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Articles in Feb 3, 2007, issue of Science News

• Gas tanks could guzzle half of U.S. corn yields
• Bite this: borrowed toad toxins save snake's neck
  by S. Milius
• Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
• Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
• Waves from the Big Bang: upcoming detectors may view newborn universe
  by P. Barry
• New Atlas of the Moon
• Top prospects for tomorrow's labs: national competition yields a dream team of young scientific talent
  by B. Harder
• All together now
  by J. Pound
• Magnet makeover
• Inside story
  by Mac Black
• Old cure may offer new malaria option
• Big is bountiful
  by Jim Klein
• Suburb of Stonehenge: ritual village found near famed rock site
  by B. Bower
• Microstructures make a beetle brilliant
• Sudden chill: even a limited nuclear exchange could trigger a climate catastrophe
  by Sid Perkins
• The mystery of the missing mass
• Savvy skins: researchers pour new functions into coatings
  by Aimee Cunningham
• Disaster's consequences: Hurricane's legacy includes arsenic
  by A. Cunningham
• Plastics ingredient disrupts fetal-egg development
• Child abuse heralds adult inflammation
• Kaput: Hubble's main camera stops working
  by R. Cowen
• The Songs of Wild Birds
• Trade-offs in fibroids treatments
• Early fix: prion disease remedied in mice
  by N. Seppa
• Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver