Vol. 131 No. 2697, June 2003
Index
- Bracing for another battle with West Nile virus.
- Do we want to live to 140?
- A mechanism from within could explain why very young brain cells seem to turn a deaf ear to one another.
- A patient one day may be able to drop off some cells at the doctor's office and wait while a machine manufactures a new organ.
- A self-sustaining environment for future space colonies is being explored by researchers at Purdue University.
- More than 200 plants and shrubs have been identified as poisonous to dogs and cats.
- Overfishing and overuse of coastal regions have severely damaged marine habitats.
- The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated.
- Traveling to Mars could become more feasible and less costly thanks to microchannel process technology.
- Vanishing coastlines might not be the only peril in a global-warming world.
- Can mechanical dogs be seniors' best friends?
- Malaria toxin made to turn on itself.
- Women can "smell" thin to men.
- Worm's social feeding linked to human obesity.
- Capturing the HIV virus on film.
- Specific gene linked to aggression.
- Tiny molecules control life processes.
- Fruit fly gene combats wasting disorder.
- Plastics may cause birth defects.
- Onscreen cursor controlled by brain.
- Polymers promote nerve cell growth.
- Haptics lets computer users "feel".
- Hormone regulates plant growth.
- Multiple "guards" foil hackers.
- More information is attainable faster.
- Photosynthesis in a beaker.
- Plastics vs. chemicals as plant growth regulators.
- Weed produces "safe" poison.
- Do plants know math?
- Online job seekers must search longer.
- Creating reversible "smart surfaces".
- Immobilized enzymes can check bioterrorism.
- Sweating the small stuff matters.
- New technology provides more power.
- Sorting and mixing pigs not beneficial.
- Biological activity found 1,000 feet below surface.
- Establishing standards for aquarium trade.
- Global rate reaches historic proportions.
- Cosmic tango in outer space.
- Golf course "hazard" filters runoff pollution.
- Radio-loud quasars and blazars.
- Finding poultry defects before processing.
- Radiation may affect planetary evolution.
- Rising temperatures spur biological chaos.
- New devices are inexpensive, powerful.
- Remote sensing on the range.
- U.S. unprepared for disease outbreak.