June 2003
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: A Pound of Flesh; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

A pound of flesh for transplants

How to Contact Us and On the Web; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Chemical Claw; Horse Ancestor; Chinese Cheese

Caught Off Guard; June 2003; by Christine Soares; 2 Page(s)

SARS reveals gaps in global disease defense

Acting Locally; June 2003; by David Appell; 2 Page(s)

In curbing greenhouse gas emissions, states go it alone

Hybrids Take Off; June 2003; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)

Engineers reconsider cross-bred propulsion

Boxed Out; June 2003; by Madhusree Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)

Science loses as the U.S. tightens visa rules

Law and Disorder; June 2003; by JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)

A quantum steam engine gets around the second law

News Scan Briefs; June 2003; by Sarah Simpson, JR Minkel, Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)

Rising Sun; Why Neutrons Outweigh Protons; Sexy and Delicious; Corrupted Clones; The Unusual Suspects; Data Points: Not All Wet; Brief Points

By the Numbers: Trade Globalization; June 2003; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

It is nearly two centuries old and likely to continue

Innovations: The Abyss Transit System; June 2003; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

James Cameron commissions the making of robots for a return to the Titanic

Staking Claims: Sign Here; June 2003; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)

Will a scientist need a legal opinion before starting the next experiment?

Skeptic: Codified Claptrap; June 2003; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The Bible Code is numerological nonsense masquerading as science

Insights: One Last Look; June 2003; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

Although United Nations weapons inspector Rocco Casagrande and his colleagues found no bioweapons in Iraq, they could sense that the government had not come clean

Shoot This Deer; June 2003; by Philip Yam; 6 Page(s)

Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations - and maybe livestock and humans

The Unearthly Landscapes of Mars; June 2003; by Arden L. Albee; 10 Page(s)

The Red Planet is no dead planet

Self-Repairing Computers; June 2003; by Armando Fox and David Patterson; 8 Page(s)

By embracing the inevitability of system failures, recovery-oriented computing returns service faster

Pandora's Baby; June 2003; by Robin Marantz Henig; 6 Page(s)

In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity. Cloning inspires similar fears

The Dawn of Physics Beyond the Standard Model; June 2003; by Gordon Kane; 8 Page(s)

The Standard Model of particle physics is at a pivotal moment in its history: it is both at the height of its success and on the verge of being surpassed

Chain Letters and Evolutionary Histories; June 2003; by Charles H. Bennett, Ming Li and Bin Ma; 6 Page(s)

A study of chain letters shows how to infer the family tree of anything that evolves over time, from biological genomes to languages to plagiarized schoolwork

Working Knowledge: To Hear Again; June 2003; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Cochlear implants

Technicalities: Name That Tune; June 2003; by Fiona Harvey; 3 Page(s)

Music lovers use cell phones to identify songs

Reviews: A Polite Smile or the Real McCoy?; June 2003; by Carol Tavris; 2 Page(s)

In Emotions Revealed, Paul Ekman decodes the vocabulary of facial expressions. Also, The Editors Recommend

Puzzling Adventures: Prime Squares; June 2003; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Prime squares

Anti Gravity: Dropping By; June 2003; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Sometimes a naturalist can get ahead by assessing what's been left behind

Ask the Experts; June 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Why do hangovers occur? Why does shaking a can of coffee cause the larger grains to move to the surface?

Fuzzy Logic; June 2003; by Roz Chast; 1 Page(s)

Is everybody happy?