July 2012
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; July 2012; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; July 2012; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editor; July 2012; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Succeeding Together

Letters; July 2012; by The Editors; 2 Page(s)

Letters to the editor from the March 2012 issue of Scientific American

Science Agenda: To the Moons, NASA; July 2012; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

Planetary science is NASA's most successful and inspirational program. It should not be gutted

Forum: How to Fulfill the True Promise of "mHealth"; July 2012; by Francis Collins; 1 Page(s)

Mobile devices have the potential to become powerful medical tools

A Home on the Range; July 2012; by Susan H. Greenberg; 1 Page(s)

After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. government says it will designate critical habitat for the jaguar

Trashing the “Element from Hell”; July 2012; by David Biello; 1 Page(s)

Experts say we should bury leftover plutonium

Fact Finder: Digit Divide; July 2012; by Rebecca Coffey; 1 Page(s)

Information bits from the news

Why Sneezing Is Good for You; July 2012; by Melinda Wenner Moyer; 1 Page(s)

Allergies may have emerged to protect us from environmental toxins

Who's #1?; July 2012; by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer; 1 Page(s)

Why rankings are flawed

Bad for Bugs and Brains?; July 2012; by David Biello; 1 Page(s)

A common pesticide may interfere with a child's brain development

It's Electric; July 2012; by Rose Eveleth; 1 Page(s)

An M.I.T. Media Lab professor talks about new wristbands that measure seizures

Why Extramarital Sex Can Kill; July 2012; by Rebecca Coffey; 1 Page(s)

Extramarital sex ups the risk of sudden death

The Last Worm; July 2012; by Roxanne Nelson; 1 Page(s)

A dreaded tropical disease is on the verge of eradication

What Is It?; July 2012; by Ann Chin; 1 Page(s)

How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God; July 2012; by Daisy Grewal; 1 Page(s)

Faith and intuition are intimately related

Tracking Turtles from Space; July 2012; by Carrie Madren; 1 Page(s)

A satellite study pinpoints where leatherbacks and fishing trawlers cross paths

Particles for Peace; July 2012; by George Musser; 1 Page(s)

Iranian, Israeli, Turkish and Arab physicists plan a joint accelerator

How Spiders “Balloon”; July 2012; by Anna Kuchment; 1 Page(s)

The science behind a scene in Charlotte's Web

The Science of Health: Perils of Newborn Screening; July 2012; by Ariel Bleicher; 2 Page(s)

Doctors may be testing infants for too many diseases

Technofiles: Technology That Doesn't Fly; July 2012; by David Pogue; 1 Page(s)

Outdated screening rules aren't making for safer skiesjust longer lines

Why We Help; July 2012; by Martin A. Nowak; 6 Page(s)

Far from being a nagging exception to the rule of evolution, cooperation has been one of its primary architects

Reading the Red Planet; July 2012; by John P. Grotzinger and Ashwin Vasavada; 4 Page(s)

At 10:31 p.m. Pacific time on August 5, NASA'S Curiosity rover will begin the first direct search for habitable environments on Mars

Secrets of the HIV Controllers; July 2012; by Bruce D. Walker; 8 Page(s)

A rare group of HIV-positive individuals need no medicine to keep the virus in check. Their good fortune could point the way to more powerful treatmentsand perhaps a vaccine

Fleet Foot; July 2012; by Larry Greenemeier; 2 Page(s)

Nimble robots like this Cheetah will help the military navigate terrain too rocky for wheels

Witness to an Antarctic Meltdown; July 2012; by Douglas Fox; 8 Page(s)

As glaciers collapse toward the sea, scientists struggle to figure out how fast the southern continent is melting and what that means for sea-level rise

Nobel Pursuits; July 2012; by John Matson, Ferris Jabr; 12 Page(s)

The tools of science have changed since the golden age of physics, but many of the same questions remain

The Rat that Laughed; July 2012; by Jesse Bering; 4 Page(s)

Do animals other than humans have a sense of humor? Maybe so

Machines that Think for Themselves; July 2012; by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa; 4 Page(s)

New techniques for teaching computers how to learn are beating the experts

Recommended; July 2012; by Anna Kuchment; 1 Page(s)

Books and recommendation from Scientific American

Skeptic: Aunt Millie's Mind; July 2012; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry

Bred and Circuses; July 2012; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

A discussion of massive men and tiny tools

50, 100, 150 Years Ago; July 2012; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 2 Page(s)

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

Graphic Science: Medal Migrations; July 2012; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

The global distribution of Nobel Prizes traces a shift from Europe to the U.S.