Scientific American - USA (2020-12)
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 59 were isolated into “social” groups, in which they could see the preferences of others i ...
60 Scientific American, December 2020 Graphic by Jen Christiansen SOURCE: DIMITAR NIKOLOV AND FILIPPO MENCZER ( data ) ger-lasti ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 61 apparent popularity of the content, would retweet it. Bots also influence us by pretend ...
What hand transplants are teaching us about the brain By Scott H. Frey 62 Scientific American, December 2020 Photographs by Lynd ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 63 HAND OF ANOTHER enables transplant recipient Donald Rickelman to hold and touch. ...
64 Scientific American, December 2020 I n February 1964 roberto Gilbert elizalde, a Mayo CliniC–trained surGeon in Guayaquil, Ec ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 65 does not save lives. Recipients undergo a major oper- ation followed by a lengthy recov ...
66 Scientific American, December 2020 hand areas. These findings suggest that the brains of at least some amputees retain a repr ...
Illustration by David Cheney December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 67 SCENARIO 1 Many amputees experience “phantom limb” sensati ...
68 Scientific American, December 2020 tex. But he never showed any uncertainty about wheth- er these sensations were coming from ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 69 tem to stimulate the tips of his fingers during an fMRI session, which revealed distinc ...
DOUGHNUT DEVICE: Engineers work on the first section of the vacu- um vessel—the torus- shaped container that will house the plas ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 71 FUSION DREAMS PHYSICS Assembly has begun on ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion re ...
72 Scientific American, December 2020 Humans are an energy-Hungry species, and our current sources of power are not cutting it. ...
December 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 73 TEMPERATURE GRADIENT: ITER will include one of the hottest places in the universe—the v ...
74 Scientific American, December 2020 WORLD’S LARGEST: The tokamak chamber, seen from the top ( 1 ) and middle ( 2 ), is a cylin ...
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76 Scientific American, December 2020 EMPTY VESSEL: ITER’s vacuum vessel will be made of six segments, each built in South Korea ...
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78 Scientific American, December 2020 MAGNETIC CAGE: ITER’s fusion plasma will be encased and contained by a nest of magnets, in ...
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