Articles from Science News (June 21, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A century later, scientists still study Tunguska: asteroid or comet blamed for Siberian blast of 1908.	Perkins, Sid		1102
Amazon Expeditions: My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator.	Quill, Elizabeth	Book review	292
Ancient site was devoted to death: Stonehenge may have been cemetery for rulers.	Bower, Bruce		403
Astronomers remap Milky Way: two spiral arms not so bright, new observations show.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	239
Butting out.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	85
Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation.	Applegate, David		781
Childhood obesity levels.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	146
Complex schemes.	Novak, Bruce	Letter to the editor	86
Digital edition.		Brief article	28
Lead exposure leaves its mark: metal affects brain size, risk of violent behavior.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		617
Mathtrek.		Brief article	34
Microbes thrive in seafloor rock: diversity and abundance surprise research teams.	Perkins, Sid		507
Monkeys move arm with mind: technology may eventually lead to improved prostheses.	Barry, Patrick		436
Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer.	Seppa, Nathan	Book review	286
Nabbing suspicious SNPS: scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.	Nuzzo, Regina		3037
New math traces human roots: Americas may have been populated in two waves.	Ghose, Tia		329
News.		Brief article	39
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human.		Book review	32
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine.		Book review	30
Science & the public.		Brief article	33
Science future.		Calendar	57
Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management.		Book review	41
Science past: 50 years ago.		Brief article	131
Scientific observations.	Fauci, Anthony S.	Brief article	107
Scrutinizing science behind the scenes.	Siegfried, Tom		403
Sizing up black holes.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	130
Skullduggery worthy of a film: famous crystal skulls shown to be counterfeits.	Bower, Bruce		355
Small world phenomenon.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	123
Small, but super: these 'atoms' can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they have special powers.	Castelvecchi, Davide	Cover story	2555
SN bookshelf.			25
Stop burning carbon.	Vernon, David P.	Letter to the editor	124
Thanks for the future memories: to the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.	Gaidos, Susan		1902
The (-est).		Brief article	76
The Phoenix has landed: safe on Mars, craft seeks signs of subsurface ice.	Cowen, Ron		411
These wings were made for walking.	Perkins, Sid	Brief article	159
Underwater logging.	Brodemus, John; Perkins, Sid	Letter to the editor	120
Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy.		Book review	48
We Dare You!		Book review	39
Young keep the old young.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Brief article	133