A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that the Earth's inner core began to decrease its speed around 2008, moving slower than the planet’s surface.
Hosted by a new interfaith student group, the Community Care Dinner on Feb. 21 will bring Muslim and Jewish students and their allies together to build friendships and celebrate each other’s cultures.
In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” history professor Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give you strength to persevere even when things seem most hopeless.
President Joe Biden will meet face-to-face with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in San Francisco on Wednesday. Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says a key factor for the meeting will be how much the two heads of state are able to publicly agree to disagree.
Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces – the United States among them, finds a new analysis led by Cornell political scientists.
A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work in a very different context – a basketball court.
Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology who studies social inequality with a focus on factors like religion that compensate for inequality – by providing social, psychological and material benefits to a subordinated group – but can paradoxically end up legitimating and reinforcing it. He says the blessing of same-sex couples is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church.
Cornell University Library published the catalog Fables in Jewish Culture: The Jon A. Lindseth Collection, a comprehensive guide to the nearly 400 Jewish fables from around the world that Lindseth entrusted to the library in 2018.
Art Wheaton, an expert on transportation industries and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on Tesla's first deliveries of its highly scrutinized Cybertruck.
