“In just very general terms, this makes a ton of sense,” says James Cordes, an astrophysicist at Cornell University, on a new fast radio burst theory. He adds that while further details still need to be worked out, “I would say it’s a good horse to bet on.”

“It’s certainly possible that there were microorganisms in the bottles that survived that many years. These are very resilient microbes. They can go dormant and survive some period of stress,” says Kaylyn Kirkpatrick, brewing specialist at Cornell University's Craft Beverage Institute. “If they are given the right nutrients and given the right environmental conditions, they can be brought back to life.”

Together with four other historians, Ed Baptist, professor of history for the College of Arts & Sciences, is building a free and interactive database of all the fugitive slave ads from U.S. and colonial history. The ads reveal how white Americans trained and incentivized themselves to police black Americans’ movements.

Louis Hyman, associate professor of labor relations, law, and history and director of the Institute for Workplace Studies at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, discusses the intricacies of Roosevelt’s New Deal. 

“When the door is open to all, we all thrive,” says President Martha E. Pollack. She reinforces the importance of welcoming international students to study at institutions of American higher education. 

“This is clearly a very significant loss,” explains Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at Cornell University. “Not only is the amount relatively large, but also it affects a large portion of the Canadian cryptocurrency community.” What makes it quite so damaging is that it appears to be “a complete loss event; that is, there are few assets to recover.”

Jennifer Ifft, assistant professor of agribusiness and farm management for Dyson, says, “If you are an apple grower, and you're trying hire an H2A worker to harvest — harvest is a moving target. Fruit can come ripe at different times. So, if those (workers) could work on different farms and have some flexibility, that would help."

Lisa Fortier, a Cornell University regenerative medicine researcher for the College of Veterinary Medicine, says the treatments contain very few “growth factors” – substances that many companies often claim stimulate healing. If these products have any effect on patients, Fortier says, “it’s not through live cells or growth factors.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law at Cornell and author of Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy, is quoted in this piece about the relationship between the two Koreas.

The federal Agricultural Research Services’ Grape Genetics Research Unit at Cornell AgriTech will be getting an updated laboratory, after receiving nearly $69 million in federal funding announced by Sen. Charles Schumer Tuesday.

“Trump has now substantially ratcheted up the pressure on his negotiators to strike a deal with China, even if it does little to assuage U.S. hard-liners’ concerns about China’s commitments on core structural issues,” says Cornell University China expert Eswar Prasad. “There is still a yawning gap between the two sides on major issues due to U.S. lack of trust in China’s commitments on structural issues and China’s unwillingness to make any fundamental changes to its industrial and economic strategies.”

Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government for the College of Arts & Sciences, discusses direct democracy and Brexit.