American Scientist

"Genetics and the Shape of Dogs," by Elaine A. Ostrander

"Are Planetary Systems Filled to Capacity?" by Steven Soter

"Secrets in the Shell," by Roberto Ballarini and Arthur H. Heuer

"Revolutionary Minds," by Susan Solomon, John S. Daniel and Daniel L. Druckenbrod

"The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?" by Philip W. Mote and Georg Kaser

"Feel the Burn," by Gina M. Story and Lillian Cruz-Orengo

"Cassini: The First One Thousand Days," by Carolyn C. Porco

"Kelvin, Perry and the Age of the Earth," by Philip C. England, Peter Molnar and Frank M. Richter

"Liquid-Mirror Telescopes," by Paul Hickson

"Extreme Microbes," by Shiladitya DasSarma

"Soot: Giver and Taker of Light," by Christopher R. Shaddix and Timothy C. Williams

"The Uniqueness of Human Recursive Thinking," by Michael C. Corballis

"The Most Dangerous Equation," by Howard Wainer

"Uncovering Prehistoric Hurricane Activity," by Kam-biu Liu

"Multiscale Modeling in Biology," by Santiago Schnell, Ramon Grima and Philip K. Maini

"Imprinted and More Equal," by Randy L. Jirtle and Jennifer R. Weidman

"Amber's Botanical Origins Revealed," by Jorge A. Santiago-Blay and Joseph B. Lambert

"Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles for a Sustainable Future," by Andrew A. Frank

"Why We Develop Food Allergies," by Per Brandtzaeg

"Gauging Earthquake Hazards with Precariously Balanced Rocks," by James N. Brune, Matthew D. Purvance and Abdolrasool Anooshehpoor

"The Mysterious Origins of the Sweet Apple," by Barrie E. Juniper

"The Formation of Snow Crystals," by Kenneth G. Libbrecht

"When Averages Hide Individual Differences in Clinical Trials," by David Kent and Rodney Hayward

"Gracilization of the Modern Human Skeleton," by Christopher B. Ruff

"Tamper-Indicating Seals," by Roger G. Johnston

"Embarrassment: A Form of Social Pain," by Christine R. Harris

"The Sounds of Spacetime," by Craig J. Hogan

"Growing Up with Chernobyl," by Robert K. Chesser and Robert J. Baker

"Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island," by Terry L. Hunt

"Extrasolar Planetary Systems," by Gregory P. Laughlin

"Algae-Dominated Reefs," by Peter S. Vroom, Kimberly N. Page, Jean C. Kenyon and Russell E. Brainard

"Modifying Light," by Joseph A. Castellano

"The Zebrafish Exposed," by Ralf Dahm

"Protecting Ourselves from Shellfish Poisoning," by Mary Wilcox Silver

"Sleep to Remember," by Matthew P. Walker

"The Source of Europe's Mild Climate," by Richard Seager

"Constructing Animal Locomotion from New Thermodynamics Theory," by Adrian Bejan and James H. Marden

"The Topology and Combinatorics of Soccer Balls," by Dieter Kotschick

"Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms," by Thomas D. Seeley, P. Kirk Visscher and Kevin M. Passino

"The Interplanetary Transport Network," by Shane D. Ross

"Genetic Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases," by Fred Gould, Krisztian Magori and Yunxin Huang

"Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain," by Irving Biederman and Edward A. Vessel

"A Coprological View of Ancestral Pueblo Cannibalism," by Karl J. Reinhard