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Storm Warnings: Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Scientific American 2012; US$ 3.99Hurricanes. Blizzards. Flooding. Drought. If extreme events like these seem to be on the rise, it?s for apparent reason. The first three-quarters of 2012 brought the worst European winter in 25 years; massive flooding in Australia, Brazil and China; a deepening drought affecting over 50% of the US; and Hurricane Sandy inflicted massive damage on... more...
Remember When?
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99We don?t often marvel at the process of remembering?that is, until we forget. What allows us to remember, and how do we forget? Most importantly, why do we remember certain things and not others? In this e-book, Remember When? The Science of Memory, we explore what science can tell us about memory, starting with an introductory section defining what... more...
Eat, Move, Think
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99While many of us strive to live healthy lives, the task can be daunting and the information overwhelming. Should we be more concerned with our diet or with keeping our weight down? How important is exercise? What kinds of diseases should we really be worried about getting?or preventing? In this eBook, ?Eat, Move, Think: Living Healthy,? we?ve assembled... more...
HIV and AIDS
Scientific American 2012; US$ 3.99On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC regarding a terrible and mysterious new illness that caused immune system failure. A year passed before it had a name: AIDS. Reported infections skyrocketed while science raced to understand a virus that hid among our own cells and mutated quickly. Three decades later,... more...
The Higgs Boson
Scientific American 2012; US$ 3.99As the old adage goes, where there?s smoke, there?s fire. Where there is effect, there must be cause. The planet Neptune was found in 1846 because the mathematics of Newton's laws, when applied to the orbit of Uranus, said some massive body had to be there. Astronomers eventually found it, using the best telescopes available to peer into the sky.... more...
A Look Back
Scientific American 2012; US$ 3.99It?s hard to believe 2012 is coming to a close. Lucky for us, this year has seen some amazing science, and in this eBook, we?ve compiled Scientific American?s best stories of 2012 with an eye on content, authorship and news value. Section One kicks off with the award-winners. This year, Scientific American editors received awards from the National... more...
A.I. and Genius Machines
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99In science fiction, artificial intelligence takes the shape of computers that can speak like people, think for themselves, and sometimes act against us. Sometimes the machines seem to know everything, and symbolize implacable and unknowable power, as in The Matrix. Such machines can also embody the limits of logic, and by extension our own powers... more...
Disarming Cupid
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99Sometimes All You Need Is Love; sometimes Love Is a Battlefield. Whether Love Hurts, Bites, Will Keep Us Together, Will Tear Us Apart or Is a Four-Letter Word, it seems we Want To Know What Love Is. Love ? in both the abstract and the up-close-and-personal ? has always provided limitless inspiration for artists, writers and musicians, but scientists... more...
The Future of Energy
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99Since the Industrial Revolution our civilization has depended on fossil fuels to generate energy ? first it was coal; then petroleum. But there are two problems: the first is that petroleum isn't an infinite resource; and the second is that burning coal and oil puts billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, trapping heat. Temperatures... more...
Possibilities in Parallel
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99Parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, and it's no wonder. They allow us to explore the question, "what if?" in a way that lets us step completely outside of the world we know, rather than question how that world might have turned out differently. For cosmologists, the question isn't "what if the South won the Civil War?" but "what if... more...









