November 2005
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: Preparing for the Worst; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Preparing for nature's worst

How to Contact Us and On the Web; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Before Tectonics; Before Missiles; Before Film

Protecting against the Next Katrina; November 2005; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the Gulf?

Comet Dust Bunny; November 2005; by George Musser; 1 Page(s)

Tempel 1 proves to be a ball of fluff

Baby to Brain; November 2005; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

Therapy clues from fetal cells that enter mom's brain

Wait a Second; November 2005; by Wendy M. Grossman; 3 Page(s)

Is it time to decouple time from the earth's spin?

Red Star Rising; November 2005; by Mark Alpert; 1 Page(s)

Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life

Bugs and Drugs; November 2005; by Gunjan Sinha; 3 Page(s)

Gut bacteria could determine how well medicines work

By the Numbers: Fewer Men, More Crime; November 2005; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

How a falling sex ratio can undermine a community

News Scan Briefs; November 2005; by JR Minkel, Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

Replenished Ozone; Take Your Breath Away; No Sleep, No Problem; Relative Distance; Road Assault on Water; Use Your Illusion

Skeptic: Rupert's Resonance; November 2005; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

The theory of "morphic resonance" posits that people have a sense of when they are being stared at. What does the research show?

Insights: Scoping Out the Planet; November 2005; by Krista West; 2 Page(s)

Greg van der Vink hopes that EarthScope yields unprecedented data about faults and plates. It may do for geoscience what human genome sequencing did for biology

Preparing for a Pandemic; November 2005; by W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares; 10 Page(s)

One day a highly contagious and lethal strain of influenza will sweep across all humanity, claiming millions of lives. It may arrive in months or not for years--but the next pandemic is inevitable. Are we ready?

The Illusion of Gravity; November 2005; by Juan Maldacena; 8 Page(s)

The force of gravity and one of the dimensions of space might be generated out of the peculiar interactions of particles and fields existing in a lower-dimensional realm

Did Life Come from Another World?; November 2005; by David Warmflash and Benjamin Weiss; 8 Page(s)

New research indicates that microorganisms could have survived a journey from Mars to Earth

Crossbar Nanocomputers; November 2005; by Philip J. Kuekes, Gregory S. Snider and R. Stanley Williams; 8 Page(s)

Crisscrossing assemblies of defect-prone nanowires could succeed today's silicon-based circuits

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor; November 2005; by Alex P. Meshik; 8 Page(s)

Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear

The Neurobiology of the Self; November 2005; by Carl Zimmer; 8 Page(s)

Biologists are beginning to tease out how the brain gives rise to a constant sense of being oneself

The Land of Milk and Money; November 2005; by Gary Stix; 4 Page(s)

The first drug from a transgenic animal may be nearing approval

Working Knowledge: Case Cracked; November 2005; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Nuts

Reviews: Making Tracks on Mars; November 2005; by David Grinspoon; 4 Page(s)

Roving Mars and Dying Planet offer some form of intelligence about the Red Planet

Anti Gravity: Naming Names; November 2005; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Much ado about N

Ask the Experts; November 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

How does the slingshot effect work to change the orbit of a spacecraft? Where does wind come from?