Articles from Science News (December 20, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Algae's feminine touch.	Raloff, Janet	Brief article	44
Antidepressants make for sad fish; drugs may affect feeding, swimming and mate-attracting.	Raloff, Janet		431
Body & brain.		Brief article	44
Bookshelf.		Book review	67
Boys may show spatial supremacy within a few months after birth; studies suggest gender gap emerges earlier than expected.	Bower, Bruce		334
Chicago's hot new PCB.	Raloff, Janet	Brief article	76
Clothes moths offer forensic clues by building fuzzy, hair-flecked cases; larvae pick up tresses from corpses to make their homes.	Milius, Susan		387
Depression hurts the heart.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	71
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 bizarre.		Brief article	54
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
Matter & energy.		Brief article	43
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
Protein and Parkinson's.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Brief article	62
Science future.		Calendar	66
Science past: December 20, 1958.		Brief article	120
Science stat.		Statistical table	63
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
Treat HIV-positive babies early.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	74
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine.	Raloff, Janet	Book review	253