American Scientist

"Archaeology from the Air," by William E. Carter, Ramesh L. Shrestha, and Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz

"The Penguin's Palette—More Than Black and White," by Daniel T. Ksepka

"Fire in Microgravity," by Indrek S. Wichman, Sarah L. Olsen, Fletcher J. Miller, and Ashwin Hariharan

"Where the Xingu Bends and Will Soon Break," by Mark Sabaj Pérez

"Restoring Depth to Leonardo's Mona Lisa," by Claus-Christian Carbon and Vera M. Hesslinger

"The Rising Cost of Resources and Global Indicators of Change," by Carey W. King

"In Defense of Pure Mathematics," by Daniel S. Silver

"The Most Powerful Movements in Biology," by S.N. Patek

"The Past and Future Space Suit," by David P. Cadogan

"Do Humans Possess a Second Sense of Hearing?" by Neil Todd

"A Protective Cloak Against Earthquakes and Storms," by Gregory J. Gbur

"African Names for American Plants," by Tinde R. van Andel

"Shark Trails of the Eastern Pacific," by A. Peter Klimley

"The Voyagers’ Odyssey," by Stamatios M. Krimigis and Robert B. Decker

"Modern Lessons from Ancient Food Webs," by Justin D. Yeakel and Jennifer A. Dunne

"The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt,"by Kevin Heng and Joshua Winn

"Taste, Sickness, and Learning," by Terry L. Davidson and Anthony L. Riley

"Fabrication at the Nano Scale with Molds and Imprinting," by Jaslyn B. K. Law

"The Fatigue Conundrum," by Ashley Nunes and Philippe Cabon

"How Animals Communicate Via Pheromones," by Tristram D. Wyatt

"Carbon Nanotubes Deliver in Medicine," by Khuloud T. Al-Jamal

"The Origins of Lying and Deception in Everyday Life," by Michael Lewis

"Phytoliths: The Storytelling Stones Inside Plants," by Thomas C. Hart

"What Next for Particle Physics?" by Jon Butterworth

"Arsenic, the 'King of Poisons,' in Food and Water," by Andrew Yosim, Kathryn Bailey, and Rebecca C. Fry

"Journey to the Solar System's Third Zone," by S. Alan Stern

"The Acoustic World of Harbor Porpoises," by Magnus Wahlberg, Meike Linnenschmidt, Peter T. Madsen, Danuta M. Wisniewska, and Lee A. Miller

"When the Cause of Stroke is Cryptic," by David M. Kent and David E. Thaler

"Like Holding a Piece of Sky," by Mark Miodownik

"Candy Crush’s Puzzling Mathematics," by Toby Walsh

"The Evolutionary Truth About Living Fossils," by Alexander J. Werth and William A. Shear

"Curious Chemistry Guides Hydrangea Colors," by Henry D. Schreiber

"Estrogen in Men," by Erik Wibowo and Richard Wassersug

"The Statistical Crisis in Science," by Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken

"A Threat to New Zealand’s Tuatara Heats Up," by Kristine L. Grayson, Nicola J. Mitchell, and Nicola J. Nelson

"Master of Missing Elements," by Eric R. Scerri

"What’s in a Grasp?" by David A. Rosenbaum, Oliver Herbort, Robrecht van der Wel, and Daniel J. Weiss

"New Twists in Earth’s Radiation Belts," by Daniel N. Baker

"Quietest Places in the World," by Trevor Cox