A right whale breaches the surface. Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing…
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Both male and female White-necked Jacobins fan their tails during courtship or aggressive interactions. Because this bird also has its wings partially raised it’s likely…
“Blue” hydrogen – an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas – is being lauded by many…
Illustration of an infrared laser hitting a gallium-phosphide metsurface, which efficiently produces even and odd high-harmonic generation. Credit: Daniil Shilkin Cornell researchers have developed nanostructures…
Maat Mons, a large volcano on Venus, is shown in this 1991 simulated-color radar image from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft mission. Credit: NASA/JPL Traces of the…
Artist’s illustration of an alien world. Scientists at Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems — within the…
A Beemmunity employee, Abraham McCauley, applies a pollen patty containing microsponges to a hive as part of colony trials. Credit: Nathan Reid A Cornell-developed technology…
Flower sex is an important factor when breeding for quality cultivars. Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it’s…
Scanning electron micrograph of a human T lymphocyte (T cell) from a healthy donor’s immune system. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH A…
One of the key goals of gravitational wave astronomy is to understand and characterize binary black hole spins, according to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral…
Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than…
Immune cells (red) migrate near the cells that cause fibrosis (green) in late COVID-19. Credit: Images courtesy of André Rendeiro A team led by investigators…
An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, the large liquid methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan. Credit: NASA/John Glenn Research Center Far below the gaseous atmospheric…
An integrated biorefinery approach utilizing agriculture waste biomass to produce renewable biomethane along with other co-products (for soil amendment, nutrient recovery, and transportation biofuels). Credit:…
Scanning electron microscope image of an aggregate of soil used in this study. Credit: Angela Possinger, Michael Zachman, Barnaby Levin/Provided The Earth’s soils contain more…
In this artistic rendering of the Tau Boötes b system, the lines representing the invisible magnetic field are shown protecting the hot Jupiter planet from…
The large Cornell-designed telescopic “ear” at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which listened for the enlightening crackle of the cosmos for nearly six decades, now hears silence.…
Oblique view of Gale Crater, Mars, with vertical exaggeration. The image combines elevation data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency’s…
This image shows cells adhering to a titanium alloy created by cold-spray 3D printing, which demonstrates the material’s biocompatibility. Credit: Cornell University Forget glue, screws,…
NASA’s Perseverance rover, shown in this artistic rendering, will land at Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021 and will start gathering soil samples soon after…