July 2003
Scientific American Magazine

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

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

SA Perspectives: Three Lessons of SARS; July 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Three Lessons of SARS

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

Letters to the Editors; July 2003; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

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

Alien Reality; Mechanical Food; Riot Bones

Disease Dustup; July 2003; by Otto Pohl; 2 Page(s)

Dust clouds may carry infectious organisms across oceans

Frozen Stars; July 2003; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)

Black holes may not be bottomless pits after all

Holographic Control; July 2003; by Graham P. Collins; 2 Page(s)

Liquid-crystal holograms form photonic crystals

Sugar Added; July 2003; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

Cheaper, better protein drugs through sweetening

Alloy by Design; July 2003; by Steven Ashley; 1 Page(s)

Computations lead to an unusually flexible metal

The Price of Pills; July 2003; by Carol Ezzell; 1 Page(s)

Does it really take $897 million for a new therapy?

News Scan Briefs; July 2003; by Charles Choi, Philip Yam, Laura Wright, Steve Mirsky; 2 Page(s)

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice...; Pass the Sushi; Sound Off on Tires; Muscle Maintenance; Mystery Meson; Ant Thesis; Data Points: Space Worms; Brief Points

By the Numbers: Winners and Losers; July 2003; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

The benefits of globalization are spread unevenly

Innovations: Signal Jammer; July 2003; by Gary Stix; 3 Page(s)

An academic experiment leads to a new class of drug for attacking heart disease

Staking Claims: You Can Patent That?; July 2003; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)

A selection of recently issued intellectual-property gems

Skeptic: Bottled Twaddle; July 2003; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Is bottled water tapped out?

The Galactic Odd Couple; July 2003; by Kimberly Weaver; 8 Page(s)

Why do giant black holes and stellar baby booms, two phenomena with little in common, so often go together?

Counting the Last Fish; July 2003; by Daniel Pauly and Reg Watson; 6 Page(s)

Overfishing has slashed stocks--especially of large predator species--to an all-time low worldwide, according to new data. If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew

Antennas Get Smart; July 2003; by Martin Cooper; 8 Page(s)

Adaptive antenna arrays can vastly improve wireless communications by connecting mobile users with virtual wires

Untangling the Roots of Cancer; July 2003; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 10 Page(s)

Recent evidence challenges long-held theories of how cells turn malignant - and suggests new ways to stop tumors before they spread

Uncovering the Keys to the Lost Indus Cities; July 2003; by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer; 10 Page(s)

Recently excavated artifacts from Pakistan have inspired a reevaluation of one of the great early urban cultures - the enigmatic Indus Valley civilization

Pumphead; July 2003; by Bruce Stutz; 6 Page(s)

In what has become almost routine, the heart-lung machine "breathes" for patients during coronary-bypass operations. But could this lifesaving device have a dark side?

Insights: Terms of Engagement; July 2003; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)

Irving Weissman directs a new institute dedicated to the cloning of human embryonic stem cells. Just don't call it cloning

Working Knowledge: Fine Focus; July 2003; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Scanning electron microscopes

Voyages: Through a Glass Deeply; July 2003; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)

Walking beneath the waves at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Reviews: Drenched in Symbolism; July 2003; by Ian Tattersall; 2 Page(s)

Puzzling Adventures: High Spies; July 2003; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Tracking contraband shipments

Anti Gravity: The Yanked Clippers; July 2003; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Have some security measures become moronic, or is it just me?

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

Why does reading in a moving car cause motion sickness? How long do stars usually live?

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

The guy who was born with the risk-taking gene and the anxiety gene