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Potential Research Topics Using AccessScience Resources

TOPIC: Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance (Article)
Antibiotic (Article)
Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise (Briefing)
Arlomycin antibiotics may combat antimicrobial resistance (Briefing)
Cranberry compound prevents antibiotic resistance in laboratory tests (Briefing)
How Do Hand Sanitizers Work? (Video)
This material uses energy from ambient light to kill hospital superbugs (News)
Christopher T. Walsh (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Foodborne Illness

Foodborne disease (Article)
Escherichia coli outbreaks (Article)
Salmonelloses (Article)
Listeriosis (Article)
Climate change could increase foodborne illness by energizing flies (News)

TOPIC: Organ Regeneration

Regenerative biology (Article)
Heart regeneration (Article)
Regenerative medicine as a treatment modality for organ loss (Briefing)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Biography)
Shinya Yamanaka (Biography)

TOPIC: Genetically Modified Organisms

Genetic engineering (Article)
Genetically modified organism (GMO) (Article)
Genetically modified crops (Article)
Genetically modified nonbrowning apples approved for sale (Briefing)
GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA (News)
GMO Regulation in America (Video)

TOPIC: CRIPSR

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing (Article)
CRISPR genome-editing methods against superbugs (Article)
Expanded range for CRISPR gene editing (Briefing)
Cancer cells engineered with CRISPR slay their own kin (News)
Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals (News)
Gene editing of human embryos gets rid of a mutation that causes heart failure (News)
CRISPR/Cas9 explained (Video)
The Legal Battle Over CRISPR (Video)
Philip Horvath (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Development of the periodic table

Periodic table (Article)
Chemical element (Article)
2019 International Year of the Periodic Table (Briefing)
Ultrathin 2D metals get their own periodic table (News)
Women in Chemistry: Heroes of the Periodic Table (Video)
The Four “New” Elements and How We Got Them (Video)
Have We Found All the Elements? (Video)
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (Biography)

TOPIC: Ocean acidification

Ocean acidification (Article)
Coral reef structural complexity (Article)
Ocean acidification affecting fishes’ sense of smell (Briefing)
Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes (News)
Syukuro Manabe (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Chocolate and flavanols

Cacao (Article)
Cocoa powder and chocolate (Article)
Understanding the health benefits of chocolate flavanols (Briefing)
Five Sweet Facts About the Chemistry of Chocolate (Video)
Milk Chocolate Versus Dark Chocolate (Video)

TOPIC: Higgs boson

Higgs boson (Article)
Higgs boson detection at the LHC (Article)
Large Hadron Collider (Article)
Detection of the Higgs boson (Briefing)
An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted (Briefing)
Peter (Ware) Higgs (Biography)

TOPIC: Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion (Article)
Nucleosynthesis (Article)
Harnessing the power of nuclear fusion in tokamak reactors (Briefing)
Ernest Rutherford (Biography)
Robert D’escourt Atkinson (Biography)

TOPIC: Supermassive black hole

Black hole (Article)
Supermassive stars (Article)
Event Horizon Telescope captures first image of a black hole (Briefing)
Star’s orbit of a supermassive black hole supports theory of relativity (Briefing)
Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so big so fast (News)
The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last (News)
Martin John Rees (Biography)
Sandra M. Faber (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Invasive species

Invasive species (Article)
Invasion ecology (Article)
Effects of invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park (Article)
Invasive lionfish (Briefing)
Asian longhorned tick is an invasive threat in the United States (Briefing)
This invasive tick can clone itself and suck livestock dry (News)

TOPIC: Plastic waste pollution

Plastic waste pollution (Briefing)
Single-use plastic-bag alternatives (Briefing)
Lithium-ion battery anodes produced from waste plastic bags (Briefing)
Polymer (Article)
The key to breaking down plastic may be in caterpillars' guts (News)
Can Plastics Be Composted? (Video)
How Plastic Recycling Works (Video)

TOPIC: Global climate change

Global climate change (Article)
Greenhouse effect (Article)
Paleoclimatology (Article)
Hydrological consequences of global warming (Article)
Ocean warming (Article)
Sea-level rise (Article)
Deadly heat in an era of global climate change (Briefing)
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, study shows (Briefing)
The potential for natural climate solutions in the United States (Briefing)
Humans are driving climate change, federal scientists say (News)
Syukuro Manabe (Video Biography)

Tips for Choosing a Topic using AccessScience

Browse Briefings and News for ideas. Editorial briefings are short, engaging reports that cover new phenomena, events, or scientific discoveries, while news stories are timely scientific reports from ScienceNews. Both can be browsed by topic.
Browse our Video collection. Spark your curiosity with videos explaining the scientific concepts behind everyday objects and phenomena.
Use the related links to explore further. Links to related AccessScience articles appear throughout all content types, and many resource also include links to related news, videos, book chapters, topics, and more.
Link to primary literature and external content. Get additional sources right from AccessScience! Use the Primary Literature tab at the top of articles and briefings to find primary research papers, books, and organizational websites. You can also use the Additional Readings section at the bottom of articles and briefings to find further reading related to the topic.

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