A Cornell-led research team found that when allies directly asked a marginalized person for help during a prejudice confrontation, marginalized group members reported more emotional burden than when no help was sought.
Though pelvic floor disorders happen when the muscles and tissues that support the bladder, bowel and uterus weaken or don’t work properly, and affect one-third of all women, they are not a normal part of aging.
A new study examines the growing demand and environmental impact of wearable health care devices such as glucose monitors and ultrasound patches, and offers potential solutions to reduce their carbon footprint.
A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy.
Gut microbes may play a key role in training a mother’s immune system to adapt to the developing fetus during pregnancy, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Widely cited messages tend to be effective but short-term messaging can only go so far in swaying people regarding the urgency of climate change, an international team led by a Cornell researcher has found.
People base vaccination decisions less on raw facts than on intuition about them, and how that “gist” aligns with their core values, new psychology research finds.
Shifting from numerical to narrative-based performance reviews can significantly impact employees’ perceptions of fairness and their likelihood of improving performance based on the feedback, according to Cornell-led research.
Fischer investigates how cells detect and repair organelle damage, and how these processes influence inflammation and the progression of neurodegenerative disease.
Behind a world-leading telescope bound for Chile is a team of engineers, machinists, electronics specialists and riggers at Cornell. Meet the specialized staff whose expertise is helping push cosmology to new frontiers.
Cornell Engineering faculty and students gathered Dec. 18 in Upson Hall to celebrate the first participants to complete Radical Humanity in Research, a new program designed to strengthen the human foundations of high-impact research.
A new paper co-authored by Cornell law professor Frank Pasquale argues that the current copyright system is ill-equipped to handle a world in which machines learn from, and compete with, human creativity at unprecedented scale.
