Author Michael Pollan described his journey as a writer about food and nature, beginning with his first book about gardening, April 27 in the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.
A genomic analysis of cassava has found that mutations have corroded the genome, producing many dysfunctional versions of genes and putting at risk a crucial crop that feeds a tenth of all people.
Smoking tobacco – even lightly – through water pipes significantly affects lung function and biology in young adults, a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers shows.
“Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education” by Rachel Prentice describes how surgical simulators and other technologies are shaping surgeons in the 21st century.
As students and faculty get deeper into fall semester, Cornell remains in a drought with second-stage water restrictions, and conserving water has become more important than ever.
In the war to keep food safe from bacteria, Cornell food scientists examine a class of weaponry called bacteriophages – an all-natural biological enemy for Listeria.
An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans – intensifies disease for coral, adding to reef peril.
Takao Hensch, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School's Boston Children's Hospital, has won the Mortimer D. Sackler, MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.