Articles from Science News (October 11, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
'National greatness' versus real national greatness.	Wilczek, Frank	Viewpoint essay	774
A History of Paleontology Illustration.	Perkins, Sid	Book review	284
Aged crust.	Perkins, Sid	Report	103
Around the ring.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	153
Astronomers snap extrasolar image: shot may be the first of an exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star.	Cowen, Ron		417
Atom & cosmos.		Brief article	43
Back story: searching for signals.		Brief article	129
Continental clash cooled climate: when India and Asia collided, sources of C[O.sub.2] disappeared.	Perkins, Sid		568
Correction.		Correction notice	75
Dead--but not duds: white dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos.	Yeager, Ashley	Report	2047
Female frogs play the field: multiple partners improve odds of offspring survival.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Brief article	323
Giant honeybees skilled at the wave: attacking hornets repelled when colony shimmers en masse.	Milius, Susan		376
Highly wired.	Yeager, Ashley	Clinical report	80
How bizarre.		Brief article	95
Just checking.	Africk, Steven; Castelvecchi, Davide	Letter to the editor	149
Late nights tied to inflammation: key protein spikes in women with mild sleep deprivation.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Clinical report	378
Let's get vertical: city buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		2300
Lipid serves as healthy hormone: mice benefit from fatty acid.	Saey, Tina Hesman		534
Location, location, location.	Saey, Tina Hesman	Brief article	75
Low-cal bones.	Seppa, Nathan	Clinical report	74
Math trek.		Brief article	39
Mom can increase her child's risk of depression via nurture alone: new study suggests fathers don't have the same influence.	Bower, Bruce		346
Not so small.	Pollack, Simcha; Castelvecchi, Davide	Letter to the editor	174
Only in the north.	Bronson, David; Perkins, Sid	Letter to the editor	139
Pain relief you can believe in: study finds religious thought alleviates hurt for Catholics.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	290
Physics for future presidents: The Science Behind The Headlines.	Benjamin, Heather	Book review	256
Plastics chemical takes another hit: for the first time, study links bisphenol A to heart disease.	Ehrenberg, Rachel	Clinical report	346
Politics needs science for sound policymaking.	Siegfried, Tom		419
Researchers dig new ant species: bizarre insect suggests ancient underground world.	Milius, Susan		446
Science future.		Calendar	58
Science past: October 11, 1958.		Brief article	126
Science stats: unacceptable exposure.		Brief article	63
Scientific observations.		Brief article	86
The migrating eye.	Waite, Clark; Yeager, Ashley	Letter to the editor	183
The Science vote: on the surface, the presidential contenders appear to take similar stances and technology. But probe a bit, and differences emerge. Because Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have never formally debated S&T issues, and don't intend to, Science News runs down what these candidates and their campaigns have been saying.	Raloff, Janet		2436
This bite won't hurt.	Castelvecchi, Davide	Brief article	105
With a twinkle, pulsating stars could deliver signals from ET: neutrino beams may turn Cepheids into messengers.	Cowen, Ron		886