January 2013
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Cover; January 2013; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; January 2013; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editor: Living in the Future; January 2013; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Editor in chief, Mariette DiChristina, introduces the January 2013 issue of Scientific American

Letters; January 2013; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters to the editor from the September 2012 issue of Scientific American

Science Agenda: A To-Do List for Washington; January 2013; by Board of Editors; 1 Page(s)

Energy, free speech and health care lead the list of urgent policy decisions for the next four years

Forum: Creation, Evolution, and Indisputable Facts; January 2013; by Jacob Tanenbaum; 1 Page(s)

A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along

Advances: Diamond Planets; January 2013; by John Matson; 1 Page(s)

Scientists have discovered exoplanets that turn Earth's chemistry on its head

Advances: Linking Immunity and Mental Health; January 2013; by Susannah Cahalan; 1 Page(s)

New uses may put an immune treatment in short supply

Advances: Safe from Scorpions; January 2013; by Erik Vance; 1 Page(s)

Antivenoms for snake and spider bites get a much needed makeover

Advances: A Prehistoric Arms Race; January 2013; by Kate Wong; 1 Page(s)

Arrowheads hint at how modern humans overtook Neandertals

Advances: How to Survive the Next Big Storm; January 2013; by Mark Fischetti; 1 Page(s)

The scientist who predicted the damage from Hurricane Sandy explains how to protect coastal cities

Advances: The Missing Epoch; January 2013; by Davide Castelvecchi; 1 Page(s)

New calculations extend Einstein's general theory of relativity into the universe's first few moments

Advances: Crunch Time; January 2013; by Larry Greenemeier; 1 Page(s)

The U.S. Energy Department unleashes Titan, the world's fastest supercomputer

Advances: Patent Watch; January 2013; by Marissa Fessenden; 1 Page(s)

Advances: Stealth Pathogen; January 2013; by Marissa FessendenSubscription; 1 Page(s)

The bacteria behind cat scratch fever remain cloaked in mystery

Advances: What Is It?; January 2013; by Ann Chin; 1 Page(s)

Advances: The Escape Hatch; January 2013; by Eric Wagner; 1 Page(s)

A biodegradable trap may snare fewer sea creatures

Advances: Super Long-Term Storage; January 2013; by Timothy Hornyak; 1 Page(s)

Data saved in quartz glass might last 300 million years

Advances: Healthier Ice Cream?; January 2013; by Cesar Vega; 1 Page(s)

Scientists are experimenting with unsaturated fats for a rich but less artery-clogging dessert

Advances: A Feathered Innovator; January 2013; by Jason G. Goldman; 1 Page(s)

In a first for its species, a captive cockatoo creates a tool

Advances: Clever Coral; January 2013; by Christie Wilcox; 1 Page(s)

Reefs recruit fish as bodyguards

The Science of Health: Is Fasting Good For You?; January 2013; by David Stipp; 2 Page(s)

Intermittent fasting might improve health, but clinical data are thin

Technofiles: The Trouble with Touch Screens; January 2013; by David Pogue; 1 Page(s)

Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off

The Future in 50, 100, and 150 Years; January 2013; by The Editors, Mary Cummings, Ron Rosenbaum, Ricki Lewis, Thomas Lovejoy, David W. Keith and Andy Parker, Ed Regis; 12 Page(s)

Starship Humanity; January 2013; by Cameron M. Smith; 6 Page(s)

How future generations will make the voyage from our earthly home to the planets and beyond—and what it means for our species

Strange and Stringy; January 2013; by Subir Sachdev; 8 Page(s)

Newly discovered states of matter embody what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” They defy explanation, but lately answers have come from a seemingly unrelated corner of physics: string theory

Bionic Connections; January 2013; by D. Kacy Cullen and Douglas H. Smith; 6 Page(s)

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

Small Wonders; January 2013; by Kate Wong; 6 Page(s)

Light microscopy reveals hidden marvels of the natural world

The Coming Megafloods; January 2013; by Michael D. Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram; 8 Page(s)

Huge flows of vapor in the atmosphere, dubbed "atmospheric rivers," have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and climate change could bring more of them

A Confederacy of Senses; January 2013; by Lawrence D. Rosenblum; 4 Page(s)

Our many different senses collaborate even more than previously realized. What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel

Recommended; January 2013; by Anna Kuchment; 1 Page(s)

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Skeptic: Logic-Tight Compartments; January 2013; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence

Anti-Gravity: Voyage of the Bagel; January 2013; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

An interesting effort to insult Darwin uses a cream cheese smear

50, 100, & 150 Years Ago; January 2013; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

Graphic Science: The True Cost of Risky Behavior; January 2013; by Mark Fischetti; 1 Page(s)

Consequences of good and bad health habits are boiled down to 30-minute slices of your life