Articles from Science News (December 20, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Antidepressants make for sad fish; drugs may affect feeding, swimming and mate-attracting.	Raloff, Janet		431
Boys may show spatial supremacy within a few months after birth; studies suggest gender gap emerges earlier than expected.	Bower, Bruce		334
Clothes moths offer forensic clues by building fuzzy, hair-flecked cases; larvae pick up tresses from corpses to make their homes.	Milius, Susan		387
Edward O. Wilson: protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow.	Steele, Diana		817
Fish that travel together make wiser decisions; when they choose a leader, sticklebacks think as a group.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	216
Ginkgo biloba fails drug test; herb fares no better than placebo against dementia.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	283
Honeybee CSI: why dead bodies can't be found: virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse.	Milius, Susan		1022
How Thakur got its name.	Mukhopadhyay, Madan; Cowen, Ron	Letter to the editor	155
Imagination medicine: brain imaging reveals the substance of placebos. Expectation alone triggers the same neural circuits and chemicals as real drugs.	Erdmann, Jeanne		2224
Many drug trials never published; results are often biased, incomplete or unavailable.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		720
Mars conceals buried icy treasure; frozen water reserves discovered in mid-latitude regions.	Cowen, Ron		661
NASA's source.	Amatetti, Edward; Perkins, Sid	Letter to the editor	260
Physicists hot for ultra cold: a laser's light tickle tricks molecules into sitting still.	Sanders, Laura	Cover story	1957
Pollution slows some sperm.	Raloff, Janet	Brief article	80
Science past: December 20, 1958.		Brief article	120
Scientific observations.		Quotation	118
Sleep makes room for memories by keeping connections flexible; rest reduces synapse-forming molecules in the brain.	Saey, Tina Hesman		500
Standard model gets right answer; calculation of nucleon mass supports quark-gluon theory.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	296
Successful science should inspire higher standards.	Siegfried, Tom		406
Superconductivity does the twist; electron dance explains loss of resistance in exotic material.	Barry, Patrick		372
The hunt for habitable planets: here and now, a new suite of small telescopes are poised to look for Earthlike planets beyond the solar system.	Cowen, Ron		2552
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine.	Raloff, Janet	Book review	253