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Researchers at Cornell University have created a nanofabricated "artificial gel" on a silicon chip that separates DNA by length just as organic gels do, but with greater precision and control.

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King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold, by Cornell University archaeologist Andrew Ramage and Paul Craddock of the British Museum, documents the excavation in Sardis, Turkey, of a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first millionaire.

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"Genetically Modified Organisms: Promise and Perils," is the theme for the 6th annual Josephine L. Hopkins Foundation science workshop for journalists to be held at Cornell University June 22-24.

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Cornell scientists have found that both songs and mating rituals of cowbirds correlate with brain size, the first time this information has been correlated in a parasitic bird species (Behavioral Neuroscience, 5-00).

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Auditors are much less likely to distort new information when they make decisions than salespeople; when held accountable, though, salespeople are likely to shed their biases, whereas auditors' decisions don't improve, shows a Cornell University study (Management Science, 1-00).

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The Arecibo radiotelescope has obtained radar images -- the first ever made of an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter -- of a giant, dog bone-shaped asteroid, 216 Kleopatra, an apparent leftover from an ancient, violent cosmic collision.

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Combine the literary talents of two renowned chemists with a passion for theater and the result is "Oxygen," a two-act play by Stanford's Carl Djerassi and Cornell's Roald Hoffmann, destined for a workshop production at Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco.

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Much of today's housework, particularly scrubbing and mopping, are just as tiring as they were 50 years ago; tidying up, vacuuming and doing laundry also rank in the top five most tiring tasks, according to a Cornell University study.

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The EPA has granted registration for the agricultural use of harpin, a Cornell-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilize its own defenses against pathogens and insects; the protein also enhances plant growth.

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In June,the first Ph.D. candidates will enter Cornell University's new W.M. Keck Program in Nanobiotechnology, which will cross-train engineeers, physicists and biologists in the use of nanotechnology for biological research.

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The Galileo spacecraft has captured the highest-resolution images yet of three of Jupiter's four innermost moons, Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis; SSI views of Amalthea show for the first time that a bright surface feature named Ida is a streak of bright material, about 50 long.

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In the agricultural world, the common belief is that a farmer's efficiency increases to its maximum in the middle years, and then decreases with age, but Cornell University researchers have found that a farmer's productivity has less to do with efficiency decreases as a farmer ages, and everything to do with using the latest agricultural technology.

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A $4.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is helping Cornell researchers harness new technologies to link disparate government-owned data bases and protect the essentially confidential data while making it available to economic and other researchers.

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"Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems," a new book by a world-renowned Cornell labor economist and an Oxford scholar, documents the costly and sometimes dangerous problems that can ensue when employment practices change, and suggests ways to improve.

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Enzymes are being used by Cornell researchers to break down solid biomass waste into a renewable energy form; they say there is sufficient biomass waste available to supply all the organic chemicals that are consumed annually in the U.S. and still have enough left over to convert to auto fuel.

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Cornell food scientists have found the chemicals to make bottled or canned green tea taste like fresh brewed.

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Cornell University entomologists have identified and cloned five key genes of the cockroach, one of which is exclusively expressed in the reproductive system, the first step in developing a safe and specific birth control for the number-one household pest.

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Larvae of the tortoise beetle defend themselves against hungry predators by building a thatched shield around themselves, made of golden strands of their own feces, report Cornell University biologists (National Academy of Sciences, 3-14-00).

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By using inorganic polymer fillers at close to the molecular level and inducing molecules of the polymer to slide between silicate layers, Cornell University materials engineers have produced a polyvinylalcohol nanocomposite that holds promise as an injectable drug delivery system.

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While some people have a heightened sense of smell, some people suffer anosmia; by standardizing the spectrum of smell, Cornell University food chemists can learn whose nose knows aromas.

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Students in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration take over every aspect of the world's oldest and largest teaching hotel, Hotel Ezra Cornell, where they wine, dine, house and cater to some of the biggest names in the hospitality industry.

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Cornell students will spend their spring break (March 23-25) stabilizing the isolation ward, a neglected, historically important, building on the island between lower Manhattan and Jersey City that once was the gateway to America for millions of immigrants.

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New virulent types of the potato late blight pathogen have emerged in Russia, threatening farmers and consumers with the destruction of an essential staple crop, according to the Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico Potato Late Blight Program.

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Poet Bridget Meeds will spend two hours every morning of the business week, from March 27 to April 21, in Cornell's Wilson Lab with physicists and other lab employees as the laboratory's first-ever poet in residence.

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An average increase in stricter standards results in a 3 to 7 point jump in the high school dropout rate, equivalent to up to 65,000 more dropouts a year, report Cornell University and University of Michigan economists (Economics of Education Review).

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For 107 seconds on Friday, Dec. 3, a camera on the descending Mars polar lander will capture about 20 images of Mars as seen from altitudes ranging from about 4 miles to only about 30 feet.

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Increased levels of conjugated linoleic acid, a natural substance found in milk and dairy products, reduced the risk of breast cancer in laboratory animals, according to research by Cornell University and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

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Cornell university physicists have used a scanning tunneling microscope to form bonds between single molecules of carbon monoxide and iron atoms, confirming that true chemical bonds were formed by measuring the "vibrational spectrum" of the resulting molecule.

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Cornell University researchers have unlocked a long-standing biological mystery: why some plants don't permit fertilization by their own pollen. A gene that tells the stigma-based receptors which pollen to accept or reject.

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Scott McMillin, Cornell Professor of English, has been awarded the Sohmer-Hall Prize for outstanding work in early English theater and staging. McMillin shares the honor with his collaborator, Sally-Beth MacLean, executive editor for the Records of Early English Drama project at the University of Toronto.

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The currently used tests for old DDT and other organic pollutants in the soil may overestimate the risk to living organisms, according to Cornell University researchers who say the real issue for government regulators at toxic cleanup sites should be "biological availability" of aging toxins.

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Desert bees have adopted the same reproduction strategy as the desert's floral seeds, waiting for their season in the sun. According to new research by a Cornell University entomologist, not all the viable larvae emerge in any one year of diapause, and their "coming out" is triggered by rain.

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During the dedication of a major upgrade to the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico on the afternoon of November 16, 1974, humanity sent its first and only deliberate message to extraterrestrials. Nobody has called back yet, but that's OK--we weren't really expecting an answer.

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Two novel biodegradable hydrogels developed by Cornell University fiber scientists have potential applications for controlling and delivering many kinds of medications inside and outside the body, for anchoring biological substances, such as skin and vascular tissues and may even be used to introduce viruses to the body for gene therapy.

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Hotel students learn, earn more working for off-campus high-tech Internet startup company RealTime Hotel.

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A Cornell University research project on working families will collect data from 350 randomly selected families in Syracuse, NY. The Cornell Community Study hopes to glean insight into the challenges people face as they juggle work and family responsibilities, to determine how communities and companies could be structured to help them.

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Cornell University and Ithaca, NY Sciencenter host a NASA-supported workshop for science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast that will take advantage of Cornell's involvement in the space agency's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to explore a distant asteroid.

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Tomorrow's computer keyboard might be played more like an accordion than a piano, says a Cornell University ergonomist. A prototype vertical split keyboard allows two to three times more typing movements to stay in safe, low-risk positions for carpal tunnel syndrome.

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To provide high school teaching fellowships for college graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences and mathematics, the National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University a three-year, $1.35 million grant.

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Push a number on a cell phone and the signal travels to a chip some five orders of magnitude smaller than the button. Cornell University has received a $330,000 contract from the Semiconductor Research Corp. to investigate the challenges presented by this huge discrepancy in size, a field called "electronic packaging."

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For developing countries, Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library is offering a CD-ROM library-in-a-box of the latest agricultural information.

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Treatments for human diseases might result from mapping mammalian genomes, according to a Cornell University researcher.

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A new manual by a Cornell University gerontologist, "The Nursing Assistant's Survival Guide," is aimed at improving the job satisfaction of nursing assistants who face on-the-job suffering, dementia and mortality every day.

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In the first course of its kind at an American veterinary school, Cornell's future animal doctors are discovering the extent of what their instructors call a national epidemic: the "disease of euthanasia," what enlightened animal shelters are doing and what they, as caring professionals, can do to help.

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A professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University is attempting to develop new thermoelectric materials that could pack the cooling power of a household refrigerator, and, given a heat source like a car's exhaust pipe, could generate electricity.

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Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.

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Cornell University students working in the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business Clinic provide direct technical assistance, consultation and training to local child care entrepreneurs on a wide variety of legal, business, facility and work and family issues.

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While the House of Representatives considers a bill that would raise the minimum wage by $1 over three years to $6.15 an hour, a Cornell University economist asserts that the minimum wage is an outdated mechanism that does not help the working poor fight poverty.

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The United States stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1992, and for much of the time since then it has used highly advanced computer models to plan the dismantling of weapons under strategic arms reduction treaties (START) and to maintain the nuclear stockpile.

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Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera, the Palomar High Angular Resolution Observer, for the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory that is providing detailed images unobstructed by atmospheric turbulence, beginning with the planet Neptune.