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Articles in Feb 1, 2003, issue of Science News

• Sperm may follow rising temperature to egg - Heat-seeking missiles
  by J. Travis
• As population ages, flu takes deadly turn - Epidemiology - Brief Article
• Vaccine query
• Cetaceans provide cheap labor in the icy deep - Putting whales to work - environmental research in the Arctic
  by K. Morgan
• Sea bacteria may be new anticancer resource - Chemistry - Brief Article
• Space, time, matter, and … modern geometries. - Flatterland - book review
• Talent found: top science students chosen in 62nd annual competition - 2003 Intel Science Talent Search
  by B. Harder
• Kilauea: 20 years on, it's still erupting - Earth Science - Brief Article
• Why the mercury falls: heavy-metal rains may trace to oxidants, including smog
  by Janet Raloff
• Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep. - book review
• Electronic jetsam: ocean rovers explore the depths and monitor the environment
  by Sid Perkins
• Floods, Droughts, And Climate Change. - book review
• Psychiatric drugs surge among kids - Behavior - Brief Article
• 1421: The Year China Discovered America. - book review
• Milk ran deep in prehistoric England - Dairying pioneers
  by B. Bower
• Clot promoter cuts surgical bleeding - Biomedicine - Brief Article
• Einstein's Unfinished Symphony Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time. - book review
• Maiiles prefer flower's scent to female wasp's - Better than real - nn
  by S. Milius
• Gamma-ray burst leaves ephemeral afterglow - Astronomy - Brief Article
• State Of The World 2003. - book review
• Gel helps animals detect thermal fluctuations - Shark sense
  by J. Gorman
• Quantum computers to keep an eye on - Physics - Brief Article
• Picture this - Letters
  by Patrick Gillespie
• Noise may cause gene damage in heart - Rackets and radicals
  by B. Harder
• New moons for Neptune? - Astronomy - Brief Article
• Oldies but goodies - Letters