Cornell is part of a new, multistate, $3 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to better understand how selectively breeding their herds to encourage milk production is reducing their fertility.
Wee Stinky’s sibling, one of the original four titan arums in Cornell’s collection since 2002, now is pushing its flower up from beneath the soil and is expected to bloom in June.
Since 1998, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dead eider ducks have been washing up every year on Cape Cod’s beaches. Scientists have pinned down one of the agents responsible: a pathogen they’re calling Wellfleet Bay virus.
As human population grows, disease-causing genetic mutations per individual increase, but each mutation is less harmful, when compared with a population that is not growing, says a Cornell study.
Julian Homburger '13 and Adam Izraelevitz '13 are among this year's recipients of Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, which support college students intent on careers in science, math or engineering. (April 3, 2012)
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have invalidated a previously reported molecular finding on triple negative breast cancer that many hoped would lead to targeted treatments for the aggressive disease.
A study asserts that, in the presence of a gentle fluid flow, the biophysics of the female reproductive tract – in particular, the grooves that line parts of it – critically assist sperm migration.
On her first visit to Cornell, A.D. White Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai noted Sept. 25 that plants and animals are dependent on trillions of microorganisms. (Oct. 3, 2012)