Having a positive attitude could be evolutionarily advantageous, according to Cornell researchers who simulated generations of evolution in a computational model.
A Cornell-led international team of researchers has developed a way to harden natural calcite by a factor of two or more through the addition of amino acids aspartic acid and glycine.
Professor of government Andrew Mertha sees the potential for a course in Cambodia over winter break in expanding academic interest in the southeast Asian country.
In the face of scientific dogma that faults the population decline of monarch butterflies on a lack of milkweed and herbicides, a new Cornell study casts wider blame: sparse autumnal nectar sources, weather and habitat fragmentation.
On April 20, Cornell graduate students and Weill Cornell Medicine students on Capitol Hill for a day of conversations on student loans, STEM education, immigration policy and the future of medicine.
At the April 13 meeting of the Faculty Senate, university leaders and a graduate student organization seeking to unionize at Cornell discussed their negotiations in drafting rules of conduct.
Cornell doctoral students in the fields of government, history and anthropology invited graduate student scholars to an interdisciplinary conference on peace and conflict April 16.
Cornell faculty and alumni are helping to advise Breakthrough Starshot - a $100 million research and engineering project aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light-propelled nanocrafts that could capture images and scientific data in our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
