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Expert: New Meta wearable tech could influence in-person interactions

September 17, 2025

Meta is expected to debut new smart glasses at its Connect event on Wednesday. Leaked clips show a new pair of glasses that include a heads-up display, as well as a wristband that interacts with them.

Bone density builder wins top prize at food hackathon

The weekend event involved more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from across Cornell.

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Brooks student combines love of birds and climate policy research during summer internship

This summer, Smith turned his lifelong passion into purpose through a new internship program jointly offered by the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Under the guidance of Brooks School professor Sheila Olmstead, Smith explored how wetlands policies affect not only avian populations and migration patterns but also the human communities that depend on those ecosystems.

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For platforms relying on gig workers, bonuses can be a double-edged sword

Researchers at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that, in the gig economy, not all bonuses are created equal, and the availability of labor dictates which type of bonus is more effective for firms that hire contract workers.

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Cornell Tech hosts first-ever summit on disability, access, and AI

The summit brought together researchers, technologists, and community advocates to explore how disability and accessibility intersect with innovation.

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Study: The way you grew up may shape how your brain handles risk

Researchers found people who are socially rich, with strong social support but whose family had less money, and those who are economically rich, having more money but less social support, take similar levels of risk but activate different parts of their brains.

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To protect birds from windows, change human behavior

Bird lovers are more motivated to take action to prevent birds from colliding with their windows by messages that stress the effectiveness of those measures, while emotional appeals are more persuasive for the general public, a Cornell study finds.

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Cornell Cinema to screen new doc on Nobel laureate Phil Sharp Oct. 27

A new documentary chronicling the life and scientific legacy of Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp will be screened at Cornell Cinema on Monday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall. Sponsored by the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, the showing is free and open to the public.

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Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

An interdisciplinary team of researchers determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean, leading decades of archaeologists to likely misidentify olive oil in ceramic artifacts.

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NIH grant to fund autism research center

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus will use a $5.1 million grant from the NIH to launch the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility Center, which aims to improve the reliability of autism research.

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