American Scientist

"White Dwarf Stars," by Steven Kawaler and Michael Dahlstrom

"Gene Chips and Functional Genomics," by Hisham Hamadeh and Cynthia Afshari

"The Power of Sound," by Steven L. Garrett and Scott Backhaus

"Scientific Publication Trends and the Developing World," by Antonio Gálvez, Mercedes Maqueda, Manuel Martínez-Bueno and Eva Valdivia

"The Case of Agent Gorbachev," by Kristie Macrakis

"The Search for QCD Exotics," by Alex R. Dzierba, Curtis A. Meyer and Eric S. Swanson

"Pollination of Cacti in the Sonoran Desert," by Theodore H. Fleming

"A New Urban Ecology," by James P. Collins, Ann Kinzig, Nancy B. Grimm, William F. Fagan, Diane Hope, Jianguo Wu and Elizabeth Borer

"Brain Plasticity and Recovery from Stroke," by Nina P. Azari and Rüdiger J. Seitz

"Andrew Ellicott Douglass and the Big Trees," by Donald J. McGraw

"Depression and the Birth and Death of Brain Cells," by Barry L. Jacobs, Henriette van Praag and Fred H. Gage

"Testing Ecological Patterns," by James G. Sanderson

"The Heart of the Milky Way," by Fulvio Melia

"Mathematical Devices for Getting a Fair Share," by Theodore P. Hill

"Measuring Success in Conservation," by Leah R. Gerber, Douglas P. DeMaster and Simona Perry Roberts

"Reengineering the Electric Grid," by Thomas J. Overbye

"Biomolecules and Nanotechnology," by David S. Goodsell

"Vision and the Coding of Natural Images," by Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. Field

"Mitochondrial DNA and the Peopling of the New World," by Theodore G. Schurr

"Superconducting Cosmic Strings,," by Alejandro Gangui

"Tracking Down a Cheating Gene," by Barry Ganetzky

"Simulating Solar Prominences in the Laboratory," by Paul M. Bellan

"What Do Animals Think About Numbers?" by Marc D. Hauser

"Foams and Honeycombs," by Erica G. Klarreich

"Electroshock Revisited," by Max Fink