A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the molecular structure of a key protein in this interbacterial communication has been solved.
The artificial racket created by ships and other human sources may be interfering with whale reproduction and population recovery, marine scientists report.
The National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT) at Cornell University reports a new way of measuring, or "visualizing," proteins.
Two years after the New York State Board of Regents removed the option of a local diploma in favor of more-demanding Regents diplomas for all students, 28 percent of the state's school superintendents are reporting an increase in dropouts, according to a Cornell University survey released today.
Although some acid rain-battered trees get needed calcium via fungi on their roots, forests are still endangered by other effects of acid rain.
The orb-weaving spiny spider flashes its colorful back to lure quarry into its web, Cornell researchers find, contrary to the long-held belief that in the animal kingdom color is used generally to attract mates rather than to entice prey.
The development of a single-atom transistor was reported by researchers at Cornell University.
Recordings from the Pearl River, Louisiana, expedition searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker contained sounds of distant gun shots but no woodpeckers, biologists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology report.
Molecular biologists at Cornell University are using a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a Recombinant Protein Expression Laboratory.
Long Island's Bethpage State Park golf course, the site of this year's U.S. Open June 13-16, is using pest-management strategies developed by Cornell University turf scientists to keep greens healthy with fewer chemicals.
Women in high cost-of-living cities and birds in crowded habitats want the same things, according to a Cornell biologist's reading of lonely-hearts ads. In densely populated places, material comforts seem more important. In smaller cities, women emphasize emotional aspects or personal interests of potential mates.
Most of New York's vertebrates, from amphibians and reptiles to birds and mammals, have less than 10 percent of their predicted population on state- and federally-protected lands, according to an eight-year study conducted by Cornell University scientists.
Overweight mothers who lose weight after the birth of their first child have a "can do" attitude, according to a Cornell University study.
Four U.S. students and their teachers are winners in a national competition sponsored by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) space mission and Cornell University to devise a program to educate and involve their communities about CONTOUR's goal to study at least two comets as they travel through the inner solar system.
Two Cornell University students have assembled a "cluster computer" in which several old, inexpensive computers run in parallel to make a faster machine. It's not a supercomputer yet, they say, but expanding it is next year's project.
Elaborations on "Meow!" Cornell University evolutionary psychology study analyzing people's reactions to cat vocalizations shows that cats know how to get what they want.
Can not-for-profit university trustees learn from corporate boards of directors? Should a university fight or welcome a unionized faculty and staff? These and other pressing issues in higher education will be discussed at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute annual conference June 4 and 5.
New technology being developed at Cornell University turns small, portable computers called personal digital assistants into tour guides, giving visitors a wealth of information cued to locations.
Do people help create risks of deer-car collisions, encounters with black bears, and attacks from mountain lions? Find out in the new book, "Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management in North America," by three members of Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources.
The Cornell University Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, established in collaboration with The MEDSTAT Group, will study how employee health and well-being influence work-related productivity and the cost effectiveness of health and productivity management programs.
When gas prices rise, hotels lose customers, a study by three faculty members at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration shows. Hardest hit are hotels and motels whose customer base is mainly highway travelers.
Cornell University has launched the New Life Sciences Initiative, a campus-wide program that will forever change the way life-science research is conducted and taught. Involving investments of up to $500 million, the initiative will require the largest fund-raising campaign for a single project ever attempted by Cornell.
Cornell University researchers say the discovery of the two different mutations for X-linked progressive retinal atrophy in dogs provides a new animal "model" for studying causes and testing treatments for inherited human blindness.
A new understanding of how large biological molecules behave in tiny spaces could lead to a method for separating DNA strands by length. It also could throw light on the way molecules move in living cells.
Cornell University will celebrate its 134th Commencement Sunday, May 26, with President Hunter Rawlings presenting the commencement address and presiding over the ceremony at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. Actor and human rights activist Danny Glover will present the Senior Convocation address Saturday, May 25.
The English mastiff dog has been revealed as the perfect animal model to study retinitis pigmentosa in humans and progressive retinal atrophy in dogs, researchers at Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania report.
Children who sometimes don't have enough to eat do worse in school and have many more social and psychological problems than kids who have enough to eat, according to a Cornell University study.
Salamanders with unusual, asymmetrical spots have been found in a pond adjacent to an Ithaca, NY golf course. Cornell University biologists who compared the amphibians with older, symmetric specimens gathered from the same pond 60 years ago believe this signals environmental stress.
Creating temperatures more fit for the fourth of July, the mid-April heat wave that crossed the Northeast from April 16 to18 smashed 47 daily high marks on the thermometer, and tied six previous records, according to data compiled by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Cornell University consortium to draft research and development plans for the next large linear accelerator.
A Ford Foundation grant of $195,000 to Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center will be used to support outreach activities generated by the success of African artists in the 2001 Venice Biennale and to support African artists in the 2003 Biennale.
An appeal to Congress to raise fiscal 2003 funding for NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program was made by a Cornell University astronomy professor and director of the program in New York state.
Cooking tomatoes makes them heart-healthier and boosts their cancer-fighting ability, says a Cornell assistant professor of food science.
Cornell University's Golan Yona has received a National Science Foundation Career Award to support his research in computational biology, aimed at developing a multi-dimensional map on which proteins would be classified by their structure and function.
Binary asteroids appear to be common in Earth-crossing orbits, astronomers using Cornell University's Arecibo radar telescope report probably formed as a result of gravitational effects during close encounters with at least two of the inner planets, including Earth.
Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., at Cornell University, and the U.S.D.A have discovered a gene that controls ripening in tomatoes.
Astronomers at Cornell University are eagerly anticipating discoveries that the new Space Infrared Telescope Facility will make.
Social scientists are turning to their own methods in order to study themselves. The Ford Foundation has awarded $197,000 to Cornell University's Institute of European Studies for a project to enhance academic policy research and scholarship about the social sciences.
Cornell University's Joseph Veverka named a 2001 Laureate by the magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology for his accomplishments in space sciences.
Conference at Cornell University examines gender equality and women's access to higher education in Africa.
Ground squirrels analyze each other's scent, determining in a matter of seconds precisely who is close-enough kin to risk their lives helping, and perhaps even whether they are too closely related to mate, according to field studies by a Cornell University psychologist.
To discuss ethical debates sparked by Patrick Tierney's "Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon," Cornell University will host a conference April 5-7 with speakers from the Yanomami tribes of Brazil and Venezuela and leading anthropologists and cultural-rights activists.
An international conference on the AIDS pandemic featuring Angela King, U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan's key adviser on gender issues, as the keynote speaker, will take place at Cornell University March 29-30.
The role of the hormone estrogen in protecting the female heart from enlargement and ultimate failure has been partly explained by studies with genetically engineered mice, according to researchers at Cornell and Vanderbilt universities.
Winning Decisions (Doubleday Currency, 2002) by J. Edward Russo, a professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Wharton colleague Paul Schoemaker adapts ground-breaking research on how people make decisions into a four-step framework for making good management decisions quickly.
Two Lansing High School students (Lansing, N.Y.), selected in global competition to have their experiments carried on a future mission to Mars.
A new book, "College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination" (Allyn and Bacon, 2001), by Stephen Sweet, uses college life as a microcosm to teach sociological principles.
Using nanoscale chemistry, researchers at Cornell University have developed a new class of hybrid materials that they describe as flexible ceramics, with a structure so convoluted it has been dubbed "the plumber's nightmare." The materials appear to have applications from microelectronics to separating macromolecules.
Detection time for E.Coli contamination in food is reduced from days to minutes with a new type of biological sensor developed by Cornell researchers.
Cornell and University of Arizona researchers have found that the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportional to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. Biologists can now estimate how much biomass is underground by looking at the stems and leaves above ground.
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