Jonathan Lunine, director of the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, comments on NASA’s first mission to fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Arts and Sciences

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Kelly Zamudio, professor and curator of herpetology at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, comments on a fire that destroyed Brazil’s National Museum. 

Arts and Sciences

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Jerel Ezell, professor of Africana studies and an expert in health disparities and social inequality in post-industrial communities, comments on the Senate approval of a bipartisan, $35 billion bill to upgrade the country’s water infrastructure.

Arts and Sciences

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Facebook’s global head of safety faced questions from senator’s about concerns that the photo-sharing app has caused mental and emotional harm. Brooke Erin Duffy, says Big Tech’s self-regulation mechanisms continue to fail users.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Jonathan Lunine, director of the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, comments on newly discovered evidence of a liquid water lake below the surface of Mars.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University and director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute comments on a White House summit dedicated to the future of artificial intelligence.

Computing & Information Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Computing & Information Sciences

Engineering

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Pfizer announced vaccinated children, aged 5 to 11, showed evidence of protection against the coronavirus.

science

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Sarah Kreps, a technology, international politics and national security expert, comments on two new investigations from the European Union's privacy watchdog into EU institutions’ use of cloud computing services offered by Amazon and Microsoft.

Arts and Sciences

International

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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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Sarah Kreps is a professor of government and international relations at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the use of drones for counterterrorism, cyber security and cyber escalation. Kreps says that if countries are going to be turning to unmanned tech on the ground, a human should be kept in the loop on decisions about life and death.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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