A Cornell-led study of the genome and RNA of hookworm reveals for the first time which genes are activated and deactivated during key phases of infection. The findings could lead to more effective treatments.
Rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens, according to a new study from a team of researchers from Cornell and Columbia.
MSNBC host and scholar Melissa Harris-Perry put the history of black struggle in America in perspective in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, saying "The stories of struggle that we tell our children are incomplete."
The sounds of the natural environment and their inspiration on composers like Olivier Messiaen – who used recordings from Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology – will be celebrated in a festival March 5-9.
Cornell chemical engineers and astronomers have theorized a new kind of methane-based cell membrane that could thrive in the harsh, cold conditions of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
A team of researchers at Weill Cornell has improved a nonsurgical procedure that safely and effectively corrects newborn ear deformities in just two weeks.
More than 650 people from 25 countries attended Citizen Science 2015, the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association, on Feb. 11-12 in San Jose, California.
The investigation of the Jan. 26 fatal accident on campus involving a TCAT bus and a pedestrian has examined all leads, and police are asking anyone who was in the area to call.
The ILR Employment and Disability Institute’s New York State Partners in Policymaking program will receive $250,000 annually for the next five years. The money will fund a Web-based model of leadership training.