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• News |  Health

  Cool Aid: Drug That Lets Body Temperature Drop Could Save Stroke Victims

  An experimental pharmaceutical might one day circumvent the body's cold-defense mechanisms to protect tissue following stroke, heart attack and problems at birth

  By Gary Stix   | Feb 15, 2012  

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Feeling the Pain of Rejection? Try Taking a Tylenol

  Certain kinds of physical and emotional pain share a neural pathway that responds to acetaminophen

  By Gary Stix   | Sep 15, 2010  | 12

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Fat Attack: Will Three New Antiobesity Drugs Beat a Checkered Safety History?

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to weigh the safety and efficacy of new flab fighters

  By Erica Westly   | Sep 14, 2010  | 5

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Undifferentiated Ethics: Why Stem Cells from Adult Skin Are as Morally Fraught as Embryonic Stem Cells

  Hailed as a potential alternative to embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) raise their own ethical dilemmas

  By Sally Lehrman   | Sep 13, 2010  | 28

• Scientific American Magazine |  Space

  Lunar Pencil Lead: Graphite Found in Moon Rock Collected During Apollo 17

  Impact-delivered graphite discovered in Apollo moon rock

  By John Matson   | Sep 9, 2010  

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Quantum Light Switch: Single Atom Acts as a Transistor for Photons

  Demonstration that an atom can control the passage of light could be crucial in quantum computing and communications

  By Davide Castelvecchi   | Sep 8, 2010  | 10

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Rummaging for a Final Theory: Can a 1960s Approach Unify Gravity with the Rest of Physics?

  To unify the four forces of nature, physicists are turning to Lie groups, an approach famously resurrected in 2007 by a surfer-dude theorist

  By Zeeya Merali   | Sep 7, 2010  | 55

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Danger in School Labs: Accidents Haunt Experimental Science

  Several headline-grabbing accidents have shone light on chronically poor safety records

  By Beryl Lieff Benderly   | Aug 17, 2010  | 16

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Tools for Life: What's Next for Cells Powered by Synthetic Genomes?

  The ability to make cells with artificial genomes bodes well for basic biology

  By David Biello and Katherine Harmon   | Aug 12, 2010  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  How Acquired Diseases Become Hereditary Illnesses

  New understanding of epigenetics, or the molecular processes that control genes, show how it underlies hereditary forms of obesity and cancer

  By JR Minkel   | Aug 9, 2010  | 2

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Charge under Control: Lithium Ion Car Batteries Get Crash-Tested

  As the electric car market expands, Sandia National Laboratories' battery-abuse testing facility gets a workout

  By Mark Fischetti   | Aug 5, 2010  | 4

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Sour Showers

  Acid rain is back—this time triggered by nitrogen emissions

  By Michael Tennesen   | Aug 1, 2010  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Origami Sheets That Fold Themselves

  By John Matson   | Aug 1, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Doubts on Dispersants

  Attempt to resolve toxicity issue of oil dispersants muddies the water

  By David Biello   | Aug 1, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Look Ma, No Junctions! Novel Transistor Design Reemerges After 85 Years

  A radically simpler design avoids the standard p-n semiconductor junctions

  By Davide Castelvecchi   | Jul 20, 2010  | 10

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Manipulation of the Crowd: How Trustworthy Are Online Ratings?

  New concerns about customer reviews on Web sites

  By Michael Moyer   | Jul 19, 2010  | 22

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Heartburn Headache: Overuse of Acid Blockers Poses Health Risks

  Proton-pump inhibitors such as Nexium, Prevacid and Protonix treat acid reflux, but their use as a preventative to bleeding can lead to problems

  By Melinda Wenner Moyer   | Jul 15, 2010  | 4

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Putting Addiction to Bed: Sleep Drugs Could Subdue Cravings, Too

  New sleep aids block the activity of brain peptides called orexins, which play a role in addiction

  By Christine Soares   | Jul 1, 2010  | 2

• Scientific American Magazine |  Space

  NASA's Plan to Use Commercial Rockets Lifts Off

  By John Matson   | Jul 1, 2010  

• Scientific American Magazine |  Space

  An Extra Quiet Sun

  A long and pronounced solar minimum befuddles astronomers

  By John Matson   | Jul 1, 2010  | 6

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Robot Test Drive

  Your Web-enabled mechanical stunt double is ready

  By Larry Greenemeier   | Jul 1, 2010  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Night Sight: Rapid Eye Movements Seem to Scan the Actions in Our Dreams

  By Ferris Jabr   | Jul 1, 2010  

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Biological Breakdown

  The job of cleaning up after the Gulf oil spill will fall to the microbes

  By David Biello   | Jul 1, 2010  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Worts and All

  False claims still pervade the supplements industry

  By Katherine Harmon   | Jul 1, 2010  

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  Predictive Modeling Warns Drivers One Hour before Jams Occur

  Traffic avoided: Software uses road sensors, GPS and historical traffic data to predict congestion

  By Mark Fischetti   | Jun 10, 2010  | 3

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