Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files

A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) as the expansive archive of The Atlantic Philanthropies has gone public.
23-Jan-2020 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Collaboration reveals potential new therapy for osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis affects 240 million people worldwide and is one of the most common causes of disability in both humans and animals. Currently, no therapeutics exist to prevent this disease, but recent multidisciplinary research at Cornell reveals...
22-Jan-2020 12:15 PM EST Add to Favorites

Genetic marking discovery improves fruit quality, bolsters climate defenses

Transferring genetic markers in plant breeding is a challenge, but a team of grapevine breeders and scientists at Cornell University have come up with a powerful new method that improves fruit quality and acts as a key defense against pests and a...
22-Jan-2020 10:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

Study takes on e-cigarette warning ‘paradox’

As controversy swirls around the vaping industry, a team of Cornell researchers has set out to help regulators identify the most effective health warnings to include in advertisements for electronic cigarettes.
21-Jan-2020 3:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Cornell develops educational toolkit for testing e-cigarettes

To complement the wide range of information on the potential dangers of vaping, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a new learning module for high school classrooms that encourages students to directly test the...
10-Jan-2020 1:25 PM EST Add to Favorites

Satellite constellations harvest energy for near-total global coverage

A National Science Foundation-sponsored collaboration led by Patrick Reed, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has discovered the right combination of factors to make a four-satellite constellation possible, which...
9-Jan-2020 2:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

Telescope upgrade, move will aid in search for exoplanets

Thousands of planets orbiting stars other than our own – known as extrasolar planets, or exoplanets – have been detected and cataloged over the last 30 years. A new effort will set the stage for the discovery of fundamentally different kinds of...
8-Jan-2020 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Discoveries detail role of stem cell in deadly gastric cancer

A Cornell study provides important new insights into a common and deadly type of gastric cancer.
7-Jan-2020 4:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

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