June 2008
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; June 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2008; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

From the Editor; June 2008; by John Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Escaping from Time

Letters; June 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Land "Tides"; Polar Ice Sheets; Market Morality

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; June 2008; by Daniel C. Schlenoff; 1 Page(s)

American Passivity; Wright Brothers' Report; Coal Tar Dye

Updates; June 2008; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)

Self-Cleaning Clothes; Titan's Ocean?; Synthetic Success; Crisis Mapping

Hobbit Hullabaloo; June 2008; by Kate Wong; 2 Page(s)

New findings challenge the idea of a mini human species on Flores

A New Iron Age; June 2008; by Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)

A high-temperature superconductor based on iron

Your Brain on Diabetes; June 2008; by Melinda Wenner; 2 Page(s)

More signs that insulin ills set off neurodegenerative conditions

Fight in White Space; June 2008; by Larry Greenemeier; 2 Page(s)

Could future wireless devices destroy HDTV broadcasts?

Need for Speed?; June 2008; by David Biello; 2 Page(s)

Studies challenge the idea that human evolution recently accelerated

The Healthy Type; June 2008; by Jessica Wapner; 1 Page(s)

The therapeutic value of blogging becomes a focus of study

A Science Fête Project; June 2008; by George Musser; 1 Page(s)

A celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures. Q&A with Brian Greene

News Scan Briefs; June 2008; by Keren Schultz, Charles Q. Choi, David Biello, Nikhil Swaminathan; 2 Page(s)

Asbestos Action; Destroyer of Worlds; Charred for Life; Turning Pollution into DVDs; Starved For Better Chemo

SciAm Perspectives: Climate Fatigue; June 2008; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

A grassroots approach alone won't make the earth stop warming

Sustainable Developments: Surging Food Prices and Global Stability; June 2008; by Jeffrey D. Sachs; 1 Page(s)

Misguided policies favor biofuels and animal feed over grain for hungry people

Skeptic: Expelled Exposed; June 2008; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

A film challenging evolution by game show host and financial analyst Ben Stein is a case study in antiscience propaganda

Anti Gravity: Call of the Reviled; June 2008; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Brought here on a lark, starlings are now at every turn

The Cosmic Origins of Time's Arrow; June 2008; by Sean M. Carroll; 8 Page(s)

One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same

Gaining Ground on Breast Cancer; June 2008; by Francisco J. Esteva and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi; 8 Page(s)

The newest targeted therapies are helping doctors to tailor increasingly effective treatments to individual patients

Digital Image Forensics; June 2008; by Hany Farid; 6 Page(s)

Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images

What Is a Species?; June 2008; by Carl Zimmer; 8 Page(s)

To this day, scientists struggle with that question. A better definition can influence which animals make the endangered list

The Tunguska Mystery; June 2008; by Luca Gasperini; 6 Page(s)

Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save the earth in the centuries to come

The Neurobiology of Trust; June 2008; by Paul J. Zak; 6 Page(s)

Our inclination to trust a stranger stems in large part from exposure to a small molecule known for an entirely different task: inducing labor

The Ethics of Climate Change; June 2008; by John Broome; 6 Page(s)

Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments

Insights: Beating the Flu in a Single Shot; June 2008; by Alexander Hellemans; 3 Page(s)

Walter Fiers found a protein segment on the influenza virus that could lead to a universal flu vaccine, which would end seasonal shots and provide pandemic protection

Working Knowledge: Library to Go; June 2008; by Stuart F. Brown; 2 Page(s)

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Reviews; June 2008; by Michelle Press; 1 Page(s)

Thriller Physics; Virtual Life; Nerd-dom

Ask the Experts; June 2008; by Donald Mutti, Joshua Wurman; 1 Page(s)

How did people ever find the chemical that makes pupils dialate?