The discovery of the aggressive hydrilla plant in upstate in Cayuga Inlet by Cornell staff is the first detection of the invasive plant in upstate New York. (Aug. 17, 2011)
A single-celled organism is having a big effect on science teachers across the country, thanks to Cornell's Advancing Secondary Science Education with Tetrahymena (ASSET) program. (Oct. 1, 2012)
Experts in cancer biology and nanotechnology will discuss problems in the clinical and basic science of cancer, and will showcase nanotechnology advances that have led to breakthroughs in research and treatment. (Sept. 15, 2008)
Symposium to showcase program that trained students to use interdisciplinary approaches to food systems and agriculture issues that contribute to extreme poverty.
A Cornell researcher seeks to understand the mechanisms behind tumor growth in the inherited disease tuberous sclerosis, thanks to an award from the Department of Defense. (Dec. 16, 2010)
Rendering some of the world’s toxic soils moot, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable land.
A portable device can detect the presence of the anthrax bacterium in about one hour, report Cornell and University of Albany researchers who invented it. (July 29, 2011)
'Nanomembrane' sheets embedded with tiny iron oxide particles can help clean toxic chemicals from water. Cornell researchers are evaluating the tech to reduce human health and environmental concerns.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
By deciphering the genetics in humans and fish, scientists believe that the neck gave humans so much freedom of movement that it played a surprising role in the evolution of the human brain. (July 28, 2010)