“After the white dwarf cools down further, we have shown that such a planet could maintain balmy conditions for billions of years,” explains Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute. "Instead of a hot dry zombie planet, you could get a planet where life could potentially start all over again," she says.

Almost every shift in partisan control of Congress after a unified government has been followed by a wave of congressional investigations, and that’s especially true in intensely polarized times, says Douglas Kriner, a government professor at Cornell University. “Democrats have a lot of opportunities to score political points, just the way Republicans had a lot of opportunities in investigating Obama,” he says

“It’s a dilemma that’s becoming more and more frequent as the population that was once driven down has come back,” explains Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “Bald eagles are back in a big way in places that hadn’t had them in a half-century.”

There’s a “lack of investment on the part of the government in finding out what’s in the fluid they encourage us to feed our babies,” says Kathleen Rasmussen, a professor of maternal and child nutrition at Cornell University. 

Cornell University agricultural economics professor Andrew Novakovic believes a plan like SMISA is “a bridge too far. [Government] wants to help farmers but not at the expense of consumers, and I don’t think society has an obligation to make it profitable for anyone to be a dairy farmer.”

Cornell University Law School Professor Robert Hockett discusses Bayer’s decision to keep defending its weed killer Roundup after losing a second trial over claims it causes cancer.

Dr. Edward Dubovi, director of the virology laboratory at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University, says the possible introduction of this strain to the continent is emblematic of a larger problem: animal rescue organizations with good intentions aren’t always aware of the viruses and illnesses these canines carry. 

“In the stable of 400,000 stars that TESS is looking at, we wonder which are the stars that we should take really good note of, because these are the ones where we can actually find a planet that will get the same energy from its star that we get from our own,” says study leader Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University. “We don’t know if that would mean it could have life, but it would be equal in energy, so it could be a similar environment to Earth.” 

"We found that they tried harder when they found out that the robot was slower, and vice versa," so that as the robot performed better, humans' performance levels ebbed, explains Ori Heffetz, an associate professor of strategy and business economics at Johnson, who worked with College of Engineering assistant professor Guy Hoffman on the study. 

Christopher Clark, visiting senior scientist for the Bioacoustics Research Program in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, says, “To me, this is a beautiful example of how much we didn’t know and how much we can know.” Clark plans to go back into his own recordings to search for the animal’s signature sounds. “I know there are places that I’ve recorded Omura’s whales in the last nine months,” he says.

Bart Selman, a professor of computer science at Cornell University, says that NYC, with all its congestion and constant surprise traffic interruptions, actually offers preternaturally fertile testing ground for driverless cars. 

Discussing spring on Mars, Don Banfield, a principal research scientists at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, says: “The Northern hemisphere is starting to heat up; the Southern hemisphere cooling off—just like on Earth.” There are seasonal trends, such as summer dust storms, “but without rain and plants, they aren’t quite as obvious,” says Banfield.