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Archive Issues2005, September

Research

Analyzing Nucleosome Repositioning and Positioning on the PH05 promoter photochemically

By Nadeera Dawlagala

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Effect of cadmium on the growth of Chlamydomonas

By Suzen Awad and Tin-Chun Chu

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Identification of DNA Sequences of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons in Maize

By Joseph L. Wezenter

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Features

Yams of Fortune: The (Uncontrolled) Birth of Oral Contraceptives

By Redig Mandy

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Physics First in Science Education Reform

By Pattanayak Vikram

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Happy Meals® in Kitty Hawk: How the Wright Brothers Spawned a Burger Nation

By Selby Cull

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Banana Vaccines: A Conversation with Dr. Charles Arntzen

By Redig Mandy

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Lava Lamp Moon: The Search for Life on Europa May Just Have Gotten Easier

By Selby Cull

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Male vs. Female: Gender Conflict as an Evolutionary Force

By Campbell Gregory

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A New Medical Breakthrough: Wart to do when Verruca vulgaris Attacks

By De Michele Jennifer

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Risks of smallpox vaccination give cause for concern

By Pattanayak Vikram

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Fear Not Traveling Salesmen, DNA Computing is Here to Save the Day

By Srivastava Siddharth

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Florida Manatees: On the Brink of Extinction

By Feng Charles

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Food For Thought!

By Kate Wighton

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Don’t Let West Nile Take A Bite Out of You!

By Kushner Emily

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Can’t Get Enough of Umami: Revealing the Fifth Element of Taste

By Yuan Kristy

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Science on the Radio

By De Michele Jennifer

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Static Electricity, Toxic Dust, and the Red Planet: How NASA is Preparing to Send Humans to Mars

By Selby Cull

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Exploring the Botox Fad

By Lee Jean

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Looking Good: The Psychology and Biology of Beauty

By Feng Charles

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So You Wanna Be an Astronomer?

By Selby Cull

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Looks can be deceiving: the case of Escherichia coli

By Hu Amanda

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Merging Chinese Traditional Medicine into the American Health System

By Feng Charles

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MacGyvers in the Making: A How-To Guide for Starting Your Own Science Enrichment Program

By Vora Sadhna

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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

By Joshua Tusin

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In Search of Darkness: The quest to observe one of nature’s most curious astronomical constructions

By Montez Rudy

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Thoughts on Presenting a Poster: Science, Sun, and Sea World at the 2002 Spring American Chemical Society Meeting

By Lovejoy Katherine

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Hungering for Help: Genetically Modified Foods and the Developing World

By Williams Shawna

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Alzheimer’s Disease: A Brief History and Avenues for Current Research

By Reger Beth

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Rodent Parvoviruses: Non-human Viruses That Affect Human Health

By Redig Mandy

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Homeopathy: The Art of Micro-dosage

By Lee Jean

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Journalist to Science Writer: Jennifer Donovan Discovers Her Passion

By Joshua Tusin

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The Human Genome Project: Progress Toward Understanding Our Genetic Material

By Pattanayak Vikram

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Smallpox: Historical Review of a Potential Bioterrorist Tool

By Bourzac Katherine

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There’s Something in the Water! A Look at Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water

By Vora Sadhna

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Betwixt and Between: A Semester in Turkey

By Williams Shawna

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The Human Body Beneath the Sea

By Condliffe Elizabeth

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String Theory: Symmetry in Multiple Dimensions

By Pattanayak Vikram

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Gleevec: Highlighting the Power of Rational Drug Design

By Redig Mandy

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Thinking Out of the Box: The Intriguing Field of Darwinian Medicine

By De Michele Jennifer

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Two Months in the Basement – Research Opportunities for Undergrads

By Gelfand Ian

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Seeing Double: An introduction to twinning

By Lee Jean

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Ethics and Politics, Biology and Capitalism: The case of human embryonic stem cell research in America

By Williams Shawna

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Proteomics: Pushing the Frontiers of Genomics

By Chokshi Dave

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Defining Stem Cells

By Joshua Tusin

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Regulation of Gene Expression: A New Role For an Alzheimer’s Protein?

By Tang Cristina

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The Science of Fixing Stuff -or- If I Can Do Quantum Mechanics, Then I Can Make That Thing Stop Leaking

By Harris Margaret

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Terrorism vs. Scientific Diligence: The Race to Understand and Contain Anthrax

By De Michele Jennifer

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Sputnik: Fellow Traveler Takes America for a Ride

By A.J. Howes

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Microarray: A Technique Review

By Redig Mandy

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Changing of the Guard: The Hubble Telescope Yields to the Next Generation

By Lovejoy Katherine

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Biochemical Techniques to Produce Transgenic Plants

By Pattanayak Vikram

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A Critique of the U.S.’s Response to the Threat of Bioterrorism

By Vora Sadhna

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The Evolution of Gene Nomenclature: From white to Defb24

By Moorhouse Anna

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A quest to understand the spices of life: the antimicrobial powers of spices

By Weiss Robyn

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In Search of A Quick Fix: The Controversy Behind the Ailing Chesapeake Oysters

By Toovey Leia

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Media Review – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

By Frank Adam

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Science and Storms: Predicting the Unpredictable

By Freel Kathryn

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Restoration or Destruction: The Controversy over Wolf Reintroduction

By Barton Melissa

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