Larry Smart, professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science, recently joined Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast series to discuss industrial hemp production in New York state.
“The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America,” a new book edited by associate professor Gustavo Flores-Macías, examines how decades of tax reform in Latin America have done little to stem the tide of widespread tax evasion there.
The Yang-Tan Institute is in a partnership that has been awarded a $4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy to operate a policy development center focused on youth with disabilities.
A new stretchable optical lace creates a linked sensory network that would enable robots to sense how they interact with their environment and adjust their actions accordingly.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source will create a new materials research subfacility, thanks to $7.1 million in funding from the Air Force Research Lab, to facilitate X-ray analysis of new and existing materials.
A Cornell-led team was recently awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a computational model of how humans form and update their memories of robots.
An international team of scientists has discovered two new species of electric eel, one of which delivers 860 volts; the highest level of electricity generated by any living creature.
Lakes of liquid methane that pock the landscape on Saturn’s moon Titan were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the moon’s crusty surface.
A new Android app developed by Cornell Tech researchers and collaborators will make it easy for people to collect their personal health data and share it with trusted medical providers or apps.
