New Cornell research shows the metaverse – a virtual 3D environment in which the physical and digital worlds converge – could have environmental benefits: lowering the global surface temperature by up to 0.02 degrees Celsius before the end of the century.
A report from the ILR School’s Climate Justice Institute finds significant issues in New York state’s solar construction workforce, including transience, uncertain benefits and racial pay disparities.
To conduct low-cost and scalable synthetic biological experiments, Cornell researchers have created a new version of a microbe to compete economically with E. coli – a bacteria used to synthesize proteins.
A new study, which brought together Cornell researchers, Cambodian fishers and Cambodian researchers, had study participants take photos that researchers then use to facilitate interviews and group discussions during which the subjects share their life experiences and perspectives.
Since 2016, students have worked to calculate and share the progress of the Ithaca 2030 District, an initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of Ithaca’s commercial buildings.
Authors from the College of Veterinary Medicine say allowing bats to survive and thrive by letting them exist undisturbed in their habitats can pay other dividends around the world.
Cornell's Laboratory of Plasma Studies has joined the newly established Inertial Fusion Science and Technology Hub, known as RISE, a multi-institutional consortium to advance inertial fusion energy as a power source that could change the world.
Tuskegee University has become the latest partner of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aimed at developing tools to communicate with plants and the associated organisms that make up their microbiomes.