USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in June, 2008 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• Corn-based ethanol damages environment
• Data processing through a fly's eye
• The winds of change: global wind power capacity continues to skyrocket
• Pigs replace mice in search for cure clues
• Do chimps and humans communicate the same?
• New blood vessels from hair follicles
• Gender differences in language are biological
• Solar power starts to sizzle
• The 1600 volcanic eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru had a global impact on human society, according to a study of contemporary records by geologists at the University of California, Davis
• "A Day in Pompeii" recounts fatal eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
• A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design vegetation that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to researchers at Purdue University, West L
• Combinations of drugs—what doctors call "drug cocktails"—have proven highly effective in treating some diseases, such as AIDS
• More revelations on dinosaur extinction
• Exposing plants to electricity can boost production of useful plant chemicals and may provide a cheaper, safer, and more efficient method for producing medicines, pesticides, and other commercially important plant-based materials, report scientists at the
• Plant pathogen linked to human virus
• Heat is on Amazonian small farmers
• Does EPA need to be more stringent?
• Black bear, black bear what do you see?
• Newly discovered star hidden in plain sight
• A national movement—led by Michael F. Buckley, a University at Buffalo lecturer—is underway to change the way computer science is taught in college
• George Washington Carver: a mighty vision beyond peanuts: "we are the architects of our own fortune and the hewers out of our own destiny."
• Smell of the sea can cool climate
• Wandering albatrosses follow their nose
• Spectacular aircraft "In Plane View"
• What are the chances of turning Neanderthal?
• Fertilization discovery makes vaccine possible
• New nanovalve to deliver targeted drugs
• Big-brained primates develop more slowly
• First pest insect to have genome sequenced
• Shona: Spirits in Stone Art & Animals from Africa
• Five million years in the Cradle of Mankind
• Iron membrane thrives at high temperatures
• Eco-friendly fireworks fueled by nitrogen
• Pitching the science of baseball physics