October 2006
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: Let There Be Light; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

When scientists find religion

How to Contact Us and On the Web; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; October 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Synthetic Creature; Armor and Speed; Power for Industry

A Better Defense; October 2006; by David Biello; 3 Page(s)

Shoring up security means more than high technology

Uninformed Consent; October 2006; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)

Donors remain unaware they do not own their cells

Inpaint by Numbers; October 2006; by Brie Finegold; 2 Page(s)

An algorithm to automate the repair of moving images

Digestive Decoys; October 2006; by Christine Soares; 2 Page(s)

Bacteria take toxic bullets aimed at human cells

Far-Out Physics; October 2006; by Daniel G. Dupont; 3 Page(s)

Big budgets keep "fringe" projects alive

Contentious Calculation; October 2006; by John Dudley Miller; 2 Page(s)

Controversy over Chernobyl's future cancer toll

News Scan Briefs; October 2006; by Charles Q. Choi, JR Minkel; 3 Page(s)

Fat Side of the Moon; Bubble Adhesion; Fido's Transmissible Tumor; That Way Lies Confusion; Cotton-Picking Results; Womb Woes

By the Numbers: To Serve Man; October 2006; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

The services sector proves to be a key to prosperity

Skeptic: Darwin on the Right; October 2006; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution

Sustainable Developments: Fiddling while the Planet Burns; October 2006; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?

Forum: The New Age of Wireless; October 2006; by Andrew Lippman; 1 Page(s)

Technologies that turn broadcasting "bugs" into features that open radio spectrum to novel uses will be a boon for consumers

How to Blow Up a Star; October 2006; by Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Hans-Thomas Janka and Ewald M¿ller; 8 Page(s)

It is not as easy as you would think. Models of supernovae have failed to reproduce these explosions--until recently

Viral Nanoelectronics; October 2006; by Philip E. Ross; 4 Page(s)

Viruses that coat themselves in selected substances can self-assemble into such devices as liquid crystals, nanowires and electrodes

Peacekeepers of the Immune System; October 2006; by Zoltan Fehervari and Shimon Sakaguchi; 8 Page(s)

Regulatory T cells keep the immune system from attacking the body itself. Therapies using these cells could ease conditions from diabetes to transplant rejection

Impact from the Deep; October 2006; by Peter D. Ward; 8 Page(s)

Strangling heat and gases from the earth and sea, not asteroids, most likely caused several ancient mass extinctions. Could the same conditions build again?

Ballbots; October 2006; by Ralph Hollis; 6 Page(s)

A new mode of locomotion would enable robots to stand tall and move gracefully through busy everyday environments

Hydraulic Engineering in Prehistoric Mexico; October 2006; by S. Christopher Caran and James A. Neely; 8 Page(s)

Three thousand years ago precursors of the Aztecs built the first large-scale water management systems in the New World

The Promise of Molecular Imprinting; October 2006; by Klaus Mosbach; 6 Page(s)

Tiny plastic imprints and mimics of biological molecules could speed drug discovery, warn of bioterror attacks and remove toxins from the environment

Working Knowledge: Steady Cam; October 2006; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Image stabilization in digital cameras

Reviews: Scientists on Religion; October 2006; by George Johnson; 2 Page(s)

In a slew of new books, theists and materialists ponder the place of humanity in the universe

Anti Gravity: Drawing to an Inside Flush; October 2006; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

A tale of two toilets

Ask the Experts; October 2006; by P. Andrew Karam, Michael Raupp; 1 Page(s)

How do fast breeder reactors differ from regular nuclear power plants? What do butterflies do when it rains?