August 2004
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: The Green Gene Revolution; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

It's time to embrace GM crops

How to Contact Us and On the Web; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Oppenheimer Judged; Kelvin Corrected; Agassiz Contradicted

The Darkening Earth; August 2004; by David Appell; 2 Page(s)

Less sun at the earth's surface complicates climate models

Bumpy Flying; August 2004; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)

Scalloped flippers of whales could reshape wings

Anonymous Trust; August 2004; by Wendy M. Grossman; 3 Page(s)

Making trusted computing work with privacy

Sloshing in Space; August 2004; by Govert Schilling; 2 Page(s)

Analyzing how liquids affect the motion of ships

Outsourcing Drug Work; August 2004; by Gunjan Sinha; 2 Page(s)

Pharmaceuticals ship R&D and clinical trials to India

A Plan for Water; August 2004; by Elizabeth Querna; 2 Page(s)

A welcome federal strategy of ocean care has some worried nonetheless

By the Numbers: Middle of the Country; August 2004; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

As farming declines, rural America adapts to survive

News Scan Briefs; August 2004; by Charles Choi, JR Minkel; 1 Page(s)

I Don't Brake for Bogotá; Salmon versus Salmon; May Cause Wakefulness; Machine Made; Soaping up without Guilt; Sexual Healing

Innovations: Penny-wise Smart Labels; August 2004; by Steven Ashley; 2 Page(s)

If smart tags cost only one cent apiece, they would be everywhere

Skeptic: Miracle on Probability Street; August 2004; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The Law of Large Numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America

Insights: From Finish to Start; August 2004; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

Was the Grand Challenge robot race in March the fiasco it appeared to be? Hardly, argues William "Red" Whittaker. The annual event is pushing mobile robotics to get real

Back to the Future of Cereals; August 2004; by Stephen A. Goff and John M. Salmeron; 8 Page(s)

Genomic studies of the world's major grain crops, together with a technology called marker-assisted breeding, could yield a new green revolution

Electrodynamic Tethers in Space; August 2004; by Enrico Lorenzini and Juan Sanmart¿n; 8 Page(s)

By exploiting fundamental physical laws, tethers may provide low-cost eletrical power, drag, thrust, and artificial gravity for spaceflight

Virtual-Reality Therapy; August 2004; by Hunter G. Hoffman; 8 Page(s)

Patients can get relief from pain or overcome their phobias by immersing themselves in computer-generated worlds

Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs; August 2004; by Michael Levi; 8 Page(s)

New burrowing nuclear weapons could destroy subterranean military facilities - but their strategic and tactical utility is questionable

Next Stretch for Plastic Electronics; August 2004; by Graham P. Collins; 8 Page(s)

Organic semiconductor devices can make more than just bendable displays. They will find use in wearable electronics, chemical sensors, skin for robots and innumerable other applications

Questions That Plague Physics; August 2004; by Claudia Dreifus; 4 Page(s)

Lawrence M. Krauss speaks about unfinished business

Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh; August 2004; by A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury; 6 Page(s)

Arsenic in drinking water could severly poison 50 million people worldwide. Strategies being tested in Bangladesh might help prevent the problem

Working Knowledge: Seeing Inside; August 2004; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Medical imaging

Technicalities: Crippled but Not Crashed; August 2004; by Mike Corder; 2 Page(s)

Neural networks can help pilots land damaged planes

Reviews: Speaking for the Animals; August 2004; by Madhusree Mukerjee, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)

In What Animals Want, a veterinarian analyzes the turf battles that have transformed the animal laboratory. Also, The Editors Recommend

Anti Gravity: One Hundred Years of Magnitude; August 2004; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

The ever lengthening curriculum vitae, and vita, of Ernst Mayr

Ask the Experts; August 2004; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

What causes hiccups? How do sunless tanners work?