In the shadow of a Ferris wheel and just beyond the midway, The Great New York State Fair features a new exhibit: the Dairy Cow Birthing Center. Fairgoers have packed the barnyard maternity ward to standing room only.
A new study of female barn swallows has found that the birds with darker breast feathers – both naturally dark and artificially darkened (with markers) – experience less cell damage than lighter ones.
Community advocates and professionals received training at the ILR School July 29 in recognizing and fighting human trafficking in western New York, and related issues affecting immigrants and undocumented workers.
Sheldon Brown ’68 and financial institutions CoBank and Farm Credit East have made a give to establish an agricultural economics professorship in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Cornell horticulture professor Su-Sheng Gan has identified an enzymatic fountain of youth that slows down the process of leaf death and lays the foundation for the genetics of freshness.
A new Cornell study explains why aquarium catfish can change the structure and function of ecosystems when pet owners set them free and they become abundant in non-native waters.
