Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.
Stress from having to keep a secret - one’s sexual orientation, for example - can cause lapses in physical stamina, intellectual acuity, executive function and even email etiquette, according to a study by Cornell and Berkeley psychologists.
Six new technologies received 2013 Center for Advanced Technology awards for feasibility and proof-of-concept research to enhance the commercial value of such innovations.
Even more violent food riots and overthrown governments are predicted in a new book edited by Cornell's Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”
Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
