Butter enhanced with natural fatty acid reduces breast cancer risk in animals, Cornell and Roswell Park researchers find

Butter made from milk containing increased levels of a natural fatty acid reduced the risk of breast cancer in laboratory animals, according to new research published today

Cornell researchers unlock a mystery of plant reproduction by discovering what causes pollen to be accepted or rejected

Over a century ago, scientists discovered that some plants don't permit fertilization by their own pollen. And for the past quarter-century, scientists have known that cellular communication exists between the female stigma and the male gamete, or pollen, it receives.

Up on the Cornell Dairy Bar, click, click, click ...Celebrate cow lighting and free ice cream with a lick

Once again, it's the luminescent-bovine event of the holiday season. Those clopping sounds emanating from the Cornell Dairy Bar's rooftop belong not to reindeer but to Cornell cows.

Cornell's Scott McMillin shares Sohmer-Hall prize with collaborator Sally-Beth MacLean of University of Toronto

Scott McMillin, Cornell professor of English, has been awarded the Sohmer-Hall Prize for outstanding work in early English theater and staging. McMillin shares the honor with Sally-Beth MacLean at the University of Toronto for collaboration on their book.

To survive their harsh environment, desert bees hedge their bets with a wait-and-wet attitude, Cornell researcher discovers

But according to new research by Cornell entomologist Bryan N. Danforth, not all the viable larvae emerge in any one year of diapause, and their "coming out" is triggered by rain.

Creativity, dissidence and autobiography are topics for Egyptian authors Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata in Nov. 29 Cornell talk

The Cornell Lectures Series will present a symposium, "Creativity, Dissidence and Autobiography: Two Egyptian Voices," with Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata on Nov. 29, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.

BTI scientist to receive Silverstein-Simeone Award for Outstanding Research in Chemical Ecology

The International Society of Chemical Ecology will present Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., with the Silverstein-Simeone Award for Outstanding Research Chemical Ecology at its international meeting in Marseille, France, on Nov. 16.

For each student who goes to free wrestling matches at Cornell, money will be donated to the United Way

Here's an easy way Cornell students can contribute to the United Way of Tompkins County without spending a dime: Go to a free Cornell wrestling match.

Unlocking the mystery of human taste: U.S. scientist to lecture in Marseille

Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., located on the Cornell campus, will lecture in Marseille, France, Nov. 16, on how plant chemicals change the taste sensation for insects.