American Scientist

"Biofilms," by Joe J. Harrison, Raymond J. Turner, Lyrium L. R. Marques and Howard Ceri

"Imaging Earthlike Exoplanets," by Thomas J. Sherrill

"How Tunas and Lamnid Sharks Swim: An Evolutionary Convergence," by Robert E. Shadwick

"Yawning," by Robert R. Provine

"Ancient Wollemi Pines Resurgent," by Stephan McLoughlin and Vivi Vajda

"Fighting Cancer Through the Study of Sarcomas," by Igor Matushansky and Robert Maki

"Detecting Illicit Nuclear Materials," by Richard T. Kouzes

"Cheating Viruses and Game Theory," by Paul E. Turner

"Charting Color from the Eye of the Beholder," by Edward R. Landa and Mark D. Fairchild

"Water Fountains with Special Effects," by Said Shakerin

"A New Understanding of Protein Mutation Unfolds," by P. Michael Conn and Jo Ann Janovick

"Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization," by Larry C. Peterson and Gerald H. Haug

"Feeling Smart: The Science of Emotional Intelligence," by Daisy Grewal and Peter Salovey

"The Mystery of Masting in Trees," by Walter D. Koenig and Johannes M. H. Knops

"The Collapse of the Kinzua Viaduct," by Thomas Leech

"Predicting a Baseball's Path," by A. Terry Bahill, David G. Baldwin and Jayendran Venkateswaran

"The Lion's Mane," by Peyton M. West

"Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background," by Matthew Hedman

"New Ideas About Old Sharks," by Susan Turner and Randall F. Miller

"Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s," by Edward B. Davis

"The Ecology and Evolution of Hawaiian Spider Communities," by Rosemary Gillespie

"Fuel Efficiency and the Economy," by Roger H. Bezdek and Robert M. Wendling

"Predicting Addiction," by Lisa N. Legrand, William G. Iacono and Matt McGue

"Monitoring Elusive Mammals," by James G. Sanderson, Mogens Trolle

"Physics and Feynman's Diagrams," by David Kaiser