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Articles in August 26, 2006, issue of Science News

• Cosmic bigness
  by Ron Cowen
• Breast milk may not be enough
  by Janet Raloff
• Sauna use among dads linked to tumors in children
  by Ben Harder
• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
• Enlightened: dark matter spotted after cosmic crash
  by E. Jaffe
• The World of Ancient Art
• Dust to dust
  by Howard Zimmerman
• Risky legacy: African DNA linked to prostate cancer
  by B. Harder
• Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Mutant maps: borrowing an idea from biology to enrich history
  by Peter Weiss
• No jolting news
  by Wayne H. Warren, Jr.
• Fields medals: mathematicians win awards for geometry, physics, and probability
  by E. Klarreich
• Bone hunt: a reporter's week in the wilds of Montana
  by Sid Perkins
• It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops
• Sweet finding: researchers propose candidate sour sensor
  by C. Brownlee
• Kids and Inventing: A Handbook for Young Inventors
• Protection from poisons
  by Aimee Cunningham
• Underage spiders: males show unexpected interest in young mates
  by S. Milius
• Buried information
  by Scott McCleve
• Stress rate revised for Vietnam vets
  by Bruce Bower
• Pathogen preference: infected amoebas flourish in cooling towers
  by A. Cunningham
• Unusual tumor is contagious in dogs
  by Christen Brownlee
• Lacy molecular order
  by P. Weiss
• The ups and downs of routing fluids on chips
  by Peter Weiss
• Mercury rising: natural wildfires release pollutant
  by S. Perkins
• Placebo predictions
  by Eric Jaffe