Just one firefly, with its poisonous lucibufagin chemicals, is enough to kill a lizard, a lesson that American zookeepers and pet owners are learning the hard way. Some of the most popular lizards in zoos and private collections are from parts of the world without poisonous fireflies.
At 92 years of age, Fred Whipple, the noted Harvard astronomer who fathered the phrase 'dirty snowball' to describe comets, has been named to serve on a NASA space mission team.
New information on the materials that make up the structure of asteroid families will be presented by Shelte Bus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at a press conference Tuesday, the second day of the International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference.
Up to half of older Americans could postpone going into nursing homes if more group housing options were available, say two Cornell researchers. Although group living offers seniors lower-cost housing, independence, social interaction and a wide range of household and health services.
A Cornell University-city of Ithaca partnership hopes to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist in revitalizing neighborhoods in the city of Ithaca and to help enhance the quality of life in the city.
Scientists may soon be able to quickly produce genetically modified crops without transferring genes across species, providing a novel approach to modifying plant characteristics to generate new traits. The new technique could be applied to improving the nutritional value and productivity of foods without the involvement of foreign DNA.
Dramatic new close-up radar images of asteroids obtained by the Arecibo 305-meter radio/radar telescope in Puerto Rico will be shown by Steven Ostro of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the seventh International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference.
Top honors in university fund raising, alumni relations and magazine writing were among 15 national awards won by development and communications professionals at Cornell from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) this year.
On July 20, 1969, at 4:17 p.m. EDT, humans made their first landing on the moon. And at 10:56 that evening, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface.
The Martha Howell Young Flower Garden at Cornell Plantations is blossoming into a robust and colorful floral symphony, according to horticulturists who invite the public to inspect their handiwork.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) students at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management are making things happen economically in Ithaca, according to Dean Robert Swieringa.
Want to improve your company's bottom line? Put more women at the top. According to a study by Theresa Welbourne, a professor in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
