| Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry | ’Broken symmetry’ discovery in high-temperature superconductors
 14.07 - In a major step toward understanding high-temperature cuprate superconductors, a team of Cornell, Binghamton University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have found a "broken symmetry," where electrons act like molecules in a liquid crystal: Electrons between copper and oxygen atoms arrange themselves differently "north-south" than "
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| | Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry | Molecule-sized bait to fish for new drug targets
 14.05 - Researchers have developed a method that could open the door for investigations into the function of half of all proteins in the human body. The research team has demonstrated nanoscale control over molecules, allowing for the precise study of interactions between proteins and small molecules.
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| | Electroengineering/Microtechnics - Computer Science/Telecom | A system that’s worth its salt
 24.03 - Potable water is often in high demand and short supply following a natural disaster like the Haiti earthquake or Hurricane Katrina. In both of those instances, the disaster zones were near the sea, but converting salty seawater to potable fresh water usually requires a large amount of dependable electrical power and large-scale desalination plants — neither of which were available in the disaster areas.
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| Social sciences - Business/Economics | Nearly 2 million Californians lost health insurance during recession
 16.03 - Nearly 2 million Californians lost their health insurance during 2008 and 2009 - years characterized by a deep recession and mass layoffs - bringing the total number of uninsured in the state to more than 8 million, according to new estimates from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
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| | Physics/Astronomy | General relativity valid on cosmic scale
 10.03 - San Francisco - University of California Berkeley An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies demonstrates that the universe – at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth – plays by the rules set out 95 years ago by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity.
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| Chemistry - Life sciences | Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle
 3.09 - PASADENA, Calif. - Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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| Physics/Astronomy | Computer models explain patterns in bent crystals
 2.09 - Blacksmiths make horseshoes by heating, beating and bending iron, but what’s happening to the metal’s individual atoms during such a process? Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing new insight into how atoms in crystals rearrange as the material is bent and shaped.
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| | Medicine/Pharmacy | Social networks influence health behaviors
 2.09 - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or ‘long ties,’ produces large-scale changes most quickly. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has reached a different conclusion: Individuals are more likely to a
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| Medicine/Pharmacy - Chemistry | Hormel Institute study reveals capsaicin can act as cocarcinogen
2.09 - Research links chemical in widely consumed foods to skin cancer MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/02/2010) —The September cover story of the nation’s leading cancer journal, “Cancer Research,” features a new study from The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, that links capsaicin, a component of chili peppers, to skin cancer.
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| | Physics/Astronomy | Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert
 1.09 - The Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapor.
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| Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry | Atmospheres of distant worlds probed with new technique
 31.08 - Astronomers on two research teams, including an astronomer at Penn State, have demonstrated the power of a new technique to determine the chemical composition of planets far outside our solar system.
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| | Mathematics - Psychology | The roots of gamblers' fallacies and other superstitions
 30.08 - Research helps explain causes of seemingly irrational human decision-making MINNEAPOLIS - Gamblers who think they have a “hot hand,” only to end up walking away with a loss, may nonetheless be making “rational” decisions, according to new research from University of Minnesota psychologists.
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| Medicine/Pharmacy - Chemistry | From sponges, a potential cancer drug
 29.08 - Deep in the ocean, sponges of the Agelas family, or bacteria living within the sponges, emit chemicals believed to help them defend their territory. Those chemicals, called agelastatins, have also shown the ability to kill cancer cells.
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| | Medicine/Pharmacy - Psychology | Moderate drinking helps older people live longer
27.08 - AUSTIN, Texas — Moderate drinking, about one to two drinks per day, reduces mortality among older and middle-aged adults, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. In a study to appear in Alcoholism : Clinical and Experimental Research , Charles Holahan, professor of psychology at The University of Texas at A
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| Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences | How much smoking is safe The answer appears to be none
26.08 - Smokers often wonder if smoking less might be safer for their health. The answer appears to be no. Occasional smoking, and even second-hand smoke, create biological changes that may increase the risks of lung disease and cancer, according to a new study.
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| | Physics/Astronomy | NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers two Planets Transiting Same Star
 26.08 - Pasadena, Calif. - NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. The transit signatures of two distinct planets were seen in the data for the sun-like star designated Kepler-9.
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| Medicine/Pharmacy | Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function
 26.08 - CHAMPAIGN, lll. - A group of ‘professional couch potatoes,’ as one researcher described them, has proven that even moderate exercise - in this case walking at one‘s own pace for 40 minutes three times a week ’ can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, combat declines in brain function associated with aging and increase performance on cognitive tasks.
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| | Psychology - Mathematics | Preschoolers use statistics to understand others
 25.08 - Young children are natural psychologists, says Cornell cognitive psychologist Tamar Kushnir. By the time they’re in preschool, they already understand a lot about other people’s inner mental lives - their desires, preferences, beliefs and emotions.
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| Medicine/Pharmacy - Agronomy/Food Science | Some vitamin supplements increase presence of the HIV virus in breast milk
25.08 - ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk—thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest.
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| | Life sciences - Chemistry | First picture of genetic processes inside cell developed at Penn State
 25.08 - University Park, Pa. — In a landmark study to be published , scientists have been able to create the first picture of genetic processes that happen inside every cell of our bodies. Using a 3-D visualization method called X-ray crystallography, Song Tan , associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, has built the first-ever image of a protein interacting with the nucleosome - DNA packed tightly into space-saving bundles organized around a protein core.
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| Earth sciences - Chemistry | North American continent is a layer cake, scientists discover
25.08 - A diagram showing the three layers beneath North America. The top layer, the ancient craton, is chemically distinct from younger lithosphere below (the thermal root), which is separated from the asthenosphere by a boundary layer (LAB).
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