June 2008 Issue
Articles from past issues of Scientific American
After experiments with their Flyer in May 1908, the Wright brothers wrote the following report for the Scientific American
Literature masters the fourth dimension, where physics fears to tread
Walter Fiers found a protein segment on the influenza virus that could lead to a universal flu vaccine, which would end seasonal shots and provide pandemic protection
Land "Tides" -- Polar Ice Sheets -- Market Morality
Thriller Physics -- Virtual Life -- Nerd-dom
Self-Cleaning Clothes -- Titan's Ocean? -- Synthetic Success -- Crisis Mapping
Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments
Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save the earth in the centuries to come
Our inclination to trust a stranger stems in large part from exposure to a small molecule known for an entirely different task: inducing labor
To this day, scientists struggle with that question. A better definition can influence which animals make the endangered list
One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same
The newest targeted therapies are helping doctors to tailor increasingly effective treatments to individual patients
Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images
Feature
Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed
Our commentaries on the new antievolution movie Expelled detail its shameful attacks on science and its attempts to blame Darwin for the Holocaust
Feature
China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?
Even the Chinese government suspects the massive dam may cause significant environmental damage.
News
Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
Scientists may have a new clue to how matter beat out antimatter for dominance of the universe.
Ask the Experts
Where Did Viruses Come From?
Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult because they do not leave fossils and because of how cunningly they make copies of themselves within cells.
Video
The Monitor: The Space Episode
Episode 8 of Scientific American’s irreverent weekly news roundup deals with all things extraterrestrial.
Podcast
R.I.P.: On the Shoulders of Giants ...
Physicist John Wheeler and geneticist Salome Waelsch both had incredibly long, fruitful careers, providing numerous fundamental insights in their fields.
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