When hunting and eating male katydids, different bat species locate their prey by listening for specific signals in male katydids' mating calls, according to a recent study.
In a study of pregnant teenagers, almost half engaged in pica, the craving and intentional consumption of ice, cornstarch, vacuum dust, baby powder and soap and other nonfood items.
Cornell researchers have used mathematical models to illuminate the promises – and potential problems – of a new genome editing mechanism, called a gene drive.
With estimates of losing 15 to 40 percent of the world's species over the next four decades, due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers ponder in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature whether science should employ genetic engineering to the rescue.
Agronomic Technology Corp. is the first business to "graduate" from the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences, which held a celebration of this milestone Jan. 8 in Weill Hall.
Graduates of the College of Veterinary Medicine will leave Ithaca for numerous locales, including 27 states and Namibia, southwest Africa, to practice medicine.
The American Heart Association has awarded seven new grants to Cornell researchers for their work, which is geared at fighting heart disease and stroke. (Sept. 16, 2008)
Bernd Blossey is close to the end of a research program that identified a leaf beetle, Galerucella birmanica, which feasts on water chestnuts, as the perfect predator to help clear New York's waters.
A new Boyce Thompson Institute study appearing Sept. 23 in the journal Molecular Medicine details how salicylic acid in aspirin blocks the inflammatory protein HMGB1, which may lead to new treatments.