June 2010
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2010; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2010; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editor; June 2010; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Think Forward

Letters; June 2010; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

ÿFertilizers; Star Birth; Lobbyists

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2010; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

Man in Space; Flight in Court; Pungent River

Fossils of Our Family; June 2010; by Kate Wong; 2 Page(s)

A new human species is identified, but does it belong on the line leading to Homo sapiens?

A Simple Twist of Fate; June 2010; by George Musser; 3 Page(s)

Old "twistor" idea from Roger Penrose ignites the latest superstring revolution

Expert Education; June 2010; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

A field study tries to see how expertise can be taught to novices

Adoption Agents; June 2010; by Jessica Wapner; 2 Page(s)

Debate on how to keep big pharma interested in orphan drugs

Bad Wraps on Viruses; June 2010; by Bob Roehr; 1 Page(s)

A possible broad-spectrum antiviral acts by damaging lipid coats

Traffic Avoided; June 2010; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Predictive modeling warns drivers an hour before jams occur

Look, Ma—No Junctions!; June 2010; by Davide Castelvecchi; 1 Page(s)

A radically simpler transistor, 85 years after it was proposed

Perspectives - Terror in a Vial; June 2010; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

Bioweapons prevention needs to get more scientific

Sustainable Developments - Millennium Development Goals at 10; June 2010; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

A decade's worth of targeted accomplishments shows extreme poverty can be eliminated

Skeptic - When Ideas Have Sex; June 2010; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

How free exchange between people increases prosperity and trust

Critical Mass - Why I Love Neutrinos; June 2010; by Lawrence M. Krauss; 1 Page(s)

The particles that once seemed impossibly esoteric have become ever more informative

12 Events That Will Change Everything; June 2010; by The Editors, Charles Q. Choi, George Musser, John Matson, Philip Yam, David Biello, Michael Moyer, Larry Greenemeier, Katherine Harmon and Robin Lloyd; 12 Page(s)

Alzheimer's: Forestalling the Darkness; June 2010; by Gary Stix; 8 Page(s)

Interventions before symptoms appear could be key to slowing or stopping the leading cause of dementia

Is Time An Illusion?; June 2010; by Craig Callender; 8 Page(s)

The concepts of time and change may emerge from a universe that, at root, is utterly static

Washing Carbon Out of the Air; June 2010; by Klaus S. Lackner; 6 Page(s)

Machines could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, slowing or even reversing its rise and reducing global warming

Did Neandertals Think Like Us?; June 2010; by The Editors; 4 Page(s)

João Zilhão defends his controversial view that our oft-maligned relatives shared our cognitive abilities

The Earth's Missing Ingredient; June 2010; by Kei Hirose; 8 Page(s)

The discovery of a novel high-density mineral means that the earth's mantle is a more restless place than scientists suspected—and offers new clues to the planet's history

Fake Botox, Real Threat; June 2010; by Ken Coleman and Raymond A. Zilinskas; 6 Page(s)

A booming market for a counterfeit beauty product could put a deadly biological weapons agent in the wrong hands

Recommended; June 2010; by Kate Wong; 1 Page(s)

Industrious Ants; Seeds of Despair; Discovering Antarctica

Anti-Gravity - Presidential Harrisment; June 2010; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Poll results you don't want to touch with a 10-foot poll