Volume 96; Issue 4

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Volume 96; Issue 4

American Scientist

Volume 96; Issue 4

1

Binary Stars with Habitable Planets: Although they have not yet been found, Earthlike worlds with two suns most likely exist

Nader Haghighipour

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.75 MB

english, 2008

2

From the Acting Editor: Retirement of the Guard

David Schoonmaker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1006 KB

english, 2008

3

Sea Change

Review by: Elizabeth Tyler

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1007 KB

english, 2008

4

In the News

Q. S. McFrederick, J. C. Kathilankal, J. D. Fuentes, B. L. Beatty, B. M. Rothschild, M. Aldenderfer, N. M. Craig, R. J. Speakman, R. Popelka-Filcoff, K. L. Spalding, D. Bickford, D. Iskandar, A. Barli

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 252 KB

english, 2008

5

Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.33 MB

english, 2008

6

Ecological Responses to Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula: The Peninsula is an icy world that's warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, threatening a rich but delicate biological community

James McClintock, Hugh Ducklow and William Fraser

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.05 MB

english, 2008

7

The First Discovery of DNA: Few remember the man who discovered the "molecule of life" three-quarters of a century before Watson and Crick revealed its structure

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.88 MB

english, 2008

8

La Vie en Rose: You might think that farming salmon would relieve pressure on wild populations. But, in fact, it only makes things worse

David Schneider

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 570 KB

english, 2008

9

The Psychoacoustics of Harmony Perception: Centuries after three-part harmony entered Western music, research in starting to clarify why different chords sound tense or resolved, cheerful or melancholy

Norman D. Cook and Takefumi Hayashi

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.16 MB

english, 2008

10

Achieving Immortality

Review by: David Walker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 801 KB

english, 2008

11

Saturn's Earthlike Moon

Review by: Fred Taylor

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 856 KB

english, 2008

12

Life of Pief

Review by: Silvan S. Schweber

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.10 MB

english, 2008

13

Sites for Change: Thousands of Superfund sites are designated as active by the U.S. government. An online project will highlight 365 of the worst

Anna Lena Phillips

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 596 KB

english, 2008

14

Macroscope: Examining the Vision

Louis D. Friedman and G. Scott Hubbard

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.05 MB

english, 2008

15

Blighted Hopes

Review by: David Vandermast

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 768 KB

english, 2008

16

Marginalia: All Things Small and Great

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 773 KB

english, 2008

17

Sightings: Symmetric Bat Flight

Robert Kosara and David H. Laidlaw

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.22 MB

english, 2008

18

How To Be Objective

Review by: Jan Golinski

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.08 MB

english, 2008

19

Letters to the Editors

Julian Kane, John F. Tavolaro, Yvonne Korshak, Jim Nottke and Steven H. Yaskell

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

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english

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PDF, 913 KB

english, 2008

20

Computing Science: The Britney Spears Problem

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

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english

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PDF, 2.04 MB

english, 2008

21

Handmaiden to the Science?

Review by: Michael Ruse

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 723 KB

english, 2008

22

Engineering: William Barclay Parsons

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

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english

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PDF, 1.07 MB

english, 2008

23

Programs and Probabilities

Review by: Brian Hayes

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 889 KB

english, 2008

24

Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.88 MB

english, 2008

25

Know-How

Review by: Michael Lynch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 776 KB

english, 2008

26

DIY Science

David Schneider, Kristen Greenaway and Dane Summers

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 314 KB

english, 2008