A new analysis that compares two common inhalers for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) finds that one reduces respiratory-related hospitalizations and respiratory deaths, but the other -- which…
"Postcards from Mars," the story of the Mars rover mission told in stunningly beautiful images with text by Jim Bell, Pancam lead scientist and Cornell associate professor of astronomy, is set for release on Nov. 16. The Pancam…
Cornell Plantations and the Finger Lakes Land Trust are partnering to protect significant natural areas within Tompkins County. Cornell also has announced its commitment of $125,000 to the land trust to help buy land and fund…
For the first time in Cornell history, Chinese high school students are spending six weeks earning credit at the university's Summer College program. The U.S. government granted visas on June 23 to the students, who arrived in Ithaca on June 24.
Starting in July, pioneering and award-winning HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University will take over as editor in chief of the newly renamed monthly journal Translational…
Trevor Pinch, Cornell professor of science and technology studies, waits backstage to serve as host of the third annual Moogfest, a concert held June 22, at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York City. The event honored the…
Science education in the United States is at a critical point, according to a national group of physicists and educators who attended a June 19 workshop on improving science education in public schools. With fewer secondary…
Get your huddled masses the heck out of here. That's the message many New Yorkers are sending to illegal immigrants, according to a statewide policy survey by Cornell University.
New York state has a centuries-old reputation for…
Eswar S. Prasad, chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life…
A Cornell student, arriving at Vladimir Nabokov's house in the 1950s, saw a fire blazing in the backyard. Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from the flames.