By pulling individual DNA strands, biophysicists at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts have shown how genetic information stored in structures called nucleosomes might be read.
A one-of-a-kind X-ray camera capable of capturing a series of microsecond images captures a moving image of shock waves from diesel fuel as it emerges at supersonic speeds from automobile fuel injectors, a phenomenon never before observed or measured, according to Cornell University researchers.
A Cornell University study finds that open offices are most effective work environments for small firms; private offices were not ideal, and cubicles were the worst. The study is published in a new report by Franklin Becker and Williams Sims, both part of Cornell's International Workplace Studies Program (IWSP).
A Cornell University mathematician and colleagues at McGill and the Free University of Berlin have proven that a complex polygonal arc in a plane can always be straightened, work which applies to the manipulation of robot arms, protein folding and other problems in engineering and biology. The work will be discussed at a symposium during the AAAS annual meeting in February.
Gender-discrimination legends surrounding Nobelist Barbara McClintock and Rosalind Franklin will be explored at a Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Why do most people know so little about science? The question will be at a symposium, "Best Practices From Research Scientists Who Communicate With The Public" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.
Bay to bay: Cornell University researchers have developed the first method to directly compare levels of agricultural and industrial pollution runoff between estuaries.
A Cornell University entomologist uses a 'cotton candy' web of fibers to protect crops as maggots and worms develop resistance to pesticides.
Cornell University biologists aim to be the first to culture methane-generating bacteria from acidic wetlands in a laboratory, using an $837,000 Microbial Observatory grant from the NSF.
Cats that pick fights could be victims of social anxiety, and a medication called clomipramine might restore peace in multi-cat households, according to behavior specialists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, where a new drug test is about to begin.
NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell University are inviting students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the Cornell and Contour Comet Challenge, with the grand prize for the winners a trip to Kennedy Space Center, to witness the launch of the spacecraft scheduled for July 1.
Are Super bowl ads, now at $1.9M for 30 seconds, worth it in these leaner times? A marketing professor and his students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management will analyze this year's ads and ask if the companies buying them made good business and marketing decisions.
The fifth annual Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 15-18, 2002, will focus attention on Harry Potter's pet, the snowy owl, which already is making appearances in the northern U.S. from its normal habitat in the Arctic tundra.
How to market Main Street: A new Web site developed by faculty and researchers at Cornell and Pennsylvania State Universities provides users, from newly elected officials to extension educators, with ways to implement sound municipal development decisions for their communities' long-term futures.
Scientists from Cornell University and Seoul National University offer a more precise explanation for vitamin C's anti-cancer activity. And they suggest that a natural chemical from apples works even better than vitamin C.
Environmental engineers and waste-management specialists at Cornell University are offering a new Web-based planning tool, "Co-Composter," free of charge to farm managers and composters who want to meet toughened environmental regulations while making the most of excess animal waste.
An $830,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will enable Cornell University Library to put the remainder of its catalog online. The project is expected to make known to the world at large more than 276,000 bibliographic records for items in Cornell's collections, including a large number of humanities and social science titles.
U.S hotels routinely use overall industry averages to measure performance, but the method is unreliable as the only gauge of how hotels are doing, a study at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration shows.
A $1.8M grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems will establish a Honeybee Genetics and Integrated Pest Management Center at Cornell University to deal with the continuing threat from deadly parasitic mites and Africanized honeybees.
About 5,000 light years away across our Milky Way galaxy, a highly brilliant star called VY Canis Majoris has long been thought to be shrouded in smoke. Cornell and Harvard astronomers have found its light is blocked by amorphous silicates and iron in a highly elongated form called "whiskers."
In a huge river of primordial hydrogen flowing from the neighboring Magellanic Clouds into our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers at the Arecibo observatory have found the first evidence of turbulence and concluded that the invisible, hot mass of gas surrounding our galaxy is much thicker than physicists previously thought.
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University, received the George Jean Nathan award for drama criticism, administered by Cornell University, for his book, "The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre."
Using the sun's solar cycles and tree rings, archaeologists rewrite the timeline of the Bronze and Iron ages. Their research dates certain artifacts of the ancient eastern Mediterranean decades earlier than previously thought, including an early appearance of the alphabet outside ancient Phoenicia to around 740 B.C.
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, keep dreaming. Your chances are melting away, says the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Utility lines beneath the World Trade Center "held up remarkably well," a Cornell University engineer reports, with damage to gas, steam, electrical, potable water and waste water systems confined to the immediate vicinity of ground zero.
Cornell University food science and computer science students have developed Web-based software to track and compare genetic footprints of bacteria. This helps researchers to analyze outbreaks and epidemics of infectious diseases and to assess the biodiversity of bacteria in general.
The American chestnut tree was decimated by an Asian fungus a century ago. The tree could mount a comeback within the next decade. Ironically, the fungus could provide the basis for the development of future pharmaceuticals.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems has awarded a $1.2M grant for the creation of a new organic farming network managed by Cornell University's Department of Horticulture.
Paul McEuen, professor of physics at Cornell University, is one of four scientists named to share the 2001 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize. The four are being recognized for their research into carbon nanotubes and efforts to exploit the new technology for a broad range of electronic applications.
The Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, which sheds light on universities' most pressing problems, has been awarded $1.525M from the Mellon Foundation and a private donor to support its research and outreach activities.
Two recent studies by Cornell University researchers find that natural environments at home seem to influence children's attention capabilities while better housing quality can significantly improve the mental health of adults who move from poor to good housing.
In what could be the ultimate in fast-forward, Cornell planetary scientists have used a supercomputer to simulate motions of the small moons of Jupiter over a one billion-year epoch to learn how the tugs and pulls of the sun and planets shake out the permanent moons of the giant planets from those that get tossed away.
Many elderly persons don't get enough to eat because of functional impairments or a lack of resources. Food insecurity significantly impairs the health and nutritional status of many older Americans, according to Cornell University studies.
The same ultraviolet-absorbing chemicals that "paint" bull's-eyes on flowers to guide pollinating insects also deter herbivorous insects from eating the plants reproductive parts, Cornell chemical ecologists have shown.
A researcher at Cornell's Program of Computer Graphics, is developing computer simulations of the ways in which people with several kinds of low vision see the world. The work is funded by a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research program.
A new children's book by a Cornell University scientist and co-author, Animal Baby Sitters, probes a mystery that has puzzled evolutionary biologists for years -- why some animals postpone breeding in order to stay home and help their families.
A new children's book and music CD by a Cornell University sleep expert provides plenty of reasons why the four- to eight-year-old set should get a good night's sleep.
New web site, titled "Terrorism and War: Context and Aftermath of Sept. 11th," aims for greater global understanding. It is sponsored by the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.
Thousands of volunteer bird-watchers throughout North America who report their observations to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology-based citizen-science program, Project FeederWatch, are preparing for whatever the upcoming season brings.
A project at Cornell University is bringing together widespread collections of earth science data to build a "digital earth" that will be an important resource for geoscience researchers but also will provide easy-to-use teaching tools for educators from K-12 through college.
On Nov. 3, 2001, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) will declare the Arecibo radio/radar telescope an IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and an ASME Landmark in Mechanical Engineering.
To conduct research and training on issues related to promoting economic growth and relieving poverty in Africa, researchers at Cornell University are embarking on an $8M U.S. Agency for International Development-funded effort over five years.
To help show young students how vegetables get from the field to the kitchen, Cornell University's Kids Growing Food program is accepting grant applications from schoolteachers in New York state and several middle Atlantic states. The grants will help teachers establish or maintain gardens on school grounds.
Using "X-pinch" plasma formed by powerful machinery originally developed in hydrogen fusion research, scientists in Cornell's Laboratory of Plasma Studies are creating X-ray images with exceptional resolution of minute objects, like fly hairs or the fine filaments that keep dandelion seeds afloat in the air.
A lush, tasty squash with cream-color skin and forest-green stripes, named Cornell's Bush Delicata, has been named a 2002 All-America Selection, a seed-industry award. It is the first Cornell-developed variety to win the prestigious award in 39 years.
Late Tuesday night the Mars Odyssey spacecraft went into orbit around Mars. The small robotic spacecraft will be the key communications link for the Mars Exploration Rover mission in 2003. Cornell University's professor of astronomy has a leading role in both NASA's Odyssey and the Rover missions.
The hotel business -- while suffering from the drop in air travel -- actually is doing better than has been reported, with a new marketing focus, fewer layoffs and more optimism in many quarters, a Cornell University survey of general managers shows.
Cornell University has received support from Microsoft Corp. to develop and test new technology that could help protect computers from viruses and other malicious code downloaded from the Internet.
Many courts that try death penalty cases allow religion to be used in ways that violate the First Amendment, say two Cornell Law School professors. They applied the First Amendment's religion clauses to common uses of religion in death penalty trials and and say important changes are needed in the way such trials are run.
Cornell University finds that childhood disruptions affect one's family relationships in later life. It also finds that parents with stepchildren fare worse than others.
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