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Articles in Feb 2, 2008, issue of Science News

• Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide
• … And the envelope, please: forty outstanding young scientists move to final round of competition
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Fast and faster
  by Dick Dunn
• Alphabet of Insects
• Warning sign: genetic fragments tag cancer severity
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Correction
• Traveling tubers
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• The naming of the elephant-shrew
  by Susan Milius
• Fishy flash
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Biological moon shot: realizing the dream of a Web page for every living thing
  by Susan Milius
• Very brown sheep have a dark side
  by Susan Milius
• Embracing the dark side: looking back on a decade of cosmic acceleration
  by Ron Cowen
• A crack and a fault in paradise
  by Ewen Callaway
• Smells like DNA
  by Ewen Callaway
• Tasty stalks
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Seafloor chemistry: life's building blocks made inorganically
  by Sid Perkins
• Fabulon: looking less fabulous
  by Janet Raloff
• Leonardo on Flight
• Dusty clues: study suggests no dearth of Earths
  by Ron Cowen
• Receptor may be cancer accomplice
  by Nathan Seppa
• Proust Was A Neuroscientist
• Spice it up: naked mole-rats feel no pain from peppers, acid
  by Ewen Callaway
• New route to insulin-making cells
  by Patrick Barry
• The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
• Live long and perspire: exercise may slow aging at chromosomal level
  by Nathan Seppa
• Eye for an eagle
  by Alan Ryff