Articles from Science News (September 27, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A climate tipping point.	Stuart, Doug; Raloff, Janet	Letter to the editor	201
Amniotic infection.	Yeager, Ashley	Brief article	69
Archives.			21
Atom & cosmos.		Brief article	31
Black hole, in detail.	Cowen, Ron	Brief article	171
Blindfolded babies show ability to learn how others see the world: personal experience leads to social thinking in 1-year-olds.	Bower, Bruce		445
Breaking the barrier: a technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain's protective divide.	Ghose, Tia		2233
Cancer-calcium connection.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	75
Coal River.		Book review	35
Creating new nerve cells makes sense for the brain: neurogenesis seems to aid memory, depression drugs.	Saey, Tina Hesman		981
David Michaels: corporate campaigns manufacture scientific doubt.	Raloff, Janet	Interview	726
Earth.		Brief article	32
Excavators find honey of a discovery: Israeli site yields oldest known example of beekeeping.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	150
Eye protection.	Seppa, Nathan	Brief article	77
Galaxy cluster outweighs neighbors: distant find could support the existence of dark energy.	Yeager, Ashley	Brief article	313
Gender in the classroom.	Oscanyan, Elizabeth; Bower, Bruce	Letter to the editor	57
Gene activity makes the difference in development of human qualities: 'junk DNA' helps to distinguish people from other primates.	Ehrenberg, Rachel		431
Go for the gold.	Hoefelmeyer, Ralph	Letter to the editor	159
Hubble's repair sets stage for telescope anniversary.	Siegfried, Tom		399
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.	Seppa, Nathan	Book review	238
Last call: the final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, set for early October, could radically transform the observatory, but the crew faces some special challenges.	Cowen, Ron	Cover story	1901
Look at them go.	Fletcher, Steve	Letter to the editor	230
Pamela spots the dark stuff, maybe: orbiting observatory records excessive positron production.	Cowen, Ron		426
Path to math: math ability may be related to ingrained number sense.	Bower, Bruce	Brief article	262
Proton has a strange cousin: Fermilab finds new particle predicted by standard model.	Castelvecchi, Davide		296
Quantum physics may offer clues to solving prime number problem: electron energy levels linked to Riemann hypothesis.	Castelvecchi, Davide		645
Science future.		Calendar	56
Science past: September 27, 1958.		Brief article	103
Science stats: green versus greenbacks.			19
Scientific observations.	Ruggiero, Richard	Brief article	94
Sting operation: scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the ellicit and the dangerous.	Gaidos, Susan		2429
Study evaluates kids' therapies: most trauma treatments lack scientific support.	Bower, Bruce		446
Super bonding.	Hackett, Skip; Castelvecchi, Davide	Brief article	126
Thank mom, dad for extra years: study identifies gene variant that extends people's lives.	Barry, Patrick		253
The (-est).		Brief article	56
The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky's Most Brilliant Stars.		Book review	37
To bond or not to bond may depend on common hormone gene variant: vasopressin receptor may contribute to commitment phobia.	Beil, Laura		513
Unseen whales.	Lawlor, Frank; Ehrenberg, Rachel	Letter to the editor	118