Scientific American Contents, Volume 312 Number 6, pp 4 - 84

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TABLE OF CONTENTS June 2015 Volume 312, 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 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 Promises and Perils   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-4 Letters Top Letters   pp6 - 8 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-6 Science Agenda Top A Last Right for Dying Patients   p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-10 Forum Top Ending a Cruel Legacy   p12 Barbara J. King doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-12 Advances Top Dark Matter Drops a Clue   pp15 - 17 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-15 By the Numbers   p17 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-17 Prehistoric Swagger   p18 Sarah Lewin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-18 Quick Hits   p19 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-19 The Doctor Will See You Now   p20 Ferris Jabr doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-20 From Babbling Bats to Baby Talk   p21 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-21 Our Personal Vaccine Helpers   p22 Katherine Harmon Courage doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-22 Flying Saucers for Mars   p23 Lee Billings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-23 Rain-Forest Threats Resume   p24 Richard Schiffman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-24 Kiddo Knows Best   p25 Andrea Alfano doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-25 An Apocalypse Think Tank   p26 Erin Biba doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-26 The Science of Health Top The Not So Silent Epidemic   pp27 - 28 David Noonan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-27 TechnoFiles Top The Upgrade Game   p29 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-29 Features Top The Amazing Teen Brain   pp32 - 37 Jay N. Giedd doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-32 All the Light There Ever Was   pp38 - 43 Alberto Dominguez, Joel R. Primack and Trudy E. Bell doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-38 Cells on Fire   pp44 - 49 Wajahat Z. Mehal doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-44 The Networked Animal   pp50 - 55 Lee Alan Dugatkin and Matthew Hasenjager doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-50 Birth of a Rocket   pp56 - 65 David H. Freedman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-56 The Mystery of Case 0425   pp66 - 71 Ananda Rose doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-66 The Dengue Stopper   pp72 - 77 Scott O'Neill doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-72 Reviews and Recommendations Top Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-78a How to Bake ∏: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-78b The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-78c American Genius   p78 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-78d Skeptic Top Scientia Humanitatis    p80 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-80 Anti Gravity Top Gold Flush   p81 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-81 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p82 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-82 Graphic Science Top Twists of Fate   p84 Dina Fine Maron doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-84 Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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