Scientific American - USA (2019-10)

“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Wester ...

40 Scientific American, October 2019 N utrition researcher Kevin hall strives to project a Zen-liKe state of equanimity. In his ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 41 SOURCE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAGES 41, 43 AND 44: “NOVA. THE STAR SHINES BRIGHT,” BY CARLOS ...

42 Scientific American, October 2019 larger, food more abundant, and many of us are eating more calories than people did decades ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 43 neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry at Yale Uni- versity, believes she has found ...

44 Scientific American, October 2019 pated the calories and now senses something is miss- ing, encourages us to keep  eating. To ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 45 hyperpalatable foods filled with fat, sugar, salt and additives, and we clearly prefer t ...

46 Scientific American, October 2019 DIAMONDS inside an anvil cell ( in black ) squeeze materials to extreme pressures to create ...

PHYSICS THE STUFF OF DREAMS Could new theoretical and computational advances finally deliver the elusive room-temperature superc ...

48 Scientific American, October 2019 M addury Somayazulu, an experimental phySiciSt who goeS by Zulu, could only hope that being ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 49 its existence and its properties. “We built this material on a computer first, and a cal ...

50 Scientific American, October 2019 trons, which create positively charged ions) form a crystal lat- tice—a structure with regu ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 51 is “a sort of statistical limit,” meaning that such materials are simply less likely to ...

52 Scientific American, October 2019 Hydrogen atoms Lanthanum atom Hydrogen source Lanthanum Gasket Electrical lead Diamond Not ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 53 ables such as pressure and temperature. He also noted that layered, quasi-two-dimensiona ...

54 Scientific American, October 2019 Restoring Rice AGRICULTURE 54 Scientific American, October 2019 IN BRIEF India originally p ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 55 PANICLES, or seed clusters, of diverse rice varieties are tagged after the har­ vest at ...

56 Scientific American, October 2019 One scorching summer day in 1991, having spent hours surveying the biodiversity of sacred g ...

October 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 57 landraces in West Bengal and collected 3,500 of these for its gene bank. In 1994, findin ...

58 Scientific American, October 2019 Illustration by Rebecca Konte Hull Awn Embryo Bran Kernel Sterile lemma Basal leaf sheath V ...