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In The News

Story One

A Century After The Event, Scientists Still Don't Know What Rocked Siberia

Life

A Microbe Metropolis Lives on and Under The Ocean Floor

Some Pterosaurs Had More Than One Mode of Transportation

Body & Brain

Lead Exposure in Childhood Portends Future Problems

Monkey Minds Can Control Robotic Arms

By Hanging with Youngsters, Aging Flies Extend Their Lives

Youth Obesity Levels May Have Hit A Plateau

Atom & Cosmos

Phoenix Lander Settles in on Martian Surface

A Disarming New Look For The Milky Way

Taking The Measure of Massive Black Holes

A Small New Body Makes The Exoplanet List

Humans

New Math Suggests That Two Waves of Migration Populated The

Americas Scientists Shatter The Myth of The Crystal Skulls

Stonehenge Was A Cemetery, Possibly for The Elite

Social Networks Aid Smoking Cessation

Features

Small, But Super

Cover Story: Atom Imitators Promise New Materials with Special Powers and Versatile Tools for Research.

Nabbing Suspicious SNPs

Sophisticated Statistical Strategies are Needed to Sort Out The Signposts of Disease-Linked Genes.

Thanks for The Future Memories

Brain Researchers Find That The Same Neural Machinery Used to Reconstruct Memories is at Work in Imagining Future Scenarios.

Departments

From The Editor

Science Notebook

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Science News - June 21, 2008 Sample Index