Articles from Science News (December 6, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A way to crack quantum encryption: time-travel technique could break supposedly secure codes.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		507
Anatomy of a well-aging brain.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	160
Ancient healer reborn.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	149
As life evolves, minerals do too: team recounts dramatic changes in variety, abundance.	Perkins, Sid		626
Atom & cosmos.		Brief article	48
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion.		Book review	36
California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Book review	278
Cancer genome sequenced.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	71
Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals.		Book review	29
Colliding planets.	Smith, Dick; Cowen, Ron	Letter to the editor	142
Debates over definition of planet continue and inspire.	Stern, Alan		790
Design criteria outline ways to repel water, oil: both liquids can bead up, flow off textured surfaces.	Perkins, Sid	Brief article	183
Different division.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Brief article	161
Drug may slow viral heart infections: interferon reduced presence of viruses in biopsied tissues.	Seppa, Nathan		316
Exoplanets make pictorial debut: first images of a planetary trio circling a star are released.	Cowen, Ron	Cover story	801
Extreme Birds: The World's Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds.		Book review	30
First thing first.	Eisenhardt, Peter	Letter to the editor	114
Food advice could be peanuts: early exposure seems to lessen the risk of nut allergy.	Seppa, Nathan		788
For daily use.		Brief article	81
Genes & cells.		Brief article	44
Household cleaners using oxygen may make blood removal too simple: three common forensic tests foiled by hemoglobin's fatigue.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		396
In their minds, volunteers swap bodies with woman, mannequin: illusion could help scientists study self-identity, body image.	Bower, Bruce		457
Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future.	Quill, Elizabeth	Book review	266
It's a jungle on there: skin samples contain rich diversity of bacteria: inventory identifies body's most microbe-varied locales.	Saey, Tina Hesman		473
Melatonin by moonlight.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	181
Morality askew in psychopaths.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	159
No gene is an island: even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life's functions arise from interconnectedness.	Barry, Patrick		2734
Opt for the tube, and do so quickly: heart patients may benefit from prompt catheterization.	Seppa, Nathan		315
Parasite twists rats' innate fear.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	177
Physicists find muons bemusing: puzzling results may signify mystery particle or new force.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	217
Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry.		Book review	39
Quantum codes conceal secrets of the cosmos.	Siegfried, Tom		410
Science future.		Brief article	64
Science past: December 6, 1958.		Brief article	122
Science stats: worldwide water: supply and demand.		Statistical data	76
Scientific observations.		Brief article	122
Sequencing the dead to save the living: reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions--and may help prevent future die outs.	Yeager, Ashley		1984
Still love-struck after 20 years: some long-married couples are as giddy as teenagers.	Sanders, Laura		342
Stone Age gal had wide hips: H. erectus females may have delivered big-brained babies.	Bower, Bruce		368
Thanks for the support.	Nauert, Jon L.	Letter to the editor	115
The decider: informing the debate over the reality of 'free will' requires learning something about the lateral habenula.	Siegfried, Tom		1598
The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science.		Book review	36
Waves pass through.	Turner, Tom; Perkins, Sid	Letter to the editor	202