August 2006
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: Keep the Net Neutral; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Keep the Internet neutral

How to Contact Us and On the Web; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; August 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Little Neutral Particle; Britain's Achilles' Heel; Pickpockets Beware

Soccer Goes Green; August 2006; by Gunjan Sinha; 2 Page(s)

At the World Cup, a new way to offset carbon emissions

The Neutrino Frontier; August 2006; by Mark Alpert; 3 Page(s)

At Fermilab, particle smashing yields to flavor changing

Sequencing Sea World; August 2006; by Christina Reed; 2 Page(s)

A genetic census of the ocean's primary predators

Venus de Seismo; August 2006; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)

New orbiter begins to listen for Venusquakes

Slow-Acting; August 2006; by Paul Raeburn; 1 Page(s)

After 25 years, the EPA still won't ban a risky pesticide

Paleolithic Juvenilia; August 2006; by JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)

Were cave artists sex- and hunting-obsessed teenage boys?

By the Numbers: The Crystal Crisis; August 2006; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

Meth abuse moves eastward

News Scan Briefs; August 2006; by Charles Q. Choi, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)

Alight Touch; A Firm Stand; Solitary Briny Confinement; A Place for RNA; Lasers from Sound; Platonic Liquids

Skeptic: Folk Science; August 2006; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Why our intuitions about science are so often wrong

Sustainable Developments: Virtuous Circles and Fragile States; August 2006; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

The care and feeding of unstable new democracies

Insights: The Geometer of Particle Physics; August 2006; by Alexander Hellemans; 2 Page(s)

Acclaimed mathematician Alain Connes takes a geometric approach to learn how spacetime makes particles

Forum: Nanotechnology's Future; August 2006; by Mihail C. Roco; 1 Page(s)

Passing through four evolutionary stages, nanotechnology will become a $1-trillion industry by 2015

The Strangest Satellites in the Solar System; August 2006; by David Jewitt, Scott S. Sheppard and Jan Kleyna; 8 Page(s)

With peculiar orbits that often move against the grain of the rest of the solar system, an odd breed of planetary satellites is reshaping ideas about the formation of the solar system

The Real Life of Pseudogenes; August 2006; by Mark Gerstein and Deyou Zheng; 8 Page(s)

Disabled genes, once dismissed as detritus on the genomic landscape, trace the path of evolution--and may not always be entirely dead

Power for a Space Plane; August 2006; by Thomas A. Jackson; 8 Page(s)

Creating a revolutionary hypersonic jet engine that could propel a space plane to orbit affordably and routinely is a tough but seemingly achievable task

The Expert Mind; August 2006; by Philip E. Ross; 8 Page(s)

The mental processes of chess grandmasters are unlike those of novices, a fact that illuminates the development of expertise in other fields

Climate and the Evolution of Mountains; August 2006; by Kip Hodges; 8 Page(s)

New studies of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau suggest that climate and geology can be partners in a long, slow dance

A Great Leap in Graphics; August 2006; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 4 Page(s)

Soon even home computers should be able to produce quick, high-quality 3-D graphics, thanks to speedier new ways to simulate the flight of light

The Fish and the Forest; August 2006; by Scott M. Gende and Thomas P. Quinn; 6 Page(s)

Salmon carcasses left behind by predatory bears are unexpectedly important sources of nutrients for forests

Working Knowledge: Going Vertical; August 2006; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

How disk-drive makers raise storage capacities by making bits stand on end

Technicalites: Weather Gets Personal; August 2006; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)

Here's the five-day forecast for your backyard

Reviews: Reality Show; August 2006; by Andrew Hodges; 2 Page(s)

The play's the thing--even when theater tackles scientific concepts

Anti Gravity: Monumental Error; August 2006; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

New York, N.Y.: Nothing to see, move along

Ask the Experts; August 2006; by Jeremy Jones, James B. Snow, Jr.; 1 Page(s)

How do space probes navigate large distances with such accuracy? What causes ringing in the ears?