• Features
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• 2008 in Photos--The 10 Biggest Science Stories
  A look back on the people, places and discoveries that shaped the world of science over the past year

• 60-Second Science
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• Your 10 favorite stories from 2008
  Here are the 10 most-viewed stories on SciAm.com over the past year

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• The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008
  Images capture subjects as vast as a nascent ocean and as tiny as carbon nanotubes

• In-Depth Reports
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• The Large Hadron Collider
  Here's how the LHC will search for the Higgs boson, dark matter and supersymmetry

 

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In-Depth Reports
The Global Food Crisis
Food is scarce in the developing world, and prices are soaring in industrialized nations. Does science hold the key to the next green revolution?

In-Depth Reports
AIDS Today--And Tomorrow
We look at the outcome of PEPFAR, President Bush's international AIDS program, and more...

News
Red (Planet) Alert: Massive Subsurface Glaciers Discovered on Mars
Surface-penetrating radar reveals features composed of ice, not rock

Scientific American Magazine
Tougher Laws Needed to Protect Your Genetic Privacy
In spite of recent legislation, tougher laws are needed to prevent insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic tests

Features
Top 10 Exoplanets: Weird Worlds in a Galaxy Not So Far Away [Slide Show]
A look at some of our extreme planetary neighbors right here in the Milky Way Galaxy

Features
Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful Chemical
Is bisphenol A, a major ingredient in many plastics, healthy for children and other living things?

In-Depth Reports
Celebrating The 2008 Nobel Prizes
More than 130 Nobelists have written more than 200 articles for Scientific American. Here's a sampling, along with a look at the prizes themselves

Scientific American Magazine
SciAm 50--2007 Awards
The 2007 SciAm 50 awards are replete with instances of new machines or chemicals that come close to the true meaning of innovation as something entirely new.

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Top 25 Science Stories of 2007
A year of discoveries, close calls, tragedies and triumphs in review