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Promoting healthy diets for the entire family can better improve health outcomes for people with chronic illnesses, according to a new Cornell study. “Families are an essential social unit, and food is a social medium: families pool and…

Visiting students from across the country came to Cornell this June to experience life in advanced scientific research and engineering as part of the summer programs hosted by the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and…

Etienne Exantus had heard a lot of good things about the High School Research Internships at the Boyce Thompson Institute, but wasn’t sure he’d get into the program. Then, through the Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) at the…

Hamid Rezaee ’26 spent this summer at Cornell Tech in New York City, working to refine a computer model that will help radiologists detect small cancer cells before they spread further in the body. , Click to open gallery view He…

A decline in estrogen during menopause causes changes in body fat distribution and associated cardiovascular and metabolic disease, but a new study identifies potential therapies that might one day reverse these unhealthy shifts. The…

With surprising frequency, patients with severe brain injury can show clear signs of cognitive function on brain scans in response to requests to carry out complex mental work, even when they can’t move or speak, according to an…

While everyone knows that a good night’s sleep restores a person’s energy, a new study finds it resets another vital function: memory. Learning or experiencing new things activates neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain…

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is pleased to welcome new long-term faculty, and endowed visiting critics and fellows to Ithaca and New York City. Their experience and expertise will further enrich the college's commitment to…

Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement. Zhang will work with staff members in the…

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the epigenetics company TruDiagnostic have uncovered DNA markers associated with retroelements, remnants of ancient viral genetic material, in our genes that act as highly accurate epigenetic clocks…