HealthMarch 1, 2009
Updates: Whatever Happened to Drugs from Goats?
Also: updates on nanotech medicine, space shuttle Columbia's last moments, and the five aspects of taste
Stories by Philip Yam
Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.
EnvironmentFebruary 1, 2009
Updates: Whatever Happened to the Risk for Another Indian Ocean Tsunami?
Also: updates on rabies recoveries, bioterror risks and the genetic tracking of religious persecution
TechnologyJanuary 10, 2009
The Multipath to Clarity
One Scientific American editor's recipe for receiving HDTV over the air: Equal parts luck and patience
The SciencesJanuary 1, 2009
Updates: Whatever Happened to Natural Blood-Vessel Dilators?
Also: updates on cloning mice and extinction by disease
The SciencesDecember 1, 2008
News Scan Briefs: Blocking Sound with Holes
Also: electric fields increase fuel economy, sacrificial ants, explosive-free fertilizer and vanishing species
The SciencesDecember 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to Midsize Black Holes?
Also: updates on HIV's origins, Neandertal fishing and transgenic guidelines
The SciencesNovember 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to Virus-Built Batteries?
Also Updates on brown fat, diabetes and methane from grass
The SciencesOctober 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to LED Lightbulbs?
Also Updates on Bubbles Producing Light, Virus-Infecting Viruses and Galapagos Tortoise Breeding
HealthOctober 1, 2008
Infection Correction
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
HealthSeptember 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to Anesthesia and Pain?
Also updates on Planetary Protection from Jupiter; Personal Gene Tests; Valdez Payout
HealthSeptember 1, 2008
The New Stone Age
Space & PhysicsAugust 1, 2008
New Close-Ups on Mars, Courtesy of Phoenix
For more SciAm.com coverage of the Phoenix Lander's mission on Mars, click here
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2008
News Scan Briefs: Iron-Tough Paper; DEET-free Repellent; Artificial Corneas
Biology -- Repellents -- Materials -- Neuropsychology
The SciencesAugust 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to Robotic Limbs?
Genomic Exit -- Mind-Controlled Limbs -- Ad Hoc Networks -- Isolated Peoples
Mind & BrainAugust 1, 2008
Is That Your Final Offer?
The SciencesJuly 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to Protecting Cells from Radiation?
Ozone Warming -- Antiradiation -- Quantum Novelty -- Babbage Computer
The SciencesJune 1, 2008
Updates: Whatever Happened to . . . ?
Self-Cleaning Clothes -- Titan's Ocean? -- Synthetic Success -- Crisis Mapping
The SciencesMay 1, 2008
Whatever Happened to the Pioneer Spacecraft?
More Pioneer Anomalies -- Black Hole Labs -- Hair-Raising Work -- Tuna Triumph
Space & PhysicsApril 1, 2008
Mercury Rising
Mind & BrainApril 1, 2008
Eye on the Illusion
The SciencesApril 1, 2008
Updates.... Whatever Happened To?
Nanotubes -- Offshore Wind Power -- Synthetic Genome -- Stress at Work
Mind & BrainMarch 1, 2008
Choosiness for Cooperation
The SciencesMarch 1, 2008
Updates.... Whatever Happened To?
Hoyle's Missing Equation -- Flu Sites -- Artificial Capillaries -- Stubborn Scores