USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in June, 2003 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• Traveling to Mars could become more feasible and less costly thanks to microchannel process technology - Science Scene - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory develops process to covert carbon dioxide into propellant fuel - Brief Article
• Specific gene linked to aggression - Neuroscience
• Photosynthesis in a beaker - Chemistry - Brief Article
• Establishing standards for aquarium trade - Marine Biology
• Remote sensing on the range - Monitoring
• A self-sustaining environment for future space colonies is being explored by researchers at Purdue University - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Tiny molecules control life processes - Microbiology
• Plastics vs. chemicals as plant growth regulators - Botany
• Biological activity found 1,000 feet below surface - Oceanography
• U.S. unprepared for disease outbreak - Bioterrorism
• Overfishing and overuse of coastal regions have severely damaged marine habitats - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Fruit fly gene combats wasting disorder - Molecular Biology
• Weed produces "safe" poison - Herbicides
• Global rate reaches historic proportions - Extinction - Brief Article
• The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Plastics may cause birth defects - Genetics
• Do plants know math? - Horticulture
• Golf course "hazard" filters runoff pollution - Wetlands
• More than 200 plants and shrubs have been identified as poisonous to dogs and cats - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Polymers promote nerve cell growth - Regeneration - Brief Article
• Online job seekers must search longer - Internet
• Cosmic tango in outer space - Solar System - Brief Article
• Do we want to live to 140? - Bioethics - Brief Article
• Worm's social feeding linked to human obesity - Biodiversity
• Onscreen cursor controlled by brain - Computers
• Sweating the small stuff matters - Metallurgy - microstructures
• Radio-loud quasars and blazars - Astronomy - Brief Article
• Bracing for another battle with West Nile virus - Pest Control - includes 10 tips to avoid mosquito bites and infection
• Can mechanical dogs be seniors' best friends? - Robotics
• Multiple "guards" foil hackers - Software
• Immobilized enzymes can check bioterrorism - Materials
• Radiation may affect planetary evolution - Universe
• A patient one day may be able to drop off some cells at the doctor's office and wait while a machine manufactures a new organ - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Women can "smell" thin to men - Aroma - Brief Article
• Hormone regulates plant growth - Vegetation - auxin
• Creating reversible "smart surfaces" - Engineering - Brief Article
• Rising temperatures spur biological chaos - Climate
• A mechanism from within could explain why very young brain cells seem to turn a deaf ear to one another - Science Scene - Brief Article
• Malaria toxin made to turn on itself - Immunology - Brief Article
• Haptics lets computer users "feel" - Virtual Reality
• New technology provides more power - Full Cells
• Finding poultry defects before processing - Screening
• Vanishing coastlines might not be the only peril in a global-warming world - Science Scene - migration of disease carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes - Brief Article
• Capturing the HIV virus on film - Cellular Biology
• More information is attainable faster - Communication
• Sorting and mixing pigs not beneficial - Animal Husbandry
• New devices are inexpensive, powerful - Detection - gas detectors