ASU Research Magazine - Fall 1999

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Shadow Of Doubt (PDF)
DNA databanks maintained by law enforcement agencies contain vital information about convicted felons. But should those databases contain information about those who

Notebook (PDF)
Snow Shoes To Toe Shoes; A Gene To Clean?; Frozen Legacy; The Times Of Life;  Phoenix; A City For The Birds; Lost Beneath The Lake; Asian Eagles; Toxins As Tools

Scam I Am (PDF)
Americans lose more than $40 billion per year to sweepstakes scams. The elderly and infirm are popular targets for scams of all kinds.

A for activity, F for sluggo (PDF)
Are American schools neglecting the education of children’s bodies in favor of filling up their heads?

Big Ideas about Big Bugs (PDF)
Cockroaches as big as house cats and dragonflies with the wingspans of hawks really did exist 300 million years ago.

A Walk Through Time (PDF)
ASU’s Kaye Reed braves heat, hyenas, and dehydration in the African wilderness to pluck ancient fossils from cave walls and riverbeds.

Armada Bound For Mars (PDF)
Valles Marineris is the grandest canyon of Mars. More than 6,000 kilometers long, it is some 25 times larger than Arizona's Grand Canyon. ASU scientists want to determine if the visible rock layers were formed by sedimentary processes involving water, as were the layers of Earth's Grand Canyon, or by lava flows similar to terrestrial flood basalts like the Columbia River canyons.

Livin’ La Vida Europa (PDF)
Jupiter’s moon Europa just might harbor extraterrestrial life beneath its weirdly cracked surface ice.

Signs From Salamanders (PDF)
Scientists worldwide are sounding an ecological alarm. The Earth’s salamanders, frogs, toads, and newts are dying. No one knows why.

Making The Hard Stuff (PDF)
ASU scientists create new superhard materials by using chemical knowledge and a high-tech pressure cooker.

Song Of Sensation (PDF)
Lots of 18- month-old babies love to pound on pianos. But when little Sara Romero started pounding, it was something special.

Pyramid Of Mystery (PDF)
Archaeologists excavating beneath the Pyramid of the Moon have made new finds. They may provide clues to reconstruct the 2,000-year-old history of Teotihuacan, the mysterious ancient metropolis located 25 miles from Mexico City.

Poetry Of Strings (PDF)
Mark Curran is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Brazilian Literatura de Cordel, a form of grassroots narrative poetry that has chronicled everyday life in Brazil for nearly a century.

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