Scientific American Contents, December 2013 Volume 309 Number 6, pp 6 - 88

TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2013 Volume 309, Issue 6 From the Editor Letters Science Agenda Forum Advances The Science of Health TechnoFiles Features Reviews and Recommendations Skeptic Anti Gravity 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Graphic Science Recommend to your library Web feed Available online only Subscribe Advertisement Scientific American Recommend to your library for online access Scientific American provides you with an overview of the latest in science and technology. Covering everything from medical research and hypertension to global climate change and evolution, Scientific American offers researchers, students, educators an online scientific resource they can rely on. Recommend site license access to your library today!   From the Editor Top One Atom at a Time   p6 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-6 Letters Top Letters   pp8 - 9 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-8 Science Agenda Top Terrorism's Red Gold   p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-10 Forum Top Brain Exports   p13 Harold O. Levy doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-13 Advances Top Bionic Limbs, Rewired   p14 Gary Stix doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-14 Looking for a Flu Killer   p16 Anna Kuchment doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-16a By the Numbers   p16 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-16b Bugs, Yes. Spiders, No   p17 Rachel Nuwer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-17 Breaking Bad, Bacteria-Style   p18 Robyn Braun doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-18 FIFA Physics   p19 Julianne Chiaet doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-19 Escape from the Milky Way   p20 Nathan Collins doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-20 Play Nice   p21 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-21 Waiting for a Neutrino No-Show   p22 Calla Cofield doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-22 Rare California Cypress Is Recovering under Federal Protection   p23 John R. Platt doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-23 Kepler's Second Life   p24 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-24 Follow the Leader   p26 Carrie Arnold doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-26a By the Numbers   p26 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-26b Ugly Science Pays Off   p27 Rachel Feltman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-27 What is It?   p28 Rachel Feltman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-28 The Science of Health Top Scanning for Alzheimer's   pp30 - 31 Ingfei Chen doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-30 TechnoFiles Top The Problem with Lego Phones   p32 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-32 Features Top World Changing Ideas   pp34 - 35 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-34 The Stuff of Dreams   pp36 - 40 Gerbrand Ceder and Kristin Persson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-36 Turning CO2, Pumped Underground, Into Stone   pp41 - 42 Dave Levitan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-41 Lego-like Composites Snap into Place to Make Superstrong, Affordable Structures   pp42 - 43 Marissa Fessenden doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-42 Worms and Octopuses Inspire Pliable Machines that Go Where No Metallic Robots Can   pp43 - 44 Larry Greenemeier doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-43 Novel Substances that can Deflect Light Could Lead to Superfast Internet and Razor-thin Smartphones   p44 Lee Billings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-44 Microbes in Our Gut Could be Manipulated to Fight Illnesses and Infections   pp45 - 46 Katherine Harmon Courage doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-45 A New Type of Security Chip Guards Against Big Data Snooping   pp46 - 47 Charles Q. Choi doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-46 A Toolbox-size Lab Flags Knockoff Pills and Potions   pp47 - 48 Daisy Yuhas doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-47 Flexible, Stretchable Screens Could Put a Rolled-up Tablet in Your Pocket   p48 Charles Q. Choi doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-48a Small Tubes of Antiseptic Could Prevent 500,000 Infant Deaths a Year   pp48 - 49 Dina Fine Maron doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-48b Fungi on the March   pp50 - 57 Jennifer Frazer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-50 How Google Is Changing Your Brain   pp58 - 61 Daniel M. Wegner and Adrian F. Ward doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-58 Good with Faces   pp62 - 67 Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Adrian G. Dyer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-62 Coming Soon: A Supernova Near You   pp68 - 73 Ray Jayawardhana doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-68 Architects of the Swamp   pp74 - 79 John Carey doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-74 Reviews and Recommendations Top Tigers Forever   p80 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-80a Shaping Humanity   p80 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-80b Beautiful Geometry   p80 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-80c Skeptic Top Is God Dying?   p82 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-82 Anti Gravity Top Phoning It In   p84 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-84 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p86 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-86 Graphic Science Top Where the Wild Bees Are   p88 Ferris Jabr doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1213-88 Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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