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September 2010
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; September 2010; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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From the Editor; September 2010; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)
Start of The End
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Letters; September 2010; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)
Pathology; High-Speed Rail; Blindsight
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50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; September 2010; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)
Adapt Your Environment; Uganda Sickness; Horrified Whalers
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Rummaging for a Final Theory; September 2010; by Zeeya Merali; 2 Page(s)
Unifying gravity and particle physics may come down to an old approach from the 1960s
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Lunar Pencil Lead; September 2010; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)
Impact-delivered graphite discovered in Apollo moon rock
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Undifferentiated Ethics; September 2010; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)
Stem cells from adult skin are as morally fraught as the embryonic kind
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Fat Attack; September 2010; by Erica Westly; 3 Page(s)
Will three new antiobesity drugs beat a checkered safety history?
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Social Analgesics; September 2010; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)
Feeling the pain of rejection? Try taking a Tylenol
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Sour Showers; September 2010; by Michael Tennesen; 2 Page(s)
Acid rain is back—this time triggered by nitrogen emissions
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Doubts on Dispersants; September 2010; by David Biello; 2 Page(s)
Attempt to resolve toxicity issue of oil dispersants muddies the water
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Quantum Light Switch; September 2010; by Davide Castelvecchi; 2 Page(s)
A single atom acts as a transistor for photons
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The Deepening Crisis; September 2010; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)
Failure to act on threats to global sustainability brings the world closer to disaster
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Why Can't We Live Forever; September 2010; by Thomas Kirkwood; 8 Page(s)
As we grow old, our own cells begin to betray us. By unraveling the mysteries of aging, scientists may be able to make our lives longer and healthier
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When Does Life Belong to the Living?; September 2010; by Robin Marantz Henig; 6 Page(s)
With thousands of people on the waiting lists for organs, doctors are bending the rules about when to declare that a donor is dead. Is it ethical to take one life and give it to another?
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Dust to Dust; September 2010; by Arpad A. Vass; 4 Page(s)
The brief, eventful afterlife of a human corpse
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Last of Their Kind; September 2010; by Wade Davis; 8 Page(s)
The world's cultures have been disappearing, taking valuable knowledge with them, but there is reason to hope
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Good Riddance; September 2010; by John Pavlus; Melinda Wenner Moyer; Christopher Mims; 6 Page(s)
A highly selective list of human creations the world would be better off without
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How Much is Left?; September 2010; by Michael Moyer; Carina Storrs; 8 Page(s)
A graphical accounting of the limits to what one planet can provide
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Laying Odds on the Apocalypse; September 2010; by John Matson; John Pavlus; 2 Page(s)
Could modern civilization really come to an end? Experts take stock of eight doomsday scenarios
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Could Time End?; September 2010; by George Musser; 8 Page(s)
Yes. And no. For time to end seems both impossible and inevitable. Recent work in physics suggests a resolution to the paradox
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What Comes Next; September 2010; by Danny Hillis; Arthur Caplan; Edward Felten; Christof Koch; Michael Webber; Daniel Kammen; R. James Woolsey; Leslie Aiello; George Church; John Reganold; 6 Page(s)
The flip side to every ending is a new beginning. We asked the visionary scientists on our advisory board what new trends will shape the decades to come
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Ask The Experts; September 2010; by David Oppenheimer; 1 Page(s)
How does geothermal drilling trigger earthquakes?
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Recommended; September 2010; by Kate Wong; 1 Page(s)
Extreme Astronomy; Misleading Math; Genome on the Cheap
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