Science News

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Articles in Sept 1, 2007, issue of Science News

• Talking Hands
• Dawn of a disk: water vapor pours down on embryonic star
  by R. Cowen
• Waistland: The ®Evolutionary Science behind our weight and Fitness Crisis
• Bad bug: microbe raises stomach cancer risk
  by N. Seppa
• The Unnatural History of the Sea
• Rethinking bad taste: how much mimicry is outright cheating?
  by Susan Milius
• The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
• When antioxidants go bad
• Don't Try This At Home: The Physics of Hollywood Movies
• Believers gain no health advantage
• Risk reversal?
  by Vincent Fecher
• Share alike: genes from bacteria found in animals
  by P. Barry
• Bats hum for sugar too
• Let's be careful
  by Kenneth Timoner
• Barely alive: ancient bacteria survive in the slow lane
  by B. Vastag
• 1900 Ad
• By the book
  by Martin Gardner
• Cretaceous corsages? Fossil in amber suggests antiquity of orchids
  by S. Perkins
• Light switch
• Gems with impact
  by Gregory C. Herman
• The wealth of nations: a country's competitive edge can spread industry to industry, like a disease
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Oxygen rocks: volcanoes spurred early atmospheric change
  by C. Barry
• Tiny tubes, big pollution
• Corny collagen
• No-fight zones: school programs reduce violence in all grades
  by B. Bower
• Urine tests for cities