ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seven locations in the Northeast set snowfall records for the winter season, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. Records fell in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hartford, Conn., Providence, R.I., Dulles Airport, Va., outside Washington, D.C., and Charleston, W.Va.
In Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, scientists are artificially inducing disorder where none occurs naturally, in one of the most unusual states of matter ever created – superfluid helium-3. This fluid is in a unique state that allows it to flow without resistance. Understanding its properties in this disordered state could help understand the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.
Most vacationers complain to the travel agent when deadly spiders infest their warm weather getaway. Maydianne C.B. Andrade is delighted. The Cornell graduate student spent January in the blazing heat of Western Australia, painting color codes on redback spider legs by day. At night she donned a head lamp to watch one of the most extreme forms of self-sacrifice in the animal kingdom.
A Cornell researcher crossed three varieties of yellow onion trying to find a line of higher-yielding plants, but instead came up with something unexpected. While he shed tears, they were tears of joy: The researcher, Thomas W. Walters, Ph.D., had stumbled onto a sweet, pink onion.
Imagine a school lunch program with entrees containing only 6 percent of calories from fat, almost completely based on nutrient-dense USDA commodity plant foods such as dried beans, lentils, bulgur wheat and brown rice, and -- here is the hard-to-imagine part -- is readily eaten by children. Yet such food is being served -- and consumed -- in six schools across the nation, thanks to a pilot program developed at Cornell.
Watch some wine-tasters contemplate their choice and you might think flavors take forever to register in the brain. In fact, humans can make taste-dependent decisions after as little as 50 milliseconds (50 thousandths of a second) of tasting, research at Cornell is showing. That's a good thing, says sensory physiologist Bruce P. Halpern, Ph.D.
Charles E. Palm, Cornell dean of the College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and the university's first Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences, died Feb. 25 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 84. As a true leader and innovator in many scientific and academic fronts.
Are young children reliable witnesses in court? How easily are their memories distorted? How can interviewing techniques and repeated questioning affect children's reports of events? What can professionals do to elicit accurate testimony from children?
Imagine a school lunch program with entrees containing only 6 percent of calories from fat, almost completely based on nutrient-dense USDA commodity plant foods, such as dried beans, lentils, bulgur wheat and brown rice, and -- here is the hard-to-imagine part -- is readily eaten by children.
Clothes come in special sizes for wide women, short women and young women, but none are specially tailored for older women whose body changes can include a forward head and neck angle, forward shoulder roll, back curvature, increase in girth and a decrease in height.
A public meeting will be held Tuesday, March 12, to help determine the scope of a draft environmental impact statement for an innovative plan to cool the Cornell campus. Raymond Nolan, environmental analyst with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will direct the meeting'
A Cornell senior who has helped mobilize more than 600 students for volunteer community service has been recognized nationally for his public service work. Neil Giacobbi, a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named the winner of the Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award.
