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- 1From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)The first time I saw garlic mustard I did not know enough to be alarmed. I first noticed the plant early in the spring of 2005, while wandering the grounds of my new home at Macalester College's Ordway Field Station in...
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- 3From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)For the 85th year, Sigma Xi presents its panel of Distinguished Lecturers as an opportunity for chapters to host visits from outstanding individuals who are at the leading edge of science. These visitors communicate...
- 4From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Cameras mounted to the dorsal fins of tiger sharks have helped researchers identify the world's largest seagrass ecosystem. Underwater vegetation plays a vital role in marine health, including supporting biodiversity and...
- 5From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)As a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yosuke Kanai does research in theoretical and computational chemistry that is centered on developing quantum-mechanical computational...
- 6From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us. Ed Yong. 449 pp. Random House, 2022. $30. I would love to own a time machine, not (just) to travel back to the Cambrian Period, but also to meet...
- 7From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Our guts differentiate between sugar and artificial sweeteners. Duke University sensory neurogastro-enterologist Melanie May Kaelberer discussed her research on the gut-to-brain connections at Science by the Slice. Check...
- 8From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)All models are beautiful--even mathematical ones. They provide insights to scientists and to the general public about a vast array of phenomena in the real world, and we have come to rely on them much more than you may...
- 9From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)A comparative study of bear feet has confirmed what researchers have long suspected: Polar bears' unusually rough pads help them navigate icy terrain. A team led by polymer scientist AN Dhinojwala of the University of...
- 10From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)The seasonal infections that would have happened over three years have been hitting all at once. What can researchers learn? In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now seeing a highly unusual pattern of seasonal...
- 11From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Katia and Maurice Krafft were volcanologists who spent more than 20 years filming and photographing volcanoes and their eruptions, often risking their lives to learn just one more thing. The documentary Fire of Love...
- 12From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Paula Cushing studies arachnids of all kinds, from ones that never stop hunting to ones that use morbid costumes to avoid being eaten. www.amsci.org/node/5012...
- 13From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Sigma Xi's new annual conference, the International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE), made its highly anticipated debut November 3-6 in Alexandria, Virginia. Scientific minds spanning multiple generations and...
- 14From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is a beautiful place for scientists to visit, but field studies cannot be conducted frequently enough to provide the extensive data needed to monitor coral reefs for signs of stress...
- 15From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)If you grew up visiting natural history museums, you probably think you have a good sense of what dinosaurs looked like, and the posed displays probably gave you an image of how they behaved. But recent studies of...
- 16From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)To the Editors: I have always enjoyed reading Henry Petroski's essays, especially his recent one on crossword puzzles (Engineering, September-October 2022). Indeed, the principles of Taylorism have encouraged me to try...
- 17From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)A long-standing mystery in paleontology is why we have discovered thousands of eggs from some types of dinosaurs, such as the duck-billed hadrosaurs, but none at all from other types of dinosaurs, such as the armored...
- 18From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)To the Editors: Zellman Warhaft's "The Art of Turbulence" (November-December 2022) was a delightful read for me. For many years, I have dealt with the world of turbulent fluid flows associated with the engineering...
- 19From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)Brain cells grown from human stem cells and from mouse embryos can sense and respond to their environment--and even play a video game. A team combining researchers in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and artificial...
- 20From:American Scientist (Vol. 111, Issue 1)The theme of Sigma Xi's recent International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE) was convergence, and appropriately, IFoRE brought together scientists from various backgrounds to address important medical and societal...