June 2002
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: A Death Every 30 Seconds; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

The enduring battle with malaria

On the Web; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Transistor Sales; Meat Business; Amazon Trade

Lifting the Screen; June 2002; by Alison McCook; 2 Page(s)

An accurate test is not always the best way to find cancer

Divide and Vitrify; June 2002; by Steven Ashley; 3 Page(s)

Partitioning nuclear waste saves space, but it isn't easy

A Philosopher's Stone; June 2002; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)

Could superconductors transmute electromagnetic radiation into gravitational waves?

The Child Within; June 2002; by Carol Ezzell; 2 Page(s)

Stem cells from adults may not be so useful after all

URLs in Urdu?; June 2002; by Wendy M. Grossman; 2 Page(s)

International domain names pose a new security risk

Scaling the Quakes; June 2002; by JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)

Why aftershocks may not really be aftershocks after all

By the Numbers: Bad Things Happen; June 2002; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

How deindustrialization has affected communities

News Scan Briefs; June 2002; by Philip Yam, JR Minkel, Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)

Nice Threads; Battling Resistant Bacteria; Gain without Pain; Hit or Miss; Here's Magnet in Your Eye; Double or Nothing; Data Points: Shark Bites Man; www.sciam.com/news - Brief Bits

Innovations: Thinking Big; June 2002; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

A Harvard Medical School dropout aims to usher in the personal-genomics era

Staking Claims: Wanted: More Mothers of Invention; June 2002; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)

Women patent holders are still a long way from parity with men

Skeptic: The Shamans of Scientism; June 2002; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

On the occasion of Stephen W. Hawking's 60th trip around the sun, we consider a social phenomenon that reveals something deep about human nature

Profile: Man of Two Cultures; June 2002; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

As both scientist and administrator, John H. Marburger III tries to bring needed perspective into a White House not thought to be particularly interested in science

Hope in a Vial; June 2002; by Carol Ezzell; 8 Page(s)

Will there be an AIDS vaccine anytime soon?

The Life Cycle of Galaxies; June 2002; by Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch; 10 Page(s)

Astronomers are on the verge of explaining the enigmatic variety of galaxies

Disturbing Behaviors of the Orangutan; June 2002; by Anne Nacey Maggioncalda and Robert M. Sapolsky; 6 Page(s)

Studies of these great apes show that some males pursue an unexpected and disquieting evolutionary strategy

Spintronics; June 2002; by David D. Awschalom, Michael E. Flatt¿ and Nitin Samarth; 8 Page(s)

Microelectronic devices that function by using the spin of the electron are a nascent multibillion-dollar industry - and may lead to quantum microchips

Islands of Genius; June 2002; by Darold A. Treffert and Gregory L. Wallace; 10 Page(s)

Artistic brilliance and a dazzling memory can sometimes accompany autism and other developmental disorders

The Complexity of Coffee; June 2002; by Ernesto Illy; 6 Page(s)

One of life's simple pleasures is really quite complicated

No Truth to the Fountain of Youth; June 2002; by S. Jay Olshansky, Leonard Hayflick and Bruce A. Carnes; 4 Page(s)

Fifty-one scientists who study aging have issued a warning to the public: no anti-aging remedy on the market today has been proved effective. Here's why they are speaking up

Working Knowledge: Hidden Guides; June 2002; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Gyroscope guidance

Technicalities: Whatever You Say; June 2002; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 3 Page(s)

With speech-recognition software, your voice is the computer's command

Reviews: Men, Money and Malaria; June 2002; by Claire Panosian Dunavan, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)

Of mosquitoes and men: The Fever Trail ponders the cure for malaria. Also, The Editors Recommend

Puzzling Adventures: Privacy Taboos; June 2002; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Privacy among the Paranoimos

Anti Gravity: About the Size of It; June 2002; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

A contemplation on the states of our perception

Ask the Experts; June 2002; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Do people lose their senses of smell and taste as they age? What happens when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier?

Fuzzy Logic; June 2002; by Roz Chast; 1 Page(s)

Between Nothing and Somethingness