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Cornell researchers have developed a semiconductor chip that adds a necessary time delay so signals sent across multiple arrays can align at a single point in space, and without disintegrating.

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Associated Press

Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains that a third of people lose 5% or more of their body weight through diet and exercise alone.

South China Morning Post

Rekha Kumar, associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains why people are experiencing surprise pregnancies while taking weight loss drugs.

The Washington Post

William Michael Lynn, professor of services marketing at the Nolan School, says “I myself am comfortable stiffing counter help providing only standardized service, but even I would not feel comfortable stiffing a restaurant server when the service was bad.”

NPR

Colleen Carey, assistant professor of economics and public policy, says “It does not seem that this payment induces physicians to switch to drugs with a mortality benefit relative to the drug the patient would have gotten otherwise.”

Vox

Charley Willison, assistant professor at CVM, says “The crux of the issue is we’re thinking about the focus on encampment closure without access to housing.”

Politico

“One of the few things that can get around free speech and constitutional questions is national security,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government. “If that is the argument, then the legislation and the constitutionality of it will have enormous latitude.”