Description: Scientific American is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein, have contributed articles to it. It has been in print since 1845 and it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. The 84-page June 2021 issues' cover story is: INFECTIOUS DISEASE - Deadly Kingdom. Killers of 1.6 million people every year, fungi are emerging as some of the most lethal microbes on the planet-and we don't really know how to stop them. Other featured articles include: PLANETARY SCIENCE - The Broken Shield - Scientists just lost one of their best tools for defending Earth against potentially dangerous asteroids. What comes next? CLIMATE CHANGE - The Polar Crucible - A warming climate brings sweeping changes to the world's northernmost town. BIOLOGY - Brood X Rising - After 17 years underground, the Great Eastern Brood of periodical cicadas is emerging. SUSTAINABILITY - A Tapestry of Alternatives - Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on sustaining life-human and nonhuman. NEUROSCIENCE - The Brain Electric - Electrodes that stimulate brain tissue reveal the topography of conscious experience. MICROBIAL SCIENCE - Real Living Fossils - After 100 million years trapped in ocean sediment, microbes woke up and multiplied. DEPARTMENTS From the EditorLettersScience Agenda - Our social behavior is almost certainly destined to change permanently in the aftermath of the pandemic.Forum - Targeting Asian-American scientists for espionage prosecution is unfair and counterproductive.Advances - Puzzling through dinosaur boneyards. Deep-sea bacteria that avoid immune detection. A slime mold's memory for food. How to pull methane fuel from freshwater.Meter - A poetic look at the enigma of Alan Turning.The Science of Health - Fixing race and gender bias in medical devices is imperative.Recommended - Memoir of a young naturalist. A comic novel of love and science. A journalistic tour of post-human landscapes. Examining AI as an extractive industry.Observatory - Why do many Republicans mistrust science? Because their leaders keep telling them to.50, 100 & 150 Years AgoGraphic Science - The diverse new players in human spaceflight. Due to changes in USPS policy and a recent postage rate increase, I have had to raise my shipping costs. I have additional copies of this and other magazines available for sale on E-Bay. I will apply a shipping discount on multiple purchases. Please contact me if you are interested.
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Publication Name: Scientific American
Signed: No
ISSN: 0036-8733
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Publisher: Springer Nature America, Inc.
Publication Month: June
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Frequency: Monthly
Language: English
Issue Number: 6
Volume: 324
Distribution: Paid Circulation
Contributors: Maryn McKenna, Sarah Scoles, Gloria Dickie, Kate Wong, Cherie Sinnen, Ashish Kothari, Christof Koch, Jennifer Frazer
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: America
Subscription: No
Topic: Physics, Animal Behavior, Sport, Splaceflight, Public Health, Environment
