EnvironmentOctober 1, 2008
Drug traffickers and other outlaws endanger forest preservation efforts
Illegal ranching and illicit activities hamper forest conservation efforts
Stories by Charles Q. Choi
Charles Q. Choi is a frequent contributor to Scientific American. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Science, Nature, Wired, and LiveScience, among others. In his spare time, he has traveled to all seven continents.
The SciencesOctober 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to LED Lightbulbs?
Also Updates on Bubbles Producing Light, Virus-Infecting Viruses and Galapagos Tortoise Breeding
The SciencesOctober 1, 2008
Scale Model for Armor
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2008
Not So Rapid Eye Movement
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2008
Mammoth Sequences: A Hunt for DNA from the Extinct Titans of the Klondike
Duane Froese and Ross MacPhee on an excavation dig to collect material that might hold Pleistocene genetic clues to mammoths
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2008
News Scan Briefs: Eyes on the Tops of Their Heads; Play Dates for Germ Sharing; Another Gene for Alzheimer's
Also: The New Stone Age; Mountain Climbing Trees; Location Influences Voters; and Martian Hit-and-Run
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2008
News Scan Briefs: Iron-Tough Paper; DEET-free Repellent; Artificial Corneas
Biology -- Repellents -- Materials -- Neuropsychology
The SciencesAugust 1, 2008
DEET Beaters
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2008
Conservation—Saving Kermit
A repopulation plan for endangered amphibians
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2008
A Bug's Life—Q&A With Isabella Rossellini
A humanized view of invertebrate love
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2008
Eating With Tension
Ecology -- Oncology -- Immunology -- Privacy
The SciencesJune 1, 2008
A New Iron Age
New class of superconductor may help pin down mysterious physics
The SciencesJune 1, 2008
Destroyer of Worlds... and Ozone
The SciencesJune 1, 2008
Punishing Scents
The SciencesMay 5, 2008
A Bug's Sex Life: A Q&A with Isabella Rossellini
Green Porno—a humanized view of invertebrate love
EnvironmentMay 1, 2008
Smokestack Soak-Up
EvolutionMay 1, 2008
Split Defense
The SciencesMay 1, 2008
Copy That
Identical twins are not genetically identical
TechnologyApril 1, 2008
The New Black
The SciencesApril 1, 2008
Lost City, Found Hydrocarbons
The SciencesApril 1, 2008
Double-Helix Double Up
Identical DNA strands recognize one another from afar
TechnologyMarch 1, 2008
Not Tonight, Dear, I Have to Reboot
Is love and marriage with robots an institute you can disparage? Computing pioneer David Levy doesn't think so - he expects people to wed droids by midcentury. Is that a good thing?
Mind & BrainMarch 1, 2008
Fact or Fiction?
Do You Need Only Half Your Brain?
The SciencesMarch 1, 2008
Crystal Math