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• The effects of music types on driving ability
• How teaching styles and color affect learning
• Does learning sign language affect perception?
• Do hand motions affect your memory?
• Fingerprints: the clue to I.Q.
• The effects of teacher and student learning styles on academic performance
• The effects of class structure on learning abilities
• Auditory and visual memories of males and females

• The effect of gibberellic acid on plants with red lights
• Which color Saran Wrap allows plants to grow the tallest?
• Do different wavelengths of light affect plant growth?
• Do fruit and vegetable juices contain the same amount of vitamin C?
• How does the type of water you feed a plant affect its growth?
• Do hydrating shampoos really strengthen hair more than regular shampoos?
• How does vitamin C content of packaged orange juice compare to freshly squeezed?
• The effectiveness of sunscreens
• Effect of estrogen in frog metamorphosis
• Does anti-perspirant affect your pH?
• Which bread has the most kilo calories?
• Effect of pH on catalysis in fruit browning
• Effects of nitrates on daphnia pules
• The effects of temperature on enzyme activity
• Can yard trash be substituted as a fiber source in cattle feed?
• Do ac electric fields affect yeast growth?
• Which brand vegetable soup has the most potatoes?
• Are you juicy? Do naval and valencia oranges of the same weight give the same amount of juice?
• Denaturation of nutrasweet into D.P.
• What are the effects of lead on enzymes?
• Influence of temperature on the digestive activity of pepsin on albumen
• What is the effect of malathion on planarian?
• Does temperature affect bacterial growth?
• Does chewed gum lose mass?
• The affect of secondhand smoke on worms

• Botanical pesticides: do they work?
• The effects of priming on vegetable seed germination
• Accelerating the fast plants
• Plant tissue culturing
• The effects of varying amounts of water on seed germination
• A comparison of two hydroponic techniques
• Evaluation of fertilizer types: which works best on marigolds?
• Hydroponics: the amount of dissolved oxygen in the root zone of the plants
• The effects of two commonly used window cleaners on plants
• Acid rain: an analysis of germination

• The efficiency of hydrogen peroxide in swimming pool disinfection
• Cinnamon: an organic phytopesticide for Chilean agriculture
• pH of common beverages
• How do household bleaches compare?
• Determination of lead in paint samples
• How much vitamin C is really in our juice?
• How temperature affects viscosity
• The effects of heating and cooling on the stength of glass
• Which bandage stays on best when placed in water?
• Does spending more money for your sunscreen give more protection from the sun?
• The biochemical effects of beverages on dental materials
• Does fabric softener affect drying time?
• What determines the amount of aluminum in canned drinks?

• The SARS epidemic: use of a computer model to predict the value of control measures.
• Can a software program be developed that can accurately correlate mouse pointer movement to the human eye?
• A comparison of computer based pseudo random number generators.
• Utilizing a genetic algorithm to stimulate lunar landing
• How does computer-enhanced learning compare to conventional learning
• Whose website predicts high and low temperatures with the best accuracy?
• The proficiency of random number generation

• The effect of time of day on GPS accuracy.
• Sound wave propagation in brine pools
• The relationship between sunspots and solar flares
• Electromagnetic earthquake precursors
• Monitoring inland water quality using remote sensing spectral information
• Percolation in polluted vs. unpolluted soils.
• Correlation between sunspots and tropical cyclones
• Analysis of seedlings in altered gravity

• What is the best insulation?
• Load bearing capacity of i-beams
• Comparison of wood products in twisting and bending
• Soundproofing properties of different materials
• Which insulating clothing materials work best?
• What is the effect of soccer ball temperature in kicking distance?
• Will temperature affect the way an arrow flies through the air?

• Fertilizer run-off and crop yield evaluation
• Minimizing arsenic leaching from CCA wood
• Pharmaceuticals in river water: is it possible?
• How contaminated is the soil?
• Filtering the dangerous effects of road salt
• Effect of environmental stress on plant symmetry
• Impacts of Kentucky bluegrass on native mixed-grass prairie
• Analysis of the oil contained in french fries
• How fast do yard waste materials decompose?
• Which wood is more resistant to decay?
• Polluting cars, U.S or foreign?

• Optimizing efficiency of sphere parking
• Deriving a mathematical formula between energy input and hydrogen electrolysis.
• Is there a correlation between regions of the U.S. and the number of STDs?
• Mathematics of a honeycomb
• Should you believe your local weather forecaster?
• Does gender affect the laws of probability?
• The geometry of shadows
• What are the chances?
• The effect on golf putting accuracy using different putters

• The longevity of the latent fingerprint in children vs. adults
• Computer identification of cardiac murmurs
• Cell phones: are they bugged?
• Music and its effect on blood pressure
• Does your hearing level change after exposure to amplified rock music?
• Rare vs. well done
• Do taller people have a greater lung capacity than shorter people?
• Does viewing television affect pulse rate?
• What is the effect of music on human blood pressure?

• Herbal remedies as antibiotics
• Determining the potential for nicotine as a bacterial disinfectant
• Treatment of the ultraviolet radiations on orange juice
• The antimicrobial effects of green and black teas
• Dustbusters: an analysis of agricultural dust
• Which hot sauce kills the most bacteria?
• Bacteria on the pop-tab portion of a soft drink can
• Natural garlic vs. garlic pills on bacteria
• Toothpaste vs. Streptococcus lactus
• Microwave radiation on E. coli
• Salmonella: store-bought eggs vs. farm eggs
• Turning off the tap: do you re-contaminate your clean hands?

• Generating electricity through water wave movement
• The effects of spin on a volleyball
• Which wavelength is most efficient?
• How does the acid in a lemon differentiate between two types of metal create electricity?
• What variables of a goggle lens affect vision?
• The effect of window films on light transmission
• Are advertisements louder than news broadcasts?
• The effect of temperature on the velocity of winds
• What taping pattern best protects glass in a hurricane?

• Exploring the role of protein tailoring in muscle adhesion
• Do different salts affect the growth of brine shrimp?
• Ancient oceanic microscope fossils
• A possible alternative method for controlling termites
• A wild hair: the effects of hair on cutaneous wound repair
• The analysis of natural products on the growth rate of turkeys
• Do sharks favor a color?
• The affect of UV light on mosquitoes and flies
• Does music affect a guinea pig's concentration in a maze?
• Does light affect milk production?
• Can an insect parasite be taught?
• Effect of electric current on worm regeneration
• Ability of goldfish to distinguish colors
• Tan-point coat color inheritance in labrador retriever dogs
• Effect of thermoelectric fields on fire ants
• Does color affect a chicken's appetite?

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