NY’s master gardeners take master class at Cornell

More than 100 volunteers and educators in the Master Gardener Program visited Cornell AgriTech to learn about the latest in gardening practices and research.

‘Toolkit’ aids sustainable manufacture of medicines

A new technique that combines electricity and chemistry offers a way for pharmaceuticals to be manufactured in an easily scaled-up and sustainable way.

Artificial intelligence may put private data at risk

Machine learning models, which use data to help computers learn for themselves, are vulnerable to privacy leaks and malicious attacks, Cornell Tech researchers have found.

High school students develop business ideas at boot camp

Twelve high school students from as far away as Romania and Honduras took part in the Life Changing Summer program this year, supported by Entrepreneurship at Cornell and run by Life Changing Labs.

‘Cornell AgriTech’ reflects influence in food, ag innovation

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences announced Aug. 1 the renaming of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station to Cornell AgriTech.

Milk carton ‘sell-by’ dates may become more precise

The “sell-by” dates on milk cartons may become more accurate, as Cornell food scientists have created a predictive model that examines spore-forming bacteria, according to the Journal of Dairy Science.

Exoplanet detectives create catalog of ‘light-fingerprints’

Researchers have created a reference catalog using calibrated spectra and geometric albedos of 19 of the most diverse bodies in our solar system.  

A kernel of promise in popcorn-powered robots

New research from Cornell's Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab examines how popcorn’s unique qualities can power inexpensive robotic devices that grip, expand or change rigidity.

Garbage to gold: getting good results from bad data

Using an algorithm developed by Cornell physicist Veit Elser, a group led by colleague Sol Gruner has determined the protein structure of a microcrystal using discarded data from another group.