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For centuries, native farmers in the Neotropics have gathered honey from Melipona bees, a genus of stingless bees that build their homes in hollowed logs. However, as large-scale cattle ranching and rice monoculture farms grow, and climate…

Vaccinating mothers against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during late pregnancy to protect their newborns is not associated with an increased risk of preterm birth or other poor outcomes, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine…

Cornell researchers have created a web tool that estimates county-by-county mortality from wildfire smoke in real time, to help local emergency managers assess the magnitude of the danger. The new Mortality Estimation Tool blends…

A new $567,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will further economist Marco Battaglini’s investigations into the dynamics of collective action problems. From organizing a charity event to demonstrating against an…

From 3D-printing walls that protect against rising sea levels to leveraging machine learning to understand connections that lead to post-traumatic osteoarthritis, the latest of Cornell Engineering’s SPROUT Awards are enabling…

“Welcome home.” Two words, said millions of times on doorsteps, in airports. But this time, for the 38 people seated in the first two rows of lecture hall chairs at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, it landed…

Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have developed and tested new artificial intelligence (AI) tools tailored to digital pathology – a rapidly growing field that uses high-resolution digital…

The Hudson Valley Research Laboratory (HVRL) in Highland, New York, a partnership between Cornell AgriTech and growers, is set to sow the seeds of success, sustainability and resilience in Hudson Valley specialty-crop production, thanks to…

A new consortium co-led by Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to accelerate the development of faster, more…

In the early 1990s, labor activists responded, with some success, to the exploitation of waged childcare workers by dissolving the usual labor divisions between workplace and home, employer and employee, and labor and love, according to a…