Northeastern bees have suffered population declines over the last 140 years, largely due to human encroachment, but none has faced a more devastating collapse than the humble bumble bee.
Three Cornell researchers will discuss mitigating climate change, biochar and the challenges of wheat rust, respectively, at the 2012 Association for Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Cornell researchers are the first to show how horses with microscopic foreign objects in their eyes can benefit from in vivo corneal confocal microscopy.
Cornell's corpse plant bloomed for the first time in March 2012, attracting more than 10,000 visitors over five days, and is expected to bloom again in the next few days.
The new Cornell Estimated Breeding Value website can now provide the public with information on a dog breed's propensity for a hip and elbow dysplasia (malformation).
A free six-week online course called “EECapacity for Public Garden Educators," co-hosted by Cornell, helps public garden educators transform their natural assets into community resources.
Janis Dickinson, professor of natural resources and director of citizen science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has developed YardMap.org to aid citizen scientist conservation.
A Cornell study offers clues to a little known area of research: how Western diets, which have driven an epidemic of obesity and metabolic syndrome, increase mortality in humans.