Cornell researchers have discovered the 3-D structure of a protein, human CD38, which may lead to important information about how cells release calcium - a mineral used in almost every cellular process.
Cornell's CUSat has been chosen as the winner of the University Nanosatellite Program's Nanosat-4 competition. The prize is a NASA launch into orbit. (April 2, 2007)
Local and state government officials are learning that factors such as skilled labor, strong infrastructure and good schools provide more incentive than tax subsidies for businesses to start up or relocate to New York, according to a Cornell report by graduate researchers delivered on May 29.
Researchers at the University of Hawaii and Cornell have selected a crew of six for a four-month simulated Mars mission to test food and food preparation strategies.
Former "Python" John Cleese is among three Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large who will give public talks at Cornell University this month – but he's the only you will need tickets to hear.
A survey asks Cornell researchers what they need to do research involving massive amounts of data, as a step in upgrading the university's cyberinfrastructure.
New York, NY (February 9, 2004) -- Diabetics who have certain abnormalities on an electrocardiogram (ECG) -- a measure of the heart's electrical activity -- are much more likely to die in a five-year period than their peers who have normal ECG results, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists report in the February issue of the journal Diabetes.Electrocardiograms, which are performed by attaching electrodes to the chest, are one of the easiest and most common heart tests given to patients.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- New empirical studies on racial discrimination and the influencing of juries related to capital sentencing will be presented at a symposium on the death penalty Saturday, March 28, at Cornell University. The symposium, "How the Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies of the Modern Capital Sentencing System," sponsored by the Cornell Law Review and the Cornell Death Penalty Project, will bring to campus more than a dozen leading legal scholars, some of whom have represented death-row inmates in postconviction appeals, to address and present new research on capital punishment issues.
The Northeast survived the 11th warmest February in 103 years of record -- warm enough to shatter six all-time temperature records for the month and set or tie 47 daily high-temperature records, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.