February 2008
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; February 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; February 2008; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

From the Editor; February 2008; by John Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Presidential Science

Letters; February 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Drug Access; Conservation Strategy; Consciousness

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; February 2008; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Gone Fission; Wilbur on Flying; Cold Steam

Updates; February 2008; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)

AIDS Accounting; IPCC's Tough Talk; Seasonal Spread; Pollock Put-Down

Potent Alternative; February 2008; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)

Reverse-engineered human stem cells may leapfrog the embryonic kind

Arabian Brainpower; February 2008; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

Can a $10-billion university restore science to the Islamic world?

Disease for Darwinism; February 2008; by Melinda Wenner; 2 Page(s)

More kids, less cancer: Huntington's may confer survival benefits

Aerial Stealth; February 2008; by Steven Ashley; 1 Page(s)

Plasma antennas disappear when shut off

From Race to DNA; February 2008; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)

Thinking about patients as ongoing products of evolution

Proactive Prototypes; February 2008; by Daniel G. Dupont; 2 Page(s)

For new tech systems, a return to competitive prototyping

Turning a Blind Eye?; February 2008; by Alison Snyder; 1 Page(s)

Proponents fire back after a report questions glaucoma screening

News Scan Briefs; February 2008; by Charles Q. Choi, David Biello, JR Minkel, Larry Greenmeier, Nikhil Swaminathan; 2 Page(s)

Fungus Cowboys; Reduced Catch for Net Gain; Brain of the Beholder; Data Points: Ounces of Prevention; Brightest Supernova May Reignite; Going with the Persistent Flow

SciAm Perspectives: Pay for What Works; February 2008; by the Editors; 1 Page(s)

Presidential candidates must address unneeded medical technology and procedures as part of health care reform

Forum: Brazil's Option for Science Education; February 2008; by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Fernando Haddad And Miguel A. L . Nicolelis; 1 Page(s)

A new nationwide plan to enfranchise all citizens through education will allow Brazil to reach its full potential

Sustainable Developments: Crisis in the Drylands; February 2008; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 2 Page(s)

Sound economic solutions, not military ones, offer the most reliable route to peace for undeveloped nations

Skeptic: The Mind of the Market; February 2008; by Michael Shermer; 2 Page(s)

Evolutionary economics explains why irrational financial choices were once rational

Anti Gravity: Remembrance of Things Future; February 2008; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

In 1900 the future looked bright and well ventilated

The Future of Physics; February 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Editors' introduction

The Discovery Machine; February 2008; by Graham P. Collins; 7 Page(s)

The Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and most complicated particle physics experiment ever seen, is nearing completion and is scheduled to start colliding protons this year

The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics; February 2008; by Chris Quigg; 8 Page(s)

No matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to take physics into new territory

Building the Next-Generation Collider; February 2008; by Barry Barish, Nicholas Walker and Hitoshi Yamamoto; 6 Page(s)

To further investigate the intricacies of high-energy particle physics, researchers must construct a more powerful electron-positron collider

The Unquiet Ice; February 2008; by Robin E. Bell; 8 Page(s)

Abundant liquid water discovered underneath the great polar ice sheets could catastrophically intensify the effects of global warming on the rise of sea level around the world

RFID Powder; February 2008; by Tim Hornyak; 4 Page(s)

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags label all kinds of inventoried goods and speed commuters through toll plazas. Now tiny RFID components are being developed with a rather different aim: thwarting counterfeiters

Your Cells Are My Cells; February 2008; by J. Lee Nelson; 8 Page(s)

Many, perhaps all, people harbor a small number of cells from genetically different individuals--from their mothers and, for women who have been pregnant, from their children. What in the world do these foreigners do in the body?

Building a Future on Science; February 2008; by Christine Soares; 6 Page(s)

Brazilian neuroscientist Miguel A. L. Nicolelis taps into the chatter of neurons to drive robotic prosthetics. Now he hopes to tap the potential of his country's population by building a network of "science cities"

Insights: Maverick against the Mendelians; February 2008; by Nikhil Swaminathan; 2 Page(s)

Autistic people generally do not have children, so why do autism genes persist? Michael Wigler thinks that he knows

Working Knowledge: Leap of Faith; February 2008; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

The video magic of blue screen

Reviews; February 2008; by Michelle Press; 2 Page(s)

Oil vs. autos. Science imitates art

Ask the Experts; February 2008; by Megan McPhee, Michael Foley; 1 Page(s)

How do the same fish species end up so far apart? How does Bluetooth work?

Fact or Fiction?; February 2008; by Coco Ballantyne; 1 Page(s)

Do antibacterial soaps do more harm than good?