The larvae of Manduca sexta, a moth nicknamed the tobacco hornworn, can become so chemically dependent on one of their favorite food – the leaves of eggplant, potato or tomato plants – that they would rather starve to death than eat leaves from other plants.
David Wolfe sees the forest for the trees ... and the earthworms for the soils, the prairie dogs for the grasslands and the Rhizobium for the nitrogen. In his first book, Tales From the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life.
Yield: Frogs crossing. On warm, rainy nights over the next few weeks, Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a stretch of road in the Ringwood Preserve, about six miles from campus.
The Cornell University administration has announced its decision to decommission the TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor and to phase out activities at the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, where the reactor is housed.
The visit of former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University planned for May 29-31 has been postponed. A new date for his visit has not been determined.
Hunger is associated with poor health among low-income children in the United States, conclude nutritionists from Cornell and the University of Michigan in the first national study to determine if the level of food deprivation that occurs in the U.S. is severe enough to affect children's health.
Cornell Associate Professor Wendy M. Williams is the 2001 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Robert Fantz Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
Early Sunday morning, April 29, at the Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, N.Y., trespassers forcibly entered an animal-holding area and removed 247 Pekin ducks. The trespassers vandalized portions of the facility by spray-painting slogans that identified them as the Animal Liberation Front .
A symposium on child welfare and child protective policies over the past 50 years is slated for May 5, at Cornell University. The symposium celebrates Child Abuse Prevention Month and the career of James Cameron.
Dogs blinded by an inherited retinal degenerative disease had their vision restored after treatment with genes from healthy dogs, marking the first successful gene therapy for blindness in a large animal. The treatment offers hope for humans with a similar condition.