Cornell's Mann Library will soon give agriculture researchers and students in developing countries access to a wealth of technical information they need to increase food production.
Cornell Plantations is seeking volunteer guides to give tours to school children and the general public in the Mundy Wildflower Garden and other areas. Weekly training sessions are scheduled for Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon, March 4 through April 29.
New York state red wines have higher levels of resveratrol -- a naturally occurring substance in grapes that has been found to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer -- than comparable wines from other regions of the world.
The pheromone trail laid down by an Aphaenogaster rudis ant to help the ant and its recruited nest mates find their way back to prey they plan to kill -- contains a chemical now undergoing clinical trials as a possible Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Cornell students' biological inventory of a rain forest tract in the Amazon is revealing the chemical strategies of organisms that survive in one of the planet's most competitive environments.
Cornell students' biological inventory of a rain forest tract in the Amazon is revealing the chemical strategies of organisms that survive in one of the planet's most competitive environments.
Hoping to safeguard the health of farm animals and the people who care for them, diagnosticians at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are urging farm operators to implement management practices aimed at slowing the spread of Salmonella Typhimurium, including the antibiotic-resistant bacterium, Typhimurium DT104.
Workers will start erecting scaffolding on McGraw Tower at Cornell next week, beginning a planned, 18-month restoration of the tower's belfry and its most important tenant -- no, not the pumpkin -- the Cornell chimes.
The Northeast enjoyed warmer-than-normal temperatures during December. Most states averaged temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees warmer than normal. New Hampshire was the exception on the high end, averaging 3.3 degrees warmer than its long-term normal for the month, which is 22.9 degrees.
Cornell is the featured university until Feb. 1 on the World Wide Web site of the Science Coalition, an organization devoted to calling attention to the benefits of basic research at universities and maintaining public support.