
Cosmic Puffery
Whither goest the big bang?
Madhusree Mukerjee was a senior editor at Scientific American, where she covered psychology, anthropology, and diverse other topics. She has authored two nonfiction books: Churchill’s Secret War (Basic Books, 2010) and The Land of Naked People (Houghton-Mifflin, 2003). She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book. She has written numerous articles on Indigenous issues, development, and colonialism and is working on a third book.

Cosmic Puffery
Whither goest the big bang?

Pink Gold
The trials and tribulations of shrimp farming

Pushing the Envelope for Vaccines

Sowing where you Reap
Profits from biodiversity are neither easy to pinpoint nor to protect

Engendering Faces

Interview with a Parrot

The Berry and the Parasite
A 30-year struggle to control schistosomiasis has revealed much about patents and profits

Seeing the World in a Snowflake

Regulating the Body Business
The future is not what it might have been

Changing their Image

Explaining Everything

About Face

Giving your All

Hidden Scars
Sexual and other abuse may alter a brain region

Quasimodal

Toxins Abounding
Despite the lessons of Bhopal, chemical accidents are on the rise

Persistently Toxic
The Union Carbide accident in Bhopal continues to harm

Tribal Struggle
Stone Age guardians of the Andaman Islands fight to survive.

Coming Out in the Sciences

The Fishy Business of Waste
Development near Calcutta may thwart age-old recycling

Liquid Crystals on Display

Nuclear Empowerment

Strings and Gluons—The Seer Saw Them All

Mystery of the Missing Dynamo
Astronomers cannot explain the galaxy's magnetic field