Cornell researchers and colleagues have for the first time described the near-complete genome of a rare bacterium so large it’s visible to the naked eye. The bacteria, which they’ve named Epulopiscium viviparus, lives symbiotically within some tropical marine surgeonfish.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology staff member Victoria Campbell spends her free time caring for bats in need – setting tiny broken bones, feeding babies, treating illness and nursing native bats back to health so they can be released.
The lack of alcohol in nonalcoholic or low-alcohol beer – particularly during manufacturing, storage and pouring – may prompt conditions ripe for foodborne pathogen growth.
The Garth Cummings, D.V.M. ’11, and Sons Externship honors the memory and values of the alumnus, who lived a life of adventure and dedication to sound animal agriculture.
While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen.
Heat-retaining buildings and paved surfaces are directly related to a loss in bird diversity, according to a study by scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Zhejiang University in China.
In sea fireflies’ underwater ballet, the males sway together in perfect, illuminated synchronization, basking in the blue-like glow of their secreted iridescent mucus.