Scientific American Contents, May 2014 Volume 310 Number 5, pp 6 - 84

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TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2014 Volume 310, Issue 5 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 Does Physics Have a Problem?   p6 Mariette DiChristina doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-6 Letters Top Letters   pp8 - 9 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-8 Science Agenda Top The Myth of the Compassionate Execution   p12 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-12 Forum Top Eureka Once, Eureka Twice   p13 Veronique Kiermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-13 Advances Top Our Inflated Universe   p14 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-14 The Little Volcanoes That Could   p16 David Biello doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-16 A Symbol of Royalty Makes a Tentative Comeback   p17 John R. Platt doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-17 Ancient Footprint   p18 Kate Wong doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-18a The Physics of Long, Loose Tresses   p18 Rachel Nuwer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-18b By the Numbers   p20 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-20a Kepler's Afterlife   p20 Clara Moskowitz doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-20b What Is It?   p21 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-21 A Pontoon of Pupae   p22 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-22 It Takes a Prion to Remember   p23 Beth Skwarecki doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-23 He Who Hollers Fastest Gets the Girl   p26 Jason G. Goldman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-26a By the Numbers   p26 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-26b Cameraprints   p27 Wendy M. Grossman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-27 Using a Smartphone to Detect Cancer   p28 Geoffrey Giller doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-28a “Millions of People Are Suffering”   p28 Gary Stix doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-28b Pot Ingredient for Epilepsy   p29 Annie Sneed doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-29 The Science of Health Top Are E-Cigarettes Safe?   pp31 - 32 Dina Fine Maron doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-31 TechnoFiles Top Fear the Worst   p33 David Pogue doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-33 Features Top Supersymmetry and the Crisis in Physics   pp34 - 39 Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-34 Cancer's Off Switch   pp40 - 45 Jedd D. Wolchok doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-40 Fossil GPS   pp46 - 51 Robert L. Anemone and Charles W. Emerson doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-46 Is Anybody in There?   pp52 - 57 Adrian M. Owen doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-52 Shape-Shifting Things to Come   pp58 - 65 Sridhar Kota doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-58 The Great Coral Grief   pp66 - 69 Iain McCalman doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-66 The Oracle   pp70 - 75 Ariel Bleicher doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-70 Reviews and Recommendations Top Animal Architecture   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-76a Stuff Matters   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-76b Nature's Nether Regions   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-76c Proof   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-76d The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons   p76 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-76e Skeptic Top The Genesis of Justice   p78 Michael Shermer doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-78 Anti Gravity Top Statistical Significance   p80 Steve Mirsky doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-80 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Top 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago   p82 Daniel C. Schlenoff doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-82 Graphic Science Top Spring Fever   p84 Mark Fischetti doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0514-84 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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