CareTech Human finds health data in what we flush away

The November Startup Cornell podcast features the founder of CareTech Human, a company based out of Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures on campus.

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Repurposing the internet’s backbone to advance whale monitoring

Distributed acoustic sensing using deep-sea fiber-optic cables turns long stretches of seafloor into dense networks of virtual acoustic sensors that are critical for monitoring whales – details needed to safeguard declining whale populations.

Machine learning helps explain evolution of fish schools

The study is among the largest studies of the evolution of any behavior ever conducted in any group of species. 

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region

Scientists studying the neurology of tame foxes identified changes in a part of the brain that has previously been associated with aggression. 

BRC expands support for life sciences research at Cornell

The Biotechnology Resource Center – a set of core facilities providing shared, cutting-edge resources for life sciences research – is enhancing and expanding its support for Cornell researchers.

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Cornell applied math student wins international prize for optimization research

Ariel Goodwin, a doctoral candidate in Cornell’s Center for Applied Mathematics, has received the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize celebrating an outstanding student-led paper in optimization.

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Hundreds of students attend new startup career fair

The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food.

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Reducing nuclei damage improves heart function and survival in mice

Reducing damage to the nuclei of heart muscle cells improved heart function and dramatically extended survival in mice with a form of inherited heart disease, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.

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Migratory birds spread avian influenza to Greenland’s polar bears

Scientists found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired from Greenland Inuit subsistence hunters.