Articles from Science News (November 22, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
All in a Day's Work: Careers Using Science.		Book review	30
Altering a protein wipes out shocking memory in mouse brain: erasing effect appears limited to information being recalled.	Saey, Tina Hesman		739
Back story: signs of life.		Brief article	122
Calming imagery.	Harris-Wyrick, Wayne	Letter to the editor	89
Cannibals have better babies: female spiders who dine on guys have more, tough young.	Milius, Susan		472
Clashing continents.	Simonds, Skip; Perkins, Sid	Letter to the editor	126
Cold down there.	Stoner, Jesse; Cowen, Ron	Letter to the editor	139
Dates in doubt for oldest signs of complex life: new analyses of ancient rocks hint biomarkers came later.	Perkins, Sid		1031
David, Solomon may have been kings of copper: ancient site could unite archaeology, biblical accounts.	Bower, Bruce		565
Double the rubble: neighboring star system hosts two asteroid belts: Epsilon Eridani may shed light on youthful solar system.	Cowen, Ron		582
Drug-focused.	Givot, Irv	Letter to the editor	129
Farm chemicals can hammer frog populations: study supports link between weed killer and parasites.	Raloff, Janet		610
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--And How to Counter It.		Book review	44
Fungal meningitis spreads.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	63
Half-life (more or less): physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what's unchangeable--the rate of radioactive decay.	Castelvecchi, Davide		1853
Halting rotavirus.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	54
How bizarre.		Brief article	70
Humans.			23
Malaria takes on top meds.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	68
Maybe radioactivity hasn't revealed all its mysteries.	Siegfried, Tom	Editorial	430
More genes linked to lung cancer: tumors show more mutations in smokers than in nonsmokers.	Sanders, Laura		435
Nonstop godwit flights.	Sanders, Laura	Brief article	141
Science & the public.		Brief article	31
Science future.		Calendar	59
Science past: November 22, 1958.		Brief article	119
Science Stats: knowledge's worth.			18
Scientific observations.	Cramer, Deborah	Brief article	104
Scientists trace a new path behind the maddening, unrelenting, screaming desire to itch.	Sanders, Laura		2082
Shifting paradigms.	McMurtry, Ronald	Letter to the editor	250
Sights & sounds.		Brief article	36
Silk: mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Cover story	2494
Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding.	Bower, Bruce	Interview	751
Sugar helps E. coli go down: foodstuffs without bacteria may heighten infection risk.	Maron, Dina Fine	Brief article	223
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics.	Siegfried, Tom	Book review	215
Treatment may offer MS turnaround: leukemia drug improves multiple sclerosis in some people.	Seppa, Nathan		446
Two crops, only one pops.	Mueller, Jeffry D.; Ehrenberg, Rachel	Letter to the editor	175