How to Grow New Organs
Pioneers in building living tissue report important advances over the past decade
Features
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse
What Makes Us Human?
Comparisons of the genomes of humans and chimpanzees are revealing those rare stretches of DNA that are ours alone
Our Planet's Leaky Atmosphere
As Earth's air slowly trickles away into space, will our planet come to look like Venus?
How Hackers Can Steal Secrets from Reflections
Information thieves can now go around encryption, networks and the operating system
How to Build Nanotech Motors
Catalytic engines enable tiny swimmers to harness fuel from their environment and overcome the weird physics of the microscopic world
Departments
The Costs of Expanding the Government's Economic Role [Extended version]
On a Mission to Save Sloths
50 Years Ago: Impact of Airplanes on Rural New Guinea
50 Years Ago: Cargo Cults of Melanesia
Ask the Experts
- From the Editor
See No Evil: The Danger of (Human) Primates
- Letters
Readers Respond to "The Latest Face of Creationism"
- Advances
A Sex Chip? Targeting the Brain's Pleasure Center with Electrodes
How Giant Pterosaurs Took Flight
Cancer Clues from Embryonic Development
Free Radical Shift: Antioxidants may not increase life span
News Scan Briefs: Logic That Feels the Noise
Mapping the Universe with Helium
Taming Humanity's Urge to War
Quiet Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance
Updates: Whatever Happened to the Universal Flu Vaccine?
Data Points: Buzzed
Bug Off
Planning of the Apes
Float Your Boat
Half Empty or Half Full
- Recommended
Scientific American reviews: Manhattan, circa 1609
- Skeptic
The Contradictions between the Creationist Movements
- Perspectives
The Need to Regulate "Designer Babies"
- In Brief
In Brief, May 2009
