Revealing the electronic structure of an unusual superconductor may give theorists the tools to understand how superconductors work and create high-temperature versions.
Two species of amblypygids, or whip spiders, long thought to be purely predatory, anti-social and just plain aggressive arachnids, exhibit surprisingly warm behavior, says Cornell researcher Linda Rayor. (March 12, 2007)
Cornell has completed field investigations and evaluated options for cleaning up its former low-level radiation disposal site in the town of Lansing, north of Tompkins County Airport. The proposed cleanup plan for the site, plus alternatives that were considered, will be described at a public meeting Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in DeWitt Middle School, Warren Road.
Jamie Tworkowski, founder of the nonprofit To Write Love On Her Arms, reminded a campus audience Feb. 22 that they aren't machines or robots, but humans who aren't perfect.
More than 20 Cornell Outdoor Education students and staff have formed a team for the AIDS RIDE for Life '05, an annual 100-mile bicycle ride around Cayuga Lake to benefit HIV/AIDS services.
Ithaca Tangueros is hosting Tango! a concert and dance performance Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell. The show includes live tango music and performances by some of the finest Argentine Tango couples dancers in the world.
Robert Buhrman, director of Cornell's Center for Nanoscale Systems, succeeds Nobel laureate Robert Richardson, who will become senior science adviser to Provost Biddy Martin and President David Skorton. (Aug. 23, 2007)
Cases of listeriosis, the food-borne bacterial disease that kills one of every five of its victims, are not as isolated as once believed. Using DNA evidence to track bacterial strains, a Cornell food scientist and his collaborators have concluded that nearly one-third of the 2,500 U.S. cases annually might occur in geographic clusters at generally the same time.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The northward spread of raccoon rabies can be halted by vaccination barrier zones, veterinarians and wildlife biologists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are predicting. A preliminary assessment of vaccine trials in New York, Vermont and Ohio, where oral vaccines are dropped from aircraft into raccoon rabies-free areas, points to the barrier zone strategy as the most promising way to prevent further spread of the disease, the Cornell experts say. But the vaccination barrier should be extended across northern New Hampshire and Maine, they recommend, before treating East Coast states that already are infected with wildlife rabies.