Blue-green algae is returning to New York waterways and poses a deadly risk to humans as well as animals. Karyn Bischoff, toxicologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, explains the dangers and advises livestock and pet owners to be vigilant in avoiding contaminated areas.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Tom Schryver, visiting lecturer at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and an experienced entrepreneur, served as a startup founder and senior finance executive of high-growth companies and says that startup activity declines in times of economic growth as entrepreneurs have access to other jobs.

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Marvin Pritts, a horticulture professor and small fruit specialist at Cornell University, says a later winter combined with cooler weather in April produced a strawberry crop that is smaller than in years past, but that same cool weather set up the blueberry and raspberry crops for a remarkable season.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

New York State

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Mason Peck, former NASA Chief Technologist and Cornell University aerospace engineering professor, comments on space debris and President Trump's directive to address the problem.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Barry Strauss, military and naval historian and a professor in humanistic studies at Cornell University, comments on the potential for a U.S. Space Force.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Arts & Humanities

Arts and Sciences

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Mason Peck, former NASA Chief Technologist and Cornell University aerospace engineering professor, comments on the legacy of NASA's Opportunity rover — now facing a massive wind storm on Mars.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Don Banfield, a senior research associate specializing in planetary sciences at Cornell University, comments on Martian dust storms like the one threatening NASA's Opportunity rover. He says it's important to consider the risks associated with dust storms, like the one that has silenced the Opportunity rover, when designing future missions to Mars.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Arts and Sciences

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Jonathan Lunine says the discovery of preserved organics on the Red Planet is a call for new tests directly targeting biosignatures on the Martian surface.

Arts and Sciences

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Robert Gravani, food safety expert and professor emeritus of food science at Cornell University, says that there are several steps that people can take to make summer picnics safe.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Sidney Tarrow, professor emeritus of government and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University comments on the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, which occurred 50 years ago June 5.

Arts & Humanities

Law, Government & Public Policy

Arts and Sciences

Law School

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