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Cornell University has been researching hemp, including how attractive its pollen is to honeybees, which pathogens attack it and medicinal uses. Joe Wakshlag, an associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Larry Smart, a horticulture professor at CALS, discuss their hemp research.

“Taking aim at smaller targets is ironically a positive sign that Beijing does not want the Huawei arrest to derail the truce in US-China trade tensions,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, a China expert at Cornell University.

In the Ford case, Kevin Clermont, a law professor at Cornell University, says the victims would have a “real problem” to overcome the U.S. statute of limitations in a civil lawsuit, which usually allows claims only up to six years.

“After Congress struggled to understand how Facebook operated, and thus what its responsibilities ought to be, we should expect even more confusion in testimony from Google,” says professor of communication Drew Margolin. “Social networks sites are a recent invention, but the basic concept of what they do is intuitive to human beings, whereas search engines are much more complex, which makes their public responsibility much harder to gauge.”

“What you're hearing,” says Don Banfield, a researcher at Cornell University who worked on the air pressure sensor, “is just the wind noise blowing on all of the things in our vicinity.”

“Today’s announcement is not based on any new science that changes the picture of what biologists regard as absolutely necessary to keep sage grouse off the endangered species list,” John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, says. “The Department of Interior is disregarding its own best available science.”