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Articles in May 10, 2008, issue of Science News

• Science past: 50 years ago: from Science News letter, May 10, 1958
• Blood test for MS
  by Amy Maxmen
• Sports and the brain
  by Fontaine Winner
• Down with carbon: scientists work to put the greenhouse gas in its place
  by Sid Perkins
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• A quicker path to Alzheimer's
  by Amy Maxmen
• Microbe maze
  by McClellan G. Blair
• Twin fates: sharing the womb with a brother may influence a girl's development
  by Deborah Blum
• Science future
• Black hole once glowed brightly: fluorescing clouds provide clues to its former glory
  by Ron Cowen
• Change without change: new clothes for the modern media climate, but no departure from traditional purpose for Science News
  by Tom Siegfried
• SN online
• Battle over WIMPs goes another round: claimed dark matter find remains controversial
  by Ron Cowen
• Back to which basics?
  by Michael Lefebvre
• Science stats: science jobs grow faster than others
• Searching for superEarths: mass and radius may help identify places like home
  by Ron Cowen
• Rest in peace nanobacteria, you were not alive after all: mystery particles made of minerals and proteins may still cause disease
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Science education and the future of humankind
  by Leon Lederman
• Shifting priorities at the wheel: multitasking while driving may exceed brain's capacity
  by Bruce Bower
• Spiders boost mercury levels: birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• China was an ancient-ape paradise: excavations uncover oldest known ancestral gibbon remains
  by Bruce Bower
• Hobbit wars: small islanders show no signs of growth disorder
  by Bruce Bower
• Pollution may confuse pollinators: smog dilutes scents needed to guide floral foragers
  by Janet Raloff
• Beetles portend crisis in Canada: outbreak counters forest's ability to capture carbon
  by Susan Milius
• Elephant kin liked the water: isotopes in tooth fossils add new clues to debate
  by Sid Perkins
• A Portrait of the Brain
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Triggering autoimmune assaults: mouth bacteria unleash inflammation-inducing protein
  by Janet Raloff
• Welcome to the new Science News
  by Tom Siegfried
• Study decodes papaya genome: tropical fruit tree's DNA has surprisingly few genes
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Titan Unveiled
• Old drug offers new tricks for fighting cancer: DFMO shows promise at extremely low doses
  by Nathan Seppa
• Scientific observations
  by Douglas Hofstadter
• Danger from pig brains
  by Amy Maxmen
• A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder
• Melt pond falls through ice in Greenland: watching flow sharpens picture of moving glaciers
  by Sid Perkins