Cornell University paleontologists are enlisting the public's help in the search for some unusual 375 million-year-old fossils in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania. Dating to the Devonian geological period when an inland sea covered much of what is now the Northeastern United States, the fossils may be glass sponges or some totally unknown organism.
Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.
A professor of psychology at Cornell University and author of "Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance" (Villard, 1998), will answer questions about sleep problems when he participates in a toll-free "Sleep Hotline" on March 24, 1999.
Thanks to soaring prices, academic agricultural and biological journals are likely to go the way of the plow horse, according to a Cornell University faculty task force that has been studying the problem.
A commonly used drug for reducing toxicological effects of lead poisoning, DMSA, may alter the immune system, a Cornell University study of pregnant rats and their offspring has found.
The Cornell University Work and Environment Initiative and the Town of Londonderry, N.H are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building.
Cornell University's pioneering use of a new distance learning technology that helps doctors at 20 different hospitals keep up with the latest developments in their field has been declared an overwhelming success, and a new contract has been announced that expands the service.
After analyzing hundreds of high-resolution pictures of the Martian surface taken by the orbiting Mars Surveyor spacecraft, a team of researchers finds that weathering and winds on the planet leave landforms, especially sand dunes, remarkably similar to those in some deserts on Earth.
Social Security can be saved by raising the earliest retirement age for benefits to 65 from 62, a Cornell University social security expert told a Congressional subcommittee this week.
A U.S. Education Dept. grant will help center help policy makers help people with disabilities find and keep meaningful, well-paid work.
Cohabitation tends to attract people with different economic circumstances than those who opt directly for marriage, says Marin Clarkberg, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. Men and women with less stable job histories tend to cohabitate as do higher-earning women but lower-earning men.
The persistence of a Cornell University researcher, and the prompt use of his unique database, is credited for reducing the death toll in a recent outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes, a virulent food borne pathogen.
Kids in elementary school are being put at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for children's musculoskeletal health, according to a Cornell University study.
Asian Long-horn beetle symposium will be on Feb. 23 in Virginia Beach, Va.
Bird enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds are being urged to help researchers find out how the warmest year on record has affected birds by participating in the 2nd Annual Great Backyard Bird Count. Feb. 19-22, 1999.
The crowded metropolitan bus system in Buenos Aires could be responsible for 30 percent of new cases of tuberculosis in the city, a new study shows. According to a Cornell University biomathematician, taking public transportation "is a considerable component of transmission and probable evolution of the disease."
The indigenous people and other inhabitants of the Amazon rain forest knew what worked for them but not why. Field studies, conducted in the Amazon rain forest by Cornell University undergraduate students of chemical ecology and published in the first issue of the first journal of its kind, are beginning to find the chemistry behind folk remedies and other uses humans and animals find for rainforest plants.
The Marketing Club, a student group at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and an associate professor of marketing at the school will meet the week after the SuperBowl to analyze the ads that aired the previous Sunday and try to decide if advertisers got their money's worth and made good marketing decisions.
In a new book, The Deep Hot Biosphere (Copernicus/Springer-Verlag, a Cornell Professor emeritus of astronomy argues that subterranean bugs are us -- or at least they started the whole evolutionary process, and that there's no looming energy shortage because oil reserves are far greater than predicted.
A few of the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. Alien weeds (cost: $35.5 billion), introduced insects ($20 billion), human disease-causing organisms ($6.5 billion) and even the mongoose ($50 million ).
Thanks to a technique known as genetic mapping, Cornell University scientists have for the first time located genetic factors that make significant increases in rice production under upland conditions and used this information as a key to improving yields for poor farmers.
The supply, quality and protection of water resources will be critical in the 21st century and will present Washington, aided by the nation's reservoir of academic brain power -- particularly in land-grant colleges -- with a "grand national challenge," a Cornell University environmentalist warns.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich and financial journalist Gary Belsky is about "behavioral economics," including the cognitive and motivational shortcomings that make even smart people act unwisely with their money.
Couples who wish they could work less, who have demanding jobs or both work more than 45 hours a week report the lowest quality of life among working couples, according to a Cornell University sociologist. Couples in which both partners work regular full-time hours -- especially when the wives are in nonprofessional jobs -- report the highest quality of life, even higher than when one partner works part-time.
American working, married couples would prefer to work less but they work more hours than ever. That's because today's workplace doesn't offer enough part-time jobs, reported a Cornell University sociologist. Many women choose to stay home rather than enter the 'all or nothing' workplace which has not adapted to the changing patterns of employee preferences, she said.
The dying corals of the Florida Keys could be an early warning of tough times ahead for the planet's environment, Cornell University ecologists worry. The reason: Hundred-year-old corals are succumbing to diseases they previously survived.
Before settling down to spend the next five years raising a family, some mate-for-life termites use their brief honeymoon to find a better mate, a Cornell University biologist reports in the Jan. 22, 1999 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B.
Melting snow and ice might not have had sufficient "critical weight" to cause several roof collapses in the Northeast, according to a Cornell University climatologist.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center for food crops, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell University.
Presenting the case that a lifetime of poor health -- from coronary artery disease and stroke to obesity and diabetes -- may start with poor conditions in the womb, a Cornell University researcher and author foresees three possible outcomes from publication of his latest book, Life in the Womb: The Origin of Health and Disease (Promethean Press, 1999)
Some 240 million miles from Earth, a spacecraft hurtled through the black void of space, off its intended course. But thanks to the creation of a last-minute fix by Cornell University mission engineers during a tense 24 hours just before Christmas, the $150 million mission now has hundreds of new images of a distant asteroid.
An alliance between Cornell, six other universities and a handful of professional organizations proposes to use high-tech distance learning tools to educate mediators in both Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR, techniques and in employment discrimination and health and safety laws.
Children in crowded homes do worse in school and fight more with their parents than kids in uncrowded homes, according to a Cornell University stuby by an environmental stress expert to be published in the December 1998 issue of Child Development.
With nine days left in the year, it appears inevitable that 1998 will be the Northeast's warmest year since records began in 1895, according to the climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Working with federal fisheries personnel, scientists in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have made the first identification of a virus believed responsible for cancerous tumors in Atlantic salmon in the New England region.
Seduced by a domineering, two-timing female then largely abandoned to raise young that aren't his own, the male wattled jacana would seem to be a loser in the genetic lottery. But Cornell and University of Buffalo biologists explain the costs and benefits behind one of the animal kingdom's most extreme examples of sex-role reversal and cuckoldry.
A Cornell University professor of plant pathology, tells all about fungus in his new, mycological book, "Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds," (Princeton University Press) the story of the fungus kingdom and its impact on humanity.
Reviewing thousands of ultrasound scans at a Scottish hospital, a team led by a Cornell University researcher found that babies that were small in the first trimester of pregnancy were more likely to be born low-birth-weight and extremely premature.
Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.
Two NASA launches this week carried Cornell Astronomers' projects. The Mars Climate Orbiter 's Mars Color Imager (MARCI) will send high-resolution color images of the planet. The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) will study the conditions that lead to the birth of stars, a process now hidden deep within obscuring clouds of interstellar dust and gas.
Above-normal temperatures in December raise the possibility that 1998 will be the warmest year in the Northeast since records were first kept in 1895, says Keith Eggleston, senior climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
A new book, "Keeping Buildings Healthy: How To Monitor and Prevent Indoor Environment Problems, " co-authored by a Cornell University professor of design and environmental analysis, can help both building managers and owners resolve existing indoor air problems and prevent indoor environmental problems in the future.
In an interview, self-described American revolutionary Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mystique and founder of the National Organization for Women, talks about what she's doing lately, in partnership with Cornell's Institute for Women and Work. With her Washington, D.C.--based New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy, she hopes to use such feminist values as equality, fairness and justice to make work, and life, better for men as well as women.
October became the eighth month this year in the Northeast with temperatures averaging above normal, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Barely measurable amounts of energy, released as body heat, could be the difference between holding the waistline or adding 10 pounds a year, say Cornell University researchers who have turned couch-potato rats into exercising athletes. Too much animal protein and fat appear to tip a delicate energy balance toward adding body fat instead of burning energy through a metabolic process called thermogenesis.
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute recently received a Mellon Foundation grant of $375,000 and matching funds of $300,000 from an anonymous donor.
A warning to New York farmers about the economic consequences to their livelihoods from what he claims are impending climate shifts will be issued by a Cornell University professor speaking to a group of policy-makers and concerned citizens in Albany, N.Y., on Friday.
The "matrix mill" developed at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station reduces the time needed to extract DNA from plant tissue for marker analysis, cutting 10 hours of technician time to about five minutes.
The aggressive marketing and promotion of infant formula in this country and worldwide violate a basic human right of mothers and babies to give and receive breastmilk, and endangers health of infants worldwide, says Michael Latham, M.D., MPH, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. He called for legislation to curb industry marketing practices to promote formula and to institute warning labels outlining the major hazards related to not breastfeeding.
A new resource for community colleges was announced Nov. 11, 1998 at Cornell. The Institute for Community College Development is based at Cornell. Created through collaborative efforts by the State University of New York (SUNY), Cornell and community college presidents, the institute will study educational, social and financial issues of importance to community colleges.
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