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Articles in June, 1997 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• Fiery foils produce new sealing process - Johns Hopkins Univ researchers are developing highly reactive metallic foils that can be used for instant welding - Brief Article
• Shedding light on electron's structure - Purdue Univ physicists discover that an electron's electronic strength may increase as it nears a particle's central core - Brief Article
• Speeding up DNA identification - Univ of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers alter oligonucleotide probes for faster identification of DNA sequences - Brief Article
• Eliminating engine knock increases operating efficiency - Ohio State Univ researchers have developed software that better differentiates between automobile engine knock and background noise - Brief Article
• Things don't always become bigger - Univ of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski disputes Cope's Rule that organisms naturally evolve to larger sizes - Brief Article
• New theory of continent formation - Johns Hopkins Univ researcher Bruce Marsh postulates that large crystals found in cooling magma are transported from great depths - Brief Article
• Teaching machines to recognize objects - John Hopkins Univ researcher Elli Angelopoulou develops new object recognition technique for robots - Brief Article
• Turtles misplaced on reptile family tree - researchers discover that turtles possess more characteristics of diapsids, or modern-day reptiles, than traits of primitive anapsids - Brief Article
• Self-repairing bacterium tantalizes scientists - deinococcus radiodurans is able to repair broken DNA strands caused by exposure to deadly amounts of radiation - Brief Article
• Internet glitches slow smooth surfing - Washington Univ researchers are developing new protocols for distributed computing systems that will assist components without memory and prevent glitches
• Excavating 300-year-old French ship - excavation of explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's shipwrecked ship off the coast of Texas - Brief Article
• "Little Ice Age" is on the way - Univ of Missouri researcher Ernest Kung believes that North America will experience a cold spell for about the next 20 years as jet stream from Alaska and western Canada descends - Brief Article
• New security system is virtually uncrackable - Univ of Connecticut researcher Bahram Javidi has developed 'coded phase mask' system that relies on unique patterns of microscopic pixels - Brief Article
• Noses show dinosaurs were cold-blooded - Oregon State Univ zoologists discover that dinosaurs had nasal passages similar to those of modern crocodiles or lizards - Brief Article
• Top 10 technological challenges for the next decade
• Jovian moon has thin oxygen atmosphere - astronomers make observation of Jupiter's moon Ganymede using Hubble Space Telescope's Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph - Brief Article
• Controlling pests without chemicals - biological control of insects in agriculture is more effective than widely known and yields a return on investment of 100-1000% in the first year - Brief Article
• "X-ray vision" aids medical diagnoses - researchers are combining ultrasound with virtual reality technology to create three-dimensional images of medical patients - Brief Article
• X-ray telescope will provide sharpest images - NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility will deliver resolving power ten times greater than that of previous x-ray telescopes - Brief Article
• Seeking to curtail Formosan termites - Louisiana State Univ researchers are developing bait and toxins that imitate chemicals produced by termites - Brief Article
• New technique adds speed and ease - Ohio State Univ researchers are using a computer vision sensor to speed up digitizing process for designing manufactured products - Brief Article
• Cloud photos suggest that Jupiter is wet - California Institute of Technology researchers reveal thundercloud photos and contend that Galileo probe landed in a cloudless area of Jupiter in Dec 1995 - Brief Article
• Hormones key to drought resistance - Univ of Missouri researchers discover that plant hormone abscisic acid fosters root growth in drought-stricken plants and maintains shoot growth - Brief Article
• Magnetic cooling more efficient and cheaper - Astronautics Corporation of America and Ames Laboratory have successfully tested a magnetic refrigerator that operates at near room temperature - Brief Article
• Substituting hot water for dangerous acids - scientists discover that water heated above the boiling point elicits the same organic chemical reactions caused by strong acids or bases - Brief Article
• Eliminating "junk" genes - Purdue Univ researchers develop technique for inserting desired genes at a specific location on plant chromosomes and excising unwanted genes - Brief Article
• Prosthetic foot mimics real thing - prosthesis designed by Tufts School of Medicine researcher Mark R. Pitkin mimics the movement and characteristics of a real human foot - Brief Article
• Magnetic tweezers move DNA molecules - Johns Hopkins Univ researcher Denis Wirtz develops microscopic tweezers made of oxide beads coated with biotin - Brief Article
• DNA data could spawn "genetic underclass." - Paul R. Billings, chief of staff at the Clinic of the Veterans Admin. Palo Alto Health Care System, warns of discrimination in the collection and storage of genetic data - Brief Article