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Vinyl chloride ‘highly mobile in soils and water.’ East Palestine area farmers advised to test crop sites.

February 15, 2023

Murray McBride, a soil and crop scientist who studies the behavior of soil and water contaminants, comments on the repercussions of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the need for farmers and residents to test soils and water.

Food & Agriculture
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

In an age of drones and UAVs, why balloons are having a moment

February 13, 2023

Paul Lushenko is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and senior policy fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Lab, he says there are several potential reasons as to why balloons have thrust back into the spotlight.

International Reach
Foreign Policy
Cornell Tech

Grass type had ‘little if anything’ to do with Super Bowl’s slips

February 13, 2023

The playing conditions in Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles raised some questions. Players on both teams slid and slipped all over the turf.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Experts split on ‘prebunking’ – shifting blame or empowering users?

February 13, 2023

Google is expanding its campaign to fight misinformation through an approach it calls ‘prebunking’, which involves using a series of short videos to teach people how to spot false claims before they encounter them. 

Social & Behavioral Sciences
Cornell Tech
Law, Government & Public Policy

Looming questions as U.S. investigates ‘spy balloon’

February 9, 2023

The State Department says China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and can collect communications signals.

Foreign Policy
Law and Policy
Law, Government & Public Policy

Biden’s healthcare priorities will aid in ‘providing much needed care for more Americans.’

February 8, 2023

In his second State of the Union address, President Biden touted his administration’s policies on healthcare and medical research which will result in savings on medical costs for many Americans says Cornell University professor Nick Fabrizio.

Law and Policy

Reforming police culture across nation a ‘shared responsibility’

February 8, 2023

During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for a focus on police reform as seven additional Memphis police employees fall under investigation for the death of Tyre Nichols, but reforming police culture across nation is a shared responsibility says Cornell University professor Joseph Margulies.

Law and Policy

Why the Turkey, Syria earthquake was so destructive

February 7, 2023

Geoffrey Abers is a geophysicist and chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and says this earthquake was particularly destructive because it occurred on land at shallow depths in the Earth’s crust.

International

U.S. strikes deal for military bases with Philippines

February 2, 2023

Tom Pepinsky is a professor of government and director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, he says the deal is a major development in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.

International Reach
Foreign Policy
Arts & Humanities

Gateway Project: ‘most important infrastructure megaproject today’

February 1, 2023

Rick Geddes, professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, says that the Gateway Project is one of the country’s most important infrastructure projects today.

Law, Government & Public Policy
New York City

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