An experiment found that adding a colored potato chip in a tube of chips helped subjects eat fewer chips and accurately keep track of what they had eaten. (May 14, 2012)
As the population of people on Earth has skyrocketed since the rise of agriculture some 10,000 years ago - to 7 billion people from a few million - so too has the number of rare genetic variants.
John Deutch, former chair of an Obama shale gas subcommittee, said that fracking, if done right, could enormously benefit the country, in a lecture on campus May 8.
A recent Cornell-led study has found that a type of immune cells, called natural killer T cells, plays a powerful role in reducing obesity-related inflammation and improving insulin resistance.
Two Cornellians taught 50 college students in Puerto Rico how to compost and spread the gospel of recycling on the island, which is running out of places to put garbage.
