When refugees sell or barter food, it's not always an indication that they've been given too much food relief, as donors assume, but because they are desperate to obtain different food, such as salt, necessary for survival.
A laser-based microscopy technique may have settled a long-standing debate among neuroscientists about how brain cells process energy -- while explaining what's really happening in PET (positron emission tomography) imaging and offering a better way to observe the damage that strokes and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, wreak on brain cells.
Cornell has established the Cornell Research Scholars Program to help recruit the best and brightest undergraduate students with special research opportunities and financial support, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Oct. 25).
Students at the Cornell Law School are assisting attorneys in the appeals of death row inmates. For some, the work has taken them off campus to interview law enforcement authorities, witnesses, former jurors and, in one case, a convicted killer, in hopes of discovering state misconduct that might lead a court to overturn the defendant's conviction or sentence.
Despite dramatic losses in wild honeybees and in colonies maintained by hobbyist beekeepers, Cornell apiculturists say the pollination needs of commercial agriculture in the United States are being met.
On a steeplechase track about half the width of a human hair, Cornell University researchers are racing individual DNA molecules to learn how they move through tiny spaces.
Most African nations remain entrenched in the cultural, legal and other practices of their former British, French or Portuguese colonizers, a generation or more after achieving independence, according to Joan Mulondo, program coordinator of the Institute for African Development at Cornell.
Carlos Castillo-Chavez was awarded a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony on Sept. 11.
Although numerous programs try to help children recognize and deal with verbal and physical aggression, one Cornell University program has been shown to significantly reduce children's aggressive behavior.
A Cornell University-city of Ithaca partnership hopes to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist in revitalizing neighborhoods in the city of Ithaca and to help enhance the quality of life in the city.