NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell are challenging students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the spacecraft's forthcoming exploration of comets.
The Vagina Monologues , Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play that premiered in 1996 and addresses issues of violence against women, will be read at Cornell University on Valentine's Day.
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists.
By observing the battle between bacterial speck disease and tomatoes, biologists have discovered how plant cells resist some ailments. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell can now demonstrate how disease-causing organisms deliver destructive agents to plants, and how the plants fight back.
At its meeting July 19, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Board of Directors passed a resolution supporting the development of a downtown, intermodal transportation center.
