American Scientist

"Plant Scents," by Eran Pichersky

"Heavy-Metal Nuclear Power," by Eric P. Loewen

"Relative Pitch and the Song of Black-Capped Chickadees," by Ron G. Weisman and Laurene Ratcliffe

"The Puzzling Origins of AIDS," by Jim Moore

"The Decline of the Blue Crab," by Richard F. Lee and Marc E. Frischer

"Cell Fusion," by Brenda M. Ogle and Jeffrey L. Platt

"Diamagnetic Levitation," by Ronald E. Pelrine

"The Design and Function of Cochlear Implants," by Michael F. Dorman and Blake S. Wilson

"The Lifestyles of the Trilobites," by Richard A. Fortey

"The World's Highest Forest," by Jessica Purcell, Alan Brelsford and Michael Kessler

"How Do Supercontinents Assemble?" by J. Brendan Murphy and R. Damian Nance

"Mad-Cow Disease in Cattle and Human Beings," by Paul Brown

"Amazing Organohalogens," by Gordon W. Gribble

"Gravitational Waves and the Effort to Detect Them," by Peter S. Shawhan

"Free Will and Free Won't," by Sukhvinder S. Obhi and Patrick Haggard

"The Imperiled Giants of the Mekong," by Zeb S. Hogan, Peter B. Moyle, Bernie May, M. Jake Vander Zanden and Ian G. Baird

"Optically Trapped Fermi Gases," by John E. Thomas and Michael E. Gehm

"The Structure of the Human Brain," by John S. Allen, Joel Bruss and Hanna Damasio

"Leaves, Flowers and Garbage Bags: Making Waves," by Eran Sharon, Michael Marder and Harry L. Swinney

"The Shadow Effect and the Case of Félix Tisserand," by William I. McLaughlin and Sylvia L. Miller

"Internal Tides and the Continental Slope," by David A. Cacchione and Lincoln F. Pratson

"Amphibian Decline and Emerging Disease," by Joseph M. Kiesecker, Lisa K. Belden, Katriona Shea and Michael J. Rubbo

"The Origin of Matter," by James M. Cline

"The Artificial Nile," by Scott W. Nixon

"The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual," by Richard Sosis