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July 2008
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; July 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Letters; July 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)
Schizophrenia -- Markets vs. Polls -- Expanding Universe
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Updates; July 2008; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)
Ozone Warming; Antiradiation; Quantum Novelty; Babbage Computer
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Polar Express; July 2008; by Peter Brown; 2 Page(s)
Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict
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Bring In the Noise; July 2008; by Melinda Wenner; 2 Page(s)
New studies reveal how cells exploit biochemical randomness
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Roping the Sun; July 2008; by Tim Hornyak; 2 Page(s)
Shrugging off massive costs, Japan pursues space-based solar arrays
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Saving Kermit; July 2008; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)
A repopulation plan for endangered amphibians
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Life in Old Lava; July 2008; by Christina Reed; 2 Page(s)
Searching for microfossils inside igneous rocks
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A Bug¿s Sex Life; July 2008; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)
Q&A with Isabella Rossellini
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News Scans Briefs; July 2008; by Karen Schultz, Charles Q. Choi, JR Minkel, Nikhil Swaminathan, David Biello; 2 Page(s)
People in Pain; Eating with Tension; Cancerous Marriage; A Milk-Diabetes Connection?; GINA Becomes Genuine; Preemptive Strike against Mindless Mistakes; Mermistor Made, Concrete Math Learning, Toasted Bugs
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Skeptic: Sacred Science; July 2008; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
Can emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into nature?
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The Self-Organizing Quantum; July 2008; by Jan Ambjørn, Jerzy Jurkiewicz and Renate Loll; 8 Page(s)
A new approach to the decades-old
problem of quantum gravity goes
back to basics and shows how the
building blocks of space and time
pull themselves together
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New Jobs for Ancient Chaperones; July 2008; by Pramod K. Srivastava; 6 Page(s)
Protective heat shock proteins present in every cell have long been known to counteract stress.
Newly recognized roles in cancer and immunity make them potential therapeutic allies
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Traces of a Distant Past; July 2008; by Gary Stix; 8 Page(s)
DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture
of the multimillennial trek from Africa
all the way to the tip of South America
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Hands On Computing; July 2008; by Stuart F. Brown; 4 Page(s)
Multi-touch screens could improve collaboration without a mouse or keyboard
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No-Till: The Quiet Revolution; July 2008; by David R. Huggins and John P. Reganold; 8 Page(s)
The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation. Many farmers are thus looking to make plowing a thing of the past
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The Neuroscience of Dance; July 2008; by Steven Brown and Lawrence M. Parsons; 6 Page(s)
Recent brain-imaging reveal some of the complex neural choreography behind our ability to dance
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Simple Groups at Play; July 2008; by Igor Kriz and Paul Siegel; 6 Page(s)
A new set of puzzles inspired by Rubik¿s Cube offers puzzle lovers
the chance to get acquainted with the secret twists and turns
of mathematical entities called sporadic simple groups
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Going with His Gut Bacteria; July 2008; by Melinda Wenner; 2 Page(s)
The body and its intestinal flora produce chemicals with hidden health information, Jeremy Nicholson has found. Someday treating disease may mean treating those bacteria
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Reviews; July 2008; by Michelle Press; 1 Page(s)
Fossils in America -- Science and Religion -- A Giant Moon
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Ask the Experts; July 2008; by Dana M. Small, David D. Oglesby; 1 Page(s)
How does food's appearance or smell influence the way it tastes?
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