Lulled into lexical laziness by years of oversimplified schoolbooks, American students are in for a shock when they reach high school: Science books often are too hard for them to read, according to a Cornell sociologist.
In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
Novelist and poet Robert Morgan and poet and essayist Kenneth McClane will read from their works at the first Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading on March 3.
Coroners won't write "death by global warming," but that could be an ultimate cause as millions succumb to disease in an increasingly unhealthy environment, a Cornell ecologist warns.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new Cornell study suggests that childless couples who work for the same employer tend to experience lower life quality and have less egalitarian marriages than coworking couples with children.
The Akwe:kon Press and Native Americas journal, part of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, will hold a "Global Warming/Climate Change" panel discussion on campus Feb. 25 and 26.
Commissioned institutional histories tend to be dry and self-congratulatory, dull work for anonymous authors and often even duller reading. Yet 'The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science', released last December, transcends the genre.
Cornell cancer researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein complex believed to influence the malignant transformation of cells, setting the stage for development of unique tumor-blocking drugs.
NASA has given the go-ahead for the Cornell University-led Comet Nucleus Tour, or Contour, mission. The agency said the mission has passed a critical review and the building of the spacecraft can begin.