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Articles in March 8, 2008, issue of Science News

• Supernova outbreak: X rays signal earliest alert
  by Ron Cowen
• Manifest dirt
  by Ewen Callaway
• Cold Light: Creatures, Discoveries, and Inventions That Glow
• Riff riders: brain scans tune in to jazz improvisers
  by Bruce Bower
• Fungi aid immune system's fight
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Beyond the Nanoworld: Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Bosons
• Aging factor: gene mutations may be key to long life
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Raising doubts about Crohn's treatment
  by Nathan Seppa
• No cure yet
  by Bob Cogliano
• Black hole of light: laser pulses create model of event horizon
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Encyclopedia of Life starts online—at times
  by Susan Milius
• Formulating change
  by David Adams
• Promiscuous orchids
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Some corals buffered from warming
  by Ewen Callaway
• Correction
• A way forward: releasing the brakes on cancer vaccines
  by Patrick Barry
• Calling all clues …
  by Sid Perkins
• Ocean ups and downs—the long view
  by Sid Perkins
• Finding mass graves from on high
  by Sid Perkins
• Rotten remedy: hydrogen sulfide joins the list of the body's friendly, if foul, gases
  by Jeanne Erdmann
• Science, Evolution, and Creationism
• Cancer risk: colon growths might not be so obvious
  by Nathan Seppa
• Twice upon a time: jaw fossils point to multiple origins of the most mammalian of features
  by Amy Maxmen
• Venomoua Animals of the World
• Ancient chasm: parts of Grand Canyon may be 17 million years old
  by Sid Perkins
• Eau de fruit fly
  by Ewen Callaway
• Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Forget Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life