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December 2005
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; December 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; December 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Watching the Heavens; Sailing around America; Invading the Amazon
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Trials for the Poor; December 2005; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
Rise of randomized trials to study antipoverty programs
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Cold War Clues; December 2005; by Christine Soares; 2 Page(s)
Atomic tests allow carbon dating of baby boomers
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Cheaper Dots; December 2005; by Graham P. Collins; 3 Page(s)
New process slashes the cost of quantum dots
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Grow Your Own; December 2005; by Philip E. Ross; 2 Page(s)
Getting a diabetic pancreas to regrow its islets
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Lean Gene Machine; December 2005; by Steven Ashley; 3 Page(s)
Ocean bacterium has the most streamlined genome
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Martian Claymation; December 2005; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
An ancient, watery Mars was not always an acid bath
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News Scan Briefs; December 2005; by Christine Soares, Charles Q. Choi, Philip Yam; 2 Page(s)
Killer Resurrected; One Small Step; Going the Distance; Weakening HIV?; Tilting at Asteroids; Going through the Brownian Motions
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Insights: Breaking the Mold; December 2005; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
As the glass cools on his latest giant mirror, Roger Angel keeps pushing telescope design. His next one might even find Earth-like planets around other stars
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The Scientific American 50; December 2005; by Staff Editors; 20 Page(s)
Flu preparedness, flexible electronics and stem cells all star in our fourth annual salute to the research, business and policy leaders of technology
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An Echo of Black Holes; December 2005; by Theodore A. Jacobson and Renaud Parentani; 8 Page(s)
Sound waves in a fluid behave uncannily like light waves in space. Black holes even have acoustic counterparts. Could spacetime literally be a kind of fluid, like the ether of pre-Einsteinian physics?
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Tackling Malaria; December 2005; by Claire Panosian Dunavan; 8 Page(s)
Interventions available today could lead to decisive gains in prevention and treatment--if only the world would apply them
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Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste; December 2005; by William H. Hannum, Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford; 8 Page(s)
Fast-neutron reactors could extract much more energy from recycled nuclear fuel, minimize the risks of weapons proliferation and markedly reduce the time nuclear waste must be isolated
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Sick of Poverty; December 2005; by Robert Sapolsky; 8 Page(s)
New studies suggest that the stress of being poor has a staggeringly harmful influence on health
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Getting a Leg Up on Land; December 2005; by Jennifer A. Clack; 8 Page(s)
Recent fossil discoveries cast light on the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish
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Inside the Mind of a Savant; December 2005; by Darold A. Treffert and Daniel D. Christensen; 6 Page(s)
Kim Peek possesses one of the most extraordinary memories ever recorded. Until we can explain his abilities, we cannot pretend to understand human cognition
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Worm Hole; December 2005; by Patrick Merrell; 2 Page(s)
Challenge your knowledge of science and the past year's issues of this magazine
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Reviews: Tricky, Turbulent, Tribal; December 2005; by Henry Gee; 3 Page(s)
To understand the chaos of modern conflict, look to the tribal and primate roots of human behavior: a consideration of the books Us and Them and Our Inner Ape
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Anti Gravity: The Trials of Life; December 2005; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again. Sorry
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Ask the Experts; December 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
How and why do fireflies light up?
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