Scientific American Magazine Vol 286 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 286, Issue 6

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Features

The Complexity of Coffee

One of life's simple pleasures is really quite complicated

Ernesto Illy

The Life Cycle of Galaxies

Astronomers are on the verge of explaining the enigmatic variety of galaxies

Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch

Essay: No Truth to the Fountain of Youth

Bruce A. Carnes, Leonard Hayflick, S. Jay Olshansky

Islands of Genius

Artistic brilliance and a dazzling memory can sometimes accompany autism and other developmental disorders

Darold A. Treffert, Gregory L. Wallace

Disturbing Behaviors of the Orangutan

Studies of these great apes show that some males pursue an unexpected and disquieting evolutionary strategy

Anne Nacey Maggioncalda and Robert M. Sapolsky

Hope in a Vial

Will there be an AIDS vaccine anytime soon?

Carol Ezzell

Spintronics

Microelectronic devices that function by using the spin of the electron are a nascent multibillion-dollar industry--and may lead to quantum microchips

David D. Awschalom, Michael E. Flatté and Nitin Samarth

Departments

Data Points: Shark Bites Man

Brief Bits: June 2002 - (www.sciam.com/news: Brief Bits)

Ask the Experts: June 2002

Fuzzy Logic

About the Size of It

Men, Money and Malaria

Bad Things Happen

Whatever You Say

Hidden Guides

Thinking Big

50, 150 and 150 years ago

A Death Every 30 Seconds

Man of Two Cultures

Privacy Taboos

Letters

The Shamans of Scientism

Wanted: More Mothers of Invention