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November 2012
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; November 2012; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Letters; November 2012; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)
Readers respond to the July issue of Scientific American
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The Voting Gene; November 2012; by Evan Charney and William English; 1 Page(s)
When it comes to complex behaviors, gene variants don't count for much
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The Autism Pill; November 2012; by Alla Katsnelson; 1 Page(s)
A new crop of drugs aim, for the first time, at the core symptoms of this disorder
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You Are Here; November 2012; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)
Astronomical surveys are pinpointing our place in the cosmos
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Scaled Down; November 2012; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)
A new nanodevice can weigh single molecules in real time
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Roaches to the Rescue; November 2012; by Larry Greenemeier; 1 Page(s)
Engineers design robo pests to search for earthquake victims
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Dead in the Water; November 2012; by Carrie Madren; 1 Page(s)
North American freshwater fishes are going extinct at rates that concern scientists
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A Shot in the Arm; November 2012; by Melinda Wenner Moyer; 1 Page(s)
Health departments have shrunk, raising fears about epidemics
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Patent Watch; November 2012; by Marissa Fessenden; 1 Page(s)
Patent No. 8,131,011
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Some Don't Like It Hot; November 2012; by Daisy Yuhas; 1 Page(s)
Mustard's kick may be a defense mechanism to ward off pests
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Fickle Fairies; November 2012; by Marissa Fessenden; 1 Page(s)
A biologist on lusty birds and human evolution
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Break More to Break Less; November 2012; by Davide Castelvecchi; 1 Page(s)
A new kind of hydrogel could open the way to artificial cartilage and other applications
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Helpless By Design?; November 2012; by Kate Wong; 1 Page(s)
The timing of human birth may have more to do with a mother's caloric restrictions than with infant brain size
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Breaking the Ice; November 2012; by Eve Conant; 1 Page(s)
Russia pours money into a new nuclear-powered vessel
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The Last Frontier; November 2012; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)
Physicists try to puzzle out Voyager 1's position as it approaches interstellar space
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To Track My Thief; November 2012; by David Pogue; 1 Page(s)
A guy stole my iPhone. I tracked it and posted his address online. Was that wrong?
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The Inner Life of Quarks; November 2012; by Don Lincoln; 8 Page(s)
What if the smallest bits of matter actually harbor an undiscovered world of particles?
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Grow Your Own Eye; November 2012; by Yoshiki Sasai; 6 Page(s)
Biologists have coaxed cells to form a retina, a step toward growing replacement organs outside the body
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The Strangest Bird; November 2012; by R. Ewan Fordyce and Daniel T. Ksepka; 6 Page(s)
Recent fossil discoveries reveal the surprising evolutionary history of penguins
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America's Science Problem; November 2012; by Shawn Lawrence Otto; 10 Page(s)
The United States faced down authoritarian governments on the left and right. Now it may be facing an even greater challenge from within
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Autism and the Technical Mind; November 2012; by Simon Baron-Cohen; 4 Page(s)
Children of scientists and engineers may inherit genes that not only confer intellectual talents but also predispose them to autism
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A New Enlightenment; November 2012; by George Musser; 6 Page(s)
Quantum theory once seemed like the last nail in the coffin of pure reason. Now it's looking like its savior
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Recommended; November 2012; by Anna Kuchment; 1 Page(s)
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Shock and Awe; November 2012; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
Replicating Milgram's shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict
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A Trivers Runs Through It; November 2012; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
As a talking equid once advised, go right to the source and ask the horse
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Tag—You're Sick; November 2012; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)
Patterns of personal contact in a hospital reveal true pathways of transmission
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