A team of U.S. astronomers, led by Cornell University astrophysicist Martin Harwit, has discovered a massive concentration of water vapor within a cloud of insterstellar gas close to the Orion nebula. The amount of water measured is so high -- enough to fill the Earth's oceans 60 times a day -- that the researchers believe it provides an important clue to the origin of water in the solar system.
Boosting taxes on cigarettes will have a far less dramatic impact on rates of teen-age smoking than politicians are hoping, a new Cornell University study finds. In fact, say the researchers, higher taxes will have "a statistically insignificant impact" on whether young people decide to start smoking.
Without spinning parts, motor or control system, a two-legged robot toy, developed at Cornell University is stable in motion, but can't stand in any position, providing mechanical engineers with new insights into human walking. Made of Tinkertoy parts, the walker uses only gravity and intertia, says Michael J. Coleman and Andy Ruina, mechanical engineers.
Cornell University researchers have merged the fields of nanofabrication and biology to produce a simple but effective means to detect harmful bacteria. The new biosensor on a silicon chip can detect minute quantities of bacteria, and could be incorporated into a simple handheld device that report results instantly
Cornell University and the U.S. Peace Corps will sign a Memorandum of Cooperation later this month, to mark the establishment of a new option at Cornell -- a three-year master's of professional studies degree in agriculture with a Peace Corps service option.
Cornell Law professor Fred McChesney exposes a political phenomenon that pays congressmen for legislative inactivity in his new book, "Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion"
Cornell art history expert Robert G. Calkins' book covers Medieval architecture using text, photographs and a CD-ROM.
Until laboratory tests identify sources of a bacterial disease killing songbirds in the East and Midwest, Cornell University scientists say people who feed birds should not blame themselves for the recent outbreak of salmonellosis in redpolls and other flocking species.
NASA has opened the way for the signing of a $24.8 million contract between Cornell University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for building an infrared spectrograph that will be sent into orbit to detect and analyze some of the most distant objects in the universe. The contract announcement was made as NASA authorized the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), an observatory that will be launched into orbit around the sun in 2001.
Two hundred years after the essay by T.R. Malthus that put "Malthusian" in the lexicon, the consequences of overpopulation are more dire than ever, says anthropologist David Price, a research associate in Cornell University's Population and Development Program. A disastrous Malthusian correction looms ahead, Price warns.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new Cornell University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. More than half of the 4 percent of Americans who report they don't have enough food live in households in which at least one person has a job, says Katherine Alaimo, a doctoral candidate in nutritional sciences at Cornell.
Cornell University alumnus and author Paul Cody's So Far Gone, a novel published by Picador USA, a literary imprint of St. Martin's Press, was released in February ($22; 240 pages, ISBN 0-312-18180-9).
Cornell University researchers have isolated a single oxygen molecule adsobed on a platinum and caused it to rotate on command by applying pulses of current from a scanning tunneling microscope. The principle could some day be applied for data storage in ultra-small devices.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
The Northeast enjoyed its third warmest winter (December through February) and its third warmest February since official record-keeping began in 1895, according to Keith Eggleston, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Cornell chemist Melissa Hines is seeking to make a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. Within the next five years she expects researchers to be able to produce silicon surfaces that "are essentially totally flat."
Scientists at Cornell University are starting to unravel the chemical mysteries that produce the curious aroma found in fermented beverages like wine and beer.
The records of the organization Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), a collection of letters and other documents showing how a handful of American families made history and launched a national movement by publicly supporting their gay and lesbian children, is now available at Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection.
The genetic defect responsible for progressive rod-cone degeneration (prcd), a form of progressive retinal atrophy known to cause blindness in at least five breeds of dogs, appears to be the canine version of the gene defect producing RP17, one of the numerous forms of retinitis pigmentosa that cause blindness in human families, researchers at Cornell University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center report.
1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.
The fungus responsible for the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s is back, and could be more threatening than ever. More than 150 years after the famine that took an estimated 1 million lives, a newer, more exotic strain of the fungus is causing widespread crop devastation in the United States.
Bird watchers are teaming up with scientists at Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology to learn more about kestrels, swallows, bluebirds, chickadees, wood ducks and other birds that nest in tree cavities and nest boxes through the Cornell Nest Box Network (CNBN).
Cornell University researchers have built and tested an array of microscopic scanning tunneling microscopes on the surface of an ordinary silicon chip. Such arrays could vastly speed the scanning of surfaces down to the atomic level, and could be used for very high-density data storage.
Preschoolers whose families get federal food benefits have much better diets and are protected from iron and zinc deficiencies, according to a new Cornell University study. And the benefits to the young children are much greater than if the families received cash allowances.
Airport noise can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, says a Cornell University study that looked at children before and after a new airport opened in Munich, Germany. The health effects of chronic noise -- higher blood pressure and boosted levels of stress hormones -- may have lifelong implications, says Gary Evans, an environmental psychologist.
Fans of hot, spicy cuisine can thank the nasty bacteria and other food-borne pathogens for the recipes that come -- not so coincidentally -- from countries with hot climates. Humans' use of antimicrobial spices developed in parallel with food-spoilage microorganisms, Cornell University biologists have demonstrated in a international survey of spice use in cooking.
Fungal organisms living at a 286-acre biodiversity preserve in upstate New York will be surveyed for potential new drugs as the result of a bioprospecting agreement announced today Feb. 27 by Schering-Plough Corp., the Cornell Research Foundation the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology and the Finger Lakes Land Trust. It is he first survey of its kind in a temperate zone habitat.
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by Diane Ackerman, co-leader of the Cornell University English Department's Mind and Memory course this semester, and Cornell Media Services staff writer and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love?
Workers report more symptoms in offices with poorer ventilation, a new Cornell University report on sick building syndrome shows, but none of almost three dozen potential irritants were linked to particular symptoms. Nevertheless, workers show a clear pattern of feeling worse by the end of each day.
"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.
A new study by a Cornell University labor economist found that women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men, but provides dramatic evidence that the economic status of less-educated women is deteriorating.
Cornell studies of American and Chinese children provide new compelling evidence that human babies from any culture are born to grasp the complex rules of word order and sentence structure by age 3, says Barbara Lust, Ph.D., a developmental cognitive psycholinguist.
How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) symposium today (Feb. 16) in Philadelphia.
Indigenous people of the rain forest -- not pharmaceutical companies --should grow newly identified medicinal plants to combat malaria and other tropical diseases, Cornell University Professor of Environmental Studies Eloy Rodriguez says Feb. 15 in a AAAS lecture, "Natural Medicines of the Amazonas: Evolution of Drug Selection by Indigenous Tribes and Wild Primates."
Cornell English Prof. Culler has written a new and very brief introduction to literary theory that is brief, lucid and witty and makes the case that not only will literary theory not kill you, it may even be fun.
Cornell University's Mann Library will digitize the contents of 125 agricultural journals to create The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, or TEEAL, on CD-ROM, to be distributed to university libraries in developing countries.
The pheromone trail laid down by an Aphaenogaster rudis ant -- to help the ant and its recruited nest mates find their way back to prey they plan to kill -- contains a chemical now undergoing clinical trials as a possible Alzheimer's disease treatment, Cornell University chemists report in the January 1998 issue of the German journal Naturwissenschaften.
Diagnosticians at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are urging farm operators to implement management practices aimed at slowing the spread of Salmonella typhimurium, including the multiply antibiotic resistant bacterium, Typhimurium DT104.
While December was warmer than normal, 1997 was the 25th driest and 26th coolest in 103 years, according the the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology (CLO) and the National Audubon Society.
A Cornell marketing professor says prestige and worldwide attention, not just sales, influence Super Bowl advertising decisions
Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30 and May 1, 1998 at Cornell University.
To develop "space cuisine" for future lunar and Martian space colonies, Cornell University researchers are developing recipes for astronauts from a limited set of 30 plants that will be grown hydroponically in artificially lit, dome-covered surface habitats.
One hundred thousand traffic accidents caused by drivers falling asleep claim some 1,500 lives each year in the United States, while sleep deprivation and sleep disorders cost the American economy at least $150 billion a year, according to Cornell University psychologist James Maas, author of a new book, "Power Sleep."
Entomologists have long noticed that tiger beetles stop-and-go in their pursuit of prey. But up to now, scientists have had no idea why this species of beetle attacks its food in fits and starts. Why do they stop and go? During hot pursuit of prey, the tiger beetles go blind.
Overweight and obese mothers have significantly less success breast-feeding their newborns, and babies who aren't breast-fed for more than two months maybe more likely to become obese adolescents, according to two new Cornell University/Bassett Hospital studies that examine the effects of maternal obesity, breast-feeding and adolescent obesity.
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, Cornell professor Robert H. Foote spoke out Wednesday, Jan. 7, to debunk and denounce the effort.
Jean-Pierre Habicht, M.D., of Cornell University has published study in Lancet that finds that when refugees sell food, it's not because they have too much but are desperate for other staples and supplies such as salt and soap.
Cornell University veterinarians have some unsolicited advice for the Clintons: Avoid overfeeding and overexercising Buddy, and give the First Cat a "dog-free zone."
Researchers studying the causes of cancer at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine received grants from the American Cancer Society (ACS): Robert E. Oswald, pharmacology, $166,000 for a two-year study, "Structure and Regulation of Cdc42Hs;" James W. Casey, microbiology and immunology, $90,000 for a two-year continuation of "Development and Regression of a Retroviral Induced Sarcoma."
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