University delegates returned a rare collection of fungi to China Nov. 7, 70 years after it was smuggled out of the country and brought to Cornell for safekeeping. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Cornell Lab science editor Laura Erickson has written 'The Bird Watching Answer Book,' a 400-page, pocket-sized reference answering some 200 questions about birds. (Nov. 11, 2009)
Professor Robert Weiss has found that when two particular genes are inhibited, cancer cells are destroyed at a greater rate. The study is published in the Nov. 9 issue of PNAS. (Nov. 10, 2009)
Cornell researchers have discovered that heat leads to nitrogen loss in desert soils, a finding that may require climate change models to be altered. (Nov. 5, 2009)
Ronald Harris-Warrick, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, is using stimulus money to study locomotion that may lead to cures for spinal cord injuries. (Nov. 4, 2009)
Federal stimulus funding helps Cornell researchers create tiny 3-D models of tumors to mimic conditions necessary for the development of vascular systems by tumors. (Nov. 2, 2009)
In a lecture on the history of heart attack, Weill Cornell Medical College cardiologist Paul Kligfield recounts how he unraveled one of cardiology's historical medical mysteries. (Oct. 29, 2009)
Cornell researchers have uncovered a genetic mechanism in fruit flies that prevents two closely related species from reproducing, a finding that offers clues to how species evolve. (Oct. 27, 2009)
