New research reports that a single supergene can switch the entire wing pattern in certain swallowtail butterflies to mimic toxic relatives and avoid predation.
"Lean," a new process improvement approach already in use in six Cornell colleges and divisions has reduced staff workload, increased staff morale, improved communication and saved the university $500,000.
Engineered molecules called ubiquibodies can mark specific proteins inside a cell for destruction, paving the way for new drug therapies or powerful research tools.
Cornell Professor John Blume will be a major player March 9 when CNN broadcasts the premiere of a new eight-part series, “Death Row Stories," produced by Robert Redford.
Activist attorney Sandra Fluke '03 returned to campus March 1 for the annual meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women and urged her audience to view women's rights as family rights and workers' rights.
The combination of natural enemies, such as ladybeetles, with Bt crops, delays a pest's ability to evolve resistance to the crops' insecticidal proteins, according to new research.
This week teams of Cornell Dining managers, chefs and staff members will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at campus eateries while adhering to one of six diets: vegetarian, vegan, kosher, dairy-free, gluten-free and both dairy- and gluten-free.
The age at which people become sexually active is genetically influenced – but not when they grow up in stressful, low-income household environments, reports Jane Mendle, assistant professor of human development, in the journal Developmental Psychology.
Fat Tuesday (aka, Mardi Gras) comes once a year, but "Heavy Monday" is a weekly occurrence, according to an international study of weight gain rhythms.
