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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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