"At three a.m. on a windy late-November night, Jenny Walker woke in her historic house in an historic New England town, and sensed from the slope of her mattress and the chill of the flowered percale sheets that Wilkie Walker.
Lead in the drinking water of pregnant rats causes long-term damage to the immune systems of their offspring, according to studies at the Cornell Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology.
For the past 34 years, food industry employees across the United States and from distant regions of the globe have been mailing their assignments and completed exams to Cornell's Food Industry Distance Education Program.
If Iroquois women could be equal partners with men, then so could white women, asserted suffragists in the mid-1800s looking to Native Americans for inspiration in seeking women's rights.
The first half of this year was the warmest Jan. 1 to June 30 period for the Northeast since records were first kept in 1895, according to climatologist Keith Eggleston at the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC).
For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.
Two years ago, the viburnum leaf beetle, a pest with an appetite for certain ornamental bushes, was found in upstate New York along the Lake Ontario shore. Since then it has been chewing its way steadily south.
For years, groups have been able to lay claim to a piece of the road through "Adopt-A-Highway" programs, and now TCAT (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit) is offering the chance to Adopt-A-Shelter/Adopt-A-Stop.
TCAT (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit) will again provide free bus service between downtown and Ithaca College on the evening of Ithaca's annual community fireworks display Thursday, July 2.
