May 2003
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: Misguided Missile Shield; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Misguided missile shield

How to Contact Us and On the Web; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Martian Reality; Zeppelin Dreams; Creationist Dogma

Spotty Defense; May 2003; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)

Big cities are late to vaccinate against smallpox

A Digital Slice of Pi; May 2003; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

The new way to do pure math: experimentally

A Man, a Plan, Spam; May 2003; by Wendy M. Grossman; 2 Page(s)

A Stanford lawyer pits his job against junk e-mail

The Race Card; May 2003; by Carol Ezzell; 1 Page(s)

Does an HIV vaccine work differently in various races?

Sounding Off; May 2003; by Krista West; 2 Page(s)

Lawsuits block science over fears that sonar harms whales

Interstellar Pelting; May 2003; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)

Extrasolar planet and climate clues from alien matter

News Scan Briefs; May 2003; by Charles Choi, Philip Yam, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)

Pulling the Lever; Not So Happy Together; A Face in the Car Crowd; Seeing Red; Insulin from Bone Marrow; Packing 'Em On; Data Points: Icy Surge; Brief Points

By the Numbers: Reducing Crime; May 2003; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

Rehabilitation is making a comeback

Innovations: X-ray Proofing; May 2003; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)

To save himself, a physician enters the rag trade

Staking Claims: Make Your Own Rules; May 2003; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)

Patents let private parties take the law into their own hands

Skeptic: Show Me the Body; May 2003; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Purported sightings of Bigfoot, Nessie and Ogopogo fire our imaginations. But anecdotes alone do not make a science

Insights: Wired Superstrings; May 2003; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)

His networked computer became the equivalent of a Western Union for physicists. Now Paul Ginsparg watches how his idea is changing the way science is communicated

Parallel Universes; May 2003; by Max Tegmark; 12 Page(s)

Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes; May 2003; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard; 8 Page(s)

People with synesthesia - whose senses blend together - are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain

Scale-Free Networks; May 2003; by Albert-L¿szl¿ Barab¿si and Eric Bonabeau; 10 Page(s)

Scientists have recently discovered that various complex systems have an underlying architecture governed by shared organizing principles. This insight has important implications for a host of applications, from drug development to Internet security

The Iceman Reconsidered; May 2003; by James H. Dickson, Klaus Oeggl and Linda L. Handley; 10 Page(s)

Where was the Iceman's home and what was he doing at the high mountain pass where he died? Painstaking research - especially of plant remains found with the body - contradicts many of the initial speculations

The Orphan Drug Backlash; May 2003; by Thomas Maeder; 8 Page(s)

The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was supposed to provide incentives for private industry to develop needed, but unprofitable, drugs to treat rare diseases. It has done so, but not without eliciting controversy

Working Knowledge: Catch a Wave; May 2003; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Antennas

Voyages: Desert Metropolis; May 2003; by Gary Stix; 3 Page(s)

Namibia's endless arid expanses are home to a menagerie of creatures that live nowhere else

Reviews: Math's Most Wanted; May 2003; by Kristin Leutwyler; 2 Page(s)

A trio of books traces the quest to prove the Riemann Hypothesis. Also, The Editors Recommend

Puzzling Adventures: Bounded Regrets; May 2003; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Competitive analysis and the regret ratio

Anti Gravity: Doing What Comes Unnaturally; May 2003; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

From sheep to sheepskins in the field of genes

Ask the Experts; May 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Why do computers crash? What causes thunder?

Fuzzy Logic; May 2003; by Roz Chast; 1 Page(s)

Marty vs The Universe