The Journal of Young Investigators: An Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal
Volume 19, Issue 17. Nov 2009
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A Clearer Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
fMRI Lie Detection: Is there Science Behind Deception?
Making a Difference with Your Talents
Drought—the Detrimental Cigarette of the Amazon Rainforest
The Latest Craze in Renewable Energy: Blood in a Biofuel Cell!
Making a Difference Through Preparation
Making a Difference Through Hard Work
The Springtime Blues: Understanding Seasonal Allergies
My Experiences at the 2008-2009 AAAS Conference – Chicago
Interview with Professor Vicki Sato of Harvard University
JYI Exclusive Video: AAAS Annual Meeting Chicago 2009
“Remember, this whole thing started with a mouse.” – Walt Disney
Fasting and the Human Mind
Thousands of Laymen Help Make A Crucial Discovery About Galaxy Evolution
Four years as an Undergraduate Researcher
Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
The Entrepreneurial Science Journalist
Visit with the Senior Research Editor
Urbanization: More Comfort but Less Health
Interview with Raymond Gilmartin, Former CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.
JYI: The Ultimate Washington D.C. Excursion (Video Content)
The Entrepreneurial Science Journalist
Visit with the Senior Research Editor
A Letter from our Chief Executive Officer
Visit with the Senior Research Editor
Hubble Survey Finds Largest-Ever Sample of Ancient Galaxies
The Power of Small Things: How Tiny Droplets Can Tackle Big Problems
Desalination Is No Panacea, But Holds Potential as Water Shortage Solution
The Day After Tomorrow: Is it Closer Than We Think?
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: Europe’s return to coal
Looking at Old Stars in New Ways: Gravitational Waves Help Us See Inside a Neutron Star
Science for Christians
Are doctors inhumane?
Editorial: A Novel, Non-Invasive Approach to Diagnosing Urinary Tract Obstruction Using CFD
The Final Space Odyssey
Power of Universities: Improving Access to Medicines
Editorial: What Factors Influence Mate Selection?
EDITORIAL - US Presidential Candidates Must Address Political Scientific Crisis
A Peek into Psychopharmacology: Rats on Drugs
Editorial: Design and Development of Resonance Frequency Tracking Software Using LabVIEW
Vitamin D and its Importance
The Stem Cells That Promise No Miracles
Editorial: The World is Flat and Bad
The Feats of a Frontiersman in Cancer Research
Checkmate, Yahtzee, 11010101 - I Resign! ..... Game playing machines
Editorial for
Localization of Nicotine-Sensitive Cells in the Brainstem
Editorial:
Longevity in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera): Expression of Telomerase and Insulin Signaling Pathway Genes in Queen and Worker Bees
The emergence of the robot brain
Powering Nations
Taming the "Flu" virus
Going Nano: An Exploration of Tiny Science with Big Possibilities
GUEST ARTICLE - Biotechnologically Engineered Antimicrobial Peptides – Hope Against Multiresistant Bacteria
Editorial:
In silico
Analysis of Phylogenetic Relationship between the Woolly Mammoth and Modern Elephants
The Top Five World Geologic Sites
Communicating with Canines
SPECIAL ISSUE - SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS OF 2007 - PART 1
SPECIAL ISSUE - SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS OF 2007 - PART 2
Super-Strong body armour with carbon nanotubes
Snail offers clues to improve anesthetics
Recent advances in solar energy and potential applications
DECEMBER : AIDS AWARENESS MONTH - HIV/AIDS: Yesterday, Today, and Beyond
How Fast Are You Moving When Sitting Still?
New HIV Vaccine is a No-Go: What Went Wrong and What Will Happen Next?
What bones Can Tell Us
Gene Knockout Bags the 2007 Nobel in Medicine
Caffeine: Understanding the World’s Most Popular Psychoactive Drug
Personal Science: Does Self-Experimentation have a place in today's research?
Facing the Facts: A Look at the Face Transplant Controversy
The Uncertainty of Medicine
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPUTNIK
Review Articles in the JYI
Top Ten Most Important Astronomical Images
Informing Policy in the World’s Largest Democracy
50th ANNIVERSARY OF SPUTNIK - Korolev: The Mastermind of the Soviet Space Program
Intense X-Rays Produced by Gas falling into Black Holes
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Editoral for
Crystal Structure of Mn
2+
bound
Escherichia coli
L-arabinose Isomerase (ECAI) : Implications in Protein Catalytic Mechanism and Thermo-Stability
Could Getting Help Get Easier?
Challenging a Theory
The Moebius Riddle
Stalemate: Stem Cell Research Policy
Using Digital Media Creatively and Interactively
Nature's Candles
Malaria-Free Mosquitoes
Agrichar – saving the planet with black earth
REVIEW ARTICLE: Pathways and Pathology in Cell Nuclear Migration and Anchorage
Anti-Angiogenic Drugs: A Chemotherapy?
The Plunge
Maggot Medicine
MDMA - The Ecstasy
Genomic Variation: The Search for Our Past and Our Future
How It Works: The Evolution of 3D Glasses and 3D Technology
The Great Debate: String Theory
Diamonds on Demand
Space Race II
Searching for Extraterrestrials: An Undergraduate’s Tale
Land Ho!: The Search for Planets Outside our Solar System
Expediting the ER Process: The Emergence of Emergency Room Scribe Programs
Olmec Writing: The oldest in the Western Hemisphere
Mind over matter: how to think yourself healthy
Why is there Something Instead of Nothing?
Searching for Missing Mass
The Buzz with Stem Cells
Greasoline: Finding your fuel in fast food
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: The Road to Invisibility
Treadmill in a tube—a solution to the nation’s obesity crisis?
JYI Special Issue: Manuscripts from UCONN's REU in Chemistry
Magnetic Nanoparticles Enhance Medical Imaging
CLASHES, WARS AND PLASTIC SURGERY
The planetary standstill: A word without a definition.
What happens during a coma?
Blink, Breathe, and Break
MEDIA REVIEW -
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Cure for the Common Everything: Celebrating 240 Years of American Chocolate
Water’s Unexpected Self-Loathing
The “Guided Missiles”, or the “Guided Micelles”?
MEDIA REVIEW –
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
, by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Skinny on Life Extension
Antimicrobial Nation: The Benefits and Drawbacks of the Domestic War on Germs
On the Mountains: High Altitude Sickness in Nepal
MEDIA REVIEW -
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
by Jonathan Weiner
MEDIA REVIEW -
Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
by Richard Rapport
The “Small Frontier” – Exploring the Atomic Landscape
An Aging Marvel – NASA’s Space Shuttle’s “Golden Years”
Study Nature, Not Books: Cockerell and the Amateur Naturalist
Drug Addiction – A (Forgotten) Memory?
It’s Alive! Harnessing the Powers of Tissue Engineering
The Future of Communications: The Next Revolution in Applications of Quantum Physics
Returning to Flight, Continuing to What?
Yams of Fortune: The (Uncontrolled) Birth of Oral Contraceptives
Physics First in Science Education Reform
Happy Meals® in Kitty Hawk: How the Wright Brothers Spawned a Burger Nation
Banana Vaccines: A Conversation with Dr. Charles Arntzen
Lava Lamp Moon: The Search for Life on Europa May Just Have Gotten Easier
Male vs. Female: Gender Conflict as an Evolutionary Force
A New Medical Breakthrough: Wart to do when Verruca vulgaris Attacks
Risks of smallpox vaccination give cause for concern
Fear Not Traveling Salesmen, DNA Computing is Here to Save the Day
Florida Manatees: On the Brink of Extinction
Food For Thought!
Don't Let West Nile Take A Bite Out of You!
Can't Get Enough of Umami: Revealing the Fifth Element of Taste
Science on the Radio
Static Electricity, Toxic Dust, and the Red Planet: How NASA is Preparing to Send Humans to Mars
Exploring the Botox Fad
Looking Good: The Psychology and Biology of Beauty
So You Wanna Be an Astronomer?
Looks can be deceiving: the case of
Escherichia coli
Merging Chinese Traditional Medicine into the American Health System
MacGyvers in the Making: A How-To Guide for Starting Your Own Science Enrichment Program
Camille Mojica Rey, like many of her colleagues, did not plan on being a science writer. As a minority and a woman who showed an interest in science, she was encouraged to pursue engineering. Nobody noticed that she was also acing her honors English cours
In Search of Darkness: The quest to observe one of nature's most curious astronomical constructions
Thoughts on Presenting a Poster: Science, Sun, and Sea World at the 2002 Spring American Chemical Society Meeting
Hungering for Help: Genetically Modified Foods and the Developing World
Alzheimer's Disease: A Brief History and Avenues for Current Research
Rodent Parvoviruses: Non-human Viruses That Affect Human Health
Homeopathy: The Art of Micro-dosage
Journalist to Science Writer: Jennifer Donovan Discovers Her Passion
The Human Genome Project: Progress Toward Understanding Our Genetic Material
Smallpox: Historical Review of a Potential Bioterrorist Tool
There's Something in the Water! A Look at Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water
Betwixt and Between: A Semester in Turkey
The Human Body Beneath the Sea
String Theory: Symmetry in Multiple Dimensions
Gleevec: Highlighting the Power of Rational Drug Design
Thinking Out of the Box: The Intriguing Field of Darwinian Medicine
Two Months in the Basement - Research Opportunities for Undergrads
Seeing Double: An introduction to twinning
Ethics and Politics, Biology and Capitalism: The case of human embryonic stem cell research in America
Proteomics: Pushing the Frontiers of Genomics
Defining Stem Cells
Regulation of Gene Expression: A New Role For an Alzheimer's Protein?
The Science of Fixing Stuff -or- If I Can Do Quantum Mechanics, Then I Can Make That Thing Stop Leaking
Terrorism vs. Scientific Diligence: The Race to Understand and Contain Anthrax
Sputnik: Fellow Traveler Takes America for a Ride
Microarray: A Technique Review
Changing of the Guard: The Hubble Telescope Yields to the Next Generation
Biochemical Techniques to Produce Transgenic Plants
A Critique of the U.S.'s Response to the Threat of Bioterrorism
The Evolution of Gene Nomenclature: From
white
to
Defb24
A quest to understand the spices of life: the antimicrobial powers of spices
In Search of A Quick Fix: The Controversy Behind the Ailing Chesapeake Oysters
Media Review - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Science and Storms: Predicting the Unpredictable
Restoration or Destruction: The Controversy over Wolf Reintroduction
Media Review - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Does Spending More Green On Groceries Really Help the Environment?
microRNA: A Revolution in Gene Expression
Awakening the Sleeping Bones: Scientific Access and the Woman of Flores
Investigating the truth behind
CSI
Between the Sky and Sea: How the Oceans May Affect Global Warming
Understanding Who We Are - 30 Years Since Lucy
Alternative Energy or Alternative Oil?: The Search for Unknown Reservoirs
“Science Fair” – Deception and Competition in Scientific Review
Science is Not a Balancing Act
Botanical Bio-Warfare: How Plants Stop Pathogens
The Internet: Communication Corruptor or Language Liberator?
A Closer Look at Science Education: University and High School Partnerships
Letter From JYI Co-Founder Brian Su
The Dawn of the Living, Talking Robots
Water Woes in the Western US
The Fight for Recognition: Chagas’ Disease Meets Controversy
Whale Songs: Secrets from the Ocean’s Depths
The Box Jellyfish: Australia’s Other Marine Killer
Pursuing an Academic Career:
A Ph.D. Is Not Enough
Letter to the Editor - Should science and engineering undergraduate education be merged?
Seamount Environment Disappearing
Sex and the Single Cell
Research Experience for Undergraduates: A Summer Like No Other
The Plague: Why This Medieval Madness is Still a 21st Century Problem and How Your Cat May Play a Role
Heated Debate over Flame Retardants
Idaho Lab Reaches Major Milestone in Hydrogen Research
Mercury: the New Lead?
Comets: Killers, Creators, or Cotton Candy?
Letter to the Editor – The Dilemma of Tuberculosis Control and the DOTS Program
Delayed Gratification: Why it Took Everybody So Long to Acknowledge that Bacteria Cause Ulcers
Childhood Tuberculosis in Nepal
The Blob That Attacked Waikiki: The Box Jellyfish Invasion of Hawaii
Psychotic Mice to the Rescue: Curing Schizophrenia
Letter to the Editor - Health Disparities Research: Role for Undergraduate Students
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? The Yellowstone Wolves Controversy
Infection by Protein: The Prion Theory of Disease
You’re Majoring in What? Why I chose Science and Technology Studies
How It Works: Surround Sound Systems are Bringing the Theater Home
Why Gymnastics Judges Will Never Get a Perfect “10”
Playing Detective: Birth of New Star Provides Clues about Origin of the Solar System
Feeling Lonely? Contact with other intelligent life may be closer than you think
Making Sense of Abrupt Climate Change, or What Would Yoda Do?
The Psychology of Time
Old Fashioned Coal: The Fuel of the Future
Understanding Who Becomes Terrorists
Students Promoting Science – How to take Science out of the Lab and into the Community
Flatbread, Ice Cream Sandwiches, and the Thrill of Discovery: High School Students and the Mars Rovers
Transgenic Plants: A Budding Controversy Stems from Consumer Concerns
Regaining control: treatment options for spinal cord injury bladder dysfunction
Evidence for an Ancient Ocean on Mars
Bioinformatics: Life Science Research In Silico
Milk, Doing Your Body Good?
Antibiotic Resistance: Not Just for People Anymore
Gene Therapy: Techniques of Cell Transfection
The Roots of Discontent with Managed Care
Why Scientists Do Science: A Trek For Answers
The Viral Roots of Cancer
Dark Energy in the Land of Speculative Science
So Many Numbers - What Do You Do With The Data?
Science Writing is a Winding Road: Perspectives from Caroline Simmons
Analytical Chemistry Comes to the Rescue: Solving the Human Genome and other Biological Mysteries with Capillary Electrophoresis
Innovation vs. Access: Two Epidemics Transform the Pharmaceutical Patent Law Debate into an International Controversy
When Bacteria Go Bad - the Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis
Burning the Midnight Oil: Using the Internet for Science Research
Genomics Giants Receive Awards for Research
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
Catastrophic Events in the History of Life: Toward a New Understanding of Mass Extinctions in the Fossil Record - Part II
Fuel Cells: Hope for the Future
Hagfish Aren't So Horrible After All
RNAi: Possible Therapies, Potential Breakthroughs
Chlamydomonas: A Powerful Tool For Biological Research
Defining Personhood
Catastrophic Events in the History of Life: Toward a New Understanding of Mass Extinctions in the Fossil Record - Part I
Science in the Name of Beauty: Summer internships give insight into the scientific research behind cosmetics
Exploring the Ozone Hole: Mechanisms of Stratospheric Denitrification
Stem Cells and Public Funding: Moral Controversies and Scientific Issues
Lasers, Magnets, and the Coldest Stuff in the Universe: An introduction to Bose-Einstein Condensation
Summer Internships
Summer Internships
The Brain Must Go Back to the Future: an Exploration of Mental Time Travel
Book Review: Philosophy of Science, A Short Introduction by Samir Okasha
"Bon Exploration!"--A Parisian Research Experience for Undergraduates with the Pasteur Institute of France
Combating Cancer with Nanotechnology
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