Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute, says “A lot of brands have been signing letters for years as a substitute for real pressure, real change. And one message, the purchase order, has a lot more weight than the other. Until those are credibly threatened, the government has no reason to act.”

“Higher global mean temperatures may sound abstract, but it translates in real life to a higher chance of extreme weather: stronger hurricanes, stronger precipitation, droughts. So higher global mean temperatures translates to more lives lost,” says Natalie Mahowald, professor of atmospheric science.

Coverage of research out of Cornell, which found that there may be a shared structure behind how large language models learn and represent knowledge.

Jamila Michener, associate professor of government and public policy, says that Medicaid beneficiaries face “a significant amount of administrative burden.”

Sallie Permar, chair of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how viruses change over time.  

Manoj Thomas, professor of marketing and management, says “Our results suggest that the brain representations that are activated when you process stars are completely different from the brain representations that are activated when you process Arabic numerals.”

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, explains why tariffs aren’t a simple fix for economic development.

Janna Gordon-Elliott, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, discusses vagus nerve stimulation.  

Judith Hubbard, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, says “It's really kind of staggering to see a fault slide in real time, especially for someone like me, who has spent years studying these things, but always from more remote kinds of data, like offsets after the fact or data recorded by sensors.”

Mark Lachs, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, recommends volunteer work to reduce social isolation and walking programs to maintain mobility for older patients.

“It's a diplomatic tightrope. When the political rhetoric becomes too parochial or polarizing—especially tied to specific administrations—it risks undermining,” says Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute.

“Billions are lost from the economy globally every year because of the lost days of work and hospitalisation,” says Sarah Caddy, assistant professor at CVM.