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June 2001
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; June 2001; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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A Touch of Poison; June 2001; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)
The EPA may weaken a regulation limiting arsenic in water
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Galactic Archaeology; June 2001; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
Digging into the milky way's past exposes its life as a cannibal
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New Trick from Old Dog; June 2001; by Graham P. Collins; 1 Page(s)
A magnesium compound is a startling superconductor
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Robotic Bombers; June 2001; by Steven Ashley; 1 Page(s)
Unmanned strike aircraft begin to take off
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Save the Earth; June 2001; by Mark A. Garlick; 1 Page(s)
Delaying our planet's ultimate demise - by shifting its orbit
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Unfair Game; June 2001; by Josephine Hearn; 2 Page(s)
The bushmeat trade is wiping out large African mammals
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News Scan Briefs; June 2001; by Alison McCook, Philip Yam, Kate Wong, Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
The Little Engine That Might; Not So Watery; Lucy, Meet Ken; Data Points: Get Your Proteins; Locating the Latent Enemy; Boning Up; Aborted Crime Wave, Part 2; Copy Unprotected; www.sciam.com/news - Brief Bits
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Innovations: The Mice That Warred; June 2001; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)
Natural selection picks the best antibodies to fight invading microbes - and it also determines who survives to sell these molecules as drugs
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Skeptic: Fox's Flapdoodle; June 2001; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
Tabloid television offers a lesson in uncritical thinking
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Profile: Piloting Through Uncharted Seas; June 2001; by John Adam; 2 Page(s)
The privately funded Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute enables scientists and engineers to engage in radical pursuits. As long as Marcia K. McNutt likes their ideas
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The Paradox of the Sun's Hot Corona; June 2001; by Bhola N. Dwivedi and Kenneth J.H. Phillips; 8 Page(s)
Like a boiling teakettle atop a cold stove, the sun's hot outer layers sit on the relatively cool surface. And now astronomers are figuring out why
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Sign Language in the Brain; June 2001; by Gregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi and Edward S. Klima; 8 Page(s)
How does the human brain process language? New studies of deaf signers hint at an answer
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North to Mars!; June 2001; by Robert Zubrin; 4 Page(s)
To pave the way for a mission to Mars, a band of scientists decided to go to the Canadian arctic
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Hair: Why It Grows, Why It Stops; June 2001; by Ricki L. Rusting, sidebar by Mia Schmiedeskamp; 10 Page(s)
Scientists are rapidly discovering the molecules that control hair production. In so doing, they could be unearthing the key to combating both baldness and excessive hair growth
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The Himba and the Dam; June 2001; by Carol Ezzell; 10 Page(s)
A questionable act of progress may drown this African tribe's way of life. Similar dramas are playing out around the world
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A Low-Pollution Engine Solution; June 2001; by Steven Ashley; 6 Page(s)
Clean-burning, sparkless-ignition auto engines may offer the best chance of meeting new exhaust emissions standards
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Reviews: Dinos and Darwin; June 2001; by Carl Zimmer, staff editors; 3 Page(s)
Two books pose the question, Just how much did the discovery of dinosaur fossils change science? Also, The Editors Recommend
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Anti Gravity: Nostrildamus; June 2001; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
In space, no one can hear you gag. Which is why you need predictions about whether space stuff stinks
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Endpoints; June 2001; by Staff Editors; 1 Page(s)
How is tempered glass made?
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