Major League Baseball is rolling out an artificial intelligence-augmented camera system this season that will provide a second opinion for players to tap if they think an umpire whiffed.

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The science fiction novel “Project Hail Mary” hits theaters on March 20. It tells the story of an unlikely astronaut who encounters an alien while trying to save Earth, putting a spotlight on exoplanets and extraterrestrial life.

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Associate professors Magnus Fiskesjö, anthropology, and Allen Carlson, government, on China’s expected passage of a new law shifting policy away from regional ethnic autonomy.  

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Drew Harvell, a professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson, assistant professor of natural resources and the environment, comment on the die-off of warm-water coral reefs.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Cornell experts, including some attending COP30, comment on the US decision not to send high-level representatives to the gathering.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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James Carter is an assistant professor of organizational behavior and examines diversity and discrimination in organizations. He says that many consumers, and people of color in particular, feel betrayed by corporate flip-flopping on social issues.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Wendong Zhang is an associate professor of applied economics and policy and the co-author of Economic Impacts of the 2025 Trade Wars, a policy brief detailing how U.S. tariffs could drive global trade realignments and welfare redistribution.

International

Economics and Business

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Uriel Abulof, a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government department and a professor of politics at Tel-Aviv University, published a case study in the journal Politics and Policy:  Nuclear Diversion Theory and Legitimacy Crisis: The Case of Iran

Foreign Policy

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Scott Yonker, professor of finance at Cornell University, has researched the effects of corporate board diversity on company performance, innovation, stock price volatility and other dimensions.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Diversity

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Jura Liaukonyte, professor of marketing at Cornell University, says in today’s fragmented media landscape, advertisers struggle to reach large, diverse groups of consumers all at once.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Economics and Business

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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