Like eccentric street people who deter muggers by acting crazily, one crafty beetle has developed an equally outrageous defense: Larvae of the tortoise beetle species Hemisphaerota cyanea cover themselves with their own feces, persuading most predators to pass them by.
On Thursday, March 16, the Cornell community suffered the tragic loss of Michelle Evans, 21, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She died as a result of an accident involving a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) bus.
In the wake of last week's tragic accident, shock and grief have overwhelmed the entire TCAT (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit) organization. As the police investigation proceeds, each succeeding revelation brings more pain and sadness.
Cornell already offers several courses nicknamed 'Physics for Poets.' Now poet Bridget Meeds has proposed just the opposite. 'I'll be offering a workshop called 'Poetry for Physicists.'
How do the people who run the world's best hotels and restaurants scout out new talent? They come to Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and take careful notes.
Last year they stripped away a half century's worth of weeds and overgrowth to reveal the sleeping beauty that was once the Commissioner's House on Ellis Island.
Richard N. Kaplan, president of CNN/U.S. of the CNN News Group, will give an address followed by a question-and-answer session, March 30, at 8 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
Have you ever wondered how to use yellow sticky cards to count whiteflies in a geranium greenhouse? Or, the best way to use fava bean plants to spot the presence of virus-carrying thrips?
The computer-modeling accomplishment - which is expected to aid the future design of tiny insect-like flying machines and should dispel the longstanding myth that "bumblebees cannot fly.