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Articles in May 5, 2007, issue of Science News

• Talk to the hand: language might have evolved from gestures
  by Patrick Barry
• Kin play limited role in chimp cooperation
• Just a dram
  by Ellen Waggener
• Quantum loophole: some quirks of physics can be good for science
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Lake Superior is warming faster than its local climate
• Back to the future
  by Daniel Vance
• Automatic networking: brain systems charge up in unconscious monkeys
  by Bruce Bower
• Spider blood fluoresces
• The worst part
  by Joel Brind
• Liquid center: Mercury has a molten core, radar reveals
  by Ron Cowen
• A solar forecast
• But are they sopranos?
  by W. Gregory Stewart
• More than bit players: snippets of RNA might sway pancreatic cancer
  by Nathan Seppa
• The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space
• Not-so-clear alternative: in its air-quality effects, ethanol fuel is similar to gasoline
  by Aimee Cunningham
• Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches? And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
• Peru's sunny view: solar observatory dates back 2,300 years
  by Ron Cowen
• A Natural History of North American Trees
• Correction
• Sensor sensibility: the mathematics of shapes is illuminating the structure of wireless sensor networks
  by Erica Klarreich
• 100 Butterflies and Moths: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica
• Lost in transportation
• Evolution for Everyone
• Less is more : yearly osteoporosis drug reduces fractures
  by Brian Vastag
• Bugged wines
• Mere kats?
  by John Hagerhorst