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September 2007

September 2007
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Cover; September 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; September 2007; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

From the Editor; September 2007; by John Rennie; 1 Page(s)

All You Can't Eat

Letters; September 2007; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

Martian Molecules; Cancer; Quantum Theory

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; September 2007; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Crick's Progress; Flight Incentive; Flame Tamer

Updates; September 2007; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)

Cyberwarfare; Surviving Supervolcanoes; Better Biofuel; House Cat Origin

Suffering a Slow Recovery; September 2007; by Emily Harrison; 2 Page(s)

Failed rebuilding after Katrina sets off a mental health crisis in the Gulf

Speaking in Tones; September 2007; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

Ni hao or bonjour: do genes drive preference for language type?

Muons for Peace; September 2007; by Mark Wolverton; 3 Page(s)

New way to spot hidden nukes gets ready to debut

Healing Broken Nerves; September 2007; by Anna Griffith; 3 Page(s)

Combination therapy as the best approach for damaged spinal cords

Déjà Vu Disks; September 2007; by Sourish Basu; 2 Page(s)

For Blu-ray and HD DVD, encryption and court orders prove futile--again

Dangling a COROT; September 2007; by Alexander Hellemans; 1 Page(s)

Space telescope aims to find more planets orbiting other stars

News Scan Briefs; September 2007; by Jonathan Scheff, Charles Q. Choi, JR Minkel, Lisa Stein, Nikhil Swaminathan; 2 Page(s)

Green Burning Man; Life Not as We Know It; Ulcers from the Deep; Superconducting Airplanes?; Stem Cell Veto--Again; Opening the Door to HIV; Prions against Alzheimer's; Developmental Disorder in Mice Reversed

SciAm Perspectives: Take Nutrition Claims with a Grain of Salt; September 2007; by the Editors; 2 Page(s)

Can you trust food studies?

Sustainable Developments: Breaking the Poverty Trap; September 2007; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 2 Page(s)

Targeted investments can trump a region's geographic disadvantages

Forum: Full Speed Ahead for an Accelerator; September 2007; by C. Konrad Gelbke; 2 Page(s)

The U.S. must stay competitive in nuclear science

Skeptic: Rational Atheism; September 2007; by Michael Shermer; 2 Page(s)

An open letter on faith to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens

Anti Gravity: What's the Big Idea?; September 2007; by Steve Mirsky; 2 Page(s)

When the lightbulb above your head is truly incendiary

Insights: What Visions in the Dark of Light; September 2007; by Marguerite Holloway; 3 Page(s)

Lene Vestergaard Hau can bring light to a stop, extinguish it and revive it--thereby bringing quantum information a new look

A Question of Sustenance; September 2007; by Gary Stix; 4 Page(s)

Globalization ushered in a world in which more than a billion are overfed. Yet 800 million or so still suffer from hunger's persistent scourge

Eating Made Simple; September 2007; by Marion Nestle; 10 Page(s)

How do you cope with a mountain of conflicting diet advice? Also: Paul Raeburn reviews the best scientific guidance on weight loss

Can Fat Be Fit?; September 2007; by Paul Raeburn; 2 Page(s)

Popular books have questioned the ill effects of being overweight. They are probably wrong

What Fuels Fat; September 2007; by Jeffrey S. Flier & Eleftheria Maratos-Flier; 10 Page(s)

Understanding obesity as a breakdown in the body's weight regulation could yield new ways to fight fat

This Is Your Brain on Food; September 2007; by Kristin Leutwyler Ozelli; 2 Page(s)

Neuroimaging reveals what chocoholics have in common with drug addicts. Interview with Nora D. Volkow

The World Is Fat; September 2007; by Barry M. Popkin; 8 Page(s)

How can the poorest countries fight obesity?

Still Hungry; September 2007; by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng; 8 Page(s)

One eighth of the world does not have enough to eat

Sowing a Gene Revolution; September 2007; by Terri Raney and Prabhu Pingali; 8 Page(s)

A new green revolution based on genetically modified crops could help reduce poverty and hunger, but only if formidable institutional challenges are met

Is Your Food Contaminated?; September 2007; by Mark Fischetti; 6 Page(s)

New approaches to protect the food supply

Working Knowledge: Fresh from the Sea; September 2007; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Desalination of seawater

Reviews; September 2007; by Michelle Press; 2 Page(s)

Cyclic universe; The language conundrum; Nuclear terror

Ask the Experts; September 2007; by Mark Pagel, John R. Smith; 1 Page(s)

Why did humans lose their body hair? How can opera singers be heard over orchestras?

Fact or Fiction?; September 2007; by Ciara Curtin; 1 Page(s)

Do living people outnumber the dead?






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