How does the brain interpret what the tongue tastes? Authors David V. Smith and Robert F. Margolskee explore the bitter, sweet, salty, and sour world in Making Sense of Taste...
Columnists Philip and Phylis Morrison look at sodium, salt, and a popular rodent in The Needy Porcupine, from the March 2001 issue of Scientific American...
James Burke's Connections column is titled French Leave, where he discusses matters adulterous, bucolic, passionate, and fugitive. From the March 2001 issue of Scientific American...
In a special section on the search for extraterrestrials, Where Are They? explores how likely alien civilizations are to exist, and Where They Could Hide discusses...
Computer models indicate that many diseases will surge as the earth's atmosphere heats up. Signs of the predicted troubles have begun to appear. Paul R. Epstein discusses that this prospect is deeply troubling...
