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August 2005
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; August 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Rebuilding a Volcano; August 2005; by Krista West; 2 Page(s)
Mount St. Helens may be patching in its 1980 crater
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Footprints to Fill; August 2005; by Kate Wong; 2 Page(s)
Flat feet and doubts about makers of the Laetoli tracks
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Widening the Window; August 2005; by Cathryn M. Delude; 2 Page(s)
Strategies to buy time in treating ischemic stroke
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When Extinct Isn't; August 2005; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Questioning the term after a bird's return
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Cosmic CAT Scan; August 2005; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Observing the early universe--with 10,000 TV antennas
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News Scan Briefs; August 2005; by JR Minkel, Charles Q. Choi; 2 Page(s)
About Face; Scents of Trust; Sponge-Nose Smarty Pants; Cancer's John Hancock; Dinner Slime; The Next Little Thing
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Insights: Kryder's Law; August 2005; by Chip Walter; 2 Page(s)
The doubling of processor speed every 18 months is a snail's pace compared with rising hard-disk capacity, and Mark Kryder plans to squeeze in even more bits
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Test-Tube Teeth; August 2005; by Paul T. Sharpe and Conan S. Young; 8 Page(s)
More complicated than they look, teeth are actually tiny organs. If tissue engineers can manufacture living replacement teeth, they would blaze a trail for engineering larger organs while leading dentistry into the age of regenerative medicine
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The Early Evolution of Animals; August 2005; by David J. Bottjer; 6 Page(s)
Tiny fossils reveal that complex animal life is older than we thought--by at least as much as 50 million years
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Is the Universe Out of Tune?; August 2005; by Glenn D. Starkman and Dominik J. Schwarz; 8 Page(s)
Like the discord of key instruments in a skillful orchestra quietly playing the wrong piece, mysterious discrepancies have arisen between theory and observations of the "music" of the cosmic microwave background. Either the measurements are wrong or the universe is stranger than we thought
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Morphware; August 2005; by Reinhold Koch; 8 Page(s)
Magnetic logic may usher in an era in which computing devices can change instantly from one type of hardware to another
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Beating a Sudden Killer; August 2005; by John A. Elefteriades; 8 Page(s)
When a young woman nearly died from a ruptured aneurysm, the author and the woman's husband began searching for ways to save other aneurysm patients from catastrophe
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Mindful of Symbols; August 2005; by Judy S. DeLoache; 6 Page(s)
On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. These errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically
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Nanobodies; August 2005; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 6 Page(s)
Antibodies, often described as magic bullets, are actually more like tanks: big, complicated and expensive. Tinier "nanobodies," derived from camels and llamas, may be able to infiltrate a wider range of diseases at lower cost. That is the hope, at least, of one small start-up in Belgium
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Reviews: The Story of the Iraq Museum; August 2005; by Roger Atwood, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad offers eloquent and richly illustrated essays about the remains of the world's original civilization. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Ask the Experts; August 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
What causes headaches? How can a poll of only 1,004 Americans represent 260 million people?
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