“This is clearly a very significant loss,” explains Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at Cornell University. “Not only is the amount relatively large, but also it affects a large portion of the Canadian cryptocurrency community.” What makes it quite so damaging is that it appears to be “a complete loss event; that is, there are few assets to recover.”

Jennifer Ifft, assistant professor of agribusiness and farm management for Dyson, says, “If you are an apple grower, and you're trying hire an H2A worker to harvest — harvest is a moving target. Fruit can come ripe at different times. So, if those (workers) could work on different farms and have some flexibility, that would help."

Lisa Fortier, a Cornell University regenerative medicine researcher for the College of Veterinary Medicine, says the treatments contain very few “growth factors” – substances that many companies often claim stimulate healing. If these products have any effect on patients, Fortier says, “it’s not through live cells or growth factors.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law at Cornell and author of Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy, is quoted in this piece about the relationship between the two Koreas.

The federal Agricultural Research Services’ Grape Genetics Research Unit at Cornell AgriTech will be getting an updated laboratory, after receiving nearly $69 million in federal funding announced by Sen. Charles Schumer Tuesday.

“Trump has now substantially ratcheted up the pressure on his negotiators to strike a deal with China, even if it does little to assuage U.S. hard-liners’ concerns about China’s commitments on core structural issues,” says Cornell University China expert Eswar Prasad. “There is still a yawning gap between the two sides on major issues due to U.S. lack of trust in China’s commitments on structural issues and China’s unwillingness to make any fundamental changes to its industrial and economic strategies.”

Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government for the College of Arts & Sciences, discusses direct democracy and Brexit.

“There isn’t a pre-existing model for organizing these workers — they are creating something new,” says Louis Hyman, an associate professor of labor relations, law and history at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, who argues that existing labor and unionization laws have long been insufficient. 

NASA’s first 24 hour Mars weather station has detected an unexplained, low-frequency infrasound. The infrasound was detected some 72 hours ago as it swept past a suite of detectors atop the InSight Mission lander, Cornell University planetary scientist Don Banfield says. 

“Getting money for shark genomics is really difficult,” says Michael Stanhope, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University, who co-led the genome-mapping project. “Sharks have some fascinating biology going on that really warranted more investigation.”

"People talk about food assistance programs as if they were created to help poor people out," says Andrew Novakovic, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University. "Yes that's true, but almost all of the major food assistance programs were ideas that came from agriculture because we had too much of something."

Lisa Kaltenegger, who directs the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, has published the spectral characteristics of 137 microorganisms, including ones in extreme Earth environments that, on another planet, might be the norm. “For the first time, we’ll be able to collect enough light,” says Kaltenegger. “We’ll be able to figure things out.”