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Articles in Dec 6, 2008 issue of Science News

• Thanks for the support
  by Jon L. Nauert
• First thing first
  by Peter Eisenhardt
• Waves pass through
  by Tom Turner
• As life evolves, minerals do too: team recounts dramatic changes in variety, abundance
  by Sid Perkins
• It's a jungle on there: skin samples contain rich diversity of bacteria: inventory identifies body's most microbe-varied locales
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Cancer genome sequenced
  by Laura Sanders
• Different division
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Household cleaners using oxygen may make blood removal too simple: three common forensic tests foiled by hemoglobin's fatigue
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Design criteria outline ways to repel water, oil: both liquids can bead up, flow off textured surfaces
  by Sid Perkins
• Stone Age gal had wide hips: H. erectus females may have delivered big-brained babies
  by Bruce Bower
• Ancient healer reborn
  by Bruce Bower
• Physicists find muons bemusing: puzzling results may signify mystery particle or new force
  by Ron Cowen
• A way to crack quantum encryption: time-travel technique could break supposedly secure codes
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Science past: December 6, 1958
• Science future
• For daily use
• Science stats: worldwide water: supply and demand
• Genes & cells
• Atom & cosmos
• Melatonin by moonlight
  by Laura Sanders
• California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
  by Elizabeth Quill
• Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals
• Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry
• The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science
• Colliding planets
  by Dick Smith