Natural History

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Articles in June 2003 issue of Natural History

• Front-page news
  by Peter Brown
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• Voyage of the barnacle: Darwin paid his dues as a scientist by exploring a miniature universe of marine animals
  by Richard Milner
• Damsels cause distress
  by Gwen Mergian
• The rise and fall of Planet X: Neptune and Pluto were supposed to "fix" the weird orbit of Uranus. Now, it seems, the orbit wasn't "broke."
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A long jump
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Entomophilia
  by Gene R. DeFoliart
• Impostor in the nest: a beetle disguised as an army ant eludes capture by ants as well as entomologists
  by Robert Dunn
• The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Surf and turf
  by Kenneth I. Ashley
• The owl that hunts by light: after years of observing in the Yukon, the author has shown that the North American hawk owl is a more versatile predator than its better known European cousin
  by Christoph Rohner
• The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Democracy in space
  by Robert E. Becker
• Monitor marathons: how one group of lizards turns a gasp into a gulp
  by Adam Summers
• SARS
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Picture imperfect
  by Roman Dial
• Patterns in nature: the new focus on self-organizing processes links such diverse natural phenomena as a zebra's stripes and a mound of termites
  by Scott Camazine
• Ironing out the solar system: a long-extinct radioactive species sheds light on Earth origins
  by Charles Liu
• Un-solid ground
  by Stephan Reebs
• Lost time: damage control in Iraq
  by John Malcolm Russell
• The sky in June
  by Joe Rao
• Cold passage
  by Stephan Reebs
• Close encounters: mountain gorillas and chimpanzees share the wealth of Uganda's "impenetrable forest," perhaps offering a window onto the early history of hominids
  by Craig Stanford
• The lure of chocolate
• Home, sweet home
  by Stephan Reebs
• Art and science of chocolate
• Pretty in pink
  by Gary Noel Ross
• Museum events
• In the same vein
  by Stephan Reebs
• Ages of Aquarius: in an Idaho canyon, temperate rainforest plants found refuge from ancient climate change
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock