Articles from Science News (May 10, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder.		Book review	37
A Portrait of the Brain.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Brief article	263
A quicker path to Alzheimer's.	Maxmen, Amy	Brief article	47
Back to which basics?	Lefebvre, Michael	Letter to the editor	76
Battle over WIMPs goes another round: claimed dark matter find remains controversial.	Cowen, Ron		724
Beetles portend crisis in Canada: outbreak counters forest's ability to capture carbon.	Milius, Susan		379
Black hole once glowed brightly: fluorescing clouds provide clues to its former glory.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	322
Blood test for MS.	Maxmen, Amy	Brief article	93
Change without change: new clothes for the modern media climate, but no departure from traditional purpose for Science News.	Siegfried, Tom	Editorial	1004
China was an ancient-ape paradise: excavations uncover oldest known ancestral gibbon remains.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	225
Danger from pig brains.	Maxmen, Amy	Brief article	86
Down with carbon: scientists work to put the greenhouse gas in its place.	Perkins, Sid		3428
Elephant kin liked the water: isotopes in tooth fossils add new clues to debate.	Perkins, Sid	Brief article	313
Hobbit wars: small islanders show no signs of growth disorder.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	274
Melt pond falls through ice in Greenland: watching flow sharpens picture of moving glaciers.	Perkins, Sid		548
Microbe maze.	Blair, McClellan G.; Saey, Tina Hesman	Letter to the editor	212
Old drug offers new tricks for fighting cancer: DFMO shows promise at extremely low doses.	Seppa, Nathan		505
Pollution may confuse pollinators: smog dilutes scents needed to guide floral foragers.	Raloff, Janet	Brief article	299
Rest in peace nanobacteria, you were not alive after all: mystery particles made of minerals and proteins may still cause disease.	Saey, Tina Hesman		1183
Science education and the future of humankind.	Lederman, Leon		781
Science future.		Calendar	60
Science past: 50 years ago: from Science News letter, May 10, 1958.		Brief article	136
Science stats: science jobs grow faster than others.		Brief article	32
Scientific observations.	Hofstadter, Douglas	Brief article	78
Searching for superEarths: mass and radius may help identify places like home.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	272
Shifting priorities at the wheel: multitasking while driving may exceed brain's capacity.	Bower, Bruce		373
SN online.		Brief article	132
Spiders boost mercury levels: birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Brief article	264
Sports and the brain.	Winner, Fontaine	Letter to the editor	83
Study decodes papaya genome: tropical fruit tree's DNA has surprisingly few genes.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Brief article	266
The (-est).		Brief article	68
Titan Unveiled.		Book review	37
Triggering autoimmune assaults: mouth bacteria unleash inflammation-inducing protein.	Raloff, Janet		666
Twin fates: sharing the womb with a brother may influence a girl's development.	Blum, Deborah		2518
Welcome to the new Science News.	Siegfried, Tom		383