Vol. 173 No. #16
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More Stories from the May 10, 2008 issue

  1. Life

    Rest in peace nanobacteria, you were not alive after all

    New studies bid a fond farewell to nanobacteria -- the extremely tiny “microorganisms” that have sparked controversy and may cause disease.

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  2. Agriculture

    Polluted Scents

    Insects and Bats May Face Confusion.

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  3. Humans

    Shifting priorities at the wheel

    Multitasking while driving may exceed brain's capacity, a new study finds.

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  4. Hobbit wars

    Little islanders did not have a growth disorder

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  5. Paleontology

    China was an ancient-ape paradise

    Fossil dig uncovers the oldest known remains of ancestral gibbons

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  6. Life

    Elephant kin liked the water

    Moeritherium, ancient relatives of modern elephants, may have spent much of their time in lakes, rivers or swamps.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Triggering autoimmune assaults

    Mouth bacteria unleash inflammation-inducing protein

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  8. Agriculture

    Study decodes papaya genome

    Scientists have added another plant to the genome-sequencing roster: the tropical fruit tree papaya.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Old drug offers new tricks for fighting cancer

    A drug once envisioned as a treatment for cancer might instead prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer.

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  10. Earth

    Melt pond falls through ice in Greenland

    A lake of meltwater atop Greenland's ice sheet wedged open a crack in the underlying ice that drained the lake dry.

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  11. Space

    Black hole once glowed brightly

    More than 26,000 years ago, the Milky Way's central black hole suddenly but fleetingly increases its X-ray output.

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  12. Ecosystems

    Beetle attack overturns forest carbon regime

    Ravaged Canadian region switches from carbon sink to net carbon source.

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  13. Space

    Battle over WIMPs goes another round

    Physicists haggle over WIMPS.

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  14. Space

    Searching for superEarths

    Astronomers are exploring a new family of planets beyond the solar system.

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  15. Ecosystems

    Eight-legged bags of poison

    Birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal as mercury climbs up the food chain.

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  16. Humans

    Change Without Change

    New clothes for the modern media climate, but no departure from traditional purpose for Science News.

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  17. Environment

    Down with Carbon

    Scientists are exploring strategies for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it safely away in order to limit the levels of that greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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  18. Life

    Twin Fates

    Animal and human studies suggest that a girl with a twin brother may never completely escape the influence of her opposite-sex womb-mate.

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