Events on campus July 30-Aug. 13 include two summer concerts on the Quad, a comic operetta based on Cinderella, Johnson Museum and Museum of the Earth events, farming field days and a blood drive.

Using NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Cornell astronomer Matthew Tiscareno and colleagues searched for any material from dust to giant boulders that might be orbiting Saturn's second-largest moon.

Qatari Night 2010 was presented July 27 by the IthaQatar Ambassadors, a group of students from Cornell's Ithaca and Doha campuses working together since 2008 to bridge the distance between them.

Joe Burns was offered a challenge: review all of planetary science since 1610 ... in 4,000 words or fewer. He took it.

By deciphering the genetics in humans and fish, scientists believe that the neck gave humans so much freedom of movement that it played a surprising role in the evolution of the human brain.

Possibly catching a glimpse of a rare moment in time, researchers have detected fullerenes, or buckyballs - carbon structures long thought to be likely features of the interstellar medium, but never before observed.