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July 2006
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; July 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; July 2006; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Looking into Atoms; Solid Earth, Molten Lava; Dangerous Travel
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A Regulation on Regulations; July 2006; by Paul Raeburn; 2 Page(s)
An obscure law is evolving into a bludgeon against government regulation
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An Immune Portal; July 2006; by Jeneen Interlandi; 3 Page(s)
Protein may be a key to autoimmune disorders
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A Hint of Axions; July 2006; by Graham P. Collins; 1 Page(s)
An experiment may have seen an elusive new particle
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Not So Super; July 2006; by Charles Q. Choi; 1 Page(s)
Will antibody therapies receive added scrutiny?
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Who Pays?; July 2006; by Wendy M. Grossman; 1 Page(s)
Furor erupts over toll collecting on the Internet
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A New Take on Hybrids; July 2006; by Steven Ashley; 1 Page(s)
Former skeptics develop an alternative hybrid system
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News Scan Briefs; July 2006; by Charles Q. Choi, JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
From Brain to Heart; New Way to Create Elements; What Role for New Neurons?; Mass Change; Traces of Gravity; Island of Resistance
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Skeptic: The Political Brain; July 2006; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)
A recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias
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Insights: Dangling a Carrot for Vaccines; July 2006; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
Drug companies do not see much of a market in treating diseases of developing nations. Michael Kremer hopes to change that--with a plan that taps the profit motive
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Hubble's Top 10; July 2006; by Mario Livio; 8 Page(s)
As they wait for the space telescope to be serviced one last time, astronomers reflect on its discoveries over the past 16 years
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Stem Cells: The Real Culprits in Cancer?; July 2006; by Michael F. Clarke and Michael W. Becker; 8 Page(s)
A dark side of stem cells--their potential to turn malignant--is at the root of a handful of cancers and may be the cause of many more. Eliminating the disease could depend on tracking down and destroying these elusive killer cells
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The Quest for the Superlens; July 2006; by John B. Pendry and David R. Smith; 8 Page(s)
Built from "metamaterials" with bizarre, controversial optical properties, a superlens could produce images that include details finer than the wavelength of light that is used
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What Birds See; July 2006; by Timothy H. Goldsmith; 8 Page(s)
Evolution has endowed birds with a system of color vision that surpasses that of all mammals, including humans
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A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy; July 2006; by Paul M. Grant, Chauncey Starr and Thomas J. Overbye; 8 Page(s)
Cryogenic, superconducting conduits could be connected into a "SuperGrid" that would simultaneously deliver electrical power and hydrogen fuel
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CSI: Reality; July 2006; by Max M. Houck; 6 Page(s)
Attorneys, investigators and educators have felt the impact of television's popular forensics programs
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A Farewell to Keywords; July 2006; by Gary Stix; 4 Page(s)
The reigning obsession with search technology has elicited new ways of using images to track down information on the Web
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Reviews: Standing Up to Dance and Sing; July 2006; by Blake Edgar; 2 Page(s)
Two books on evolution describe how the process of becoming human involved more than walking upright--it meant learning to dance and sing
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Ask the Experts; July 2006; by Steven Allison, Jeff Waldstreicher; 1 Page(s)
Why is most of the ground brown? Why do rainbows form instead of straight bands of colors? And why do they appear to touch the ground?
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