The study provides a revised classification of 97 metallic sweat bee species found in eastern North America, including 11 identified for the first time.
A new study published online in Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that interactions between gut ecology and environmental chemicals may contribute to obesity and diabetes.
Scientists in the Craighead lab have figured out how to stretch out tangled strands of DNA from chromosomes, line them up and tag them to reflect different levels of chemical modification. (Oct. 27, 2011)
In the midst of a drought-induced food crisis affecting millions in the Horn of Africa, an innovative insurance program for poor livestock keepers made its first payouts Oct. 21. (Oct. 27, 2011)
Cornell researchers and colleagues analyzed a 1956 film of the largest woodpecker species that ever lived. Their findings are published in The Auk, and the cover illustration was painted by a grad student. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have teamed up to offer a new shared doctoral program that will train the next generation of wildlife conservation scientists. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Native bees are better pollinators and more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist Bryan Danforth, who is involved in two big projects to further study native bee populations.
Using a genomic approach, a Cornell team has developed a test that can precisely pinpoint the exact nature and origin of food-borne bacteria with unprecedented accuracy. (Oct. 24, 2011)
