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June 2006
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; June 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Lysenko Retreats; Consumers Benefit; Neptune's Realm Photographed
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Disruptive Threats; June 2006; by Daniel G. Dupont; 2 Page(s)
The Pentagon tries to know the unknown
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Trace Elements; June 2006; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)
Reconnecting African-Americans to an ancestral past
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No Prayer Prescription; June 2006; by Christine Soares; 1 Page(s)
Send good vibrations, but keep it to yourself
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Hard Landscape; June 2006; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
Finding our universe in string theory appears impossible
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NASA's Reverse Thrust; June 2006; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
Cuts may be more than a mere monetary speed bump
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Body Blazes; June 2006; by Lisa Melton; 1 Page(s)
How nicotine stops inflammation could lead to new drugs
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News Scan Briefs; June 2006; by JR Minkel, Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)
The Lure of Punishment; Bottoms Up--or Maybe Down; Viral Wire; Fish Out of Water; Peaking Intelligence; The Other, Other White Meat
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Skeptic: The Flipping Point; June 2006; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
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Insights: The Implicit Prejudice; June 2006; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)
Mahzarin Banaji can show how we connect "good" and "bad" with biased attitudes we hold, even if we say we don't. Especially when we say we don't
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The Secrets of Supervolcanoes; June 2006; by Ilya N. Bindeman; 8 Page(s)
Microscopic crystals of volcanic ash are revealing surprising clues about the world's most devastating eruptions
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Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology; June 2006; by David Baker, George Church, Jim Collins, Drew Endy, Joseph Jacobson, Jay Keasling, Paul Modrich, Christina Smolke and Ron Weiss; 8 Page(s)
Principles and practices learned from engineering successes can help transform biotechnology from a specialized craft into a mature industry
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Wading in Waste; June 2006; by Michael A. Mallin; 8 Page(s)
Thanks to unchecked development along America's coasts, disease-causing microbes are increasingly fouling beaches and shellfish beds
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Toward Better Pain Control; June 2006; by Allan I. Basbaum and David Julius; 8 Page(s)
Advances in understanding the cells and molecules that transmit pain signals are providing new targets for drugs that could relieve various kinds of pain--including those poorly controlled by existing therapies
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Dependable Software by Design; June 2006; by Daniel Jackson; 8 Page(s)
Computers fly our airliners and run most of the world's banking, communications, retail and manufacturing systems. Now powerful analysis tools will at last help software engineers ensure the reliability of their designs
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A New Assault on HIV; June 2006; by Gary Stix; 4 Page(s)
The constant search for weak points in the virus yields ideas for a wholly new class of drug
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The Science behind Sudoku; June 2006; by Jean-Paul Delahaye; 8 Page(s)
Solving a Sudoku puzzle requires no math, not even arithmetic. Even so, the game poses a number of intriguing mathematical problems
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Reviews: Favored by the Gods; June 2006; by George Johnson; 2 Page(s)
If your're happy and you know it...read these three new books on the biological and cultural roots of humanity's pursuit of happiness
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Ask the Experts; June 2006; by Paul Nicholas Worsey, Harry Mobley; 1 Page(s)
What are the physical and chemical changes that occur in fireworks? How do antibiotics kill bacterial cells but not human cells?
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