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Articles in June 18, 2005 issue of Science News

• Pieces of numbers: a proof brings closure to a dramatic tale of partitions and primes.
  by Erica Klarreich
• The Grand Tour: A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
• Ancient glassmakers: Egyptians crafted ingots for Mediterranean trade
  by B. Bower
• Andromeda gets bigger
• Wetland blanket: volcanic sulfates may curb methane emission
  by S. Perkins
• Meetings
• Whisking whiskers: nanobrushes sweep up
  by P. Weiss
• Making waves
• Bright ideas
  by Patrick Albright
• Preventing PMS: vitamin and mineral let women avoid syndrome
  by B. Harder
• Newfound dinosaur wasn't sticking its neck out
• Smoking's reward: nicotine triggers opiate-pleasure response
  by C. Brownlee
• The supernova that wasn't
• Road worriers
  by John Oldson
• Using one's head
  by S. Milius
• Striking a better bargain with HIV: new interventions needed to save infants and to spare mothers
  by Ben Harder
• Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
• What a gas
  by Starfinder Stanley
• Planet hunt strikes rock; hot kin of Earth orbits nearby star
  by R. Cowen
• New treatment for extreme grief
• Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun
• No sugar babies: study suggests treating gestational diabetes
  by N. Seppa
• Climate shift shaped Aussie extinctions
• 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
• Slick trick snags catalyst
• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, The Masterpiece Science Edition