Obama Attends 'Three Amigos' Summit ((send by free-web-host.me user))

President Barack Obama travels to Mexico for the so-called "Three Amigos" summit with his North American counterparts -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The leaders, however, will likely find more agreement on fighting swine flu together than thorny trade issues.
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Cancer Found in Young 9/11 Rescuers ((send by free-web-host.me user))

Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer called multiple myeloma.
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New class of compounds discovered for potential Alzheimer's disease drug ((send by free-web-host.me user))

A new class of molecules capable of blocking the formation of specific protein clumps that are believed to contribute to Alzheimer's disease pathology has been discovered by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. By assaying close to 300,000 compounds, they have identified drug-like inhibitors of AD tau protein clumping, as reported in the journal Biochemistry.
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Computer scientists take over electronic voting machine with new programming technique (w/ Video) ((send by free-web-host.me user))

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed `return-oriented programming` to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes.
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Exploring the standard model of physics without the high-energy collider ((send by free-web-host.me user))

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature's most elusive forces - the "weak interaction". Their work, which reveals the largest effect of the weak interaction ever observed in an atom, is reported in Physical Review Letters and highlighted in the August 10th issue of APS's on-line journal Physics (physics.aps.org).

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Research reveals how science changed methods of execution ((send by free-web-host.me user))

A University of Cincinnati sociologist combed through newspaper accounts of 19th and 20th century Ohio executions to understand how executions became more "professional and scientific" in character. Annulla Linders, an associate professor of sociology, presented the paper Aug. 9 at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.

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New class of compounds discovered for potential Alzheimer's disease drug ((send by free-web-host.me user))

A new class of molecules capable of blocking the formation of specific protein clumps that are believed to contribute to Alzheimer's disease pathology has been discovered by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. By assaying close to 300,000 compounds, they have identified drug-like inhibitors of AD tau protein clumping, as reported in the journal Biochemistry.

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