The annual Festival of Black Gospel (FBG), a 30-year tradition at Cornell University, will put the spotlight on one of its perennial performers this year. Lifelong Ithaca resident Stephanie McClain, who has sung in the FBG Mass…
ST. LOUIS -- If mastering flight is your goal, you can't do better than to emulate a dragonfly. With four wings instead of the standard two and an unusual pitching stroke that allows the bug to hover and even shift into reverse,…
ST. LOUIS -- Genetically engineered papaya that resists the devastating papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) has saved Hawaii's papaya industry. But efforts to grow PRSV-resistant papaya in developing countries are stalled, and…
ST. LOUIS -- Science learning isn't all in books. Sometimes you can hold it in your hand, walk through it, sit inside it, play with it. Those approaches are especially effective with children and can make abstract concepts easier…
ST. LOUIS -- When a virus infects a computer or a hacker steals credit card numbers from an online retailer's Web site, programmers aren't the only ones at fault. Existing laws and public policy are also significant impediments…
Pinstrup-AndersenST. LOUIS -- Applying science and technology to build a Pluto-bound spacecraft that travels more than 10 times faster -- 47,000 miles per hour -- than a speeding bullet or a tiny cell phone that fits in a…
ST. LOUIS -- The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into…
Jason Koski/University Photography. A delegation from South Korea's Seoul National University met with College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty and administrators Feb 16. From left to right: Joon-Ho Lee, James Haldeman…
Millions of grandparents are doing it all over again: raising children. But raising grandchildren is much harder than the first time around. Grandparents have lower energy levels; their discipline techniques can be outdated;…
ST. LOUIS -- Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action, according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger. …
Insect-damaged sagebrush has a novel way of broadcasting to nearby plants that a predator is in the area: It releases a bouquet of airborne odors and perfumes. If wild tobacco is growing nearby, it will "eavesdrop" on these…
ST. LOUIS -- Cornell University researchers have fabricated a set of "nano-keys" on the same scale as molecules to interact with receptors on cell membranes and trigger larger-scale responses within cells, such as the release of…
