Hurricane winds push water the way a snowplow pushes and piles up snow, says Arthur DeGaetano, the director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. “Those persistent strong winds blowing in the same direction literally pile up the water,” he says.

“There are too many coins, most of them of questionable value, and the exchanges are in a position to pick and choose. It’s not surprising that they would make demands for the coins to bring in something tangible to the exchange,” says Emin Gun Sirer, associate professor of computer science.

It would be a tough measurement of an unimaginably tiny signal, but Cornell University astronomer Professor Jonathan Lunine, who was not involved in this study, is excited by the prediction, saying "they make the case that this can really be done with JWST. I think that we're in a remarkable time for understanding our Universe and exploring the cosmos, and James Webb is going to take the next step in that. It is going to be truly worth it."

Social learning of migration routes also appears to happen with cranes and geese, but not other birds, says Cornell University ornithologist Kevin McGowan, who didn’t participate in the study.

Canada imposed even more protections for its dairy industry by creating a special pricing system, making it cheaper for Canadian farmers to buy milk ingredients  from domestic suppliers. The move hurt a few big dairy companies based in New York and Wisconsin, says Andrew Novakovic, a professor of agricultural economics at Dyson.

Peter Wrege, director of Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project, part of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, describes the development of AI tools as “critical to conservation work. “The quicker we can get that kind of information to the people who are making the decisions that affect [the animals’] survival, obviously the better,” he says.

Michael Hoffmann, director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions comments on a new study in the journal Science, showing that global warming will make bugs hungrier, which will mean more pesticides. Hoffmann points out that beneficial insects can also thrive in a warmer climate, "offering some suppression of the pests."

The six-wheeled robot has been through quite an ordeal, says mission scientific principal investigator Steve Squyres, a professor of physical sciences at Cornell University; it'll therefore probably take a few weeks to bring Opportunity out of whatever "fault mode" it has fallen into and assess its health and capabilities. "It's either going to be a miraculous recovery, or an honorable death," Squyres says.

Professor of agricultural economics Andrew Novakovic discusses what a new NAFTA deal means for North American farmers, and the dairy industry.

A report from Yang-Tan Institute researchers Sarah von Schrader, William Erickson and Camille Lee, estimates that more than 21 percent of the Puerto Rican population has a disability, a rate higher than any of the 50 states.

"This is the worst storm Opportunity has ever seen, and we're doing what we can, crossing our fingers, and hoping for the best," says Steve Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University and leader of the rover mission.

In response to Airbnb, the hotel industry has been working to launch more “soft brands” or hotel lines that are designed to have that local, one-off feel instead of a chain, while maintaining the level of service that’s expected at a hotel, says Cathy A. Enz, a professor of strategy at the School of Hotel Administration.