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BBC

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, “outlines the challenge China faces in balancing its desire for control over its tech entrepreneurs with its need for innovation and growth.” 

Fox News

“Nowhere in the statute – nowhere in the crime of murder – is there a requirement that the prosecution produce a body,” says Randy Zelin, adjunct professor of law. “It is certainly possible to meet the elements of the crime without a body.” 

Associated Press

Natalie Mahowald, professor in engineering, says that the burning of fossil fuels is making the last decade “a much hotter time period for much of the globe than the decades” before. 

Bloomberg

Drew Harvell, professor emeritus in ecology and evolutionary biology, says that breeding nearly extinct animals in captivity is going to be “part of our toolkit to handle some of the unexpected damage from climate change.” 

The Washington Post

“This species was known only from a few specimens collected in 1968,” says Kelly Zamudio professor of ecology and evolutionary biology who collaborated on the study with biologists in Brazil. “We didn’t have a DNA sequence from it — we still don’t — because nobody took tissue samples back then. But there are other species of Megaelosia, and we had sequences for all of those in our extensive database.” 

Fox News

“So one of the concerns definitely with this bill is that it seems to just lump them all together and treat them all similarly when there's a whole bunch of different groups in each sector,” says Rick Geddes professor of policy analysis and management. “I think it's going to make it more difficult to get this passed politically, just because of all the different stakeholder groups that are involved in each of those sectors.” 

The New York Times

Researchers from Cornell and Boston Children’s Hospital surveyed a representative sample of more than 1,000 Americans finding 20 percent thought they were strongly protected after receiving just one dose of a two-dose vaccine.

The New York Times

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, writes this opinion piece about the Chinese government blocking Ant Group’s IPO. 

Inside Higher Ed

Michael Kotlikoff, provost of Cornell and professor of molecular physiology; Emmanuel Giannelis, vice president for research & innovation and professor of engineering; and Glenn Altschuler, professor of American studies, write this opinion piece arguing for a paradigm shift in how research universities approach innovation. They emphasize the need for an “affirmation of the centrality of discovery,” recognition of “the role of the marketplace in driving innovation” and the implementation of discovery and commercialization engines.  

Scientific American

Experts from the Lab of Ornithology discuss the vast amount of information audio data provides and how machine learning machine learning has aided in analysis. 

South China Morning Post

Jason Judd, senior extension associate in the ILR School, talks about why finding workers to speak without fear would be his biggest concern if he was asked to investigate Xinjiang. 

The New York Times

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, says that “We need independent verification and monitoring of” emissions from fossil fuels.