Kim Haines-Eitzen, a historian of early Christianity at Cornell University, says Njogu’s faction is not the first to try charting a new course without the celibacy vow. “In Catholicism, there’s always been a pronounced preference for asceticism to prove devotion. But how do you square that with, say, ‘be fruitful and multiply’, from Genesis?” she says.

Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University, said the tariffs would have “substantially disruptive effects on the tightly-woven supply chains in North America and portend even greater uncertainty in U.S. relationships with major trading partners.”

Brooke Erin Duffy, who studies social media and influencers at Cornell says that while female influencers showcase their physical selves, men show the flat lays. (Flat lays are an Instagram staple: a collection of objects artfully arranged on a flat surface, viewed from directly above.)

In this op-ed, Melissa Ferguson, senior associate dean of social sciences at Cornell, and her colleague Jeremy Cone, demonstrate that fact-checking is highly effective at combatting fake news, and influencing our perceptions.

Dan Luo, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering speaks about creating artificial materials out of DNA with 'lifelike' abilities.

Dan Luo, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering speaks about creating artificial materials out of DNA with 'lifelike' abilities.

Comparative literature professor Karen Pinkus expressed doubt about whether “traditional literary language or narrative” could do much to help address climate change. “Even if they might make people feel better for a time. There simply isn’t time,” she says.

Theoretical physicist Yuval Grossman comments on new findings of antimatter and matter "charm" quarks that sheds light on the question of what happened to the universe's anti-matter. It “does bring us closer to finding the answer because it shows one of the possible answers may not be the right one,” Grossman says.

The word "budget" can trigger negative associations, but renaming it to "cash flow plan" or "expense tracker" can change that. "When you think about it in that way, that's pretty easy to handle," says Vicki Bogan, associate professor of finance at SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.

Robert Smith's pledge to pay the college loan debt for the Morehouse College class of 2019 could trigger a positive social "contagion effect," says Michael Macy, a Cornell University professor who studies how behaviors spread on social networks.

Continued coverage of research from geochemist Esteban Gazel, showing a new way that volcanoes form. "After 50 years of people doing geochemical research on oceanic lavas, no one has found the signature we've found in Bermuda," says Gazel. "Sometimes, by luck, you just find something new and different."

Emin Gun Sirer, the co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts at Cornell University, is launching his own cryptocurrency coin and network with funding from some of the biggest venture capitalists in the field.