Ice cream, yogurt, cheese and milk all starts with a special delivery – the birth of a calf. Now for the first time, this maternal miracle can be witnessed at the Dairy Cow Birthing Center at the New York State Fair Aug. 22-Sept. 2.
The National Science Foundation has selected the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility to be part of a newly established infrastructure. The facility will receive $8 million over five years.
A new project will harness the power of genome editing – a technique that allows researchers to replace DNA in a living cell – to improve rice, a staple crop that feeds half the world’s people.
The Cornell Biological Field Station will offer 11-week undergraduate research internships starting June 1, with applications due Feb. 15. (Feb. 9, 2010)
Scientists at Cornell in Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have received $1 million from the Qatar National Research Fund for a study to help reduce desert expansion. (June 29, 2010)
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.
Sam Tilsen, assistant professor of linguistics, and colleagues used real-time magnetic resonance imaging to document anticipated vocal responses via the positions of vocal organs.
A new reality television series focused on the lives of students at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine makes its debut Sept. 19 on National Geographic station.