Study: Weather patterns aid small birds’ migrations

A new study shows how songbirds migrate thousands of miles using elliptical routes that take advantage of prevailing wind patterns.

New sports rehab program gets pets back in the game

A new Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine service at Cornell University Hospital for Animals will help canine athletes, non-athletic dogs and cats recover from injury through interdisciplinary medical techniques.

UV-B light zaps cucumber disease

A new study by scientists at Cornell and in Norway finds that UV-B light suppresses cucumber powdery mildew; less use of fungicides may result from the finding.

Threats seen to 3 billion birds in vast Canadian forest

A new report calls for saving half of the 1.5 billion acres of North America's boreal forest – one of the world's last great forests – to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species.

Visually impaired undergrad has 'blind ambition'

Mark Colasurdo ’15, who is legally blind, uses ingenuity and innovation to come up with creative workarounds to compensate for severe limitations to his vision.

Crowds flock to Lab of O, get to know the crow

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Kevin McGowan told a large crowd April 21 about the nature, lifestyle and intelligence of crows.

Buckler elected to National Academy of Sciences

Edward Buckler, a Cornell and U.S. Department of Agriculture research geneticist, was elected a new member of the National Academy of Sciences April 29.

Study to focus on rice genes, yield and climate

Cornell researchers received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study relationships between rice genetics, crop yields and climate.

Aluminum tolerance fix could open arable land

With as much as 40 percent of the world’s potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near in the form of a rice gene.