Letters to the editor from the October 2011 issue of Scientific American
By watching evolution in progress, scientists reveal key developments in the evolution of complex life and put evolutionary theories to the test
A theoretical physicist searched for years to find the only known natural occurrence of an exotic type of structure, the discovery of which netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Letters to the editor from the September 2011 issue of Scientific American
New fingerprint- and DNA-identification techniques solve a mystery from a 60-year-old plane crash
The volcano beneath this calm-looking lake has grown restive, inspiring a rare collaboration between Chinese and Korean scientists
A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf revealed steep escarpments that probably pose no tsunami hazard
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