December 2007
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; December 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; December 2007; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

From the Editor; December 2007; by John Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Worlds Apart

Letters; December 2007; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

Global Warming; Race-Specific Drugs; Eye Tics

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; December 2007; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Space Race; Cost of Coal; An Uncivil Club

Updates; December 2007; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)

Absent Southpaws; Alzheimer's as Diabetes?; Turtle Clues; Missing Mass

T Cell Turnoff; December 2007; by Bianca Nogrady; 2 Page(s)

Can suppressing the immune system treat HIV infection?

Losing Scents; December 2007; by Coco Ballantyne; 2 Page(s)

A pheromone-gene link raises questions about the decline of nasal know-how

A Stash in Every Flush; December 2007; by David Biello; 3 Page(s)

Chemical signatures in sewage may reveal the truth about drug use

Glow for the Dark; December 2007; by Charles Q. Choi; 3 Page(s)

New kind of night vision for the clearest images yet

Supersonic Pulse Power; December 2007; by Steven Ashley; 3 Page(s)

Nazi-era weapons lead to fuel-stingy aircraft engines

Deadly Orbits; December 2007; by Don Monroe; 1 Page(s)

Why a voyage to space increased a bacterium's killing power

Evolution in a Petri Dish; December 2007; by Luis Miguel Ariza; 1 Page(s)

In the lab, seeing how infectious disease triggers new species

News Scan Briefs; December 2007; by Charles Q. Choi, Nikhil Swaminathan, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)

Eye on the Tiger; Use It or Lose It; Not So Neutral Neutron; Data Points: Hole Shrinkage; A Qubit Bus; Punishment for Harmony; Something to Remember; The 2007 Nobel Prizes

SciAm Perspectives: Enough Hot Air Already; December 2007; by the Editors; 2 Page(s)

Do more than talk about the climate

Sustainable Developments: Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks; December 2007; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 2 Page(s)

Small steps to big climate progress

Forum: Our Evolving Present; December 2007; by Rob Dunn; 1 Page(s)

Human changes to the environment are accelerating evolution

Skeptic: An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science; December 2007; by Michael Shermer; 2 Page(s)

How science really works

Anti Gravity: Apples and Cheese; December 2007; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

A write-up of my week as a writer not writing

Insights: Bigfoot Anatomy; December 2007; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)

Sasquatch is just a legend, right? Maybe not, anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum argues

Window on the Extreme Universe; December 2007; by William B. Atwood, Peter F. Michelson and Steven Ritz; 8 Page(s)

The GLAST satellite is about to open up an unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum, where dark matter and other mysteries might be seen

Are Aliens among Us?; December 2007; by Paul Davies; 8 Page(s)

All life on Earth is generally understood to have descended from a common ancestor. But if cells evolved independently more than once, some microbes radically different from all known organisms might still survive in extreme environments of our planet. The search is on for evidence of these strangers

Making Carbon Markets Work; December 2007; by David G. Victor and Danny Cullenward; 8 Page(s)

Limiting climate change without damaging the world economy depends on stronger and smarter market signals to regulate carbon dioxide

Radiant Information; December 2007; by Emily Harrison; 6 Page(s)

State-of-the-art light microscopy from the Olympus BioScapes competition illuminates life exquisitely

Diet Advice from DNA?; December 2007; by Laura Hercher; 6 Page(s)

Are personalized diets based on genetic tests cutting-edge science or high-tech horoscopes?

The Semantic Web in Action; December 2007; by Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann and Susie Stephens; 8 Page(s)

Networks that handle data more intelligently are already here

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett; December 2007; by Peter Byrne; 8 Page(s)

Whatever became of the creator of the now celebrated quantum theory of multiple universes?

In Boxes; December 2007; by Patrick Merrell; 2 Page(s)

Challenge your knowledge of science and the past year's issues of this magazine

Working Knowledge: Progress Accelerates; December 2007; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Adaptive cruise control

Reviews; December 2007; by Michelle Press; 1 Page(s)

Books to give, books to get

Ask the Experts; December 2007; by Alison Preston; 1 Page(s)

How do short-term memories become long-term memories?

Fact or Fiction?; December 2007; by Alison Snyder; 1 Page(s)

Is chocolate poisonous to dogs?