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(2008-06-19) The Monitor, ep. 14--Summer Awesomeness [The Monitor]
(2008-06-19) Is Animal Assisted Therapy Really the Cat's Meow? [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-06-19) Can the "Amphibian Ark" Save Frogs From Pollution/Extinction? [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-19) Physicists Explain Mentos-Soda Spray [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-19) Carbon nanotubes: Microscopic menace or misunderstood mini miracle? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-19) How to Keep Cool without Running Your AC [EarthTalk]
(2008-06-19) Inside the Solar Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever [News]
(2008-06-19) The Monitor: Episode 14 [SciAm Exclusives Video]
(2008-06-19) Which is hotter at its surface: a red star or a blue star? [Trivia]
(2008-06-19) Patient, Heal Thyself: Body's Own Immune Cells Whack Late-Stage Tumor [News]
(2008-06-18) Is a shuttle rescue mission worth it? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-18) Massive Floods Strike U.S. Midwest--Again [News]
(2008-06-18) How it Works: Multi-touch Surfaces Explained [Features]
(2008-06-18) Hands On Computing: How Multi-touch Screens Could Change The Way We Interact With Computers and Each Other [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-18) How to Find Socially and Environmentally Friendly Retirement Plans [EarthTalk]
(2008-06-18) WiMAXing That Wireless Internet Connection [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-18) One Singular Sensation: Will We Upload Our Brains and Other Questions Related to "The Coming Singularity" [Science Talk]
(2008-06-18) Colleges Battle It Out in Mars Rover Competition [Features]
(2008-06-18) Can Lifestyle Changes Bring Out the Best in Genes? [News]
(2008-06-18) One in Three Stars May Have "Super"-Earths [News]
(2008-06-18) How to Pick A Lawnmower That's Easy on Man--and Nature [EarthTalk]
(2008-06-17) Software's Dirty Little Secret [News]
(2008-06-17) Is M. Night Shyamalan anti-scientific? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-17) Brain Flashes: Three Cognitive News Items You Might Have Missed [Mind Matters]
(2008-06-17) Shhhh: A Real Cone of Silence [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-17) Ice Shelf Collapses--In Winter [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-17) Jeremy Nicholson's Gut Instincts: Researching Intestinal Bacteria [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-17) Phoenix Probes Martian Soil--No Ice Yet but Lots of Resolution [News]
(2008-06-17) Study Says Brains of Gay Men and Women Are Similar [News]
(2008-06-17) Were Meteorites the Origin of Life on Earth? [News]
(2008-06-17) An Unethical Ethicist? [Features]
(2008-06-17) An Unethical Ethicist? [Features]
(2008-06-17) Nanotech to Regrow Cartilage and Soothe Aching Knees [News]
(2008-06-16) Any knowledge that might be useful: Leroy Hood [Where Are They Now?]
(2008-06-16) What is the name of the oil found in poison ivy that causes an allergic reaction in 85 percent of people? [Trivia]
(2008-06-16) Evidence-based medicine in Russia: the challenge and the hope [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-16) Fraidy Face Helps Survival [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-16) A/C vs. Heating [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-16) What is a Dimension Anyway? [Features]
(2008-06-16) July 1908: The Winning Flight of the "June Bug" Aeroplane for The Scientific American Trophy [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-16) Improving Health by Targeting Gut Bacteria: A Q&A with Jeremy Nicholson [Features]
(2008-06-16) Of Two Minds, One Consciousness [60-Second Psych]
(2008-06-16) Lizards pop wheelies [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-16) Takes Thoughts to Tango: Your Mind in Motion and More from July's SciAm [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-16) So You Think You Can Dance?: PET Scans Reveal Your Brain's Inner Choreography [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-14) News Bytes of the Wee--Tres Haute Fashion: Astronauts Get New Duds [News]
(2008-06-13) Are Arctic Sea Ice Melts Causing Sea Levels to Rise? [EarthTalk]
(2008-06-13) Mending Ozone Hole May Benefit Climate Change [News]
(2008-06-13) Environmental Catch-22?: Mending Ozone Hole May Worsen Climate Change [News]
(2008-06-13) I See Doomed People [Features]
(2008-06-13) Video: Clip from The Happening [Features]
(2008-06-13) ADHD Genetics Sometimes Beneficial [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-12) Martian Soil Shaken, Now Ready to Bake [News]
(2008-06-12) Ultraviolet Glow Betrays Impending Supernova [News]
(2008-06-12) Is it true that the DEET used in most mosquito repellents is toxic? [EarthTalk]
(2008-06-12) Addicted to Starvation: The Neurological Roots of Anorexia [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-06-12) "The Happening:" A Conversation With Director M. Night Shyamalan [Science Talk]
(2008-06-12) Satellite's Eye View of Africa Despoiled [Slide Show] [Features]
(2008-06-12) Leaves Maintain Constant Temperature [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-12) What are the four "letters" of the genetic code? Bonus: What do these letters stand for? [Trivia]
(2008-06-12) Unicorns Are for Real? [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-12) Threatened Wildlife in the Here and Now [Slide Show] [Features]
(2008-06-11) GLAST Gamma-Ray Satellite Blasts Off [News]
(2008-06-11) Laser Pachinko Game Freezes Atomic Waves [News]
(2008-06-11) How Brain Hears Over Din [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-11) How Flies Beat the Heat [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-11) Mailbag: Yes, Earth's Crust Moves 25 Centimeters with Every High Tide [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-11) Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell [News]
(2008-06-11) Out of the Zone: Jet-Lagged Baseball Teams Suffer Disadvantage [News]
(2008-06-10) The Midas Touch: Using Gold Nanoparticles to Block HIV [Extreme Tech]
(2008-06-10) Phoenix to Try Dribbling Soil into Oven [News]
(2008-06-10) Reviews: American Nerd, Coming of Age in Second Life [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-10) Why the Brain Follows the Rules [Mind Matters]
(2008-06-10) Nanotech Paper Sops Up Oil Spills [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-10) News Scan Briefs: Eating with Tension, Cancer Marriage, Milk and Diabetes [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-10) Space Station Could Beam Secret Quantum Codes by 2014 [News]
(2008-06-10) Musicophobia: When Your Favorite Song Gives You Seizures [Features]
(2008-06-10) Baffling Questions: Atom Sarkar [Where Are They Now?]
(2008-06-09) Phoenix Mars Lander Chokes on Clumped Soil [News]
(2008-06-09) It's official: iPhone 3G ships on July 11 [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-09) Bird Nerds: Using the Web to Net Our Feathered Friends [Features]
(2008-06-09) Grief Counseling Possibly Counterproductive [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-09) No Fair! My Serotonin Level Is Low [60-Second Psych]
(2008-06-09) Liquid Motor Revs Up [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-06) News Bytes of the Week--Imagine there's no evolution: Yoko says oh no to Expelled [News]
(2008-06-06) Antioxidant Supplements Will Help You Live Longer? [Fact or Fiction]
(2008-06-06) Russia boosts healthcare in Siberia [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-06) Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? [Ask the Experts]
(2008-06-06) Updates: Whatever Happened to Self-Cleaning Clothes? [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-06) Battling Exercise-Induced Breast Pain [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-06) Lab on a Postage Stamp [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-06) Is EBay Doing Enough to Stop Illegal Ivory Sales on its Site? [News]
(2008-06-06) Stem Cells Stop Mouse Shivers Cold, Could Thwart Rare, Neurological Disorders [News]
(2008-06-05) Artificial Sweeteners Confound the Brain; May Lead to Diet Disaster [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-06-05) Using Cell Phones to Track Humans [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-05) Monitoring Antarctic Ice Movement Is a Sticky Business [News]
(2008-06-05) Gamma-Ray Telescope to Open New Window on Cosmic Explosions [News]
(2008-06-04) It's all about the oil: Russia's resurgence rests on slippery foundation [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-04) The Skinny on Fat: You're Not Always What You Eat [News]
(2008-06-04) Fact and Fiction: James Randi's "Amaz!ng Meeting" and Mark Alpert's Physics Novel, Final Theory [Science Talk]
(2008-06-04) Iron Snow behind Mercury's Magnetism [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-04) Microsoft, Google Fighting for Unused Spectrum between TV Channels [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-04) Hungry Bird Fights Gravity for Food [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-03) Hedy Lamarr: Not just a pretty face [Features]
(2008-06-03) NASA internal audit: Press office "mischaracterized" global warming studies [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-03) Gassing Up Gas-Free [Slide Show] [News]
(2008-06-03) Listening In on Night Birds [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-03) Ben Stein's Expelled Exposed [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-03) Of Two Minds When Making a Decision [Mind Matters]
(2008-06-03) Climbing Trees Is a Breeze [Image Gallery]
(2008-06-03) High-Profile Bioethicist Out as Head of Institute He Founded [News]
(2008-06-02) Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History [Slide Show] [Features]
(2008-06-02) Next-Gen Heart Stents May Feature Toothlike Coating [News]
(2008-06-02) Making Teaching into an Intellectual Journey: Laura Ascenzi-Moreno [Where Are They Now?]
(2008-06-02) The FDA drops the ball on patient rights [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-06-02) Puzzling Adventures: Sir Birnie's Will [Puzzling Adventures]
(2008-06-02) Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-06-02) Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo [Features]
(2008-06-02) Sloths Not as Lazy as Thought [60-Second Science]
(2008-06-02) Craving for Sex May Trip Other Hungers in Men [60-Second Psych]
(2008-06-02) Which planet in the solar system spins on its "side" instead of the east-to-west way that the Earth and other planets do? [Trivia]
(2008-06-01) Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups" [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-05-31) DNA Computer Puts Microbes to Work as Number Crunchers [News]
(2008-05-31) News Bytes of the Week: Flying dinosaur preferred to hoof it while hunting [News]
(2008-05-31) Getting a Handle on Space Toilets [News]
(2008-05-30) Phoenix uncovers its first ice? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-05-30) Saturday's shuttle launch bears huge science lab--And emergency toiletries [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-05-30) What Dictionaries and Optical Illusions Say About Our Brains [Features]
(2008-05-30) Stormy Weather: Weather Service Predicts Active Hurricane Season [News]
(2008-05-30) Which U.S. Cities Contribute Most to Global Warming? [News]
(2008-05-30) 50 Years Ago in Scientific American: When Baby Boomers Weren't Worried about Wiretaps [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-05-30) No Two Alike: Snowflake Photography Reveals Nature's Symmetry [Slide Show] [Features]
(2008-05-30) Baseball Luddites Need Video [60-Second Science]
(2008-05-30) The Art of Magnetic Fields [Image Gallery]
(2008-05-29) Character Attacks: How to Properly Apply the Ad Hominem [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) Neuroscientists Take Important Step toward Mind Reading [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) Wasps Reveal Clues about the Evolution of Intelligence [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) The Cubicle Bully: Workplace Conflict Ruins Careers [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) Monkey Think, Monkey Do--With a Robotic Arm [Video] [News]
(2008-05-29) Women Needed for Medical Trials [60-Second Science]
(2008-05-29) Phoenix Mars Lander Takes a Look Around [Slide Show] [Features]
(2008-05-29) How to Unleash Your Creativity [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) Improvising a Jazz Tune Puts the Brain in an Altered State [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-05-29) Women Have a Better Memory for Faces and Words [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-04-17) Six Things in Expelled that Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know... [Features]
(2008-04-17) That Flu You Caught? It Came from East and Southeast Asia [News]
(2008-04-16) Saving wildlife by killing it [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) On The Shoulders of Giants: John Wheeler and Salome Waelsch [Science Talk]
(2008-04-16) Nein! German schoolboy's NASA correction refuted [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) Dark matter announcement sinks like a stone [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) Why is it so difficult to find Earthlike exoplanets? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) Dawkins says Francis Collins "is not a bright guy" [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) Komodo Dragons' Skillful Skulls [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-16) The Mirror Cure for Phantom Pain [Mind Matters]
(2008-04-16) Hobbit Watch: Did the hobbit have a root canal? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-16) Migrations Disappear and Diseases Jump Species in State of the Wild [News]
(2008-04-15) Hobbit Watch: Did the hobbit have a root canal? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-15) DARPA Pushes Machine Learning with Legged LittleDog Robot [Extreme Tech]
(2008-04-15) Leggy "BigDog" Robot Set to Step Up for the Military [Extreme Tech]
(2008-04-15) Brawn or Brains? Researchers Push the Limits of Legged Robots [Extreme Tech]
(2008-04-15) Scientists Reconstruct the Pioneer Spacecraft Anomaly [News]
(2008-04-15) Alan Turing Comes Alive [News]
(2008-04-15) Listening In On Hurricanes [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-15) First Lungless Frog Discovered in Indonesia [Image Gallery]
(2008-04-15) Pioneering physicist John Wheeler dies at 96 [News]
(2008-04-14) Help Us Find the Web's Best Stories on the Environment [News]
(2008-04-14) Dark matter particle discovered? [News]
(2008-04-14) Head Games: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves [News]
(2008-04-14) Oral Contraceptives As Part of IVF [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-14) World Wide Suicide: A Self-Termination Community Grows on the Web [60-Second Psych]
(2008-04-14) Timeline for the Large Hadron Collider (2008 to 2019) [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-14) Greetings from the temporary capital of high-energy physics [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-14) Dark matter particle discovered? [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-14) This is what the Higgs boson looks like [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-12) News Bytes of the Week: Lookin' for love ... or not [News]
(2008-04-11) Digital Diet [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-04-11) When Art and Science Meet, Nanoscale Smiley Faces Abound [Slideshow] [News]
(2008-04-11) A Presidential Science Debate [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-11) Oddvo rmyog ovs, rtovs mdd [r; ; vjrvl rtntp lrm [Sciam Observations Blog]
(2008-04-11) New Drug Protects against Radiation Damage [News]
(2008-04-11) Phobos in Stereo [Image Gallery]
(2008-04-11) Is Rekindling the Pluto Planet Debate a Good Idea? [News]
(2008-04-11) Why Did Matter Beat Out Antimatter? [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-10) Can the Brain Be Rebooted to Stop Drug Addiction? [News]
(2008-04-10) Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous? [Fact or Fiction]
(2008-04-10) Letters [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-04-10) Turning Pollution into DVDs [News]
(2008-04-09) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--Scientific American's Take [Features]
(2008-04-09) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--Ben Stein Launches a Science-free Attack on Darwin [Features]
(2008-04-09) Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed [Features]
(2008-04-09) Expelled Explained [Science Talk]
(2008-04-09) A Conversation with Expelled's Associate Producer Mark Mathis [Features]
(2008-04-09) Researchers Flesh Out Parkinson's Treatment Using Skin Cells [News]
(2008-04-09) Reviews [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-04-09) Computer Takes Clarinet Lessons [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-09) How do earthquakes stop? [Ask the Experts]
(2008-04-09) Expelled Coverage [Features]
(2008-04-09) Bacteria That Snack on Antibiotics [Image Gallery]
(2008-04-08) The Monitor - Rake-Using Rodents and Olympic Doping Cheats [The Monitor]
(2008-04-08) Millennium Foundation Recognizes Inventors and Technologies That Changed the World [News]
(2008-04-08) Why Things Cost $19.95 [Scientific American Mind]
(2008-04-08) Wag the Dog [Scientific American Magazine]
(2008-04-08) Monkeys Hear Voices [Mind Matters Blog]
(2008-04-08) Ancient Mariners Sailed Between Mexico and South America [60-Second Science]
(2008-04-08) Monkeys Hear Voices [Mind Matters]
(2008-04-08) The Monitor: Episode 9 [SciAm Exclusives Video]
(2008-04-08) Tech and Broadcast Companies Battle for Unused Airwaves [News]
(2008-04-07) Climbing Mountains Kills Brain Cells [Mind Matters Blog]
(2008-04-07) Features: Can Seaweed Mend a Broken Heart?
(2008-04-07) Features: The Shocking Colors of Alien Plants [Slideshow]
(2008-04-07) Scientific American Magazine: The Color of Plants on Other Worlds
(2008-04-07) 60-Second Science: Alligator For What Ails Ya?
(2008-04-07) 60-Second Psych: Brain Images Make Inaccurate Science News Trustworthy
(2008-04-07) Features: Biosignatures For Developing Life
(2008-04-07) Features: Timeline of Photosynthesis on Earth
(2008-04-05) Image Gallery: Flat-Faced Fish: First in Family?
(2008-04-05) News: News Bytes of the Week--(Weird Sex) in an octopus's garden
(2008-04-04) Sciam Observations Blog: Pediatrician zings Jenny McCarthy over vaccines and autism
(2008-04-04) Sciam Observations Blog: The big bang in musical form
(2008-04-04) News: Why Some Smokers Get Lung Cancer--And Others Are Spared
(2008-04-04) Scientific American Magazine: Volatility Kills
(2008-04-04) 60-Second Science: Some Bacteria Dine On Antibiotics
(2008-04-03) Features: The Origin of Menopause: Why Do Women Outlive Fertility?
(2008-04-03) Strange but True: Identical Twins' Genes Are Not Identical
(2008-04-03) Sciam Observations Blog: Relativity theory to the tune of "Yellow Submarine"
(2008-04-03) News: Aztec Math Used Hearts and Arrows
(2008-04-03) News: Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
(2008-04-03) 60-Second Science: Beetle Points Way To Better Spray
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Magazine: Updates.... Whatever Happened To?
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Helping Stroke Victims by Harnessing Signals from Half of the Brain
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Into Thin Air: Mountain Climbing Kills Brain Cells
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: The Brain Region Responsible for that Word on the Tip of your Tongue
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Viewing Cartoons Reveals Cultural Differences
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Mind Reviews Books, Movies and More
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Could deja vu be explained by grid cells?
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Calendar: April / May 2008
(2008-04-03) Scientific American Mind: Misunderstood Crimes
(2008-04-03) Features: The Doping Game: Payoffs That Make Cheaters Into Losers
(2008-04-03) Features: Gaming Baseball: Why Players Dope
(2008-04-03) Ask the Experts: How does the way food looks or its smell influence taste?
(2008-04-02) Sciam Observations Blog: World Science Festival: science boosterism comes to New York
(2008-04-02) Science Talk: A Scientists' Bill of Rights?
(2008-04-02) News: Fasting May Bolster Healthy Cells' Resistance to Chemo Toxins
(2008-04-02) 60-Second Science: The Mythical Daily Water Requirement
(2008-04-02) Image Gallery: The Smallest Known Black Hole
(2008-04-01) News: From Physics to Politics: Mr. Foster Goes to Washington
(2008-04-01) 60-Second Science: Hepatitis May Be Ally Against HIV
(2008-04-01) Scientific American Magazine: Let the Games Begin!
(2008-04-01) Mind Matters Blog: Recognizing the Familiar
(2008-04-01) Image Gallery: How Squishy Squid Handle Sharp Beaks
(2008-04-01) Puzzling Adventures: Teen Hand Magic
(2008-03-31) Extreme Tech: Digital Glove Handwriting Recognition Technology Is Coming
(2008-03-31) 60-Second Science: Why You can't Unwrap a DVD
(2008-03-31) Scientific American Magazine: The Doping Dilemma
(2008-03-31) Sciam Observations Blog: Graphene Could Be the New Silicon
(2008-03-31) Sciam Observations Blog: The state of the planet is good
(2008-03-31) Sciam Observations Blog: Don't expect the Arctic to be a frozen waste much longer
(2008-03-31) Sciam Observations Blog: Food versus fuel, or can we have both?
(2008-03-31) Sciam Observations Blog: Man-made trees and shells will save us from climate change
(2008-03-29) Sciam Observations Blog: Trading greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S.
(2008-03-29) Sciam Observations Blog: Will the U.S. solve the climate change problem?
(2008-03-29) News: News Bytes of the Week--Smoldering Hawaiian volcano an ongoing geologic hottie
(2008-03-29) News: U.S. Will Approve New Nuclear Reactors
(2008-03-28) Sciam Observations Blog: A memo to the next president
(2008-03-28) Sciam Observations Blog: Beware the military-industrial complex and climate change
(2008-03-28) Sciam Observations Blog: Why the search for oil will never stop
(2008-03-28) 60-Second Psych: Learn to Be Kind
(2008-03-28) 60-Second Science: Solar Energy Via Balloons
(2008-03-28) News: A New, Genetic Model for Schizophrenia
(2008-03-28) News: "Sledgehammer" Mutations: A New, Genetic Model for Schizophrenia
(2008-03-27) Sciam Observations Blog: War recedes, but turns crueler
(2008-03-27) Ask the Experts: Where did viruses come from?
(2008-03-27) News: Stern Steps Down as NASA Science Chief After Mars Budget Dustup
(2008-03-27) Sciam Observations Blog: Do the impoverished need industry?
(2008-03-27) News: Space Cadets, Grab Your Sunscreen: Space Tourism Set for Liftoff
(2008-03-27) Fact or Fiction: Does Turning Fluorescent Lights Off Use More Energy Than Leaving Them On?
(2008-03-27) 60-Second Science: Sensing Sweets Without Taste
(2008-03-27) Sciam Observations Blog: Kofi Annan: the peacemaker and his green revolution
(2008-03-27) Sciam Observations Blog: What is the state of the planet and the people on it?
(2008-03-27) Scientific American Magazine: Body Scanners: Weapons Revealed
(2008-03-27) Scientific American Magazine: At the Edge of Life's Code
(2008-03-27) News: Meditate on This: You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate
(2008-03-26) 60-Second Science: Researchers Heart Yak Cheese
(2008-03-26) Science Talk: Baseball Science
(2008-03-26) Image Gallery: Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever
(2008-03-25) News: Security Breach: Feds Lose Laptop Containing Sensitive Data -- Again
(2008-03-25) News: The Monitor ep 8: The Space Episode
(2008-03-25) Features: China's Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?
(2008-03-25) News: Hybrid MRI-PET Scanner Reveals Tumors Earlier and in More Detail
(2008-03-25) Scientific American Magazine: Hoyle on Matter -- Our Readers? -- Killing Beauty
(2008-03-25) Scientific American Magazine: The Economist Has No Clothes
(2008-03-25) Mind Matters Blog: The Power of Power Naps
(2008-03-25) 60-Second Science: Home Visits Improve AIDS Outcomes
(2008-03-24) Sciam Observations Blog: Polar bears will destroy the American way of life
(2008-03-24) Scientific American Magazine: Detecting Nuclear Smuggling
(2008-03-24) Features: New Technology For Detecting Nuclear Smuggling [Video]
(2008-03-24) 60-Second Science: Money Can Buy Happiness
(2008-03-21) News: News Bytes of the Week--Can Money Make You Happy?
(2008-03-21) Sciam Observations Blog: Intriguing books found around the Sci Am office, part one: murder
(2008-03-21) News: Forget Diamonds--Is Zirconia a Jet Engine's Best Friend?
(2008-03-21) Sciam Observations Blog: Military robot dog cannot be knocked down
(2008-03-21) News: Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
(2008-03-21) Sciam Observations Blog: Super Mario explains parallel universes / the multiverse
(2008-03-21) News: Signs of Hidden Ocean Underneath Titan's Crust
(2008-03-21) Ask the Experts: Why don't tornadoes hit cities more often?
(2008-03-21) Scientific American Magazine: Attack on the Clones
(2008-03-21) 60-Second Science: Hermaphrodites Avoid Self-Fertilization
(2008-03-20) News: Rainforest Climate Change Sensor Station Goes Wi-Fi
(2008-03-20) News: Diamond "Spin-Bath" Gives Crystal View of Quantum Ripples
(2008-03-20) Sciam Observations Blog: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917–2008
(2008-03-20) Scientific American Mind: Postpartum Depression Epidemic Affects More than Just Mom
(2008-03-20) News: First Whiff of Methane in Extrasolar Planet's Atmosphere
(2008-03-20) News: Pollution-Free Hydrogen SUV Hits the Driveway
(2008-03-20) 60-Second Science: One-Eyed Depth Perception
(2008-03-20) Features: D.I.Y. Graphene: How to Make One-Atom-Thick Carbon Layers With Sticky Tape
(2008-03-20) Features: Self-Experimenters: Psychedelic Chemist Explores the Surreality of Inner Space, One Drug at a Time
(2008-03-19) Scientific American Magazine: Brother, Can You Spare Me a Planet? (Extended version)
(2008-03-19) Extreme Tech: Scientists Set Sights on an Implantable Prosthetic for the Blind
(2008-03-19) News: Politically Correct: Why Great (and Not So Great) Minds Think Alike
(2008-03-19) Scientific American Magazine: Future Facts
(2008-03-19) 60-Second Science: Sly Male Ants Carry Queen Genes
(2008-03-19) Science Talk: For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics
(2008-03-19) Features: Self-Experimenters: Daughter of MRI Researcher Offered Her Brain for Virtual Dissection
(2008-03-19) News: The Monitor ep 7 - Sin, Hobbits, Drugs on Tap [Video]
(2008-03-18) Features: Even Skeptics Admit Global Warming is Real [Video]
(2008-03-18) Mind Matters Blog: The Reading Brain
(2008-03-18) Scientific American Magazine: Technological Keys to Climate Protection
(2008-03-18) Scientific American Magazine: Keys to Climate Protection (Extended version)
(2008-03-18) 60-Second Science: Smoking Can't Buy Happiness
(2008-03-18) Features: Self-Experimenter Freed Himself from Insomnia, Acne and Love Handles
(2008-03-18) Image Gallery: The Gulf Stream Goes Vertical
(2008-03-17) News: Green Buildings May Be Cheapest Way to Slow Global Warming
(2007-09-26) Blog: Hysterical About Hysteria
(2007-09-26) Ask the Experts: How does short-term memory work in relation to long-term memory? Are short-term daily memories somehow transferred to long-term storage while we sleep?
(2007-09-25) News: World Leaders Urge Action on Climate Change
(2007-09-25) News: HIV Vaccine Hopeful Fails
(2007-09-25) News: How to Be Your Own Phone Company
(2007-09-25) Blog: Into Thin Air: Altitude's Toll on the Brain
(2007-09-25) News: Did Sesame Street Have It Right?
(2007-09-24) In Focus: Making Carbon Markets Work
(2007-09-24) Blog: Frightening new maps of U.S. coastal areas to be inundated by global warming
(2007-09-22) News: News Bytes of the Week—Peru Crater Mystery
(2007-09-22) News: The Future of Exoskeletons: Lighter Loads, Limbs and More
(2007-09-21) News: The North Pole Is Melting
(2007-09-21) News: Mars Images Reveal Few Signs of Recent Liquid Water
(2007-09-20) News: Eat (Less) to Live (Longer)
(2007-09-20) News: Hear That? How the Brain Finds Noise
(2007-09-20) News: Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity?
(2007-09-20) News: Testicular Stem Cells Show Their Spots
(2007-09-19) News: For Data Centers, Information Growth Is Not Cool
(2007-09-19) Blog: Eating plants gathered from the wild... in New York City
(2007-09-19) News: China's Cyber Attacks Signal New Battlefield Online
(2007-09-19) In Focus: 5 Goals for Exploring the Solar System [Interactive]
(2007-09-18) News: Caught on Film: Lefties Were Rare in 19th-Century England
(2007-09-18) News: The Scent of a Man
(2007-09-18) In Focus: 50 Years Ago in Scientific American: "Metropolitan Segregation"
(2007-09-18) Blog: Learning Fear by Watching: The Brainier, Cheaper Path to Knowledge
(2007-09-18) Sustainable Developments: Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa (extended version)
(2007-09-18) In Focus: Constellation/Orion: Back to the Moon
(2007-09-18) News: Synthetic Genes Give Cells Something to Remember
(2007-09-17) News: Pentagon Developing New Unmanned Spy Planes
(2007-09-17) Blog: Micro$oft gets spanked twice in one week
(2007-09-16) Feature Article: To the Moon and Beyond
(2007-09-16) Feature Article: 5 Essential Things To Do In Space
(2007-09-16) Insights: The Trouble with Men
(2007-09-16) Skeptic: The Really Hard Science
(2007-09-16) SA Perspectives: Racing past the Moon
(2007-09-16) Anti Gravity: Carrots, Sticks and Robot Picks
(2007-09-16) Sustainable Developments: Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa
(2007-09-15) Blog: SciAm editor discusses male lactation on drive-time radio
(2007-09-15) News: News Bytes of the Week—Bras fail bounce test
(2007-09-14) Blog: Do patients have the right to demand experimental medications?
(2007-09-14) Blog: Traveler's Dilemma and a new kind of formal reasoning in game theory
(2007-09-13) News: Salmon Spawn Trout
(2007-09-13) Blog: Backyard Science
(2007-09-13) News: World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places
(2007-09-13) News: HDTV and Digital Cinema Chip Powers Medical Imaging Innovations
(2007-09-13) News: Fetal Neurons Still Operate in Adult Brain
(2007-09-13) Blog: The Pitfalls of Pleistocene Rewilding
(2007-09-12) Blog: An Interview with Alex, the African Grey Parrot
(2007-09-12) News: Planet Survived Brush with Red Giant
(2007-09-12) News: Ancient Shells Harden Link Between Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
(2007-09-12) Reviews: Rapturous Sociability--Armageddon Avoided--The Allure of Venus
(2007-09-11) News: Nanoscale Printing Has Big Implications for Science and Technology
(2007-09-11) Blog: Saying No to Yourself: The Neural Mechanisms of Self-Control
(2007-09-10) News: News Bytes of the Week—Popcorn lung leaves the factory
(2007-09-10) Ask the Experts: Relative to the solar system, where is the Oort cloud? And what is its size and shape?
(2007-09-10) News: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
(2007-09-07) News: Human Toddlers Trump Apes on Social Skills
(2007-09-07) News: Mysterious Honeybee Disappearance Linked to Rare Virus
(2007-09-07) News: It's No Delusion: Evolution May Favor Schizophrenia Genes
(2007-09-06) News: Silent Seizures May Cause Alzheimer's Dementia
(2007-09-06) News: Price Cut! Apple Slashes iPhone Price, Debuts New iPods
(2007-09-06) News: Robot-Assisted Rescuers Seek Answers in Wake of Utah Mine Collapse
(2007-09-06) News: Asteroid Smashup May Have Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
(2007-09-06) Blog: Emotions recalled in the Sea of Tranquility
(2007-09-05) Ask the Experts: Could the International Space Station (ISS) serve as a base, way station or repair hangar for satellites and craft from complex missions beyond its orbit?
(2007-09-05) Blog: Humans turn out to be as genetically different from one another as it was previously thought they were different from chimps
(2007-09-04) News: Tiny RNA Snippet May Play a Role in Parkinson's
(2007-09-04) News: (Genetic) Seed Banks Needed for Livestock Too [Video]
(2007-09-04) Blog: Blindsight: When the Brain Sees What You Do Not
(2007-08-31) News: IBM Nanotech Breakthroughs Point To Tech's Future Building Blocks
(2007-08-31) News: News Bytes of the Week—Lightsaber to fly on shuttle
(2007-08-31) Blog: Ford Syncs Up with Microsoft to Smooth the Highway for Digital Music Players and Cell Phones
(2007-08-31) Blog: Busted: PR Flacks who ran afoul of the science blogosphere, including a brand new flack for Stuart Pivar who showed up right here on this blog
(2007-08-31) News: Ancient Squatters May Have Been the World's First Suburbanites
(2007-08-31) News: Mystery of Sun's Superhot Corona May Be Whipped
(2007-08-31) News: iPhone Hacks Annoy AT&T but Are Unlikely to Bruise Apple
(2007-08-31) Blog: How a handful of desperate innovators took special effects to new heights in two 1977 movies--Star Wars and Close Encounters
(2007-08-31) Blog: Baiji back from the dead?
(2007-08-30) News: Perfect Pitch: "You've Either Got It or You Don't"
(2007-08-29) News: A New "Designer" Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
(2007-08-29) News: The Dark Horse in Race to Power Hybrid Cars
(2007-08-29) News: Fat Chance: Nipping Childhood Obesity in the Bud
(2007-08-28) Ask the Experts: Why do we have a hurricane season?
(2007-08-28) Blog: WIRED scoops Scientific American on SciAm's own birthday -- happy 162nd to us!
(2007-08-28) Blog: The Hormone That Helps You Read Minds
(2007-08-25) News: News Bytes of the Week—Astronomers Find "The Nothing"
(2007-08-25) News: Google Reaches for the Sky with a Virtual Cosmos
(2007-08-24) News: Real Out-of-Body Experiences
(2007-08-24) News: The Fear Factor: When the Brain Decides It's Time to Scram
(2007-08-23) News: Dark Side of Uranus' Rings Reveals Dramatic Changes
(2007-08-23) SciAm Mind: Continuing Effects of 9/11
(2007-08-23) News: Unintentional Introduction of OCD to Mice Offers New Insight into Disorder
(2007-08-23) News: Pinging Photons without Destroying Them
(2007-08-23) News: Nothing Says "Early Earth Was Cool" Like World's Oldest Diamonds
(2007-08-23) Blog: Hints of a Breakdown of Relativity Theory?
(2007-08-22) News: Impulse Stopping: When the Mind Exercises 'Free Won't'
(2007-08-22) News: Flushing Out a Record of Local Drug Use
(2007-08-21) Blog: This week in censoring scientific discourse via the legal system, Harun Yahya edition
(2007-08-21) Blog: Your Mama or Your MAOA?
(2007-08-21) News: Speedy Earthquake Rides "Sonic Boom"
(2007-08-21) News: Feeding the Hungry and Sick: Fish Farming Boosts Nutrition in Rural Malawi
(2007-08-21) Ask the Experts: Floyd Landis tested positive for increased testosterone on the day of his spectacular stage win at the Tour de France last year, after testing negative on previous days. Can a large dose of the hormone produce such an immediate and profou
(2007-08-21) News: When It Comes to Color, Women Have Pink Eye
(2007-08-21) News: Floyd Landis tested positive for increased testosterone on the day of his spectacular stage win at the Tour de France last year, after testing negative on previous days. Can a large dose of the hormone produce such an immediate and profound improvem
(2007-08-20) In Focus: Do Nanoparticles and Sunscreen Mix?
(2007-08-20) Blog: PZ Myers, ScienceBlogs.com's lead blogger, is being sued for libel
(2007-08-20) Blog: Will Ferrell: BMW's hydrogen rube
(2007-08-20) Blog: A critique of our article on racial medicine from Roger Masters of Dartmouth
(2007-08-19) Feature Article: Can Fat Be Fit?
(2007-08-19) Feature Article: This is Your Brain on Food (extended version)
(2007-08-19) Insights: What Visions in the Dark of Light
(2007-08-19) Reviews: Cyclic Universe--World of Words--Nuclear Terror
(2007-08-19) Skeptic: Rational Atheism
(2007-08-19) SA Perspectives: Take Nutrition Claims with a Grain of Salt
(2007-08-19) Anti Gravity: What's the Big Idea?
(2007-08-19) Sustainable Developments: Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa (extended version)
(2007-08-18) News: News Bytes of the Week—Warmest year revised
(2007-08-18) Blog: New 'Mind' exhibit at San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum proves interesting
(2007-08-17) News: "Continuous Motor" Underlies Long-Term Memory Storage
(2007-08-17) Blog: What does your dream world look like?
(2007-08-17) News: Capturing the Atlantic's Capricious Currents
(2007-08-17) News: Money Is Green, but Online Banking Is Greener
(2007-08-16) News: Mini-Telescope Implants May Save Vision Damaged by Eye Disease
(2007-08-16) Blog: Weaponized BlackBerry
(2007-08-16) News: Shooting Bullet Star Leaves Vast Ultraviolet Wake
(2007-08-16) News: Can the Ravages of Dementia in HIV/AIDS Be Arrested?
(2007-08-16) Blog: Airport security now reads minds
(2007-08-15) News: Fingering the Neural Perp in Parkinson's
(2007-08-14) News: Squirrel Has Hot Tail to Tell Snakes
(2007-08-14) Blog: Unknown Desires, the Pallidum, and Parkinson's
(2007-08-14) News: Power Paper: Energy Storage by the Sheet
(2007-08-14) News: Quantum Ferrofluid: A Bose-Einstein Condensate of Tiny Magnets
(2007-08-14) Ask the Experts: Why does it take so long for our vision to adjust to a darkened theater after we come in from bright sunlight?
(2007-08-13) Blog: Who knew the Bible could predict the size of the universe?
(2007-08-13) News: Happy Days: Unraveling the Mystery of How Antidepressants Work
(2007-08-13) Blog: Men average more sexual partners than women, right? Wrong.
(2007-08-11) News: News Bytes of the Week—Headless Snake Bites Hapless Man
(2007-08-10) Ask the Experts: Do corked bats allow baseball players to hit farther?
(2007-08-10) News: Appetite-Killing Hormone Negates Joy of Eating
(2007-08-10) News: Conservation Works: Falcons, Ferrets and Forests Benefit from Preservation Efforts
(2007-08-09) News: Is Bone–Fat Chitchat the Key to Weight Control?
(2007-08-09) News: Coral Reefs Losing Ground Throughout the Pacific
(2007-08-09) SciAm Mind: White Matter Listens In
(2007-08-09) News: New Fossils Illustrate "Bushiness" of Human Evolution
(2007-08-09) Blog: Science fiction is not obsolete--do you read me Bruno Maddox?
(2007-08-08) News: Is the Out of Africa Theory Out?
(2007-08-08) Blog: Newsweek denies the existence of global warming*
(2007-08-08) News: Requiem for a Freshwater Dolphin
(2007-08-08) News: Vaccine Programs for Kids Need a Shot in the Arm
(2007-08-08) Blog: TurtleNet - Connecting turtles wirelessly
(2007-08-07) Blog: Kids prefer carrots that come out of McDonald's bags... even though McDonald's doesn't sell carrots
(2007-08-07) Blog: When Morality is Hard to Like
(2007-08-07) News: Coffee Break: Does Caffeine Perk Up Memory?
(2007-08-07) Feature Article: Eating Made Simple
(2007-08-06) In Focus: Meraki's Guerilla Wi-Fi to Put a Billion More People Online
(2007-08-06) Blog: Doing insanely great stuff with old technology
(2007-08-05) News: Inside Every Girl Mouse Brain Is a Swaggering Boy Mouse—And It Doesn't Take Much to Bring Him Out
(2007-08-04) Blog: Report From the Bridge Collapse
(2007-08-03) News: The Sound Track of Our Minds
(2007-08-03) News: News Bytes of the Week (Why Have Sex? Edition)
(2007-08-03) News: What Explains Toddlers' Linguistic Leap? Math
(2007-08-03) Blog: Many Worlds in Oxford
(2007-08-02) Blog: Rush shilling for General Motors' new "green" autos... yay?
(2007-08-02) Blog: Star Trek--Original Series: Where no pixel has gone before
(2007-08-02) News: Korean Cloned Human Cells Were Product of "Virgin Birth"
(2007-08-02) Blog: Are taxpayers going to foot the bill for disasters brought about by by climate change and runaway development?
(2007-08-02) News: Orangutans Play Charades When Misunderstood
(2007-08-02) News: Brown Haze from Cooking Fires Cooking Earth, Too
(2007-08-02) News: Near-Vegetative Man Partially Recovers from Brain Injury, Recites Pledge of Allegiance
(2007-08-01) News: Is Your Printer Polluting the Air You Breathe?
(2007-08-01) News: To Read with Speed, Get Hooked on Phonics, and…
(2007-08-01) Blog: Thing that reminds us of global warming (of the day) -- photo gallery
(2007-08-01) News: Ancient Europeans More Diverse, Genetically Speaking, than Modern Ones
(2007-08-01) Technicalities: Ask the Brains
(2007-08-01) In Focus: Insurers Claim Global Warming Makes Some Regions Too Hot to Handle
(2007-08-01) Feature Article: Is Greed Good?
(2007-07-31) Feature Article: The New Psychology of Leadership
(2007-07-31) SciAm Mind: Is Greed Good?
(2007-07-31) Blog: Race Medicine Article: A Magnet for Controversy
(2007-07-31) In Focus: Race-Based Medicine: A Recipe for Controversy
(2007-07-31) SciAm Mind: The New Psychology of Leadership
(2007-07-31) Blog: Life beneath the Antarctic: stunning images
(2007-07-31) Blog: Recovering Long-lost Memories
(2007-07-31) Blog: How a fake word from the Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper
(2007-07-31) News: A Gene to Better Remember Traumatic Events
(2007-07-31) Ask the Experts: Why do apple slices turn brown after being cut?
(2007-07-30) News: Stronger Link Found between Hurricanes and Global Warming
(2007-07-30) Technicalities: Calendar
(2007-07-30) Blog: Run to Starbucks, get less cancer?
(2007-07-30) News: News Bytes of the Week
(2007-07-30) News: Sun-Swilling, Heat-Resistant Extremophile Discovered in Yellowstone
(2007-07-30) News: Counting on Your Brain to Keep Score
(2007-07-30) News: Heavy Metal Filter Made Largely from Air
(2007-07-30) News: Confirmed: A Link Between Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy
(2007-07-30) In Focus: What Finnish Grandmothers Reveal about Human Evolution
(2007-07-30) In Focus: Science Museums Adapt in Struggle against Creationist Revisionism [Slide Show]
(2007-07-30) Ask the Experts: How is everyday onboard exercise on the International Space Station changing the rate of bone loss of its occupants? Can individual differences between humans explain differences in bone loss in microgravity?</