In many recent large earthquakes - such as in Northridge, Calif., in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan, in 1995 - some of the most alarming damage was to buried natural gas pipelines, most of them curving along rights-of-way using vulnerable elbow joints.
The U.S. Census Bureau could improve the quality of its population estimates by working more closely with a partnership of local, state and federal officials, Warren Brown, a leading Cornell demographer, testified to a U.S. House…
Experimental evidence provided by a Cornell researcher and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., supports a long-held theory of how and where proteins fold to create their characteristic shapes and…
Cornell Library is sharing its expertise in digital imaging, preservation and management with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance to expand a digital history collection. (May 27, 2007)
Thirty-three seniors from Cornell's seven undergraduate colleges are honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars in ceremony May 25 in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Renowned foreign policy historian Walter LaFeber explained why he didn't think this ever was 'an American century,' in a talk in Keeton House, Nov. 11. (Nov. 16, 2010)
A report on the Great E-mail Outage of 2008 offers measures to deal with future technical problems and to improve communication with the public. (Sept. 11, 2008)
Neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (Jan. 17, 2008)
New York, NY (February 9, 2004) -- Diabetics who have certain abnormalities on an electrocardiogram (ECG) -- a measure of the heart's electrical activity -- are much more likely to die in a five-year period than their peers who have normal ECG results, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists report in the February issue of the journal Diabetes.Electrocardiograms, which are performed by attaching electrodes to the chest, are one of the easiest and most common heart tests given to patients.