American Scientist

"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

"How Gecko Toes Stick," by Kellar Autumn

"Winning the Accuracy Game," by Hugh G. Gauch, Jr.

"The Cognitive Psychology of Belief in the Supernatural," by Jesse M. Bering

"Filaments of Light," by Jérôme Kasparian

"Knot Theory's Odd Origins," by Daniel S. Silver