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Scientific American Magazine
| Energy & Sustainability
Surprising new evidence suggests the pace of Earth's most abrupt prehistoric warm-up paled in comparison with what we face today. The episode has lessons for our future
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Lee R. Kump
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12 hours ago |
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Web Exclusives
| Energy & Sustainability
Rocks on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean may offer fresh insights into previous worldwide climate change episodes
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Sarah Simpson
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12 hours ago
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Web Exclusives
| Evolution
The animal kingdom contains all manner of visual organs
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The Editors
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Evolution
Scientists now have a clear vision of how our notoriously complex eye came to be
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Trevor D. Lamb
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Space
Leonard Susskind rebelled as a teen and never stopped. Today he insists that reality may forever be beyond reach of our understanding
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Peter Byrne
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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Web Exclusives
| Technology
Cyber security threats to critical infrastructure are not just theoretical
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Francie Diep
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Technology
Computer viruses have taken out hardened industrial control systems. The electrical power grid may be next
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David M. Nicol
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Health
Decoding how a mosquito sniffs out human targets could lead to better traps and repellents that cut malaria's spread
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John R. Carlson
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Allison F. Carey
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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Web Exclusives
| Health
Researchers are learning much more about how Anopheles gambiae, the primary malaria mosquito, uses its smell organs to find human targets; the work involved stunning images from scanning electron microscopes
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Mark Fischetti
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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Web Exclusives
| Space
By
George Musser
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Mind & Brain
The laws of physics may well prevent the human brain from evolving into an ever more powerful thinking machine
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Douglas Fox
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Web Exclusives
| Mind & Brain
Join Scientific American's contest to show why conscious humans best unconscious computers and win a recently authored book by renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch
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Christof Koch
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Giulio Tononi
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Jun 13, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| Technology
How will we know when we've built a sentient computer? By making it solve a simple puzzle
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Christof Koch
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Giulio Tononi
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Jun 13, 2011 |
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Scientific American Magazine
| More Science
One species of soil microbe makes unusually wise communal decisions
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Anna Kuchment
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Jun 13, 2011
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Web Exclusives
| More Science
Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab, and Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the cover piece in the May issue on radical energy solutions
Jun 10, 2011