American Scientist

"Managing the Environmental Legacy of U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Production," by Kevin D. Crowley and John F. Ahearne

"Why Leaves Turn Red," by David Lee and Kevin Gould

"The Origin of the Solar Wind," by Richard Woo and Shadia Rifai Habbal

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Polarized Gases," by Stephen Kadlecek

"Science as Theater," by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Harry Lustig

"Observing the Beginning of Time," by Craig J. Hogan

"Ethnoclimatology in the Andes," by Benjamin S. Orlove, John C. H. Chiang and Mark A. Cane

"Deep-Ocean Life Where Oxygen Is Scarce," by Lisa A. Levin

"Protein Folding and Misfolding," by Jonathan King, Cameron Haase-Pettingell and David Gossard

"Gardening in Space," by David E. H. Jones

"Serendipitous Radiation Monitors," by Robert L. Fleischer

"The Evolutionary Ecology of Escherichia coli," by Valeria Souza, Amanda Castillo and Luis Eguiarte

"Cluster Dynamics: Fast Reactions and Coulomb Explosion," by Lutz Poth, Eric S. Wisniewski and A. Welford Castleman, Jr.

"Protein Structures: From Famine to Feast," by Helen M. Berman, David S. Goodsell and Philip Bourne

"Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition," by George Saliba

"The Global Transport of Dust," by Dale W. Griffin, Christina A. Kellogg, Virginia H. Garrison and Eugene A. Shinn

"Why We See What We Do," by Dale Purves, R. Beau Lotto and Surajit Nundy

"Traffic Crashes," by Leonard Evans

"Hybridization and Extinction," by Donald A. Levin

"Quantum Identity" by Peter Pesic

"Adaptive Radiation of Darwin's Finches," by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant

"Free-Floating Planets and Stellar Clusters," by Jarrod Hurley and Michael Shara

"The Rise and Fall of Rudist Reefs," by Claudia Johnson

"Manatees, Bioacoustics and Boats," by Edmund R. Gerstein

"Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics," by Gregory J. Chaitin