USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in June 2005 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation, and chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo
• Pathway identification imperils disease
• Soil can trap radioactive toxins
• Astronauts susceptible to kidney stones
• Sniffing out insect control
• The biochemical mechanism that enables animals—likely including humans—to recognize when their diet is deficient in an essential amino acid has been identified for the first time by School of Veterinary Medicine researchers at the University of
• Synaptic vesicles help relay messages
• The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates
• Crater mystery of melted rocks
• Grapefruit aroma enhances youthfulness
• Harnessing the strength of a natural process that repairs damage to the human genome, doctors at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have helped establish a method of therapy that can correct mutations in the IL-2R gene that is as
• Fooling brain into feeling full
• Ending reliance on toxic viruses
• Astronomers find gravity's signature
• Damming evidence calls for planning
• Unique follow-up observations carried out with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively bright young dwarf star located 225 light-years away in the sout
• Fear factor function in brain
• One-step destruction of cancer cells
• Robots that act like rats
• Is American dream a Chinese nightmare?
• "Transparency" could spawn new industries
• Hijacking bacterium for energy use
• Disappearing lakes, shrinking seas
• Nanotubes provide power boost
• The Army Chemical Materials Agency
• Can Shamanism really heal patients?
• Contaminated air jeopardizes public health
• Turbulence in the fast lane
• Environmental factors, such as attending religious ceremonies with family, affect individuals' religiousness as children, but genes most likely keep them attending and believing as they become adults, according to a study of twins by Laura Koenig of the D
• "Smoke" detector promises safety
• Baby bottles found harmful
• Aerodynamics allow trucks to "fly"
• Can DNA breaks be repaired?
• Global warming threat growing
• Pre- and postnatal asthma triggers cited
• Mass producing tiny structures
• Aerosol clouds cool earth
• Disaster planning still lacking
• Where bacteria get their genes
• Calcium good for more than strong bones
• Missing star looks "heavy"
• Airguns gauge undersea volcanoes