Scientific american (July 2004)

Scientific American

Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 2
Testing Madness……Page 4
On the Web……Page 5
Letters to the Editors……Page 6
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago……Page 9
News Scan……Page 10
Innovations: Overcoming Self……Page 21
Staking Claims: If It’s Broke, Fix It……Page 23
Skeptic: God’s Number Is Up……Page 24
Insights: Doom and Gloom by 2100……Page 25
The Extraordinary Deaths of Ordinary Stars……Page 27
Gene Doping……Page 37
Magnetic Field Nanosensors……Page 45
When Methane Made Climate……Page 53
Detecting Mad Cow Disease……Page 61
The Shapes of Space……Page 69
The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript……Page 79
Working Knowledge: Big Air……Page 85
Voyages: Stars atop a Silent Volcano……Page 87
Reviews: Where the Wild Things Were……Page 89
Anti Gravity: Einstein’s Parrot……Page 91
Ask the Experts……Page 92