Students create botanical fashion show

As part of the Art of Horticulture course, three student designers modeled their own creations at a fashion show, with clothes made from plants. (Oct. 16, 2012)

Birds of paradise revealed in Oct. 13 talk

A Cornell ornithologist and a National Geographic photographer will discuss their work studying, videotaping and photographing birds of paradise. (Oct. 9, 2012)

Insects drive rapid shifts in plant ecology and evolution

A study of plant populations provides rare real-time data that demonstrate key predictions by Charles Darwin on the importance of ecology along with natural selection in shaping a species' evolution. (Oct. 4, 2012)

A.D. White professor: Human bodies are 'only 10 percent human' because of microbes

On her first visit to Cornell, A.D. White Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai noted Sept. 25 that plants and animals are dependent on trillions of microorganisms. (Oct. 3, 2012)

Using electroactive bacteria, students design toxin sensor

Cornell University Genetically Engineered Machines has designed and built a biosensor that uses an electroactive bacterial species to detect the toxic substances arsenic and naphthalene in water. (Oct. 2, 2012)

Program gets big results teaching science with tiny organism

A single-celled organism is having a big effect on science teachers across the country, thanks to Cornell's Advancing Secondary Science Education with Tetrahymena (ASSET) program. (Oct. 1, 2012)

Healthy Pet Clinic in Queens slated for Oct. 13

Cornell will provide animal care for dogs and cats at the Cornell Healthy Pet Clinic Saturday, Oct. 13, from noon to 5 p.m., at the Cross Island YMCA, 238-10 Hillside Ave., Bellerose, Queens, N.Y.

A twisted tale: Plant roots form helices as they encounter barriers

Using 3-D time-lapse imaging, physicists, working with plant biologists, have discovered that certain roots, when faced with barriers like a patch of stiff dirt, form helical spring-like shapes. (Sept. 24, 2012)

Undergraduate leads research team and says, 'It's a way of giving back'

Ben Wie '13, a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, supervised an animal behavior research team this past summer. The team looked at chemicals in mice brains. (Sept. 14, 2012)