davide Castelvecchi Fabrics That Push Back . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Carrie Arnold Going Viral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Carrie Madren For Some Species, Plastic Is Fantastic 23--23
Anonymous Water for Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rose Eveleth Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Biello More Charge for the Buck . . . . . . . . 27--27
Ferris Jabr Mind Pops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rose Eveleth Fact Finder: High-Jump Physics . . . . . 28--28
John Villasenor A Hacker-Ready Chip . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Katherine Harmon Vanishing in Plain Sight . . . . . . . . 29--29
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Cracks in the
Bone Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Siri, Why Aren't You
Smarter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The Rocks
Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates
Noah's Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul 84--84
Anonymous Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing,
Hiccupping, and Beyond . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous When Can You Trust the Experts? How to
Tell Good Science from Bad in Education 84--84
Anna Kuchment Recommended: Also Notable . . . . . . . 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Free Won't . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Good Chappe . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Olympic Hurtfuls . . . 92--92
Caleb Scharf Astrophysics: The Benevolence of Black
Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Morten L. Kringelbach and
Kent C. Berridge Neuroscience: The Joyful Mind . . . . . 40--45
Kevin L. Campbell and
Michael Hofreiter Evolutionary Biology: New Life for
Ancient DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Sid Perkins Climate: Lakes on Ice . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Joseph R. Dwyer and
David M. Smith Atmospheric Science: Deadly Rays from
Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Pat Wingert Education: Building a Better Science
Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
David Stipp Health: Quiet Little Traitors . . . . . 68--73
Michelle Nijhuis Biodiversity: Which Species will Live? 74--79
Brendan Borrell Bacteriology: Phage Factor . . . . . . . 80--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Out of Bounds . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Science Agenda: Safer Drugs for Kids . . 12--12
Daniel T. Willingham Forum: Brain Science in the Classroom 14--14
Benjamin S. Halpern Advances: How Healthy Is Your Ocean? . . 16--17
Oscar Berlanga Ready, Set, Implant . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Robert Garisto and
Abhishek Agarwal The Import of the Higgs Boson . . . . . 20--21
Evelyn Lamb Cover Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Dave Mosher Not Worth the Risk? . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Marissa Fessenden Meteor Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Katherine Harmon Fish Swap Dinner for Sex . . . . . . . . 24--24
John R. Platt Howdy, Neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Aishwarya Nukala Chickpea Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Matson Wobble, Wobble . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Thea Singer Cholesterol Confusion . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Kate Wong Tooth Sleuths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Ferris Jabr I Think, Therefore I Spell . . . . . . . 28--28
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Clean Sweep . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Hollywood Killed the Video
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Stardust
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous The Medical Book . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Lost Antarctica . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anna Kuchment Recommended: Also Notable . . . . . . . 90--90
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Conspiracy Contradictions . . . 91--91
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bring Out Your Dead . . . 92--92
Fred Guterl Graphic Science: Which Creatures Live
the Longest? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Beyond Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Robert M. Sapolsky Who We Are: Super Humanity . . . . . . . 40--43
Tim Folger Can We Keep Getting Smarter? . . . . . . 44--47
James Vlahos The Case of the Sleeping Slayer . . . . 48--53
Katherine Harmon How We All Will Live to Be 100 . . . . . 54--57
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis What We Can Do: Mind in Motion . . . . . 58--63
Dave Mosher The Edge of Ambition . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
John Pavlus Machines of the Infinite . . . . . . . . 66--71
Davide Castelvecchi Where We're Headed: Questions for the
Next Million Years . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Ken Caldeira The Great Climate Experiment . . . . . . 78--83
David Deutsch and
Artur Ekert Beyond the Quantum Horizon . . . . . . . 84--89
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Global Affair . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous Science Agenda: Solve the Nobel Prize
Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Kathleen A. Ryan Forum: Target the Super-Spreaders . . . 14--14
Marissa Fessenden Advances: The Exposure Cure . . . . . . 16--16
Larry Greenemeier Snap Judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Daisy Yuhas Stealing for Biodiversity . . . . . . . 18--18
Larry Greenemeier Sergei Petrovich Kapitza . . . . . . . . 19--19
John Matson Primordial Pinwheel . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sophie Bushwick Bird Brains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Larry Greenemeier Seeing in the Rain . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Eric Wagner The Art of Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Becky Crew What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Larry Greenemeier Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anna Kuchment Coding Her Way to the Top . . . . . . . 24--24
Evelyn Lamb A ``Just Right'' Guitar . . . . . . . . 26--26
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Matson Stuff That Designs Itself . . . . . . . 27--27
S. E. Gould Underground Network . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Matson Urge to Merge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Drug Detectives 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Rent Out Your Hot Button 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: ``Dangerous
Work'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous The Joy of X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Mirror Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous The Half-Life of Facts . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anna Kuchment Recommended: Also Notable . . . . . . . 90--91
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Politically Irrational . . . . 92--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: It's Full of Cats . . . . 96--96
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Fatter, Drunker Nation 100--100
John Sexton State Of The World's Science: State of
The World's Science . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Stefan Theil Why Germany Still Makes Things . . . . . 41--43
The Editors Scorecard: The World's Best Countries in
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Philip G. Altbach and
Qi Wang Can China Keep Rising? . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Michael M. Crow Citizen Science U. . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Paula Stephan The Other 1 Percent . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Fred Guterl Culture of Creativity . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Terry Sejnowski and
Tobi Delbruck Neuroscience: The Language of the Brain 54--59
Carl Zimmer Environment: Ecosystems on the Brink . . 60--65
Michael Riordan and
Guido Tonelli and
Sau Lan Wu Physics: The Higgs at Last . . . . . . . 66--73
David Biello Energy: Kinetic Kite . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Kevin Dutton Psychology: The Wisdom of Psychopaths 76--79
Stephen S. Hall Biochemistry: Journey to the Genetic
Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Of Quarks and
(Presidential) Men . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Science Agenda: Future Jobs Depend on a
Science-Based Economy . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Evan Charney and
William English Forum: The Voting Gene . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Alla Katsnelson Advances: The Autism Pill . . . . . . . 16--16
John Matson You Are Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
John Matson Scaled Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Larry Greenemeier Roaches to the Rescue . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Carrie Madren Dead in the Water . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Melinda Wenner Moyer A Shot in the Arm . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Daisy Yuhas Some Don't Like It Hot . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rachel Nuwer From Tail Chasing to Hand Washing . . . 25--25
Marissa Fessenden Fickle Fairies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Lina Zeldovich The Robot Will See You Now . . . . . . . 26--26
Davide Castelvecchi Break More to Break Less . . . . . . . . 27--27
Kate Wong Helpless by Design? . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Eve Conant Breaking the Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Matson The Last Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Virtues of the
Virtual Autopsy . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: To Track My Thief . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The
Particle at the End of the Universe . . 84--84
Anonymous Drinking Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Logician and the Engineer . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Brain on Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anna Kuchment Recommended: Also notable . . . . . . . 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Shock and Awe . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: A Trivers Runs through It 88--88
John Matson Graphic Science: Tag --- You're Sick . . 92--92
Don Lincoln Particle Physics: The Inner Life of
Quarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Yoshiki Sasai Neuroscience: Grow Your Own Eye . . . . 44--49
John Carey Environment: Global Warming: Faster Than
Expected? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
R. Ewan Fordyce and
Daniel T. Ksepka Paleontology: The Strangest Bird . . . . 56--61
Shawn Lawrence Otto Science and Society: America's Science
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Simon Baron-Cohen Biology: Autism and the Technical Mind 72--75
George Musser Quantum Physics: A New Enlightenment . . 76--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Human Factor . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Other Oil Problem 10--10
Peter Wadhams Forum: The Arctic ``Death Spiral'' . . . 12--12
Charles Q. Choi Advances: Digital Danger . . . . . . . . 14--14
John Matson No Star Left Behind . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer Chemically Unsound . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Daisy Yuhas Model Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous All I Want for Christmas Is Dinosaur
Dung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Marissa Fessenden His Milk, Her Milk . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Evelyn Lamb Too Cool for School . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ferris Jabr Food Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Kate Wong Caveman Couture . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Caleb A. Scharf A River Ran through It . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Larry Greenemeier A Deadly Jet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anne-Marie Hodge Cryptic Gardeners . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Ferris Jabr The Science of Health: Meat of the
Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Remote Control in Your
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Desert Air 82--82
Anonymous Wind Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Chasing Doctor Dolittle . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Best Science Writing Online 2012 . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Alpinists of Evil . . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Tongue Twisters . . . . . 86--86
John Matson Graphic Science: Planets Everywhere . . 92--92
Ferris Jabr and
Katherine Harmon and
Emily Laber-Warren and
David Biello and
Adam Piore and
Daisy Yuhas and
Christopher Mims and
Marissa Fessenden and
John Carey Innovation: World Changing Ideas . . . . 34--35
David Tong Physics: The Unquantum Quantum . . . . . 46--49
Charles H. Greene Climate Change: The Winters of Our
Discontent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Charles Seife Medical Ethics: Is Drug Research
Trustworthy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Anna Frebel Space: Four Starry Nights . . . . . . . 64--69
Daniel Grushkin Art Conservation: The Case of the
Disappearing Daguerreotypes . . . . . . 70--73
Gareth Cook Neuroscience: Mind Theorist . . . . . . 74--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Living in the Future 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: A To-Do List for
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Jacob Tanenbaum Forum: Creation, Evolution and
Indisputable Facts . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
John Matson Advances: Diamond Planets . . . . . . . 12--12
Erik Vance Safe from Scorpions . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Susannah Cahalan Linking Immunity and Mental Health . . . 14--14
Kate Wong A Prehistoric Arms Race . . . . . . . . 16--16
Mark Fischetti How to Survive the Next Big Storm . . . 16--16
Davide Castelvecchi The Missing Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Larry Greenemeier Crunch Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marissa Fessenden Stealth Pathogen . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Ann Chin What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Eric Wagner The Escape Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Timothy Hornyak Super Long-Term Storage . . . . . . . . 21--21
Cesar Vega Healthier Ice Cream? . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jason G. Goldman A Feathered Innovator . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Christie Wilcox Clever Coral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
David Stipp The Science of Health: Is Fasting Good
for You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Trouble with Touch
Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The
Universe Within . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous The Physics of Wall Street . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Drawn from Paradise . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous The Annotated and Illustrated Double
Helix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Mastermind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Logic-Tight Compartments . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Voyage of the Bagel . . . 78--78
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The True Cost of Risky
Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Technology: Over the Horizon . . . . . . 26--28
Mary Cummings A Drone in Every Driveway . . . . . . . 28--29
Ron Rosenbaum The Nuclear Question . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Ricki Lewis A Cure for What Ails You . . . . . . . . 32--32
Thomas Lovejoy A Tsunami of Extinction . . . . . . . . 33--34
David W. Keith and
Andy Parker The Fate of an Engineered Planet . . . . 34--36
Ed Regis A Bold and Foolish Effort to Predict the
Future of Computing . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Cameron M. Smith Space: Starship Humanity . . . . . . . . 38--43
Subir Sachdev Quantum Physics: Strange and Stringy . . 44--51
D. Kacy Cullen and
Douglas H. Smith Medical Engineering: Bionic Connections 52--57
Kate Wong Life Science: Small Wonders . . . . . . 58--63
Michael D. Dettinger and
B. Lynn Ingram Climate: The Coming Megafloods . . . . . 64--71
Lawrence D. Rosenblum Neuroscience: A Confederacy of Senses 72--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Minds in Motion . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Science Agenda: Beware the Destiny Test 12--12
Michael Fertik Forum: A Tale of Two Internets . . . . . 13--13
David Biello Advances: A Dirty Business . . . . . . . 14--14
John Matson Ring Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Katherine Harmon Worm Elixir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Carrie Madren Where No Tree Has Gone Before . . . . . 16--16
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Daisy Yuhas Your Brain on Sports . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Katherine Harmon Stopping Superbugs . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Katie Worth Naps in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marissa Fessenden Bug-Eared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Marissa Fessenden Cloud Catcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Alex Wild What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Katherine Harmon Boring Beetles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Gary Stix Roots of Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
John Matson Not Quite Gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Hannah Waters Bird Butts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: A Dangerous Game 27--28
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Out with the Real . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Weird Life 74--74
Anonymous Animal Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Blackett's War . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous The Measure of Manhattan . . . . . . . . 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Left's War on Science . . . 76--76
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Still Crazy After All
These Fears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Fred Guterl Graphic Science: Rising Risks . . . . . 82--82
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga and
Itzhak Fried and
Christof Koch Neuroscience: Brain Cells for
Grandmother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
Alan E. Rubin Space: Secrets of Primitive Meteorites 36--41
Katherine Harmon Human Evolution: Shattered Ancestry . . 42--49
Stephen C. Riser and
M. Susan Lozier Climate: Rethinking the Gulf Stream . . 50--55
Gregory Mone Engineering: The Battery-Powered Bullet 56--61
Melinda Wenner Moyer Medicine: The Myth of Antioxidants . . . 62--67
Hillary Rosner Citizen Science: Data on Wings . . . . . 68--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Story of Creation 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: Ready. Aim. Investigate 10--10
Dennis M. Bartels Forum: What Is Your Question? . . . . . 12--12
Rose Eveleth Advances: Up with Microbes . . . . . . . 14--14
Barbara Fraser A Drying Rain Forest . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anne Underwood From A to Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Melinda Wenner Moyer No Harm Done? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Karen A. Frenkel Beyond the Ocean's Surface . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Medical Advice before Taking a
Spaceflight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Mark Fischetti Before the Deluge . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Ann Chin What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Evelyn Lamb How the Slinky Buckles . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Matson Not Too Close for Comfort . . . . . . . 30--30
Marissa Fessenden Crime Boss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Christie Wilcox Expensive Organs . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
John R. Platt Eyes in the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: The New Age of
Medical Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Term of Confusion . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Red Rover 82--82
Anonymous The Bonobo and the Atheist . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Storm Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous To Save Everything Click Here . . . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Dictators and Diehards . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Getting to the Bottom . . 85--85
John Matson Graphic Science: Mission: Risk-Averse 88--88
Heather Pringle Human Evolution: The Origins of
Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Steven W. Stahler Astrophysics: The Inner Life of Star
Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Anna Kuchment Plant Biology: The End of Orange Juice 44--51
Robert Wood and
Radhika Nagpal and
Gu-Yeon Wei Technology: Flight of the Robobees . . . 60--65
Sonia Shah Emerging Diseases: New Threat from
Poxviruses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Erin Murphy Forensics: The Government Wants Your DNA 72--77
Emily Anthes Bioengineering: A Dolphin's Tale . . . . 78--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A New Agenda . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Spies above Your
Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Guobin Yang Forum: The People's Standoff . . . . . . 14--14
Ken Croswell Advances: Unraveling a Magellanic
Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Carrie Arnold Medieval and Modern . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Lucas Laursen ``Doc, I'm off My Diet. LOL'' . . . . . 20--20
Rebecca Coffey Of Lust and Lysol . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Marissa Fessenden Extremely High and Incredibly Cold . . . 22--22
David Biello Better, Cheaper, Smaller . . . . . . . . 22--22
Katherine Harmon Dung Beetles Follow the Stars . . . . . 24--24
Kate Wong Scrappy Pets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ken Croswell Wanted: New Worlds beyond Pluto . . . . 25--25
William Ferguson Traces of Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
David Biello Let the Sunshine In . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Larry Greenemeier Twitching to Talk . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Becky Crew What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Mark Anderson Good Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Shock to the
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Disappointment of Dazzling
Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Beautiful
Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The New Digital Age: Reshaping the
Future of People, Nations and Business 84--84
Anonymous Adrenaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A
21st Century Bestiary . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Proof of Hallucination . . . . 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Show Your Hand . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Deep Heat Threatens
Marine Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Martin Hirsch and
Heinrich Päs and
Werner Porod Particle Physics: Ghostly Beacons of New
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Sudeep Das and
Tristan L. Smith Measuring Mass: The Neutrino's Secrets,
Written on the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Anonymous Special Report: The Future of Medicine:
The Future of Medicine . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Ferris Jabr A Change of Heart . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Christine Gorman The Super Glue Cure . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Katherine Harmon A Sweet Solution for Replacing Organs 54--55
Ferris Jabr Replanting the Brain's Forest . . . . . 55--57
Mason Inman Energy: The True Cost of Fossil Fuels 58--61
Charles A. Nelson III and
Nathan A. Fox and
Charles H. Zeanah, Jr. Child Development: Anguish of the
Abandoned Child . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
S. Alan Stern Space Exploration: The Low-Cost Ticket
to Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Brendan Borrell Ecology: Let the Fish Breathe . . . . . 74--79
Brian Switek Paleontology: Love among the Dinosaurs 80--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Making the Future . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Spies Who Sabotaged
Global Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Geoffrey West Forum: Wisdom in Numbers . . . . . . . . 14--14
Ferris Jabr Advances: Beyond Symptoms . . . . . . . 17--17
David Biello The Tiniest Bites . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marissa Fessenden A Cure Is Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ken Croswell Tadpoles in Space . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Marissa Fessenden Ant Invasion! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
William Ferguson Heated to the Core . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Erik Vance Exploiting Physics for Serious Laughs 22--22
Marissa Fessenden It's Your Food Talking . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Kate Wong Yes, We're Related . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Caleb A. Scharf Space Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John Matson Anybody Home? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Marissa Fessenden Tailing Tuna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
John Matson Preventing the Next Chelyabinsk . . . . 28--28
Alex Wild What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Deborah Franklin The Science of Health: Good Bacteria for
Bad Breath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Strange Magic of Micro
Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Brilliant
Blunders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Scatter, Adapt, and Remember . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Odd Couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Power Surge . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Gun Science . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bacon, Lettuce and
Tasteless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Matson Graphic Science: Gender Gaps . . . . . . 88--88
Ricardo Hausmann Special Report: The Future of
Manufacturing: How to Make the Next Big
Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
David Bourne My Boss the Robot . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Steven Ashley Future Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Larry Greenemeier To Print the Impossible . . . . . . . . 44--47
Mihail C. Roco Rise of the Nano Machines . . . . . . . 48--49
James D. Myers Assembled in Code . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Lary C. Walker and
Mathias Jucker Neuroscience: Seeds of Dementia . . . . 52--57
Alfred S. McEwen Planetary Science: Mars in Motion . . . 58--65
Michael F. Hammer Evolution: Human Hybrids . . . . . . . . 66--71
Christopher Solomon Emerging Diseases: How Kitty is Killing
the Dolphins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Sarah Everts Biochemistry: Mirror Molecules . . . . . 78--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Science Journey . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Science Agenda: Do Not Reanimate . . . . 12--12
David J. Kappos Forum: Tweaks to the Idea Factory . . . 14--14
Michael Moyer Advances: Cloud to Black Hole: Eat My
Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
William Underhill What's the Buzz? . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Erica Westly The Doctor Will See You in Aisle 3 . . . 19--19
Lucas Laursen Faux Fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi Soft Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Rachel Nuwer Mediterranean Mystery . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Larry Greenemeier Cool It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Kate Wong All in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Larry Greenemeier Real World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Charles Q. Choi ``Nurse, Pass the Blowtorch'' . . . . . 26--26
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Sophie Bushwick What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
John Matson Closer to Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
David Biello Running on Poison . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Roxanne Khamsi The Science of Health: Going to Pot . . 34--36
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Google's Creep Factor . . . 38--38
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Ginkgo . . 88--88
Anonymous Probably Approximately Correct . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous High Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous How We Do It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: CSI, Science . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Rumen with a View . . . . 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Danger of Opting
Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Ronald Martin and
Antonietta Quigg Life Science: Tiny Plants That Once
Ruled the Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Hans Christian von Baeyer Physics: Quantum Weirdness? It's All in
Your Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Jeneen Interlandi Neuroscience: Breaking the Brain Barrier 52--57
Mark Fischetti Climate Science: Storm of the Century
Every Two Years . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--67
Eric Scerri Chemistry: Cracks in the Periodic Table 68--73
Marissa Fessenden Botany: Ring Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Ed Yong Psychology: Armor against Prejudice . . 76--80
Larry Greenemeier Information Technology: Edge of the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--86
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Scientific Citizens . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous Science Agenda: Exploded Trust . . . . . 10--10
Philippe Kahn Forum: Wear Them, Forget Them . . . . . 12--12
Arlene Weintraub Advances: Prickly Painkiller . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Larry Greenemeier Going Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anna Kuchment Produce-Loving Pests . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Marissa Fessenden Art from Above . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Larry Greenemeier The Future of Smart Glasses . . . . . . 21--21
Shruti Ravindran Cull of the Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Marissa Fessenden Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
John Matson Frothy Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Becky Crew Don't Pince Me, Please . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ferris Jabr Streams of Consciousness . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
John Matson A Star's Last Breath . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Larry Greenemeier Lights, Camera, Atoms . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Carina Storrs The Science of Health: Do CT Scans Cause
Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: In Search of a Mind-Reading
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Michael D. Lemonick Astronomy: The Dawn of Distant Skies . . 40--47
Pawan Sinha Medicine: Once Blind and Now They See 48--55
David Biello Environment: Greenhouse Goo . . . . . . 56--61
Barbara J. King Animal Behavior: When Animals Mourn . . 62--67
Ferris Jabr Chemistry: a Nobel Gathering . . . . . . 68--79
Sally Lehrman Global Health: The Diabolical Genius of
an Ancient Scourge . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Dana Mackenzie Physics: Walls of Water . . . . . . . . 86--89
Anonymous The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics 90--90
Anonymous Rocket Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: People,
Parasites, and Plowshares . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Thinking in Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Gods of the Gaps . . . . . . . 92--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bingo Was Not His Name-O 94--94
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 96--97
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Family, Friends and
Gunshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Bits for Brains . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
The Editors Science Agenda: Solitary Is Cruel and
Unusual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Don Lincoln Forum: Beyond the God Particle . . . . . 12--12
Helen Branswell Advances: Hidden and Dangerous . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Gregory Mone Lending Robots an Ear . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Erik Vance The Art of Distraction . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Ferris Jabr Anxiety Can Be Good for You ---
Sometimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Kate Wong Fact-Checking a Frozen Mammoth . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Biello The Coming Boom in Geothermal Fracking 20--20
Luciana Gravotta What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Ian Roulstone and
John Norbury Computing Superstorm Sandy . . . . . . . 22--22
Marissa Fessenden Medicine's Most Minuscule Frontier . . . 23--23
Charles Q. Choi Bug vs. Superbug . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Arielle Duhaime-Ross Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ron Cowen Phantom Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Melinda Wenner Moyer A Microbial Mystery . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: Rethinking Rabies 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Last Thing You'll
Memorize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Giulio Tononi and
Chiara Cirelli Neuroscience: Perchance to Prune . . . . 34--39
Meinard Kuhlmann Quantum Physics: What Is Real? . . . . . 40--47
The Editors Special Report: Learning In The Digital
Age: Big Data Goes to School . . . . . . 48--52
Jeffrey Bartholet Hype and Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61
Peter Norvig Massively Personal . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Salman Khan No More Lockstep Learning . . . . . . . 57--57
Pawan Agarwal An Opportunity for India . . . . . . . . 58--59
Robert A. Lue ``Experimentation Is Key'' . . . . . . . 60--61
Seth Fletcher Machine Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--68
Diane Ravitch Promise and Peril . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Peter Vesterbacka Education Is for the (Angry) Birds . . . 68--68
Arne Duncan Why We Need High-Speed Schools . . . . . 69--71
Jeffrey Bartholet ``I Was Pleasantly Surprised'' . . . . . 72--73
Shari S. Bassuk and
Timothy S. Church and
JoAnn E. Manson Health: Why Exercise Works Magic . . . . 74--79
Barbie Latza Nadeau Engineering: Raising the Wreck . . . . . 80--83
Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Surprising Origins of
Life's Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Ferris Jabr Fluid Dynamics: How to Swim in Molasses 90--95
Anonymous Betting on Famine . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The West
without Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous The Sports Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous The Truth in Small Doses . . . . . . . . 96--96
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Five Myths of Terrorism . . . . 98--98
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Embrace the Ick . . . . . 99--99
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 100--100
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Living in Harm's Way 102--102
Anonymous Special Report: Learning In The Digital
Age: Helping Curious Minds Achieve Great
Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--106
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: a Scientific Feast . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
The Editors Science Agenda: Fight the GM Food Scare 10--10
George Church Forum: Please Reanimate . . . . . . . . 12--12
Shruti Ravindran Advances: ``Disgusting Bird'' Is Dying
Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Melinda Wenner Moyer Wisdom of the Sleepyheads . . . . . . . 15--15
Arielle Duhaime-Ross The Spider in the Grass . . . . . . . . 16--16
Ken Croswell Galaxies Bright and Beautiful . . . . . 19--19
Mariette DiChristina and
Rachel Scheer Turning Peels into Plastic . . . . . . . 19--19
Katie Worth Courtesy of the U.S. Taxpayer . . . . . 20--20
Mark Fischetti Fracking and Tainted Drinking Water . . 21--21
Anonymous By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Marissa Fessenden A Baby Breathes Easier . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anne-Marie C. Hodge Sizing Up Sustainable Seafood . . . . . 23--23
Nathan Collins Stop Pampering the Red Planet . . . . . 24--24
Katherine Harmon Pathogens Decoded . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sophie Guterl What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Becky Crew In Search of a Wild Song . . . . . . . . 26--26
Gary Stix The Case for Milk Is Going Sour . . . . 26--26
Ingfei Chen The Science of Health: Lead's Buried
Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Death to the Upgrade . . . 32--32
Michael Moyer Introduction: The Food Issue . . . . . . 34--39
Bun Lai Feast: Celebrating Our Love Of Food: How
(and Why) to Eat Invasive Species . . . 40--43
Paul J. Kenny The Food Addiction . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Evelyn Kim The Amazing Multimillion-Year History of
Processed Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Rob Dunn Fuel: How Food Changes Us: Everything
You Know about Calories is Wrong . . . . 56--59
Gary Taubes Which One Will Make You Fat? . . . . . . 60--65
Kate Wong The First Cookout . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Hillary Rosner Farm: The Future Of The Food Supply:
Return of the Natives . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Richard Conniff Super Dirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
David H. Freedman Are Engineered Foods Evil? . . . . . . . 80--85
Anonymous Brave Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Behind the Shock Machine . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Countdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Giraffe
Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Dangers of Keeping an Open
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Through a Glass, Obviously 93--93
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 94--95
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The 5,000-Mile Salad 96--96
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Nexus of Invention . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Science Agenda: Fiddling While the World
Warms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Eugenie C. Scott and
Minda Berbeco Forum: Climate in the Classroom . . . . 14--14
Jesse Greenspan Advances: Coyotes in the Crosswalks?
Fuggedaboutit! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Dina Fine Maron Doing a World of Good . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Lee Billings The Perfect Kelvin . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi Universe Out of Balance . . . . . . . . 20--20
Arielle Duhaime-Ross The Holey Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
John Matson What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Veronique Greenwood Taste-Blind Mice Make Tangled Sperm . . 23--23
Brian Hayes The Great Explicator . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
John R. Platt Madagascar's Towering Baobab Trees on
the Brink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Dina Fine Maron The Liver Transplant Divide . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Arielle Duhaime-Ross Total Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Larry Greenemeier Hackers Crack the iPhone . . . . . . . . 29--29
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: The Pertussis
Parable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Edit Your Photos? Feed the
Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Ross D. Andersen Cosmology: An Ear to the Big Bang . . . 40--47
Heather Pringle Evolution: Long Live the Humans . . . . 48--55
Anonymous Special Report: State of the World's
Science 2013: Crossroads of Invention 56--57
David J. Kappos Who Will Bankroll the Next Big Idea? . . 58--61
Subra Suresh The Power of Many Minds . . . . . . . . 60--60
Lee Branstetter and
Guangwei Li and
Francisco Veloso The Polyglot Patent Boom . . . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Innovation Scorecard . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Erik Vance Why Can't Mexico Make Science Pay Off? 66--71
Nicholas Lange and
Christopher J. McDougle Neuroscience: Help for the Child with
Autism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Alex `Sandy' Pentland Information Technology: The Data-Driven
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Katherine Harmon Courage Robotics: How to Build a Robot Octopus 84--87
Eve Conant Energy: Russia's New Empire: Nuclear
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Five Billion Years of Solitude . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Love and Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Life at the Speed of Light . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Primates of
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Michael Shermer Skeptic: When Science Doesn't Support
Beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bouillabaisse Biology . . 96--96
Anonymous 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 98--99
John Matson Graphic Science: Renewable Energy's
Hidden Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Clara Moskowitz Puzzling Measurement of ``Big $G$''
Gravitational Constant Ignites Debate ??
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Following Data Trails 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Science Agenda: Data Glitches Are
Hazardous to Your Health . . . . . . . . 10--10
J. P. Rangaswami Forum: Manufacturing, Hollywood-Style 12--12
Michael Moyer Advances: a Cosmos of Particles . . . . 15--15
Arielle Duhaime-Ross A New Race to Earth's End . . . . . . . 16--16
Peter Andrey Smith Reading Your Bacterial Aura . . . . . . 16--16
John Matson Sayonara, Supergiant . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rachel Nuwer Steer Clear, Turtles . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Christine Gorman What's Better than BMI? . . . . . . . . 21--21
Carrie Arnold Mutating Viruses Lead Cops to the
Criminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Sophie Guterl Patent Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Dave Levitan Wanted: Science Sugar Daddy . . . . . . 23--23
Celeste LeCompte Tattoos, Ponytails and Protozoans . . . 24--24
David Biello Obama's Fracking Dilemma . . . . . . . . 25--25
Ferris Jabr A Is for App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rachel Feltman What is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Shraddha Chakradhar Woodland Menace . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Ferris Jabr The Science of Health: Gambling on the
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Crash Text Dummies . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Voyager . . 78--78
Anonymous Our Once and Future Planet . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Star-Craving Mad . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Out on a Limb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Sovereign Insanity . . . . . . 79--79
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Saturnalia . . . . . . . . 80--80
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Why So Jittery? . . . . 82--82
Lars Werdelin Evolution: King of Beasts . . . . . . . 34--39
William F. Welsh and
Laurance R. Doyle Astronomy: Worlds with Two Suns . . . . 40--47
Ferris Jabr Mind: Why the Brain Prefers Paper . . . 48--53
Kyle Wesson and
Todd Humphreys Air Security: Hacking Drones . . . . . . 54--59
George Johnson Medicine: The Long Trail of Cancer's
Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--63
Jaron Lanier Science And Society: How Should We Think
about Privacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Steven L. Bryant Climate: The One-Stop Carbon Solution 72--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: One Atom at a Time . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Terrorism's Red Gold . . 10--10
Harold O. Levy Forum: Brain Exports . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Gary Stix Advances: Bionic Limbs, Rewired . . . . 14--14
Anna Kuchment Looking for a Flu Killer . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Rachel Nuwer Bugs, Yes. Spiders, No . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Robyn Braun Breaking Bad, Bacteria-Style . . . . . . 18--18
Julianne Chiaet FIFA Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Nathan Collins Escape from the Milky Way . . . . . . . 20--20
Jason G. Goldman Play Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Calla Cofield Waiting for a Neutrino No-Show . . . . . 22--22
John R. Platt Rare California Cypress Is Recovering
under Federal Protection . . . . . . . . 23--23
Clara Moskowitz Kepler's Second Life . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Carrie Arnold Follow the Leader . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Rachel Feltman Ugly Science Pays Off . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Rachel Feltman What is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Ingfei Chen The Science of Health: Scanning for
Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Problem with Lego
Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Tigers
Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Shaping Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Beautiful Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Is God Dying? . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Phoning It In . . . . . . 84--84
Ferris Jabr Graphic Science: Where the Wild Bees Are 88--88
Anonymous World Changing Ideas . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Gerbrand Ceder and
Kristin Persson The Stuff of Dreams . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Dave Levitan Turning CO$_2$, Pumped Underground, Into
Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Marissa Fessenden Lego-like Composites Snap into Place to
Make Superstrong, Affordable Structures 42--43
Larry Greenemeier Worms and Octopuses Inspire Pliable
Machines that Go Where No Metallic
Robots Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
Lee Billings Novel Substances that can Deflect Light
Could Lead to Superfast Internet and
Razor-thin Smartphones . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Katherine Harmon Courage Microbes in Our Gut Could be Manipulated
to Fight Illnesses and Infections . . . 45--46
Charles Q. Choi A New Type of Security Chip Guards
Against Big Data Snooping . . . . . . . 46--47
Daisy Yuhas A Toolbox-size Lab Flags Knockoff Pills
and Potions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Charles Q. Choi Flexible, Stretchable Screens Could Put
a Rolled-up Tablet in Your Pocket . . . 48--48
Dina Fine Maron Small Tubes of Antiseptic Could Prevent
500,000 Infant Deaths a Year . . . . . . 48--49
Jennifer Frazer Infectious Disease: Fungi on the March 50--57
Daniel M. Wegner and
Adrian F. Ward Psychology: How Google Is Changing Your
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and
Adrian G. Dyer Animal Behavior: Good with Faces . . . . 62--67
Ray Jayawardhana Astrophysics: Coming Soon: a Supernova
Near You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
John Carey Environment: Architects of the Swamp . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Below the Surface . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: Beware the Eye Spies . . 10--10
Saleem H. Ali Forum: Magic Metals . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Clara Moskowitz Advances: Cosmic Dragnet . . . . . . . . 13--13
Sarah Fecht Taking the Hit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Ron Cowen Drinking from the Cool Cosmic Stream . . 17--17
Lucas Laursen The Real Bigfoot . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Dina Fine Maron Under Obamacare, a Rollback of Abortion
Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jason G. Goldman Making Dolfriends . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Helen Branswell A Botulism Bind . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Biello Pick Your Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Rachel Feltman Over Easy, Hold the Eggs . . . . . . . . 22--23
David Wogan Big Data, Big Energy . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
John R. Platt Good Dads Help Rare Haitian Frogs Thrive
in Captivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Carrie Madren Mercury Lockdown . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Clara Moskowitz Put Up the Earth Shield . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rachel Nuwer What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Maryn McKenna The Science of Health: a Flu Vaccine
That's Always in Season . . . . . . . . 26--27
David Pogue TechnoFiles: In Tech We Don't Trust . . 28--28
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The Last
Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Romania's Abandoned Children . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Oxygen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Windfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Confessions of a Speciesist . . 79--79
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Pervspicacity . . . . . . 80--80
John Matson Graphic Science: What It Means to Go
Viral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
John A. Bargh Psychology: Our Unconscious Mind . . . . 30--37
Lee Billings Astronomy: The Search for Life on
Faraway Moons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Markus W. Covert Bioengineering: Simulating a Living Cell 44--51
Vaclav Smil Energy: The Long Slow Rise of Solar and
Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Ferris Jabr Biology: Life under the Lens . . . . . . 58--63
Nora Berrah and
Philip H. Bucksbaum Quantum Physics: The Ultimate X-ray
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Dennis Danielson and
Christopher M. Graney History Of Science: The Case against
Copernicus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Knowledge Quest . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Science Agenda: End the Drug War's
Research Bans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Roy H. Hamilton and
Jihad Zreik Forum: Wired for Thought . . . . . . . . 12--12
Tara Haelle Advances: Coughing Up Clues . . . . . . 13--13
Michael Easter Geologic Miracle on Ice . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Rachel Feltman What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Sarah Fecht The Traffic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Kate Wong Tusk to Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Clara Moskowitz Atomic Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Rachel Nuwer Mushroom Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Nathan Collins Instant Weirdness --- Just Add Water . . 21--21
Rachel Feltman The DNA Sketch Artist . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jason G. Goldman Living Claw to Mouth . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Wogan Solar on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Fred Minnick 80 Proof, Zero Gluten . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Rachel Feltman Mixology Micromachines . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Alison Bruzek Gadgets for Gramps . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Curse of the Cloud . . 28--28
Roxanne Khamsi The Science of Health: The Trouble with
Gluten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations:
\booktitleThe Sixth Extinction . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous The Perfect Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Extreme Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Me, Myself, and Why . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Heavens on Earth . . . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Copy That . . . . . . . . 78--78
Jen Christiansen and
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: How Science Evolves . . 82--82
Jan C. Bernauer and
Randolf Pohl Physics: The Proton Radius Problem . . . 32--39
James L. McGaugh and
Aurora LePort Brain Science: Remembrance of All Things
Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Rakesh K. Jain Medicine: An Indirect Way to Tame Cancer 46--53
Alan Gershenfeld Information Technology: Mind Games . . . 54--59
Carolynn ``K-lynn'' L. Smith and
Sarah L. Zielinski Animal Behavior: Brainy Bird . . . . . . 60--65
Neil M. Ribe and
Mehdi Habibi and
Daniel Bonn Fluid Dynamics: The Liquid Rope Trick 66--71
David J. Hand Mathematics: Never Say Never . . . . . . 72--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Brain Beckons . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Free Willy --- And All
His Pals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Walter Willett Forum: The Case for Banning Trans Fats 13--13
Debra Weiner Advances: The Brain's Fix-It Brigade . . 16--16
Jesse Greenspan The Rain Forest of Alabama . . . . . . . 18--18
Dina Fine Maron Flame Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Kate Wong Ancient Burial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Clara Moskowitz Leaden Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Larry Greenemeier Sun Chaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Annie Sneed What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Dina Fine Maron Trouble Knocking . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rebecca Guenard Growing Hair in a Dish . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Peter Andrey Smith No-Fly Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
John Matson Lonely Dwarf Planets . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Jason G. Goldman Thought Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Rachel Feltman Rapid Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
David Biello The Storm Next Time . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Katherine Harmon Courage The Science of Health: Space: The Final
Medical Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Future Imperfect . . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Caffeinated 80--80
Anonymous Computing with Quantum Cats . . . . . . 80--80
Clara Moskowitz Particle Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous The Extreme Life of the Sea . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous On the Cancer Frontier . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Awe Delusion . . . . . . . 82--82
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: 007 and 7 . . . . . . . . 84--84
John Matson Graphic Science: Filth in the Spice Rack 88--88
Rafael Yuste and
George M. Church Neuroscience: The New Century of the
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Noam I. Libeskind Astronomy: Dwarf Galaxies and the Dark
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Ricki Lewis Medicine: Gene Therapy's Second Act . . 52--57
Carl Zimmer Earth Science: The Oldest Rocks on Earth 58--63
Harold ``Skip'' Garner Information Technology: The Case of the
Stolen Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
William Powell Ecology: The American Chestnut's Genetic
Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Merim Bilali\'c and
Peter McLeod Psychology: Why Good Thoughts Block
Better Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Out of Darkness . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Science Agenda: Preserve the Endangered
Species Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Kate Crawford Forum: Big Data Stalking . . . . . . . . 14--14
Michael Moyer Advances: The New Black Hole Battle . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer Cancer Culprit? . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rachel Nuwer Cockroach Homecoming . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Annie Sneed What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Larry Greenemeier War Funding Inside? . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Rachel Nuwer Fuzzy Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Nala Rogers Love Him or Eat Him? . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Jason G. Goldman Where Farmers and Birds Agree . . . . . 26--26
Geoffrey Giller Solar Times Two . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Jeremy Hsu When Cars Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Charles Q. Choi One-Way Street for Sound . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Dina Fine Maron Antibiotic Overkill . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Veronique Greenwood Evolution's Little Helper . . . . . . . 33--33
Carina Storrs The Science of Health: Hidden Dangers of
Going Under . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Great Net Debate . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: You Are
Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous The Age of Radiance . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous The Oldest Living Things in the World 86--86
Anonymous Life Unfolding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Science of Lying . . . . . 87--87
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Numbers Game . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: On Climate, the People
Agree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael D. Lemonick Astronomy: The First Starlight . . . . . 38--45
Kate Wong Evolution: Rise of the Human Predator 46--51
Christine Gorman and
Dina Fine Maron The Future of Medicine 2014: The RNA
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Christine Gorman A New Shot Against Hepatitis C . . . . . 56--57
Ferris Jabr Defeating Nature's Terrorists . . . . . 58--58
Mark Schrope Marine Exploration: Journey to the
Bottom of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
Ed Lein and
Mike Hawrylycz Neuroscience: The Genetic Geography of
the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
Michael E. Mann Climate Change: False Hope . . . . . . . 78--81
Amir Alexander Mathematics: The Secret Spiritual
History of Calculus . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Does Physics Have a
Problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Myth of the
Compassionate Execution . . . . . . . . 12--12
Veronique Kiermer Forum: Eureka Once, Eureka Twice . . . . 13--13
Clara Moskowitz Advances: Our Inflated Universe . . . . 14--14
David Biello The Little Volcanoes That Could . . . . 16--16
John R. Platt A Symbol of Royalty Makes a Tentative
Comeback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Kate Wong Ancient Footprint . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rachel Nuwer The Physics of Long, Loose Tresses . . . 18--18
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Clara Moskowitz Kepler's Afterlife . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Annie Sneed What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Annie Sneed A Pontoon of Pupae . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Beth Skwarecki It Takes a Prion to Remember . . . . . . 23--23
Jason G. Goldman He Who Hollers Fastest Gets the Girl . . 26--26
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Wendy M. Grossman Cameraprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Geoffrey Giller Using a Smartphone to Detect Cancer . . 28--28
Gary Stix ``Millions of People Are Suffering'' . . 28--28
Annie Sneed Pot Ingredient for Epilepsy . . . . . . 29--29
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: Are E-Cigarettes
Safe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Fear the Worst . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Animal
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Stuff Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Nature's Nether Regions . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Genesis of Justice . . . . 78--78
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Statistical Significance 80--80
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Spring Fever . . . . . 84--84
Joseph Lykken and
Maria Spiropulu Particle Physics: Supersymmetry and the
Crisis in Physics . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Jedd D. Wolchok Medicine: Cancer's Off Switch . . . . . 40--45
Robert L. Anemone and
Charles W. Emerson Paleontology: Fossil GPS . . . . . . . . 46--51
Adrian M. Owen Neuroscience: Is Anybody in There? . . . 52--57
Sridhar Kota Engineering: Shape-Shifting Things to
Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Iain McCalman Oceanography: The Great Coral Grief . . 66--69
Ariel Bleicher Mathematics: The Oracle . . . . . . . . 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Creatures of Habit . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Science Agenda: Full Disclosure . . . . 10--10
Mary H. Schweitzer Forum: Dinosaurs Are Important . . . . . 12--12
Mark Fischetti Advances: Trees That Pollute . . . . . . 14--14
Tara Haelle The Face behind the Skull . . . . . . . 15--15
Melinda Wenner Moyer Twitter Opens Its Cage . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Annie Sneed What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Clara Moskowitz Surf's Up on Titan . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Erin Biba Sugar Gut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Rachel Nuwer Particle Tweezers . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Dana Richards Meeting of the Puzzlers . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jesse Emspak Data Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Beth Skwarecki Turtle Baby's First Steps . . . . . . . 24--24
David Biello DIY Yeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Jason G. Goldman Bee Resourceful . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Biello A Milestone on the Long and Winding Road
to Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Gut Reactions . . 30--33
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Smart Watches Flunk Out . . 37--37
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Sally Ride:
America's First Woman in Space . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Virtual Unreality: Just Because the
Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's
True? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and
What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves 80--80
Anonymous Brian Cox's Wonders of Life . . . . . . 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Nuclear Nada . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Being Driven Up the Wall 82--82
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Not So Wretched
Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Ann M. Graybiel and
Kyle S. Smith Behavioral Science: Good Habits, Bad
Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Christopher P. McKay and
Victor Parro García Planetary Science: How to Search for
Life on Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
David J. Ecker Epidemiology: Germ Catcher . . . . . . . 50--55
Dan Baum Meteorology: Summon the Rain . . . . . . 56--63
Brendan Borrell Medicine: Seeds of a Cure . . . . . . . 64--69
Kaushik Basu Economics: The Ponz . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Azim F. Shariff and
Kathleen D. Vohs Cognitive Science: The World Without
Free Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Connected World . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Daniel C. Schlenoff Centennial of a Calamity . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Science Agenda: Poisoned Well . . . . . 12--12
Edward W. Felten and
Joshua A. Kroll Forum: Help Wanted on Internet Security 14--14
Carrie Arnold Advances: Microscopic Mass Murderer . . 16--17
Rachel Nuwer Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Fastest Animal on Land? A Mite . . . . . 18--18
Katherine Bourzac Graphene's Dark Side . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Geoffrey Giller Hold Still . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Jason G. Goldman Census for the Birds . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ken Croswell A Moonlet Is Born . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Lisa Marshall Two of a Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ferris Jabr The Brain's Power to Avoid Diversions 23--23
Annie Sneed How to Curb an Epidemic . . . . . . . . 24--24
Clara Moskowitz A Glimpse at the Unseen . . . . . . . . 25--25
Clara Moskowitz What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Joseph Bennington-Castro The Circuit Made for Your Arm . . . . . 26--26
Josh Fischman Here to Stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Maia Szalavitz The Science of Health: When Does
Self-Help Actually Help? . . . . . . . . 30--31
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Smart Sharing . . . . . . . 33--33
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Starlight
Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors,
and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's
Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was
Forged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous The End: The Human Experience of Death 84--84
Anonymous Zoom: How Everything Moves, from Atoms
and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees . . . 84--84
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Myth of Income Inequality 86--86
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Wrong Number . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Patent Crossroads . . . 96--96
Herb Brody Outlook: Cancer: The March on Malignancy 103--103
Mike May Attacking an Epidemic . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Lauren Gravitz Therapy: This Time it's Personal . . . . 106--108
Michael Eisenstein Clinical Trials: More Trials, Fewer
Tribulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Jessica Wright Nanotechnology: Deliver on a Promise . . 112--113
Sarah Deweerdt Comparative Biology: Naked Ambition . . 114--115
Rebecca Kessler Prevention: Air of Danger . . . . . . . 116--117
Eric Bender Developing World: Global Warning . . . . 118--119
Neil Savage Bioinformatics: Big Data Versus the Big
C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
John Quackenbush Perspective: Learning to Share . . . . . 122--122
Katherine Bourzac Biology: Three Known Unknowns . . . . . 123--125
Gershon Dublon and
Joseph A. Paradiso Computer Science: Extra Sensory
Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Douglas Finkbeiner and
Meng Su and
Dmitry Malyshev Astrophysics: Giant Bubbles of the Milky
Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Erik Vance Archaeology: Gods of Blood & Stone . . . 48--55
Ferris Jabr Food Technology: Building Tastier Fruits
& Veggies (No GMOs Required) . . . . . . 56--61
Mazen A. Kheirbek and
René Hen Neuroscience: Add Neurons, Subtract
Anxiety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Olive Heffernan Sustainability: Bottoms Up . . . . . . . 68--75
Ferris Jabr Biology: Body Works . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Shadow Universe and
Other Marvels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: Will Work for Machines 10--10
Rena F. Subotnik and
Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and
Frank C. Worrell Forum: The Talent Gap . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Erin Biba Advances: Africa's Great Divide . . . . 17--18
Carrie Arnold Don't Put the ``Pee'' in Pool . . . . . 18--18
Corinne Iozzio A Network That Never Goes Down . . . . . 19--19
Corinne Iozzio Street-Legal Robots . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Biello Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Annie Sneed Pterosaur Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Annie Sneed 5 National Landmarks Threatened by
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Peter Andrey Smith Foliage Friendships . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Clara Moskowitz Rendezvous with a Comet . . . . . . . . 26--26
Jason G. Goldman Top-down Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Annie Sneed Why Babies Forget . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Amber Williams What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Melinda Wenner Moyer The Science of Health: Can Brown Fat
Defeat Obesity? . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Two Tribes of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The End of
Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a
World of Constant Connection . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in
the Age of Information Overload . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your
Future Depends on It . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No
One's Looking) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: ClimeApocalypse! . . . . . . . 79--79
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Things That Go Bump . . . 80--80
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Rising Temperatures Hit
Species Hotspots . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Niayesh Afshordi and
Robert B. Mann and
Razieh Pourhasan Cosmology: The Black Hole at the
Beginning of Time . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Niayesh Afshordi and
Robert B. Mann and
Razieh Pourhasan Whispers from Creation . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Michael K. Skinner Biology: A New Kind of Inheritance . . . 44--51
Darold A. Treffert Neuroscience: Accidental Genius . . . . 52--57
Christopher Solomon Health: Sickness Spreads across the
Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Alex `Sandy' Pentland Cybersecurity: Saving Big Data from
Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Barbara Kantrowitz Education: The Science of Learning . . . 68--73
Carl Wieman Stop Lecturing Me . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Caleb Scharf Astronomy: Cosmic (In)Significance . . . 74--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Humanity's Journey . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Science Agenda: Free Up the Two-Year
Colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
R. Douglas Fields Forum: Vive la Différence . . . . . . . . 14--14
Maggie McKee Advances: Whispers of a Successor . . . 19--20
Joseph Bennington-Castro Salt Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Dina Fine Maron Dried Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Clara Moskowitz An Origin Story . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Lucas Laursen Hitting Rock Bottom . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Dina Fine Maron Longer-Lasting Organs . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Rachel Nuwer Plastic on Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Annie Sneed What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Mark Fischetti Sleeping through High School . . . . . . 27--27
Jill U. Adams Pick a Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Roger Drouin Bat Deterrents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--29
Jason G. Goldman The Thinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Annie Sneed Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Jessica Wapner The Science of Health: The Solid-Gold
Wonder Drug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Unsettled Score . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The Edge of
the Sky: All You Need to Know about the
All-There-Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous What If? Serious Scientific Answers to
Absurd Hypothetical Questions . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous The Marshmallow Test: Mastering
Self-Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the
Recently Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Surviving Statistics . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: It's a Cookbook! . . . . . 96--96
Kate Wong Graphic Science: The 1 Percent
Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Kate Wong Evolution: The Human Saga: Evolution
Rewritten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--39
Anonymous Where We Came From . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Bernard Wood Welcome to the Family . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Peter B. deMenocal Climate Shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Ian Tattersall If I Had a Hammer . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Anonymous What Makes Us Special . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Blake Edgar Powers of Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Frans de Waal One for All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Gary Stix The ``It'' Factor . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Anonymous Where We are Going . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Mark Fischetti The Networked Primate . . . . . . . . . 82--85
John Hawks Still Evolving (After All These Years) 86--91
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: You're Invited . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Science Agenda: Preferential Treatment 12--12
Ben Nelson Forum: Passing the Midterm . . . . . . . 15--15
Tara Haelle Advances: When Good Proteins Go Bad . . 19--20
Rachel Scheer and
Annie Sneed Safety in a Sock . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Jason G. Goldman Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Roger Drouin Saving ``Bambi'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Jennifer Frazer Amoebas on Deathwatch . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Corinne Iozzio Virtually Revolutionary . . . . . . . . 26--26
Julia Calderone See-Through Science . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Kevin Schultz What Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Annie Sneed How Big Animals Deter Cancer . . . . . . 28--28
Annie Sneed Earth's Impending Magnetic Flip . . . . 29--29
Erin Biba Life Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Carina Storrs The Science of Health: The Other T Party 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Million-Dollar Stunt . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: WTF,
Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements
That Connect You to Everything in the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Arrival of the Fittest: Solving
Evolution's Greatest Puzzle . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory 96--96
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Infrequencies . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The 2,000-Year-Old Joke 98--98
Clara Moskowitz Graphic Science: Family Histories . . . 100--100
Fred Guterl The State Of The World's Science 2014:
The Inclusion Equation . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Fred Guterl Where are the data? . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Katherine W. Phillips How Diversity Works . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Douglas Medin and
Carol D. Lee and
Megan Bang Particular Points of View . . . . . . . 44--45
Steven Bishop Science Exposed . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
D. N. Lee Taking It Personally . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Stephanie C. Hill In Pursuit of the Best Ideas . . . . . . 48--49
Anonymous Gender Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Victoria Plaut Inviting Everyone In . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Brian Welle and
Megan Smith Becoming Visible . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Lawrence M. Krauss Cosmology: A Beacon from the Big Bang 58--67
Hillary Rosner Agriculture: Saving Coffee . . . . . . . 68--73
Stefano Piccolo Cell Biology: Twists of Fate . . . . . . 74--81
Lisa Margonelli Environment: An Inconvenient Ice . . . . 82--89
Colm Mulcahy and
Dana Richards Mathematics: Let the Games Continue . . 90--95
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Mindful, Medicinal,
Malleable and Marketable . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Science Agenda: Do No Harm --- And No
Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Jonathan Zittrain Forum: The Case for Kill Switches . . . 14--14
Clay Dillow Advances: Return of the Propeller . . . 17--21
Regina Nuzzo Pollsters' Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jason G. Goldman Which Direction Home? . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Lucas Laursen When Evidence Melts Away . . . . . . . . 23--23
Diana Crow Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Larry Greenemeier The Ball That Hovers . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Kate Baggaley Snaking Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Jen Christiansen What is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Kate Wong Human or Hobbit? . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Katharine Gammon Inside the Audience Studio . . . . . . . 30--31
Debra Weiner Catching Some Rays . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
James Levine The Science of Health: Killer Chairs . . 34--35
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Crash Test Dummies . . . . 36--36
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Lock In . . 86--86
Anonymous The Peripheral . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Ancillary Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Symbiont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Perpetual Peace . . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Fischetti and
Kevin Schultz Graphic Science: Who Has the Best Fuel
Economy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Call of the Mild . . . 92--92
Matthieu Ricard and
Antoine Lutz and
Richard J. Davidson Neuroscience: Mind of the Meditator . . 38--45
Michael D. Lemonick Space: Pluto and Beyond . . . . . . . . 46--53
Douglas J. Mahoney and
David F. Stojdl and
Gordon Laird Medicine: Virus Therapy for Cancer . . . 54--59
Thomas A. Campbell and
Skylar Tibbits and
Banning Garrett Mechanical Engineering: The Programmable
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
David Biello Energy: Solar Wars . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Rob Dunn Life Science: The Evolution of
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
David Noonan Aeronautics: Impossible Flight . . . . . 78--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Discovery Continuum 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Science Agenda: Caution: Cops with
Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Ryan Calo Forum: Bring on the Robocrats . . . . . 12--12
David Biello Advances: Cities to the Rescue . . . . . 15--19
Amy Nordrum Forecast: Cloudy . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Katherine Bourzac Bend by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Clara Moskowitz Deep Space or Bust . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Roger Drouin What Would John Muir Do Now? . . . . . . 22--22
Nicholas St. Fleur A Galápagos Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Annie Sneed Know the Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Peter Andrey Smith Mushroom Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Corinne Iozzio Power to the Internet of Things . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Jason G. Goldman Call of the Crybaby . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anna Kuchment Of Germs and Germination . . . . . . . . 33--33
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Never Too Old for
Chemo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Unpredictive Text . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The Lost
Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow
Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Spare Parts: Four Undocumented
Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the
Battle for the American Dream . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Digging for Richard III: The Search for
the Lost King . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Conspiracy Central . . . . . . 94--94
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Keeping Up with the Times 96--96
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Up, Up and Away . . . . 100--100
Seth Fletcher World Changing Ideas 2014 . . . . . . . 40--41
Margaret Knox World Changing Ideas 2014: The Gene
Genie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
Ryan Bradley Reprogrammable Cells . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Ryan Bradley Transparent Organisms . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Ryan Bradley Spit-Fired Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Rachel Nuwer Vision-Correcting Displays . . . . . . . 49--49
Andre K. Geim Atomic-Scale Legos . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Rachel Nuwer Ultrahard Recyclable Plastics . . . . . 52--52
Rachel Nuwer Wireless Charging with Sound Waves . . . 52--52
Ryan Bradley Batteries That Capture Low-Grade Waste
Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Ben Fogelson Video Cameras for Nanoparticles . . . . 53--53
Kathryn V. Johnston Astronomy: Fossil Hunting in the Milky
Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Stephani Sutherland Medicine: Pain That Won't Quit . . . . . 60--67
Mark Peplow More Treatment Ideas: Taking the Sting
Out of Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Jeff Masters Climate: The Jet Stream is Getting Weird 68--75
Zach Zorich Archaeology: The Storm God's Tale . . . 76--79
Adam J. Kucharski Immunology: Immunity's Illusion . . . . 80--85
Ximena Nelson Life Science: The Spider's Charade . . . 86--89
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Many Worlds . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 85--85
Herb Brody Outlook: Nature Outlook: Haemophilia . . S2--S3
Neil Savage Born in the blood . . . . . . . . . . . S4--S5
Julie Gould Gene therapy: Genie in a vector . . . . S6--S7
Neil Savage Clotting Factors: Stretching time . . . S8--S10
Stephen Pemberton Perspective: The fix is in . . . . . . . S11
Elie Dolgin Immunology: Oral solutions . . . . . . . S12--S13
Cassandra Willyard Thrombosis: Balancing act . . . . . . . S14--S15
Katharine Gammon Orthopaedics: Joint effort . . . . . . . S16--S17
Emily Sohn Animal Models: Dogged pursuit . . . . . S18--S19
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Hacker's Guide to
Planet Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Carl Benedikt Frey Forum: The End of Economic Growth? . . . 12--12
Lee Billings Advances: Dancing with the Asteroids . . 13--14
Prachi Patel The Pulse of Pacemakers . . . . . . . . 14--14
Peter Andrey Smith Bacteria? They Love All Manure . . . . . 15--15
Clara Moskowitz Theoretical Particles, Still Theoretical 16--16
David Shiffman Monikers Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Daisy Yuhas Parental Controls . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Julia Calderone Ebola Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Amy Nordrum Health Advice from a Grizzly . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Scott K. Johnson From Rain to Ranges . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Ken Croswell The Dust Belt Next Door . . . . . . . . 24--24
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: When DNA Means
``Do Not Ask'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: You: By the Numbers . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations:
Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space through
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey
to Uncover the Origins of Numbers . . . 82--82
Anonymous Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas
State Mental Hospital . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the
True Story of a Life Lost in Thought . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Here Be Zombies . . . . . . . . 83--83
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: From Big Men to Bronx
Bison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Sass vs. Substance . . 86--86
René Heller Astronomy: Better Than Earth . . . . . . 32--39
Carl Zimmer Medicine: A Weakness in Bacteria's
Fortress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Frédo Durand and
William T. Freeman and
Michael Rubinstein Technology: A World --- of --- Movement 46--51
Kate Wong Biology: Living Large . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Kimberly A. Nicholas Food: Will We Still Enjoy Pinot Noir? 60--67
Philip J. Hilts Exploration: In Search of Sunken
Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Amy Nordrum Timeline: Diving into Underwater
Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Eddy Nahmias Neuroscience: Why We Have Free Will . . 76--79
Armin J. Reininger and
Alessandro Gringeri and
Leonard A. Valentino and
Gerald Spotts and
Vadim Romanov and
Robert Numerof and
Friedrich Scheiflinger and
Bruce M. Ewenstein Pushing The Frontiers Of Medicine:
Innovations In Haemophilia Care: Pushing
the frontiers of medicine: innovations
in haemophilia care . . . . . . . . . . W1--W4
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Different yet Alike . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Don't Kill the Goose . . 12--12
Marc Lipsitch Forum: Defusing a Biological Bomb . . . 14--14
Amy Nordrum Advances: The Rise of the Cable-Stayed
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
David Godkin Hadrosaur Gave T. rex a Run for Its
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Annie Sneed The Origin of Power . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Esther Landhuis Advance Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Amy Nordrum Bloody Beetroot . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Rachel Nuwer Fit for Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Jason G. Goldman Cry ``Havoc'' and Let Slip the Bees of
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Amber Williams Does Mathematical Ability Predict Career
Success? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Brett Hemenway and
Bill Welser Insecure Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Amy Nordrum New Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Noonan The Science of Health: Marijuana's
Medical Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Future Is Plastic . . . 35--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Melting
Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Interstellar Age . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous The Powerhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Island on Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: A Moral Starting Point . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Insect Aside . . . . . . . 85--85
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Steady Rise of
Ebola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Kate Wong Human Evolution: Neandertal Minds . . . 36--43
Adam Brown Astrophysics: Can We Mine a Black Hole? 44--49
Keith C. Summa and
Fred W. Turek Chronobiology: The Clocks within Us . . 50--55
Massimiliano Di Ventra and
Yuriy V. Pershin Computer Science: Just Add Memory . . . 56--61
Michael E. Webber Environment: A Puzzle for the Planet . . 62--67
Andres M. Lozano and
Helen S. Mayberg Neuroscience: Treating Depression at the
Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Steven Featherstone Nuclear Fallout: The Swallows of
Fukushima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Battle Within and
Without for Healthier Lives . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 77--77
David Grogan Innovations In: The Microbes Within . . S1--S2
Moises Velasquez-Manoff Gut Microbiome: The Peacekeepers . . . . S3--S11
Rob Knight Why Microbiome Treatments Could Pay Off
Soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S5
Ruth E. Ley The Gene--Microbe Link . . . . . . . . . S7
Anonymous Your Microbes at Work: Fiber Fermenters
Keep Us Healthy . . . . . . . . . . . . S9
Justin L. Sonnenburg Microbiome Engineering . . . . . . . . . S10
Charles Schmidt Mental Health: Thinking from the Gut . . S12--S15
Stephanie L. Schnorr The Diverse Microbiome of the
Hunter--Gatherer . . . . . . . . . . . . S14--S15
Anonymous Science Agenda: An Unhealthy Work Ethic 6--6
Karl Frederick Rauscher Forum: A Matter of Trust . . . . . . . . 8--8
Robin Lloyd Advances: Cancer Goes Viral . . . . . . 10--12
Amy Nordrum Poison Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Katherine Bourzac Rubbery Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Jason G. Goldman The Bird with a Breadbox . . . . . . . . 14--15
David Biello Nuclear Letdown . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Amber Williams Din for Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Ken Croswell Circle of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Rachel Nuwer Household Pest Sees the Light . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Amy Nordrum Nature vs. Nurture vs. NASA . . . . . . 22--23
Clara Moskowitz Ode to the Messenger . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: The Coming
Revolution in Knee Repair . . . . . . . 25--26
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Is E-mail Dead? . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Beneath the
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Rust: The Longest War . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction 72--72
Anonymous Junk DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Forging Doubt . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Translation Frustration 76--76
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Dust Up . . . . . . . . 78--78
Kevin J. Tracey Medical Electronics: Shock Medicine . . 28--35
David Jewitt and
Edward D. Young Planetary Science: Oceans from the Skies 36--43
Ron Cowen Technology: Sound Bytes . . . . . . . . 44--47
Helen Branswell Public Health: Ebola War . . . . . . . . 48--55
Simon D. Donner Climate Change: Fantasy Island . . . . . 56--63
Daniel C. Dennett and
Deb Roy Science And Society: Our Transparent
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Enea Rezzonico and
Annick Mercenier and
Ed Baetge and
Scott Parkinson and
Thomas Beck and
Johannes le Coutre and
Harald Brüssow Nestlé's Research on Nutrition and the
Human Gut Microbiome . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Dark and Stormy . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: Ban the Tan . . . . . . 10--10
Russell Shilling Forum: The Case for Education Moon Shots 12--12
Roni Jacobson Advances: The Persistence of Memory . . 14--16
Corinne Iozzio Driverless Tech Inches Ahead . . . . . . 16--16
Andrea Alfano Itch, Scratch, Repeat . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Bryan Lufkin Out-of-This-World Coffee . . . . . . . . 18--18
Sarah Lewin Singing in the Rain . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Jason G. Goldman Why Flowers Wear Shades . . . . . . . . 20--21
Ken Croswell Galactic Ghosts . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Peter Andrey Smith Dusty Dozing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Clara Moskowitz Atom Smasher Amps Up . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Ellen Ruppel Shell The Science of Health: Artificial
Sweeteners Get a Gut Check . . . . . . . 32--34
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Unclear for Takeoff . . . . 35--35
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Dragonflies 76--76
Anonymous Scientific Babel . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous So You've Been Publicly Shamed . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Infested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Paleo Diets, GMOs and Food
Taboos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Immune Reaction . . . . . 80--80
Sarah Lewin Graphic Science: A Genetic Guide to
Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Joseph Polchinski Physics: Burning Rings of Fire . . . . . 36--41
Josh Fischman Special Report: Future Of Medicine 2015:
Small Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Dina Fine Maron Cancer Drugs Hit Their Mark . . . . . . 44--46
Joshua A. Krisch A Flare for Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Mark Peplow A Smarter Bandage . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Joshua A. Krisch Gentle on the Heart . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Larry Greenemeier Launch the Nanobots! . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Erik Vance Sustainability: Fishing for Billions . . 52--59
Roy F. Baumeister Psychology: Conquer Yourself, Conquer
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Keren Elazari Security: How to Survive Cyberwar . . . 66--69
Axel Meyer Life Science: Extreme Evolution . . . . 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Rise of the Tyrants . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Science Agenda: Wooing the Fence-sitters 10--10
Van R. Kane Forum: Time to Go to Europa . . . . . . 12--12
Jessica Wapner Advances: Teen Dispirit . . . . . . . . 15--16
Rebecca Harrington Switching Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Sam Loewenberg Global Role Model . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Annie Sneed May Flowers Bring Leaf Showers . . . . . 21--21
Bryan Lufkin The Retiarius Bot . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Rachel Nuwer Popcorn Physics 101 . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Prachi Patel The Lens Descends . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jason G. Goldman Tiny Toilets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Lee Billings Small Fry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Sarah Lewin The Culture of Germination . . . . . . . 26--26
Sarah Lewin Right on Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: Why Girls are
Starting Puberty Early . . . . . . . . . 28--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Truth in Digital
Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Biophilia 82--82
Anonymous Birth of a Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Invisible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous How to Clone a Mammoth . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Terrorism as Self-Help Justice 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Have a Seat . . . . . . . 86--86
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: This Land is My Land 90--90
Stephen Brusatte Paleontology: Rise of the Tyrannosaurs 34--41
Rolf Ent and
Thomas Ullrich and
Raju Venugopalan Particle Physics: The Glue that Binds Us 42--49
Gary Stix Medicine: Lifting the Curse of
Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
John Pavlus Computing: The Search for a New Machine 58--63
Mark Harris Oceanography: Waves of Destruction . . . 64--69
Dale W. Laird and
Paul D. Lampe and
Ross G. Johnson Biology: Cellular Small Talk . . . . . . 70--77
Steven D. Miller Satellite Imagery: Night Watch . . . . . 78--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Promises and Perils . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Last Right for Dying
Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Barbara J. King Forum: Ending a Cruel Legacy . . . . . . 12--12
Clara Moskowitz Advances: Dark Matter Drops a Clue . . . 15--17
Anonymous By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Sarah Lewin Prehistoric Swagger . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Ferris Jabr The Doctor Will See You Now . . . . . . 20--20
Jason G. Goldman From Babbling Bats to Baby Talk . . . . 21--21
Katherine Harmon Courage Our Personal Vaccine Helpers . . . . . . 22--22
Lee Billings Flying Saucers for Mars . . . . . . . . 23--23
Richard Schiffman Rain-Forest Threats Resume . . . . . . . 24--24
Andrea Alfano Kiddo Knows Best . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Erin Biba An Apocalypse Think Tank . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Noonan The Science of Health: The Not So Silent
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Upgrade Game . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Black Hole:
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians,
Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by
Hawking Became Loved . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous How to Bake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack:
And Other Cautionary Tales from Human
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous American Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Scientia Humanitatis . . . . . 80--80
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Gold Flush . . . . . . . . 81--81
Dina Fine Maron Graphic Science: Twists of Fate . . . . 84--84
Jay N. Giedd Neuroscience: The Amazing Teen Brain . . 32--37
Alberto Domínguez and
Joel R. Primack and
Trudy E. Bell Astronomy: All the Light There Ever Was 38--43
Wajahat Z. Mehal Medicine: Cells on Fire . . . . . . . . 44--49
Lee Alan Dugatkin and
Matthew Hasenjager Ethology: The Networked Animal . . . . . 50--55
David H. Freedman Technology: Birth of a Rocket . . . . . 56--65
Ananda Rose Forensic Science: The Mystery of Case
0425 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Scott O'Neill Public Health: The Dengue Stopper . . . 72--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Shadow Universe . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: Why Embryos Should Not
Be Off-Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Michael West Forum: Star Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Lee Billings Advances: Go Big or Go Home . . . . . . 14--16
Sarah Lewin Dams over the Decades . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Sarah Lewin Sound Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Jesse Emspak Hacking Heats Up . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Tara Haelle Transfusion Solution . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Millie Kerr Facebook for the Ferocious . . . . . . . 21--21
Tim Palucka Blitzkrieg Basics . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Ferris Jabr First Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Katherine Bourzac Build-a-Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Poised for Pluto . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Karen Weintraub The Science of Health: Can We Stop
Aging? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
David Pogue TechnoFiles: iResearch Subject . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Seveneves 76--76
Anonymous The Only Words That Are Worth
Remembering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Persona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Outrageous . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Legionnaires' Unease . . . 78--78
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: True Size of Africa . . 80--80
Bogdan A. Dobrescu and
Don Lincoln Astrophysics: Mystery of the Hidden
Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Mark P. Mattson Brain Health: What Doesn't Kill You
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Douglas Fox Biology: Life at Hell's Gate . . . . . . 46--53
Varun Sivaram and
Samuel D. Stranks and
Henry J. Snaith Energy: Outshining Silicon . . . . . . . 54--59
Virginia Morell Evolution: From Wolf to Dog . . . . . . 60--67
Stephen Ornes Mathematics: The Whole Universe Catalog 68--75
Stephen Ornes Group Theory: The Math of Making
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Happy 170th! . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Docs, Glocks and Stray
Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Linda Billings Forum: Space Cowboys . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Madhusree Mukerjee Advances: The Impending Dam Disaster in
the Himalayan Mountains . . . . . . . . 14--16
Corinne Iozzio The Doctor Is In (Your Phone) . . . . . 18--18
Lee Billings Europa's ``Brown Gunk'' Suggests a Briny
Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Clara Moskowitz Remembering the Blast . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Sarah Lewin The Room with the Weakest Magnetic Field
on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jason G. Goldman Can You Hear Me Now? . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Peter Andrey Smith Watch Out, Sam Adams . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Debra Weiner The Great Flower Fabrication . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Kat Long What Meets the Eye . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Noonan The Science of Health: A Turn for the
Worse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Touch Screen Generation 29--29
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: Spurious Correlations . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Book Review: Life's Greatest Secret:
\booktitleLife's Greatest Secret: The
Race to Crack the Genetic Code, by
Matthew Cobb, Basic Books: 2015
(\$29.99)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Book Review: Modern Romance:
\booktitleModern Romance, by Aziz
Ansari, with and Eric Klinenberg,
Penguin Press: 2015 (\$28.95)} . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Book Review: Genius at Play:
\booktitleGenius at Play: The Curious
Mind of John Horton Conway, by Siobhan
Roberts, Bloomsbury: 2015 (\$30)} . . . 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Meaning of Life in a
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Cheese Eyes Have It 84--84
Rebecca Harrington Graphic Science: Drug-Resistant Stomach
Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Curtis W. Marean Evolution: The Most Invasive Species of
All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Lee Billings Space Science: In Search of Alien
Jupiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
M. Charles Liberman Neuroscience: Hidden Hearing Loss . . . 48--53
M. Charles Liberman A Few Simple Steps: How to Protect Your
Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Annie Murphy Paul Special Report: Building The
21st-century Learner: A New Vision for
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Peg Tyre Testing the Team Player . . . . . . . . 58--59
Michael Wysession Kids Are Scientists, Too . . . . . . . . 62--63
Dan Baum Climate: Change of State . . . . . . . . 64--71
César A. Hidalgo Thought Experiment: Planet Hard Drive 72--75
Hillary Rosner Sustainability: Forests on the March . . 76--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Editorial and Einstein 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Science Agenda: Don't Blind NASA to
Earth's Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Daniel Goodwin Forum: Neuroscience Needs Hackers . . . 14--14
Melinda Wenner Moyer Advances: Lingering Lyme . . . . . . . . 16--18
Kat Long Fibs with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Jeremy Hsu Cloudy with a Chance of Drones . . . . . 20--20
Sabrina Imbler Sunken Strawberries . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Rachel Nuwer SAT Charts New Territory . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ken Croswell Solar Swindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jason G. Goldman From the Pages of Aesop's Fables . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Maria Temming Water, Water Everywhere . . . . . . . . 26--26
Kat Long Old Mold Sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: Brain Food . . . 29--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Super Siri . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: The Road to
Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Einstein: His Space and Times . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat . . 94--94
Anonymous The Physicist and the Philosopher . . . 94--94
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Forensic Pseudoscience . . . . 95--95
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Numbers Games . . . . . . 96--96
Amber Williams Graphic Science: A Bigger City Isn't
Always Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Introduction: Einstein . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Brian Greene Essay: Why He Matters . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Walter Isaacson History: How Einstein Reinvented Reality 38--45
Sabine Hossenfelder Thought Experiments: Head Trip . . . . . 46--49
Lawrence M. Krauss Cosmology: What Einstein Got Wrong . . . 50--55
Anonymous A Legacy In Numbers: Relativity's Reach 56--59
Corey S. Powell Fundamental Physics: Cleaning Up After
Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Tim Folger Theory: A Brief History of Time Travel 68--73
Dimitrios Psaltis and
Sheperd S. Doeleman Astronomy: The Black Hole Test . . . . . 74--79
Anonymous A Study In Contrasts: Who was Einstein,
Really? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Brian D. Burrell Neuroscience: Genius in a Jar . . . . . 82--87
George Musser Quantum Physics: Is the Cosmos Random? 88--93
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Sleep Science . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: How to Stop Teen
Pregnancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Linus Blomqvist and
Ted Nordhaus and
Michael Shellenberger Forum: Living off the Land . . . . . . . 12--12
Lee Billings Advances: Are We on the Cusp of War ---
in Space? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Rachel Nuwer Mother, May I \ldots Eat You? . . . . . 19--19
Annie Sneed Test-Tube Corals . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Kat Long The Vicissitudes of Sex . . . . . . . . 21--21
Megan Gannon Dentist to the Dead . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Alexandra Ossola Graphene's Top Competitor . . . . . . . 23--23
Erik Schechter Unlocking Safer Guns . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Corinne Iozzio Bots on a Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Maria Temming Particular Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Jessica Wapner The Science of Health: Deadly Drug
Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Robots Rising . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Polar: A
Photicular Book . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous The Man Who Wasn't There . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous The Only Woman in the Room . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous A River Runs Again . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Electric Universe Acid Test 82--82
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Breaking Bad TV Science 84--84
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: A Greenhouse Gas
Surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Special Report: State Of The World's
Science 2015: Big Science, Big
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Stefan Theil Trouble in Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Anonymous How Big Is Science? . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Dean Karlan More Evidence, Less Poverty . . . . . . 43--45
Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco An Antidote to Murder . . . . . . . . . 46--50
Anonymous World Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Robert Stickgold Neuroscience: Sleep On It! . . . . . . . 52--57
Francis Halzen Astrophysics: Neutrinos at the Ends of
the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Richard J. Johnson and
Peter Andrews Health: The Fat Gene . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Sarah Symons and
Elizabeth Tasker Archaeoastronomy: Stars of the Dead . . 70--75
Wendy Williams Life Science: The Secret Lives of Horses 76--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Pyramids, Olives and
Young Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Risky Arms Race in
Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Rachel Pearson Forum: Racial Bias in Medicine . . . . . 14--14
Diana Kwon Advances: The Great Brain Drain . . . . 17--18
Kat Long Both Democrats and Republicans Losing
Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jason G. Goldman Over-the-Counter Monkey Meds . . . . . . 19--19
Lucas Laursen A Sooty North Pole Ahead . . . . . . . . 20--21
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Dina Fine Maron Fake Weed, Real Crisis . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jeremy Hsu A Partner for Plutonium . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Biello New Cook Arrives in Life's Kitchen . . . 25--25
Mark Fischetti Deep-Sea Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Lee Billings Gone without a Bang . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Kat Long Super Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Ellen Ruppel Shell The Science of Health: Overreaction . . 28--29
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Hackers at the Wheel . . . 30--30
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: The Best American Infographics
2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: Dark Matter and the
Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: Suspicious Minds . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: Black Man in a White Coat 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Perception Deception . . . . . 75--75
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Tushi Kicks Butt . . . . . 76--76
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: A Southward Invasion 80--80
Zach Zorich Archaeology: The Pyramid Effect . . . . 32--39
Joshua Frieman Cosmology: Seeing in the Dark . . . . . 40--47
Shana O. Kelley Medicine: Disease Detector . . . . . . . 48--51
Barbie Latza Nadeau Agriculture: The Battle of Olives . . . 52--59
Pascale Fung Technology: Robots With Heart . . . . . 60--63
Patricia K. Kuhl Child Development: Baby Talk . . . . . . 64--69
George Musser Physics: Where is Here? . . . . . . . . 70--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Innovation Celebration 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Price of Pollution 10--10
Michael E. Mann Forum: Two Degrees of Freedom . . . . . 12--12
Jeremy Hsu Advances: Defanging Snakebites . . . . . 14--16
Rachel Nuwer Money Talks --- and Tweets . . . . . . . 17--17
Rachel Nuwer Kids Can Do Better in the Crosswalk . . 18--19
David Godkin Batty Performers . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Shannon Hall The Molten Mechanics of Inner Earth . . 21--21
Jane Braxton Little Banking on Groundwater . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Megan Gannon Ned the Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Shannon Hall The Big Bang's Particle Glow . . . . . . 25--25
Anna Kuchment She Faired Well . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
David Noonan The Science of Health: A Pain in the
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Tech Jungle . . . . . . 29--29
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: Extreme Earth . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Book Review: Science of the Magical . . 80--80
Anonymous Book Review: Pacific . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Consilience and Consensus . . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Great Feets . . . . . . . 82--82
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Bacteria Game . . . 84--84
Anonymous World Changing Ideas 2015: Innovation 30--31
Rachel Nuwer Eye-Controlled Machines . . . . . . . . 32--32
Lee Billings Microwave Rocketry . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Rachel Nuwer Trawling for Viruses . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Seth Fletcher Soft, Injectable Electronic Probes for
the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
David Biello Little Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Jennifer Abbasi Kill Switches for GMOs . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Rachel Nuwer The Heat Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Gary Stix Machines that Teach themselves . . . . . 38--38
Jennifer Abbasi Slow-Motion Cameras for Chemical
Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Larry Greenemeier Seeing around Corners . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Daniel J. Kevles Innovation: Inventing the World 1845 . . 40--53
Anonymous 170 Years of \booktitleScientific
American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
Stephen Brusatte Paleontology: What Killed the Dinosaurs 54--59
Katie Worth Astronomy: Telescope Wars . . . . . . . 60--65
Kevin A. Strauss Medicine: Genomics for the People . . . 66--73
Naomi Oreskes Environment: How to Break the Climate
Deadlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Finding Our Place . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Campaign to Cut Drug
Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Claire Pomeroy Forum: Academia's Gender Problem . . . . 11--11
Lee Billings Advances: Fear of the Unknown . . . . . 12--15
Shannon Hall Soaked in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
John R. Platt The Starfish Assassin . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Viviane Callier Divide or Conquer . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Jason G. Goldman Ballots for Bison . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Corinne Iozzio Ground Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Rachel Nuwer Branches of Science . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Shannon Hall Frictionless Finance . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Simon Makin The Brain's Whorl . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ferris Jabr The Science of Health: That Craving for
Dessert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Click `n' Pay . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: Political Animals . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: A Brief History of Creation 74--74
Anonymous Book Review: The Astronomer and the
Witch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Murder in the Cave . . . . . . 75--75
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: $ 3 \times $ Equals an
Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Amber Williams Graphic Science: Sleeping Beauties of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
May-Britt Moser and
Edvard I. Moser Neuroscience: Where Am I? Where Am I
Going? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Matthew Kenworthy Planetary Science: Rings of a Super
Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Katy Daigle Public Health: Death in the Water . . . 42--51
Jim Kozubek Medicine: An On/Off Switch for Genes . . 52--57
David Biello Energy: The Carbon Capture Fallacy . . . 58--65
Holly Dunsworth Cognition: Do Animals Know Where Babies
Come From? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Clara Moskowitz Mathematics: Elegant Equations . . . . . 70--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Where Is Planet X? . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: Beware Prenatal Gene
Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Nathan Myhrvold Forum: Even Genius Needs a Benefactor 11--11
Clara Moskowitz Advances: Last Call: Will WIMPs Show
Their Faces? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anne Pycha Talk Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Geoffrey Giller The Ear as Tape Measure . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jesse Greenspan Poison Pot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Peter Andrey Smith The New Crash Test Dummy . . . . . . . . 18--19
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ken Croswell Space Jellies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jennifer Hackett Elemental Urgency . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jason G. Goldman When Love Wins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Get Out the iVote . . . . . 24--24
Adam Tanner The Science of Health: For Sale: Your
Medical Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: The Last Volcano . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Tunnel Visions . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Contact Sport . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Home . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Afterlife for Atheists . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Spinning Our Wheels . . . 74--74
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Disease Squeeze . . . . 76--76
Michael D. Lemonick Space: The Search for Planet X . . . . . 30--37
Robert J. Lee and
Noam A. Cohen Health: Bitter Taste Bodyguards . . . . 38--43
Deborah M. Gordon Social Behavior: Collective Wisdom of
Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Tim Folger Technology: The Quantum Hack . . . . . . 48--55
Robert Engelman Sustainability: Six Billion in Africa 56--63
Takao K. Hensch Neuroscience: The Power of the Infant
Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
David H. Levy Astronomy: My Life as a Comet Hunter . . 70--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Looking to the Rising
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Clear View of Medical
Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Keeve Nachman Forum: Pills for Pigs: Just Say No . . . 11--11
David Biello Advances: Cheap Oil Undermines Climate
Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Jessica Wapner Off the Beaten Path . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jeremy Hsu On the Road Again . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Madhusree Mukerjee Fukushima Today . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Diana Kwon The Connection Was Electric . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Schmidt Neither Here nor There . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jennifer Hackett Classification Conundrum . . . . . . . . 22--22
Monique Brouillette You Can Edit a Pig, but It Will Still Be
a Pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Michael Marmot The Science of Health: The Disease of
Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Untangled . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: Pollination Power . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Blood and Earth . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Pandemic . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Book Review: Seven Brief Lessons on
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Left Behind . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Fuzzy Math . . . . . . . . 74--74
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Circle of Life . . 76--76
Kate Wong Evolution: Mystery Human . . . . . . . . 28--37
Adam G. Riess and
Mario Livio Cosmology: The Puzzle of Dark Energy . . 38--43
Maiken Nedergaard and
Steven A. Goldman Neuroscience: Brain Drain . . . . . . . 44--49
John Wendle Sustainability: Syria's Climate Refugees 50--55
Stephen S. Hall Biology: Editing the Mushroom . . . . . 56--63
Paul N. Adler and
Jeremy Nathans The Cellular Compass . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Howard Lee Geology: Anatomy of a Mass Murderer . . 64--66
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Rocks in Our Heads . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: Stop Dithering on
Nuclear Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Frank von Hippel Forum: Chernobyl Didn't Kill Nuclear
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Jason G. Goldman Advances: Lions on the Ledge . . . . . . 12--14
Jennifer Hackett April Showers Bring May Meteorites . . . 15--15
Natalie Jacewicz A Twist on the Mushroom Burger . . . . . 16--16
Jennifer Hackett Passengers Announced for NASA's Biggest
Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Rachel Nuwer Forecaster for the Top of the World . . 18--19
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Rachel Nuwer Orphaned Bugs Make Bum Parents . . . . . 21--21
Viviane Callier Cancerous Co-conspirators . . . . . . . 22--22
Jane Qiu Silk Road Heads for the Hills . . . . . 23--23
Jeneen Interlandi The Science of Health: The Paradox of
Precision Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Dumb Design . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Book
Review: The Right Kind of Crazy . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Book Review: Snowball in a Blizzard . . 78--78
Anonymous Book Review: The Genius of Birds . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Book Review: Burn Math Class . . . . . . 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Hooey. Drivel. Baloney \ldots 79--79
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: There Are No Words . . . . 80--80
Dina Fine Maron Graphic Science: Travels with Zika . . . 84--84
Dietrich Stout Cognitive Psychology: Tales of a Stone
Age Neuroscientist . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Geoffrey L. Greene and
Peter Geltenbort Particle Physics: The Neutron Enigma . . 36--41
Karen Weintraub Special Report: 2016 Future Of Medicine:
The Cancer Defense . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Beatriz M. Carreno and
Elaine R. Mardis A Vaccine for Cancer? . . . . . . . . . 46--46
Maria-Luisa Alegre and
Thomas F. Gajewski Germ Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Paul Tullis Ecology: Galápagos Stampede . . . . . . . 52--57
Timothy K. Lu and
Oliver Purcell Bioengineering: Machine Life . . . . . . 58--63
Daniel T. Ksepka and
Michael Habib Evolution: Giants of the Sky . . . . . . 64--71
Sarah Everts Chemistry: The Art of Saving Relics . . 72--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Outer Worlds and Our
Inner Itch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Science Agenda: This Drug Ad Is Not
Right for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Alexander Rodin Forum: Show Venus Some Love . . . . . . 11--11
Corinne Iozzio Advances: Who's Responsible When a Car
Controls the Wheel? . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Rachel Nuwer Monster Comes Out of Hiding . . . . . . 13--13
Shannon Hall Deserted Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Rachel Nuwer Plugged in or Powered Down? . . . . . . 15--15
Jesse Greenspan A Forest's Second Life . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Melinda Wenner Moyer Heartburn Meds Alter the Gut . . . . . . 17--17
Roni Jacobson Is Eureka Right? . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Robin Lloyd Mortal Mains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Caleb Scharf Spin Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jessica Wapner Drawing for a Remedy . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tim Palucka How to Split Wood . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Karen Weintraub The Science of Health: A Surprising Fix
for Sickle Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
David Pogue TechnoFiles: In the Movies . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 70--70
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Doomsday Catch . . . . . . . . 72--72
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Big Hummer . . . . . . . . 73--73
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Lightning Hotspots . . 76--76
Konstantin Batygin and
Gregory Laughlin and
Alessandro Morbidelli Astronomy: Born of Chaos . . . . . . . . 28--37
Michael D. Lemonick Planet Nine from Outer Space . . . . . . 36--36
Stephani Sutherland Neurobiology: The Maddening Sensation of
Itch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Rachel Nuwer Ecology: Saving Eden . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Christopher R. Monroe and
Robert J. Schoelkopf and
Mikhail D. Lukin Technology: Quantum Connections . . . . 50--57
Josh Fischman Biomechanics: Swimmers under Pressure 58--59
Michael Balter Linguistics: Language Wars . . . . . . . 60--65
John P. Reganold and
Jerry D. Glover Environment: A Cure for Africa's Soil 66--69
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Success Story . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: Rules for Cyberwar . . . 7--7
Howard Baer and
Vernon D. Barger and
Jenny List Forum: The Collider That Could Save
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Peter Andrey Smith Advances: When DNA Implicates the
Innocent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
John R. Platt Ugly Critters Get No Love . . . . . . . 12--13
Jeremy Hsu A Northwest Passage for the Internet . . 14--15
Jennifer Hackett Fast Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jennifer Hackett Lab Tech Opening: 249 Miles above Earth 17--17
Jason G. Goldman Toddlers' Tool Kits . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Rachel Nuwer Eggshell Education . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Monique Brouillette A Mental Unblock . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jordana Cepelewicz Eyeglasses, No Prescription Necessary 22--22
Nancy Shute The Science of Health: A Plan to Prevent
Gun Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Hail, Robo-Taxi . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Death Wish . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Arms Race . . . . . . . . 78--78
Diana Kwon Graphic Science: Can You Read This from
a Distance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Stephen Brusatte and
Zhe-Xi Luo Evolution: Ascent of the Mammals . . . . 28--35
Daniel Kasen Astrophysics: Stellar Fireworks . . . . 36--43
Anonymous Ai Special Report: The Rise of AI . . . 44--45
Yoshua Bengio Machines Who Learn . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Steven E. Shladover The Truth about ``Self-Driving'' Cars 52--57
Stuart Russell Should We Fear Supersmart Robots? . . . 58--59
Andrew Holland Global Warming: Preventing Tomorrow's
Climate Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Jonathan Balcombe Zoology: Einstein of the Sea . . . . . . 66--69
Charles Schmidt Health: The Fog of Agent Orange . . . . 70--75
Dawn Stover From the Editor: Your Three-Pound Sex
Organ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Pervspicacity . . . . . . 112--112
Martin Portner Lust: The Orgasmic Mind . . . . . . . . 4--9
Stephanie Cacioppo and
John T. Cacioppo Lust for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Kayt Sukel Lust's Reward . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Chip Walter Affairs of the Lips . . . . . . . . . . 18--23
Melinda Wenner Moyer The Sunny Side of Smut . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Cat Bohannon When Arousal is Agony . . . . . . . . . 26--33
R. Douglas Fields Sex and the Secret Nerve . . . . . . . . 34--41
Frans B. M. de Waal Leanings: Bonobo Sex and Society . . . . 42--49
Emily V. Driscoll Bisexual Species . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Robert Epstein Do Gays Have a Choice? . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Lise Eliot The Truth about Boys and Girls . . . . . 64--71
Francine Russo Transgender Kids . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Blake Edgar Coupling: Powers of Two . . . . . . . . 80--85
Suzann Pileggi Pawelski The Happy Couple . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Deborah Tannen He Said, She Said . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Carlin Flora ``Just Friends'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
Eli J. Finkel and
Paul W. Eastwick and
Benjamin R. Karney and
Harry T. Reis and
Susan Sprecher Dating in a Digital World . . . . . . . 104--111
Andrea Gawrylewski From the Editor: Secrets of Successful
Parenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Alison Gopnik Smart, Curious, Creative: How Babies
Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
Carol S. Dweck The Secret to Raising Smart Kids . . . . 10--17
Ingrid Wickelgren Calisthenics for a Child's Mind . . . . 18--25
Gary Stix How to Build a Better Learner . . . . . 26--33
Clancy Blair Treating a Toxin to Learning . . . . . . 34--37
Annie Murphy Paul A New Vision for Testing . . . . . . . . 38--45
Melody Dye Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors . . . . 46--49
Paul Raeburn Where's Dad? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--109
Roni Jacobson Build Your Own Family . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Annie Murphy Paul The Positive Side of Peer Pressure . . . 110--111
David Pogue The Touch Screen Generation . . . . . . 112--112
Melinda Wenner Moyer Happy, Sociable, Resilient: The Serious
Need for Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Robert Epstein What Makes a Good Parent? . . . . . . . 58--63
Ingrid Wickelgren Oh, Behave! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Nicholas Lange and
Christopher J. McDougle Help for the Child with Autism . . . . . 70--75
Jerry Bubrick Fear Not, Child . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Claudia Wallis Beyond Shyness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Hal Arkowitz and
Scott O. Lilienfeld Is Divorce Bad for Children? . . . . . . 90--91
Jay N. Giedd Adaptable, Safe, Self-reliant: The
Amazing Teen Brain . . . . . . . . . . . 92--97
Janet Hopson Bad Mix for the Teen Brain . . . . . . . 98--101
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Serious Benefits from
Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: Don't Let History Die 7--7
Clive R. Neal Forum: A Return to the Moon Is Crucial 8--8
Lee Billings Advances: How to Find Another Earth . . 11--13
Esther Landhuis Lab Mice Are Too Clean . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Rachel Nuwer Solar Sleuths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Jennifer Hackett Lights Don't Lure Urbanite Moths . . . . 15--15
Dina Fine Maron Zika's Global Connections . . . . . . . 16--16
Jennifer Hackett Water Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Katherine Bourzac Skin Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Bryan Lufkin Journey to Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Roni Jacobson Morbid Curiosity . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Lydia Chain A Coat of Many Colors . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ellen Ruppel Shell The Science of Health: Gauging the
Effects of Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: At Your Command . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations:
Recommended: Future Tense . . . . . . . 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Tiger Blood and Goat Milk . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Clever Creatures . . . . . 74--74
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: One-World Menu . . . . 76--76
Daphne Bavelier and
C. Shawn Green Cognitive Science: The Brain-Boosting
Power of Video Games . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Noam I. Libeskind and
R. Brent Tully Astronomy: Our Place in the Cosmos . . . 32--39
Seema Yasmin Public Health: Ebola's Second Coming . . 40--45
Anna Kuchment Environment: Drilling for Earthquakes 46--53
K. Ullas Karanth Conservation: Tracking Tigers . . . . . 54--59
John Pavlus Robotics: Bipedal Metal . . . . . . . . 60--67
Mark Harris Agriculture: Saltwater Solution . . . . 68--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Treasure Hunt is On 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Science Agenda: Olympic Officials Should
Tell Women ``High T'' Is No Hurdle . . . 8--8
Thomas Hartung Forum: The Lesser Evil of E-Cigarettes 9--9
David Biello Advances: Genetic Resurrection . . . . . 10--13
Monique Brouillette The New Allergy Shot . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Christine Gorman \$1.4 Billion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Diana Crow Divide and Conquer . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Jordana Cepelewicz Your Brain on Physics . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Jennifer Hackett Model Airplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Bahar Gholipour Can We Learn How to Forget? . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Knvul Sheikh Zika-Proofing the Olympics . . . . . . . 19--19
David Biello Bionic is Better . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Godkin Toothless Beaks for the Win . . . . . . 21--21
Prachi Patel Waste Not, Want Not . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jeneen Interlandi The Science of Health: The Acupuncture
Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The End of Passwords . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Quack of the Gaps Problem 75--75
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The War by Science . . . . 76--76
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Fatter Still . . . . . 80--80
István Szapudi Cosmology: The Emptiest Place in Space 28--35
W. Wayt Gibbs Epidemiology: Health Check for Humanity 36--41
Annie Murphy Paul Special Report On Education: The Coding
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Jennifer Frederick Teach the Prof How to Teach . . . . . . 46--47
Dina Fine Maron Biomechanics: The Secret to Speed . . . 50--55
Chiara Zuccato and
Elena Cattaneo Evolution: The Huntington's Paradox . . 56--61
Dante S. Lauretta Planetary Science: The Seven-Year
Mission to Fetch 60 Grams of Asteroid 62--69
Christie Wilcox Biology: Zombie Neuroscience . . . . . . 70--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Looking Forward . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Science Agenda: The Tweets We Hold to Be
Self-Evident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Paul Davies Forum: Many Planets, Not Much Life . . . 8--8
Jeremy Hsu Advances: Can Medical Cannabis Break the
Painkiller Epidemic? . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Nathan Collins Mirror Molecules in Space . . . . . . . 14--14
Noah Caldwell A Flood of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anne Pycha An Auditory Component to Autism . . . . 16--16
Peter Andrey Smith Blood Left at Scene Can Indicate
Criminal Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Knvul Sheikh The Kilogram Makeover . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Jesse Greenspan Cleanup on Isle Nine . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Gary Stix Where Will All the New Neuroscientists
Go? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Roni Jacobson We All Speed-Read . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jessica Wapner The Science of Health: Cancer Gene Tests
Provide Few Answers . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: What to Do with All Those
Cassettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 86--86
Michael Shermer Skeptic: At the Boundary of Knowledge 88--88
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: In Favor of Feline
Felicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Katie Peek Graphic Science: Urban Wealth . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous The Human Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Kim Stanley Robinson The Great Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Jan Zalasiewicz Geology: A History in Layers . . . . . . 30--37
Katie Peek Environment: Coping Skills . . . . . . . 38--41
Mara Hvistendahl Population: A Tale of Two Worlds . . . . 42--47
Angus Deaton Economics: The Threat of Inequality . . 48--53
Stephen S. Hall Biotechnology: The Red Line . . . . . . 54--61
Bill Gifford Health: Living to 120 . . . . . . . . . 62--69
Hillary Rosner Robotics: All Too Human . . . . . . . . 70--75
David Grinspoon Space: Deep Time Deep Survival . . . . . 76--79
Sharon Guynup From the Editor: Is Seeing Believing? 1--1
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Introduction: What It Means to Be You 4--5
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Foundations Of Misperception: The
Neuroscience of Illusion . . . . . . . . 6--9
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik A Faithful Resemblance . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde Foundations Of Misperception: A
Perspective on $3$-d Visual Illusions 10--13
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik All Deceptions Great and Small . . . . . 14--17
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde Your Twisted Little Mind . . . . . . . . 22--25
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Vanished Without a Trace . . . . . . . . 26--29
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde Yorick's Ghost and Other Afterimages . . 30--33
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Colors Out of Space . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Ellis C. Gayles The Aviator's Dilemma . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde Afraid of Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde No Brain, No Pain . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Leandro L. Di Stasi and
Stephen L. Macknik Seeing Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Gazing At Each Other: What's in a Face? 58--67
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik The Eyes Have It . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde The Illusions of Love . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Art And Illusion: Art as Visual
Research: Kinetic Illusions in Op Art 80--87
Stephen L. Macknik and
Susana Martinez-Conde Sculpting the Impossible: Solid
Renditions of Visual Illusions . . . . . 88--93
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Truer Than Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Urban Illusions . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--101
Stephen L. Macknik and
Leandro L. Di Stasi and
Susana Martinez-Conde Perfectly Timed Advertising . . . . . . 102--105
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good
Enough to Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--112
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: New Views: Brains,
Sciences, Oceans . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Science Is Not Enough 12--12
Carl Hart Forum: Our Senseless Pot Laws . . . . . 13--13
Lee Billings Advances: In the Dark about Dark Matter 14--16
Karen Weintraub Send in the Clones . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Jeremy Hsu New Weather Eye in the Sky . . . . . . . 18--18
Daisy Yuhas Depressed? Do What You Love . . . . . . 19--19
Knvul Sheikh A Boost from Above . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Knvul Sheikh The Breast Has Its Own Microbiome . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Jason G. Goldman Taking Direction from a Deer . . . . . . 23--23
Megan Gannon Good-bye Ice, Good-bye Data . . . . . . 24--24
David Noonan The Science of Health: Busting Blood
Clots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Bright Side of Internet
Shaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Methuselah's Moon Shot . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Current Events . . . . . . 85--85
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Pushed Out . . . . . . 88--88
Karl Deisseroth Neuroscience: A Look Inside the Brain 30--37
Frank Postberg and
Gabriel Tobie and
Thorsten Dambeck Planetary Science: Under the Sea of
Enceladus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Dina Fine Maron Health: The Right Pill for You . . . . . 46--51
Anonymous State Of The World's Science 2016: The
Truth Brokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Charles Seife How to Spin the Science News . . . . . . 54--61
Anonymous What Science Is Buzzworthy? . . . . . . 62--63
Susana Martinez-Conde and
Stephen L. Macknik and
Devin Powell The Plight of the Celebrity Scientist 64--67
Emily Becker Weather: On the Trail of El Niño . . . . 68--75
Richard Conniff Conservation: Home off the Range . . . . 76--81
Kate Wong From the Editor: Humanity's Journey . . 1--1
Anonymous The Story of Us: Where We Came From . . 4--5
Bernard Wood Welcome to the Family . . . . . . . . . 6--11
Kate Wong Mystery Human . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--21
Peter B. deMenocal Climate Shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Dietrich Stout Tales of a Stone Age Neuroscientist . . 28--35
Curtis W. Marean When the Sea Saved Humanity . . . . . . 36--43
Michael F. Hammer Human Hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Anonymous What Makes Us Special . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Nina G. Jablonski The Naked Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
Gary Stix The ``It'' Factor . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Kate Wong Neandertal Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Blake Edgar Powers of Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Rachel Caspari The Evolution of Grandparents . . . . . 80--85
Heather Pringle The Origins of Creativity . . . . . . . 86--93
Anonymous Where We Are Going . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Mark Fischetti The Networked Primate . . . . . . . . . 96--99
John Hawks Still Evolving (After All These Years) 100--105
Cameron M. Smith Starship Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . 106--111
Kate Wong The 1 Percent Difference . . . . . . . . 112--112
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Theory and Truth . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: Donald Trump's Campaign
for Science Illiteracy . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Leana S. Wen and
M. Cooper Lloyd Forum: Attacking the Roots of Violence 9--9
Sara Goudarzi Advances: What Lies Beneath . . . . . . 11--12
Kat Long Tension in Taxonomy . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Ellen Sheng The Artificial Pancreas Gets Real . . . 14--14
Eduardo Garcia Laziness: An Evolutionary Trait . . . . 15--15
Karl J. P. Smith Lunar Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jeremy Hsu Mosquitoes to the Rescue . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Knvul Sheikh Introducing the Acoustic Prism . . . . . 19--19
John R. Platt Home Is Where They Make It . . . . . . . 20--20
Jeremy Hsu Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Science in the Elections . . . . . . . . 22--22
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Problem with Tech
Copycats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Ferris Jabr The Science of Health: Blue Light Blues 24--25
Clara Moskowitz and
Knvul Sheikh Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Why Gloom Trumps Glad . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Muddying the Waters . . . 78--78
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The Many Ways to
Innovate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Juan Maldacena Theoretical Physics: Black Holes and
Wormholes and the Secrets of Quantum
Spacetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte Biology: Human Organs from Animal Bodies 32--37
W. Wayt Gibbs Energy: The Fusion Underground . . . . . 38--45
Michael Shermer and
Harriet Hall and
Ray Pierrehumbert and
Paul Offit and
Seth Shostak Knowledge: 5 Things We Know to Be True 46--53
Rüdiger Riesch Evolution: Species in the Making . . . . 54--61
James Nestor Neuroscience: Get Clean or Die Trying 62--69
Paul Ibbotson and
Michael Tomasello Linguistics: Language in a New Key . . . 70--75
Andrea Gawrylewski From the Editor: The Year in Science . . 1--1
Anonymous Cosmic Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous Mysteries of Mind and Body . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Future Technology . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous New Views of Life on Earth . . . . . . . 86--87
Kate Wong Mystery Human . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--97
Michael D. Lemonick Space: The Search for Planet X . . . . . 6--13
Noam I. Libeskind and
R. Brent Tully Astronomy: Our Place in the Cosmos . . . 14--21
István Szapudi Cosmology: The Emptiest Place in Space 22--29
Clara Moskowitz Astrophysics: Ripples in Spacetime . . . 30--33
May-Britt Moser and
Edvard I. Moser Neuroscience: Where Am I? Where Am I
Going? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Karen Weintraub The Future Of Medicine: The Cancer
Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Beatriz M. Carreno and
Elaine R. Mardis Novel Approaches: A Vaccine for Cancer? 50--50
Dina Fine Maron Public Health: How Zika Spiraled Out of
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Bill Gifford Longevity: Living to 120 . . . . . . . . 58--63
Stephen S. Hall Biotechnology: The Red Line . . . . . . 64--69
Timothy K. Lu and
Oliver Purcell Bioengineering: Machine Life . . . . . . 72--77
Steven E. Shladover Transportation: The Truth about
``Self-Driving'' Cars . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Clara Moskowitz Physics: Are We Living in a Computer
Simulation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
John Wendle Sustainability: Syria's Climate Refugees 98--103
Jan Zalasiewicz Earth Science: A History in Layers . . . 104--111
Mark Fischetti End Note: The Circle of Life . . . . . . 112--112
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Ideas to Change the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Science Agenda: Bringing Up Baby,
Helping the Economy . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Hannah A. Valantine Forum: Science Has a Gender Problem . . 12--12
Shannon Hall Advances: The Milky Way, Transformed . . 14--16
Roni Jacobson Your Pun-Divided Attention . . . . . . . 17--17
Monique Brouillette Organelle Overhaul . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jason G. Goldman The Brainy Big Cats . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ryan F. Mandelbaum Obama's Conservation Legacy . . . . . . 19--19
Lee Billings Hope Springs Eternal for Easy Access to
Water on Europa . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Karl J. P. Smith Surge Protector . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Catherine Caruso Teen Takes on Drought . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jason G. Goldman One's True Nature . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Mark Anderson P.U. to Cu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
Charles Schmidt The Science of Health: When Medical
Tests Mislead . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Resistance Is Futile . . . 30--30
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 82--82
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Born This Way . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Citrus Be the Place . . . 85--85
Katie Peek Graphic Science: Is the Rise in Twin
Births Cresting? . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Innovation: 2016 World Changing Ideas 32--33
Annie Sneed 1. Carbon-Breathing Batteries . . . . . 34--34
Annie Sneed 2. New Antibiotics from Scratch . . . . 35--35
John Pavlus 3. Quantum Satellites . . . . . . . . . 35--35
John Pavlus 4. Ingestible Micro Robots . . . . . . . 36--37
Annie Sneed 5. Poverty-Predicting Software . . . . . 37--37
Annie Sneed 6. Cool Clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Annie Sneed 7. The Ultimate virus fighter . . . . . 39--39
John Pavlus 8. Sight-Reading Software . . . . . . . 39--39
Prachi Patel 9. Paper Diagnostics That Cost Pennies 40--40
John Pavlus 10. Super-Molecules from Superatoms . . 41--41
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton Astronomy: Solar System Smashup . . . . 42--49
Rogier W. Sanders and
Ian A. Wilson and
John P. Moore Vaccines: HIV's Achilles' Heel . . . . . 50--55
Ted Schuur Climate Change: The Permafrost
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Julien d'Huy Anthropology: The Evolution of Myths . . 62--69
Melinda Wenner Moyer Agriculture: The Looming Threat of
Factory Superbugs . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79
Josh Fischman Oceanography: The Plight of the
Celebrity Scientist . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: What's Next for
Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Science Agenda: Let NASA Take Flight . . 7--7
Nathaniel P. Morris Forum: Keep Hospitals Weapons-Free . . . 8--8
Kate Wong Advances: Whose Tools Are These? . . . . 10--12
Ryan F. Mandelbaum STDs on the Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Karen Weintraub Could a Special Diet Replace
Chemotherapy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Kendra Pierre-Louis Bats in the Bronx . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Jeremy Hsu Telescopic Tag Team . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Jason G. Goldman The Remarkable Timing of Seals . . . . . 17--17
Marta Zaraska Veggies with Vision . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ryan F. Mandelbaum Hidden Side Effects . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: Cold Comfort . . 22--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Your E-mail Password Will
Never Be Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 68--68
Michael Shermer Skeptic: When Facts Backfire . . . . . . 69--69
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Data Deliver in the Clutch 70--70
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Top Air Polluters . . . 72--72
Juergen A. Knoblich Neuroscience: Lab-Built Brains . . . . . 26--31
Clara Moskowitz Space: Tangled Up in Spacetime . . . . . 32--37
Gabor Rubanyi Cardiology: Heart Therapy . . . . . . . 38--43
Gordon Briggs and
Matthias Scheutz Computing: The Case for Robot
Disobedience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Stephen Brusatte Evolution: Taking Wing . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Jason Byrd and
Natasha Whitling Criminal Justice: Animal CSI . . . . . . 56--63
Richard Schiffman Q & A: Wildlife Warrior . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: From Workouts to Far
Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Letter to Washington 7--7
Michael E. Mann and
Susan Joy Hassol Forum: Climate Trumps Everything . . . . 8--8
Anna Kuchment Advances: Man-Made Solutions for
Man-Made Quakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Ingfei Chen Learn Morse Code, Semiconsciously . . . 12--13
Monique Brouillette To Treat Primates More Humanely:
Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Prachi Patel Bots in Your Bloodstream . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Ryan F. Mandelbaum Icy Retreat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Megan Gannon Fruits for the Frozen . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous ``[This] tells me we don't just have to
wring our hands about the high level of
mercury in these fish. There is
something we can do about it and get
pretty quick results.'' . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jennifer Frazer Go West, Allergy Sufferers . . . . . . . 19--19
Rachel Nuwer The Trauma of Saving Animals . . . . . . 20--20
Karen Weintraub The Science of Health: Stomach Upset . . 22--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: How to Stamp Out Fake News 24--24
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Imagine No Universe . . . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: None So Blind . . . . . . 74--74
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Novel Math . . . . . . 76--76
Herman Pontzer Evolution: The Exercise Paradox . . . . 26--31
Anna Ijjas and
Paul J. Steinhardt and
Abraham Loeb Cosmology: Pop Goes the Universe . . . . 32--39
David Schmale and
Shane Ross Biology: High-Flying Microbes . . . . . 40--45
Tim Folger Metrology: Mass Hysteria . . . . . . . . 46--53
Charles L. Limoli Neuroscience: Deep-Space Deal Breaker 54--59
Julien Meyer Linguistics: The Whistled Word . . . . . 60--67
Mark Peplow Health: Blind Medicine . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: To Boldly Go . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Michael Belfiore Advances: Metal Devices, in Miniature 16--16
Erin Biba STD Results in Minutes . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Catherine Caruso Make Earth Great Again . . . . . . . . . 20--20
David Dill Forum: Our Elections Are Not Secure . . 12--12
Fred Guterl Advances: Is Fusion in Our Future? . . . 17--17
Robin Lloyd The Science of Health: Gasping for Air 26--27
Ryan F. Mandelbaum Advances: It Takes Guts . . . . . . . . 19--19
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: 23 and Pee . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Katie Peek Graphic Science: Long Live Hubble . . . 80--80
John R. Platt Advances: How to Get Elephants to Buzz
Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Your Echo Is Listening . . 28--28
Jane Qiu Advances: Ice Age Tibetans . . . . . . . 14--16
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Apocalypse AI . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Annie Sneed Advances: It's Electric --- With the
Right Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Brian Switek Fossil Octopus Is a Jurassic Jewel . . . 21--21
Anonymous Science Agenda: Take Nukes Off a Short
Fuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Anonymous Advances: Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Ann Finkbeiner Spaceflight: Near-Light-Speed Mission to
Alpha Centauri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--37
Gary Marcus Robotics: Am I Human? . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Kimberly G. Noble Behavioral Neuroscience: Brain Trust . . 44--49
Hannah Nordhaus Agriculture: Cornboy vs. the
Billion-Dollar Bug . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
John Pavlus The New Turing Tests . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Avery D. Posey, Jr. and
Carl H. June and
Bruce L. Levine Immunology: Cancer Killers . . . . . . . 38--43
Bonnie Rochman Genomics: Should Babies Be Sequenced? 72--75
Jakob Vinther Paleontology: The True Colors of
Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Keeping the Future in
Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Science Agenda: A Better Reckoning . . . 10--10
Kevin Cowtan and
Zeke Hausfather Forum: Stay Out of Scientists' E-mails 12--12
Katherine Wright Advances: Sky Is the Limit . . . . . . . 14--17
Ryan F. Mandelbaum Telltale Sounds of Tsunamis . . . . . . 18--19
Jason G. Goldman Which One Is Mom Again? . . . . . . . . 18--19
Andrea Marks Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Ashley Braun A Crimp on Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Roger Drouin A Lift for Lichens . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Tien Nguyen Screen Grab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Dina Fine Maron Is the U.S. Ready for Future Disease
Threats? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Jeremy Hsu NASA Fights Flight Delays . . . . . . . 26--26
David Noonan The Science of Health: The Epilepsy
Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
David Pogue TechnoFiles: What Happened to User
Manuals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: What Is Truth, Anyway? . . . . 78--78
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Floor Plan . . . . . . . . 80--80
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Trillions of Insects
Migrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Miia Kivipelto and
Krister Håkansson Neurology: A Rare Success against
Alzheimer's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
S. Bradley Cenko and
Neil Gehrels Astrophysics: How to Swallow a Sun . . . 38--45
Michael Waldholz Special Report: 2017 Future Of Medicine:
Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Kevin M. Esvelt Unnatural Responsibilities . . . . . . . 50--51
Rüdiger Riesch and
Martin Plath Biology: Evolution at the Limits . . . . 54--59
Walter Quattrociocchi Social Science: Inside the Echo Chamber 60--63
Charles Schmidt Health: Don't Drink the Water . . . . . 64--69
Paul S. Keim and
David H. Walker and
Raymond A. Zilinskas Biological Weapons: Time to Worry about
Anthrax Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Dawn of Innovation . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: A March for Science Is
Not Enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Jonathan Foley Forum: The War on Facts Undermines
Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Jesse Emspak Advances: Nuclear Ghosts . . . . . . . . 12--14
Robin Lloyd Dissent with Modification . . . . . . . 14--14
Michael Belfiore Maps on the Move . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Kat Long Home Sweet Dome . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Dan Robitzski A Spare Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Lucas Laursen Soil in the Forecast . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jane C. Hu Bilingual Brains Remember . . . . . . . 19--19
Andrea Marks Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Erin Biba High Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Melissa C. Lott Green Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Angus Chen Of Meat and Men . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Viviane Callier The Science of Health: Aspirin vs.
Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Building a Better Battery 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: On Witches and Terrorists . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Don't Pass the Weed or Say
``Guns'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Katie Peek Graphic Science: The Elusive Northwest
Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Kate Wong Archaeology: The New Origins of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Kimberly Cartier and
Jason T. Wright Astrophysics: Strange News from Another
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Philip L. Reno Evolution: Missing Links . . . . . . . . 42--47
Varun Sivaram Climate: The Global Warming Wild Card 48--53
Michael Balter Neuroscience: Schizophrenia's Unyielding
Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Petra Fromme and
John C. H. Spence Chemistry: Split-Second Reactions . . . 62--67
Lyudmila Trut and
Lee Alan Dugatkin Genetics: How to Build a Dog . . . . . . 68--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: From Science to
Knowledge to Hope . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous Science Agenda: Science without Walls 7--7
Robbert Dijkgraaf Forum: Knowledge Is Infrastructure . . . 8--8
Jeremy Hsu Advances: Polar Ice Squad . . . . . . . 10--12
Erin Biba Missing Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Mark Kaufman Space Age Firefighters . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Anne Pycha Probing for Parkinson's . . . . . . . . 14--15
Mark Peplow Print, Wipe, Rewrite . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Dina Fine Maron Menstrual Cycle ``on a Chip'' . . . . . 16--16
Andrea Marks Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Ann Griswold Radiation Triage . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Annie Sneed Electric Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
April Reese Swell or High Water . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jeanette Beebe Robo Pizzaiolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Karen Weintraub The Science of Health: Revenge of the
Super Lice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The iOS 11 To-Do List . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 74--74
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Romance of the Vanished Past 75--75
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Food Fright! . . . . . . . 76--76
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Sounds Like Trouble . . 78--78
Yasunori Nomura Cosmology: The Quantum Multiverse . . . 28--35
Susan B. Roberts and
Sai Krupa Das Health: The Messy Truth about Weight
Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Danielle L. Dixson Marine Science: Lost at Sea . . . . . . 42--45
Leonard Petrucelli and
Aaron D. Gitler Genetics: Unlocking the Mystery of ALS 46--51
Erica Gies Biology: The Meaning of Lichen . . . . . 52--59
Alison Gopnik Machine Learning: Making AI More Human 60--65
Zach Zorich Archaeology: Greenland's Vanished
Vikings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Designing the City of
Tomorrow Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: We Can't Avoid Future
Disease Outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Kunmi Sobowale Forum: Raise Alcohol Taxes, Reduce
Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Angela Posada-Swafford Advances: Amazon Atlantis . . . . . . . 12--14
Jason G. Goldman Boogie Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Andrea Marks The Mouse Parent Trap . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Tanya Lewis The Stuff of Dreams . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Matthew Hutson Secrets and Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Jason G. Goldman Waning Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Prachi Patel Hot Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Marta Zaraska Can Plants Hear? . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Andrea Marks Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Terri Cook Uncharted Territory . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Catherine Caruso Grandma's Robot Helper . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Ferris Jabr The Science of Health: Probiotics Are No
Panacea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Computer-Aided Creativity 28--28
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Who Are You? . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Drilling for Fossil Gold 74--74
Mark Fischetti and
Zan Armstrong Graphic Science: The Baby Spike . . . . 76--76
Alcino J. Silva Neuroscience: Memory's Intricate Web . . 30--37
Juan García-Bellido and
Sébastien Clesse Cosmology: Black Holes from the
Beginning of Time . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
William McDonough Special Report Sustainable Cities: How
Cities Could Save Us . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
Michael E. Webber Tapping the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Carlo Ratti and
Assaf Biderman From Parking Lot to Paradise . . . . . . 54--59
Francesco Rubino Medicine: Operation: Diabetes . . . . . 60--65
Thea Singer Biology: The Evolution of Dance . . . . 66--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: In the Beginning . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Science Agenda: Nuclear War Should
Require a Second Opinion . . . . . . . . 8--8
Marcello Ienca Forum: The Right to Cognitive Liberty 10--10
Knvul Sheikh Advances: Saving Face . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Erin Biba Aussie Invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Rachel Nuwer Find My Elephant . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Lucas Laursen Emission Permission . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Leslie Nemo Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Dina Fine Maron Mending a Broken Heart . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Jesse Greenspan Awash in Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Matthew Sedacca Plastic-Eating Worms . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Shannon Hall Fire and Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Dina Fine Maron The Science of Health: The Computer Will
See You Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Technology as Magic . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Are We All Racists? . . . . . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: What's the Deal? . . . . . 82--82
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
Scientific American: 50, 100 & 150 Years
Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Reactors Reshuffled . . 84--84
Martin J. Van Kranendonk and
David W. Deamer and
Tara Djokic Chemistry: Life Springs . . . . . . . . 28--35
Erik Vance Conservation: Requiem for the Vaquita 36--45
Kate Wong Paleoanthropology: Our Cousin Neo . . . 46--47
Peg Tyre Education Report 2017: A Matter of
Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Jay M. Pasachoff Astrophysics: The Great Solar Eclipse of
2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Mark M. Fischetti 1,000 Years of Solar Eclipses . . . . . 62--65
Marla Broadfoot Agriculture: Building a Better Harvest 66--73
Charles Fernyhough Psychology: Talking to Ourselves . . . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Welcome to Everybody's
Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Science Agenda: End the Assault on
Women's Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Carl Manlan Forum: Africa's CDC Can End Malaria . . 10--10
Kate Wong Advances: The Oldest \bionameHomo
sapiens? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Morgen Peck A Moth's Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Matthew Sedacca Skinlike Sunscreen . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Jane C. Hu Baby's Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Prachi Patel Cutting through the Fog . . . . . . . . 16--16
Leslie Nemo Change of Heartbeat . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Andrea Marks Living Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Annie Sneed Wood Is the New Steel . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Leslie Nemo Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Veronique Greenwood Night Owl Genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Andrea Marks Navigating by Touch . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Charles Schmidt The Science of Health: Pediatric
Predicament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Cut That Last Cord . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 88--88
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Postmodernism vs. Science . . . 90--90
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: The Face of Evil . . . . . 92--92
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: The End . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous This Is Not A Women's Issue: Why the New
Science of Sex & Gender Matters for
Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Cordelia Fine and
Mark A. Elgar The New Science of Sex and Gender:
Promiscuous Men, Chaste Women and Other
Gender Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Lydia Denworth Is There a ``Female'' Brain? . . . . . . 38--43
Kristina R. Olson When Sex and Gender Collide . . . . . . 44--49
Amanda Montanez Beyond XX and XY . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Marcia L. Stefanick Not Just for Men . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Rachel Benson Gold and
Megan K. Donovan Life before Roe . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Andrei Cimpian and
Sarah-Jane Leslie The Brilliance Trap . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Reshma Saujani Girl Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Emily Temple-Wood The Blogger and the Trolls . . . . . . . 70--71
Ana L. Revenga and
Ana Maria Munoz Boudet Women's Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Amanda Montañez Mind the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Monica Das Gupta Return of the Missing Daughters . . . . 80--85
Jen Schwartz The Woman Who Saved the Planet . . . . . 86--87
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: What the World Needs
Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Science Agenda: Put Science Back in
Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Sunita Sah Forum: Forensic Science Must Be
Scientific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Jesse Dunietz Advances: Space Prospecting . . . . . . 14--16
Jason G. Goldman Scaredy-Cats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Saswato R. Das Fossil Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Annie Sneed Giant Shape-Shifters . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Michael Waldholz Genetic Compromises . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Leslie Nemo Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Matthew Sedacca Better Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Jeremy Hsu Sailing on Sunshine . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Leslie Nemo Moving a Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Daisy Yuhas The Science of Health: Back to Basics 28--29
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Your Security Cam Is
Watching You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 86--86
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Sky Gods for Skeptics . . . . . 88--88
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: What the Heck Is That
Thing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Opioid Deaths Soar . . 96--96
Clara Moskowitz Particle Physics: The Neutrino Puzzle 32--39
Richard Conniff Conservation: Loved to Death . . . . . . 40--45
Adrian Erlebacher and
Susan J. Fisher Development: Baby's First Organ . . . . 46--53
Melinda Wenner Moyer Public Health: Journey to Gunland . . . 54--63
Jen Schwartz and
Brooke Borel and
Inga Vesper and
Lee Billings State of the World's Science 2017:
Reason on the Ropes . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Lindsey Fitzharris History of Science: Dangerous Medicine 74--77
Carolyn Porco Planetary Science: Cassini at Saturn . . 78--85
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Peering Within . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Anonymous Science Agenda: Get Toxic Chemicals Out
of Cosmetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Carl L. Hart Forum: People Are Not Dying Because of
Opioids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Diana Kwon Advances: Your Brain on (Actual) Acid 12--14
Matthew Hutson Bad Reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Dina Fine Maron Cancer Vaccine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Knvul Sheikh Space-Saving Yeast . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Annie Sneed Mosquito Death Traps . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Leslie Nemo Poison-Eating Poplars . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Shannon Hall Flying into Volcanoes . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Leslie Nemo Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Knvul Sheikh Antifreeze for Your Heart . . . . . . . 22--22
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Health by the
Numbers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Fighting Format Rot . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 77--77
Michael Shermer Skeptic: What Is the Secret of Success? 80--80
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Poultry Problems . . . . . 82--82
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Mark Fischetti and
Jan Tulp Graphic Science: Safer by Kindergarten 84--84
Christof Koch Neuroscience: How to Make a
Consciousness Meter . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
Steve Olson Geology: The Next Big Bang . . . . . . . 34--41
Richard Conniff Ecology: Gone Fishing . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Erica Gies Sustainability: The Radical Groundwater
Storage Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Guy Wilkinson Particle Physics: Measuring Beauty . . . 56--63
Karin Sauer Biochemistry: The War on Slime . . . . . 64--69
Caleb Scharf and
Ron Miller Cosmology: The Zoomable Universe . . . . 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Let's Science That . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Science Agenda: Ice under Siege . . . . 7--7
Sahand Ghodrati Forum: DACA's Demise Is Bad for Our
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Shannon Hall Advances: Dawn of Plate Tectonics . . . 12--14
Anne Pycha Speaking in Clicks . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Charles Q. Choi Quantum Leaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Doug Main Smoky Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Rachel Nuwer Healthy See, Healthy Do . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jason G. Goldman Wag the Lizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Stephani Sutherland Food High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Simon Makin Reprogram, Restore, Regenerate . . . . . 20--21
Jeremy Hsu Solar Storm Doomsday? . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Marijuana and the
Teen Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Digital-Subscription
Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 86--86
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Outlawing War . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Squirrels That Chunk . . . 90--90
Lee Billings Graphic Science: Meet the Neighbors . . 94--94
Mariette DiChristina and
Bernard S. Meyerson Special Report: Top 10 Emerging
Technologies of 2017 . . . . . . . . . . 28--39
S. Alan Stern Planetary Science: Pluto Revealed . . . 40--47
Stephen S. Hall Genetics: Could Genetic Engineering Save
the Galápagos? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
Lydia Denworth Psychology: I Feel Your Pain . . . . . . 58--63
Hannah Nordhaus Conservation: Beetle Resurrection . . . 64--71
Kate Marvel Climate: The Cloud Conundrum . . . . . . 72--77
Catherine M. Cameron Archaeology: How Captives Changed the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Science Is \ldots . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Science Agenda: A School Is Not a
Military Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Andrew A. Rosenberg and
Kathleen Rest Forum: War on Science Agencies . . . . . 8--8
Lee Billings Advances: Cosmic Messengers . . . . . . 10--12
Yasemin Saplakoglu Gluten-Free Wheat? . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Rachel Nuwer The Deadliest Weapon . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Diana Kwon Sea Smarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega The Price of Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Daisy Yuhas Ring Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Prachi Patel Cobalt Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: The Messy Facts
about Diet and Inflammation . . . . . . 22--22
David Pogue TechnoFiles: How Well Do Films Predict
Our Tech Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: For the Love of Science . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Is Anybody Anywhere? . . . 78--78
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Killer Seas . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Special Report: The Future of Money . . 24--25
Alexander Lipton and
Alex `Sandy' Pentland Breaking the Bank: New financial
networks could stop the concentration of
wealth and increased participation in
the economy --- but only if used with
care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
John Pavlus The World Bitcoin Created: The First Big
Digital Currency Gave Us a Glimpse of a
New Economic Order --- One That Raises
More Questions Than It Answers . . . . . 32--37
Natalie Smolenski The Evolution of Trust: The Ultimate
Social Impact of Blockchain Technology
Depends on Who Controls Our Digital
Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Rebecca Albright Sustainability: Can We Save the Corals? 42--49
Leslie Rosenberg Astrophysics: Searching for the Dark . . 50--57
Michael Waldholz Medicine: War against Ourselves . . . . 58--63
Francine Russo Psychology: The Toxic Well of Loneliness 64--69
Hongyu Yi Evolution: How Snakes Came to Slither 70--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Depths of Space, Oceans
and Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
Anonymous Science Agenda: Go Public or Perish . . 6--6
Catharine I. Paules and
Anthony S. Fauci Forum: A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Vital 8--8
Joshua Sokol Advances: The End of Night . . . . . . . 10--12
Jason G. Goldman Fruitless Foragers . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Rachel Berkowitz Diamond in the Rough . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Doug Main Salmon Sex Moves Mountains . . . . . . . 14--14
Katie Peek Moon Shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Prachi Patel Rivers of Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Clara Moskowitz Porpoise-Driven Life . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Annie Sneed Greener Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Yasemin Saplakoglu Wearable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Why Fake
Operations Are a Good Thing . . . . . . 22--22
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Robotic Artist Problem 23--23
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 66--66
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Alvy's Error and the Meaning of
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Bee Sides . . . . . . . . 68--68
Katie Peek Graphic Science: Misled Penguins . . . . 72--72
Priyamvada Natarajan Astrophysics: The First Monster Black
Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
Carlin Flora Technology: Are Smartphones Really
Destroying the Adolescent Brain? . . . . 30--37
Charles Seife Policy And Ethics: [Redacted] . . . . . 38--43
Olive Heffernan Biodiversity: Troubled Waters . . . . . 44--49
Matthew Fisher and
Joshua Knobe and
Brent Strickland and
Frank C. Keil Cognitive Science: The Tribalism of
Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Kristen M. Drescher and
Steven Tracy Medicine: Vanquishing Diabetes . . . . . 54--59
Jason Overdorf Conservation: Guardian Dogs of the
Mongolian Steppe . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Child's Play . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: Science Suffers from
Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Andrew A. Rosenberg Forum: Time for a Reboot in Congress . . 10--10
Roni Jacobson Advances: Mother Tongue . . . . . . . . 12--14
Helen Shen Brain Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Mark Harris Ice-Diving Drones . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Yasemin Saplakoglu Bacterial Tape Recorder . . . . . . . . 16--17
Jason G. Goldman Bird Breakup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Anonymous Fish Frenzy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Matthew Hutson Ineffective Geniuses? . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Charles Q. Choi ``I'm Sorry, Dave'' . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Doug Main Fishy Behemoth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: A Perfectly
Avoidable Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Video Disorientation . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Factiness . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: A Staggering Discovery . . 74--74
Katie Peek Graphic Science: The Case for Daylight
Saving Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Diana Kwon Artificial Intelligence: Self-Taught
Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Joshua N. Winn Planetary Science: Shadows of Other
Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Gregory M. Erickson Evolution: The Baddest Bite . . . . . . 40--45
Christoph E. Dullmann and
Michael Block Chemistry: Island of Heavyweights . . . 46--53
John Gabrieli Neuroscience: A Look Within . . . . . . 54--59
Karen Weintraub Medicine: The Means of Reproduction . . 60--65
Paige Embry Agriculture: Building a Backup Bee . . . 66--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Big Blue Marble . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Science Agenda: How to Stop the Epidemic
of Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Martin Elvis Forum: Has Astronomy Peaked? . . . . . . 11--11
Lawrence Greenemeier Advances: Don't Believe Your Eyes . . . 12--14
Jason G. Goldman Bonobos Like Bullies . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Jason G. Goldman Nature and Nurture . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Shannon Hall Hot Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Simon Makin The Brain's Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Katherine Kornei Glacial Sprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Rachel Nuwer DNA Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Amy Mathews Amos Bird, Interrupted . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Sid Perkins Back to Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Rachel Berkowitz # Flu: Mining social media to predict
outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Why a Lethal
Cancer Is on the Rise . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Automotive Touch Screens
Are Awful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 76--76
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Silent No More . . . . . . . . 77--77
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Problem People . . . . . . 78--78
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Where the Reptiles Are 80--80
Aditee Mitra Marine Biology: The Perfect Beast . . . 26--33
Jeffrey P. Townsend Medicine: The Cancer Tree . . . . . . . 34--41
Duncan Lorimer and
Maura McLaughlin Astronomy: Flashes in the Night . . . . 42--47
Jennifer A. Francis Environment: Meltdown . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Lydia Denworth Mental Health: Preventing Suicide . . . 54--59
Douglas Fox Neuroscience: The Brain, Reimagined . . 60--67
Derek E. Moulton and
Alain Goriely and
Régis Chirat Mathematics: How Seashells Take Shape 68--75
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Our Planet, Ourselves 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: End the War on Weed . . 10--10
Lisa Einstein Forum: The Suns in Our Daughters . . . . 12--12
Inga Vesper Advances: Batty Schedules . . . . . . . 14--17
Erica Tennenhouse Watchful Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Lucas Joel Missing Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Yasemin Saplakoglu Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Bob Henderson Exoplanet Everests . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Yasemin Saplakoglu Sweaty Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Doug Main Orangutan Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Rachel Nuwer Timber Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Amanda Montañez Views of Evolution Shaped by Knowledge 24--24
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: The Battle of the
Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Weirdest Hardware Product
Ever? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 78--78
Michael Shermer Skeptic: You Kant Be Serious . . . . . . 80--80
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Mothering, Wild Style . . 82--82
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: A Wider Life Gap . . . 84--84
Stephen Brusatte Evolution: The Unlikely Triumph of
Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Ann Finkbeiner Astronomy: Messengers from the Sky . . . 36--41
Anonymous The Future Of Medicine 2018: Emerging
Disease in a Changing World . . . . . . 42--43
Melinda Wenner Moyer Public Health: American Epidemic . . . . 44--57
Lois Parshley Epidemiology: Catching Fever . . . . . . 58--65
Francine Russo Psychology: Our Stuff, Ourselves . . . . 66--71
Thomas Peacock and
Matthew H. Alford Natural Resources: Is Deep-Sea Mining
Worth It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: The Sun, Supercharging
and the Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: Who Owns the Dead? . . . 10--10
Peter Salovey Forum: Knowledge Can Be Power . . . . . 11--11
Anonymous Advances: Into the Wildfire . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous Deathly Scent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Lucas Joel Suffocated Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Jeremy Hsu Milky Way Remapped . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Peter Andrey Smith Frozen Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Prachi Patel Quirky Graphene . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Jane C. Hu Bilingual Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Simon Makin Couch Potato Persona . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Why We Won't Miss
Opioids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Apps We Really Need . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 75--75
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Soul-Searching . . . . . . . . 76--76
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: This Book Stinks . . . . . 77--77
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: A Good Life for All . . 84--84
Rebecca Boyle Astronomy: The Secret Life of the Sun 26--33
Erik Vance Neuroscience: Can You Supercharge Your
Baby? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Jena Pincott Health: A Painful Mystery . . . . . . . 40--47
Marta Zaraska Ecology: Shrinking Animals . . . . . . . 48--52
Madhusree Mukerjee The Biggest Questions In Science:
Looking at the Stars . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
George Musser What Is Spacetime? . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Lisa Randall What Is Dark Matter? . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Christof Koch What Is Consciousness? . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Jack Szostak How Did Life Begin? . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
Neil Savage What Are the Limits of Manipulating
Nature? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
Marcelo Gleiser How Much Can We Know? . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Barriers between
Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Science Agenda: Safe Injection
Facilities Save Lives . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Rob Jackson Forum: Auto Mileage Rollback Is a Sick
Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Doug Main Advances: Rocky Secret . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Simon Makin Eagle Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Prachi Patel Microbe Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Katherine Kornei Fish Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Tanya Lewis Thinking Slow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous The Power of Science Museums . . . . . . 20--20
Tanya Lewis Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Prachi Patel Smart Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Matthew Hutson Blue's Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Killer Infection:
Is It Your Genes? . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: The Next Round of Merger
Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 72--72
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Final Mysterians . . . . . 73--73
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Sex and Drugs . . . . . . 74--74
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Mental Illness Overlap 76--76
Tim Folger Physics: Crossing the Quantum Divide . . 28--35
Douglas T. Kenrick and
Adam B. Cohen and
Steven L. Neuberg and
Robert B. Cialdini Psychology: The Science of Antiscience
Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Peter S. Ungar Evolution: The Real Paleo Diet . . . . . 42--49
Veronique Greenwood Biology: The Clocks within Our Cells . . 50--57
Josh Fischman Neuroscience: Battle of the Brains . . . 58--59
Peter Fairley Energy: Building a Weather-Smart Grid 60--65
Dan Strickman Public Health: Buzz Kill . . . . . . . . 66--71
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Sense of Discovery 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: Prepare for Water Day
Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Madison Freeman and
David Yellen Forum: Capture That Carbon . . . . . . . 11--11
Jeremy Hsu Advances: Collecting Space Rocks . . . . 12--14
Katherine Kornei Astro Worms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Andrea Thompson Taking Stock of Life . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Rachel Nuwer Bloodthirsty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous Is the Friend of My Friend My Double? 18--19
Erica Tennenhouse Caterpillar Heartbeats . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Amy Mathews Amos Can Logging Help Jaguars? . . . . . . . 20--20
Larry Greenemeier I(KEA), Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Simon Makin Body Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Maya Miller Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Ba-Boom! There
Goes Your Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: I'll Have My AI Call Your
AI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: 23 and We . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: That's Life . . . . . . . 82--82
Katie Peek Graphic Science: Sunspot Surprise . . . 84--84
Jonathan Kipnis Neuroscience: The Seventh Sense . . . . 28--35
Sabine Hossenfelder and
Stacy S. McGaugh Astrophysics: Is Dark Matter Real? . . . 36--43
Jen Schwartz Climate Change: Underwater . . . . . . . 44--55
Adam Piore Special Education Report 2018: Bringing
Darwin Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Chris Dixon Ocean Science: Monster Waves . . . . . . 64--67
Stephen Ornes Mathematics: Art by the Numbers . . . . 68--73
Lisa Margonelli Ecology: Termites and Fairy Circles . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: A Very Human Story . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Science Agenda: Clinical Trials Need
More Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Rebecca Nebel Forum: Why Sex Matters in Alzheimer's 11--11
Diana Crow Advances: Bone Crushers . . . . . . . . 12--15
Matthew Hutson An Honest Liar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Debbie Ponchner Art-Eating Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Nola Taylor Redd Moon Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Daniel Ackerman Rumbles in the Deep . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Lucas Joel Death Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Maya Miller Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Lucas Laursen Oil in Your Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Heather Stringer The Inside Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Matthew Hutson The Facebook Gender Gap . . . . . . . . 22--22
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: The So-Called
Right to Try . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Not Your Dad's Hearing Aid 27--27
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 100--100
Michael Shermer Skeptic: Abortion Facts . . . . . . . . 101--101
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Furry Business . . . . . . 102--102
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Peak Friends . . . . . 104--104
Kevin Laland Part 1: Why Us?: An Evolved Uniqueness 32--39
Lewis Dartnell Techno Sapiens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Thomas Suddendorf Inside Our Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Susan Blackmore The Hardest Problem . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Christine Kenneally Talking through Time . . . . . . . . . . 54--59
Chet C. Sherwood Are We Wired Differently? . . . . . . . 60--63
Kate Wong Part 2: Us And Them: Last Hominin
Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Michael Tomasello The Origins of Morality . . . . . . . . 70--75
R. Brian Ferguson Why We Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Menno Schilthuizen Part 3: Beyond Us: Darwin in the City 82--87
Pedro Domingos Our Digital Doubles . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
John Gribbin Alone in the Milky Way . . . . . . . . . 94--99
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: Proof of the
Impossible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Science Agenda: Druggists Shouldn't Be
Morality Police . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Joseph Gogos Forum: New Drugs from Old . . . . . . . 10--10
Katherine Kornei Advances: Slippery Slope . . . . . . . . 12--14
Bahar Gholipour Seeing Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Maya Miller Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Jason G. Goldman Flock Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Maya Miller Body Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Simon Makin Brain Bar Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Dina Fine Maron A Conversation with the Only Physicist
in Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Lucas Joel Missing E.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Daniel Ackerman Heading Off Injury . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Joshua Rapp Learn Tinder for Cheetahs . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Dana G. Smith Postpartum Relief . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Coming Down from
Opioids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
David Pogue TechnoFiles: 5G Is Just around the
Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: A Mysterious Change of Mind . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: True Story . . . . . . . . 82--82
Mark Fischetti Graphic Science: Honey, I Shrunk the
Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Toby S. Cubitt and
David Pérez-García and
Michael Wolf Mathematics: The Un(solv)able Problem 28--37
Brooke Borel Artificial Intelligence: Clicks, Lies
and Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Erik Vance Seismology: Earthquakes in the Sky . . . 44--49
Anonymous State of the World's Science 2018: How
to Fix Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
John P. A. Ioannidis Rethink Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Shannon Palus Make Research Reproducible . . . . . . . 56--59
Clara Moskowitz End Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Rebecca Boyle Help Young Scientists . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Graham A. J. Worthy and
Cherie L. Yestrebsky Break Down Silos . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Andrew J. Murray Neuroscience: Rabies on the Brain . . . 68--73
Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio and
Devika Subramanian and
Robert M. Stein Natural Disasters: This Way Out . . . . 74--79
Mariette DiChristina From the Editor: When Will We Learn? . . 4--4
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Science Agenda: Dereliction of Duty . . 8--8
Maia Szalavitz Forum: Income Inequality and Homicide 9--9
Dina Fine Maron Advances: Fixing Wasting Muscles . . . . 10--12
Sid Perkins Artificial Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--12
Agata Blaszczak-Boxe Flooding the Senses . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Matthew Hutson Lifelong Learning . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Decoding Alien Senses . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Joshua Rapp Learn Unwanted Advances . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Matthew Hutson Time for Women Leaders . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Clara Moskowitz Measure for Measure . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Tim Hornyak To Sleep, Perchance to Gene . . . . . . 20--20
Ankur Paliwal Quick Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Claudia Wallis The Science of Health: Why Oral Cancer
Threatens Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
David Pogue TechnoFiles: Driving Mr. Pogue . . . . . 24--24
Anonymous Reviews and Recommendations: Recommended 80--80
Michael Shermer Skeptic: The Fallacy of Excluded
Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Steve Mirsky Anti Gravity: Pets Gone Wild . . . . . . 82--82
Daniel C. Schlenoff 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Innovation
and Discovery as Chronicled in
\booktitleScientific American: 50, 100 &
150 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Graphic Science: Watching North Korea 84--84
Ken A. Paller and
Delphine Oudiette Neuroscience: Sleep Learning Gets Real 26--31
Jeffrey Marlow and
Rogier Braakman Microbiology: Team Players . . . . . . . 32--39
Dan Coe Astronomy: Back in Time . . . . . . . . 40--47
Moon Duchin Mathematics: Geometry v. Gerrymandering 48--53
Anonymous Special Report: The Science of
Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Joseph E. Stiglitz A Rigged Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Robert M. Sapolsky The Health-Wealth Gap . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Virginia Eubanks Automating Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
James K. Boyce The Environmental Cost of Inequality . . 72--77