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TABLE OF CONTENTS August 2015 Volume 313, Issue 2 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 Happy 170th!   p4 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-4   Letters Top Letters   pp6 - 8 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-6   Science Agenda Top Docs, Glocks and Stray Bullets   p10 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-10   Forum Top Space Cowboys   p12 Linda Billings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-12   Advances Top The Impending Dam Disaster in the Himalayan Mountains   pp14 - 16 Madhusree Mukerjee doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-14 The Doctor Is In (Your Phone)   p18 Corinne Iozzio doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-18 Europa's "Brown Gunk" Suggests a Briny Sea   p19 Lee Billings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-19 Remembering the Blast   p20 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-20 The Room with the Weakest Magnetic Field on Earth   p21 Sarah Lewin doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-21 Can You Hear Me Now?   p22 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-22 Watch Out, Sam Adams   p23 Peter Andrey Smith doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-23 The Great Flower Fabrication   p24 Debra Weiner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-24 Quick Hits   p25 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-25 What Meets the Eye   p26 Kat Long doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-26   The Science of Health Top A Turn for the Worse   pp27 - 28 David Noonan doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-27   TechnoFiles Top The Touch Screen Generation   p29 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-29   Features Top The Most Invasive Species of All   pp32 - 39 Curtis W. Marean doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-32 In Search of Alien Jupiters   pp40 - 47 Lee Billings doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-40 Hidden Hearing Loss   pp48 - 53 M. Charles Liberman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-48 How to Protect Your Hearing   p52 M. Charles Liberman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-52 A New Vision for Testing   pp54 - 61 Annie Murphy Paul doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-54 Testing the Team Player   pp58 - 59 Peg Tyre doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-58 Kids Are Scientists, Too   pp62 - 63 Michael Wysession doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-62 Change of State   pp64 - 71 Dan Baum doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-64 Planet Hard Drive   pp72 - 75 Cesar A. Hidalgo doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-72 Forests on the March   pp76 - 81 Hillary Rosner doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-76   Reviews and Recommendations Top Book Review: Spurious Correlations   p82 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-82a Book Review: Life's Greatest Secret   p82 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-82b Book Review: Modern Romance   p82 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-82c Book Review: Genius at Play   p82 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-82d   Skeptic Top The Meaning of Life in a Formula   p83 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-83   Anti Gravity Top The Cheese Eyes Have It   p84 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-84   50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p86 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-86   Graphic Science Top Drug-Resistant Stomach Bug   p88 Rebecca Harrington doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-88   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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