June 2009
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2009; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2009; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

From the Editor - Inspirational Orbits; June 2009; by John Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Astronomers are finding new planets; humanitarians are improving this one

Letters; June 2009; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Naked Singularities -- Serious Games -- Beef Production

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2009; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Space Food -- Zeppelin II -- Safe Passage

Updates; June 2009; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)

Fuel-Cell Progress -- Hearty Turnovers -- Hurricanes -- Prostate Test Verdict

A Mechanism of Hot Air; June 2009; by Madhusree Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)

A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions

Rumble Off; June 2009; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

A Midwest earthquake fault could be shutting down

A Bead on Disease; June 2009; by Kate Wilcox; 2 Page(s)

Germ-grabbing magnetic beads that can be pulled from the blood

Too Little, Too Much; June 2009; by Melinda Wenner; 2 Page(s)

A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease

Sled Dog Science; June 2009; by Krista West; 2 Page(s)

Cracking the metabolic secrets of distance-racing canines

A Real Stretch; June 2009; by Erica Westly; 2 Page(s)

Pulling your mouth around affects which words you hear

Pulling Up Worms; June 2009; by Michelle Moyer; 1 Page(s)

The Conficker worm exposes computer flaws, fixes and fiends

News Scan Briefs; June 2009; by Chalres Q. Choi; Kate Wong; Coco Ballantyne; Jordan Lite; Larry Greenemeier; 2 Page(s)

On the Other Hand; Point Taken; Living Alike; Calorie-Burning Fat; Have a Nice Trip; Eggs Not Over Easy; Electromagnetic Chatter; Laser Beams that Curve

SciAm: Perspectives: Reality Check for Stem Cells; June 2009; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

The latest but far from final chapter on the controversial research at least starts well

Sustainable Developments: Rethink the Global Money Supply; June 2009; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

Less reliance on the U.S. dollar by international reserves would be widely beneficial

Skeptic: Agenticity; June 2009; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Why people believe that invisible agents control the world

Anti Gravity: An Immodest Proposal; June 2009; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Darwin was described as dogged, but are dog breeds specious?

Improbable Planets; June 2009; by Michael W. Werner; Michael A. Jura; 8 Page(s)

Astronomers are finding planets where there were not supposed to be any

The Price of Silent Mutations; June 2009; by J. V. Chamary; Laurence D. Hurst; 8 Page(s)

Small changes to DNA that were once considered innocuous enough to be ignored are proving to be important in human diseases, evolution and biotechnology

Phosphorus: A Looming Crisis; June 2009; by David A. Vaccari; 6 Page(s)

This underappreciated resource—a key part of fertilizers—is still decades from running out. But we must act now to conserve it, or future agriculture will collapse

Scientific American 10; June 2009; by Melinda Wenner; Sally Lehrman; Kate Wilcox; Gary Stix; 8 Page(s)

Information thieves can now do an end run around encryption, networks and the operating system

The Taming of the Cat; June 2009; by Carlos A. Driscoll; Juliet Clutton-Brock; Andrew C. Kitchener; Stephen J. O'Brien; 8 Page(s)

Genetic and archaeological findings hint that wildcats became house cats earlierand in a different placethan previously thought

Data in the Fast Lanes of Racetrack Memory; June 2009; by Stuart S. P. Parkin; 6 Page(s)

A device that slides magnetic bits back and forth along nanowire "racetracks" could pack data in a three-dimensional microchip and may replace nearly all forms of conventional data storage

Reviews; June 2009; by Michelle Press; 2 Page(s)

Dinochicken -- Acts of God -- Nature's Masterpiece

Ask the Experts; June 2009; by Raymond Boissy; Tim Jacob; 1 Page(s)

What causes albinism? Are there any treatments for it?; Why do two things I like to eat sometimes taste so bad when eaten together?