June 2007
Scientific American Magazine

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

Table of Contents; June 2007; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: Serengeti in the Dakotas; June 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Serengeti in the Dakotas

How to Contact Us and On the Web; June 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters; June 2007; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Lunar Idea; Milk Agenda; Balloon Dismay

Green Gold in a Shrub; June 2007; by Rebecca Renner; 2 Page(s)

Entrepreneurs target the jatropha plant as the next big biofuel

Atomic Fingerprinting; June 2007; by Luis Miguel Ariza; 2 Page(s)

Microscope discerns an atom's chemical identity

"Memjet" Momentum; June 2007; by Charles Q. Choi; 3 Page(s)

Ink-jet printing at ramjet speed

A Good Turn; June 2007; by Madeline Bodin; 2 Page(s)

A fish-friendly hydroelectric turbine gets new life

Beam Weapons Get Real; June 2007; by Steven Ashley; 3 Page(s)

Solid-state lasers near battlefield deployment

Fish That Go Skin-Deep; June 2007; by Matt Mossman; 2 Page(s)

Trapped fish adapt to a life of nibbling on humans

Silicon Smackdown; June 2007; by Karen A. Frenkel; 2 Page(s)

New Go algorithm aims to depose humans

News Scan Briefs; June 2007; by Nikhil Swaminathan, Charles Q. Choi, Thania Benios; 2 Page(s)

Brain Damage for Easier Moral Choices; Martian Cave Dwellings; Stick It to the Kids; Collagen from T. Rex; Brain Brakes; Rodent Roy G. Biv

Skeptic: The (Other) Secret; June 2007; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction

Insights: Going beyond X and Y; June 2007; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)

New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about mixed-sex babies and gender identity

Sustainable Developments: Climate Change Refugees; June 2007; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for forced mass migrations

A Simpler Origin for Life; June 2007; by Robert Shapiro; 8 Page(s)

Energy-driven networks of small molecules may be more likely first steps for life than the commonly held idea of the sudden emergence of large self-replicating molecules such as RNA

Lifting the Fog around Anesthesia; June 2007; by Beverley A. Orser; 8 Page(s)

Learning why current anesthetics are so potent and sometimes dangerous will lead to a new generation of safer targeted drugs

When Fields Collide; June 2007; by David Kaiser; 8 Page(s)

The history of particle cosmology shows that science can benefit from wrenching changes

Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals; June 2007; by C. Josh Donlan; 8 Page(s)

Pleistocene rewilding--a proposal to bring back animals that disappeared from North America 13,000 years ago--offers an optimistic agenda for 21st-century conservation

Breaking Network Logjams; June 2007; by Michelle Effros, Ralf Koetter and Muriel M¿dard; 8 Page(s)

Network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency of communications networks

Seeing Triple; June 2007; by Stuart F. Brown; 4 Page(s)

Anticipated for decades, machines are finally displaying objects in three true dimensions

The Traveler's Dilemma; June 2007; by Kaushik Basu; 6 Page(s)

People playing this simple game consistently reject the rational choice. In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward--an outcome that demands a new kind of formal reasoning

Working Knowledge: The Write Type; June 2007; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Optical character recognition finds the write type

Reviews; June 2007; by Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)

Books on dirt, flowers, uncertainty, perishable artifacts

Anti Gravity: Dumb Cup; June 2007; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Coffee cup full of beans

Ask the Experts; June 2007; by Mark A. W. Andrews, Michael A. Jura; 1 Page(s)

How do itches come about? Why is the sun in the middle of the solar system?