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Articles in Oct 11, 2008 issue of Science News

• Politics needs science for sound policymaking
  by Tom Siegfried
• Scientific observations
• Science past: October 11, 1958
• Science future
• Atom & cosmos
• Math trek
• How bizarre
• Back story: searching for signals
• Astronomers snap extrasolar image: shot may be the first of an exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star
  by Ron Cowen
• Lipid serves as healthy hormone: mice benefit from fatty acid
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Only in the north
  by David Bronson
• Not so small
  by Simcha Pollack
• Just checking
  by Steven Africk
• The migrating eye
  by Clark Waite
• Correction
• A History of Paleontology Illustration
  by Sid Perkins
• Physics for future presidents: The Science Behind The Headlines
  by Heather Benjamin
• Science stats: unacceptable exposure
• With a twinkle, pulsating stars could deliver signals from ET: neutrino beams may turn Cepheids into messengers
  by Ron Cowen
• Around the ring
  by Ron Cowen
• Mom can increase her child's risk of depression via nurture alone: new study suggests fathers don't have the same influence
  by Bruce Bower
• Pain relief you can believe in: study finds religious thought alleviates hurt for Catholics
  by Bruce Bower
• Giant honeybees skilled at the wave: attacking hornets repelled when colony shimmers en masse
  by Susan Milius
• Female frogs play the field: multiple partners improve odds of offspring survival
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Researchers dig new ant species: bizarre insect suggests ancient underground world
  by Susan Milius
• This bite won't hurt
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Continental clash cooled climate: when India and Asia collided, sources of C[O.sub.2] disappeared
  by Sid Perkins
• Aged crust
  by Sid Perkins
• Late nights tied to inflammation: key protein spikes in women with mild sleep deprivation
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Plastics chemical takes another hit: for the first time, study links bisphenol A to heart disease
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Highly wired
  by Ashley Yeager
• Location, location, location
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Low-cal bones
  by Nathan Seppa
• Let's get vertical: city buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• The Science vote: on the surface, the presidential contenders appear to take similar stances and technology. But probe a bit, and differences emerge. Because Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have never formally debated S&T issues, and don't inten
  by Janet Raloff
• Dead—but not duds: white dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos
  by Ashley Yeager
• 'National greatness' versus real national greatness
  by Frank Wilczek