The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to a multidisciplinary group of Cornell researchers who are developing a device to help you track your health right in the palm of your hand.
In a study of pregnant teenagers, almost half engaged in pica, the craving and intentional consumption of ice, cornstarch, vacuum dust, baby powder and soap and other nonfood items.
Cornell Professor Brian Wansink and colleagues have launched the Slim by Design Registry. It asks slim people to share their tips about how they stay slim.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development, is the 2014 recipient of the Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from The Gerontological Society of America.
A recently published study shows that nanoparticles injure liver cells when they are in microfluidic devices designed to mimic organs of the human body.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack met with Cornell faculty members July 29 to learn about solutions in the realm of dairy, nutrition and climate change.
A computer model study reveals – for the first time – details of an energy-creating process vital and unique to cancer cells, which holds promise for new interventions.
For the health and happiness of nurses, let the sunshine in. Day-shift, acute-care hospital nurses – who had access to the sun's natural light – enjoyed lower blood pressure and enhanced mood.
