March 2006
Scientific American Magazine

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

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

SA Perspectives: Con Men in Lab Coats; March 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Con men in lab coats

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

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

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

Geology Uproar; Big-Gun Battleships; Horsepower for Horse Dung

Down in Flames; March 2006; by Sara Beardsley; 2 Page(s)

Can stem cell research recover from Woo Suk Hwang?

Going to Bat; March 2006; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

Natural reservoir for emerging viruses may be bats

Ion Power; March 2006; by Graham P. Collins; 2 Page(s)

Atomic ions prove their quantum versatility

Software Insecurity; March 2006; by Daniel G. Dupont; 1 Page(s)

Outsourcing and defense fear of "foreign influence"

Crater Jumper; March 2006; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)

Hopping probe may hunt for ice on the moon

In the Groove; March 2006; by JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)

Measuring a black hole's spin by a crease in spacetime

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

Where the Bacteria Roam; Sense and Sensitivity; Nanoparticles Can't Hide; Testing Lethality; Reefer Sanity; What You See Is What You Say

By the Numbers: The Honeymoon Is Over; March 2006; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

After the vows, marital happiness may be all downhill

Skeptic: Cures and Cons; March 2006; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Natural scams "he" doesn't want you to know about

Insights: Experiments at Work; March 2006; by Marina Krakovsky; 2 Page(s)

What's the best way to boost sales or handle competing resellers? By lab-testing business ideas, Kay-Yut Chen gets rid of some of the guesswork

Shielding Space Travelers; March 2006; by Eugene N. Parker; 8 Page(s)

The perils of cosmic rays pose severe, perhaps insurmountable, hurdles to human spaceflight to Mars and beyond

Unlocking the Secrets of Longevity Genes; March 2006; by David A. Sinclair and Lenny Guarente; 8 Page(s)

A handful of genes that control the body's defenses during hard times can also dramatically improve health and prolong life in diverse organisms. Understanding how they work may reveal the keys to extending human life span while banishing diseases of old age

The Dangers of Ocean Acidification; March 2006; by Scott C. Doney; 8 Page(s)

Much of the carbon dioxide given off from the burning of fossil fuels goes into the ocean, where it changes the acid balance of seawater. The repercussions for marine life may be enormous

Cognitive Radio; March 2006; by Steven Ashley; 8 Page(s)

Smart radios and other new wireless devices will avoid transmission bottlenecks by switching instantly to nearby frequencies that they sense are clear

The Limits of Reason; March 2006; by Gregory Chaitin; 8 Page(s)

Ideas of complexity and randomness originally suggested by Gottfried W. Leibniz in 1686, combined with modern information theory, imply that there can never be a "theory of everything" for all mathematics

Little Green Molecules; March 2006; by Terrence J. Collins and Chip Walter; 8 Page(s)

Chemists have invented a new class of catalysts that can destroy some of the worst pollutants before they get into the environment

The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation; March 2006; by Gary Stix; 4 Page(s)

Statistical methods hold tha promise of moving computerized translation out of the doldrums

Working Knowledge: Spin and Swing; March 2006; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Tiny motors

Reviews: From Surmise to Sunrise; March 2006; by Jonathan Weiner; 3 Page(s)

Two modern biology giants, James Watson and E. O. Wilson, weigh the genius of a third from the past, Charles Darwin

Anti Gravity: Annual Rapport; March 2006; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Like a good wine, 2005 had a fine finish

Ask the Experts; March 2006; by Angel Caputi, J. Scott Yaruss; 1 Page(s)

How do electric eels generate a voltage, and why don't they get shocked? What causes stuttering, and is there a cure?