Prof. Tom Seeley, neurobiology and behavior, says he believes beehives operate similarly to brains.

Cornell engineers have developed a device that enables researchers to view the spinal cord of live mice. This allows researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of therapies aimed at healing spinal cord injuries more accurately.

Children may not be as picky of eaters as previously thought. Cornell researchers have discovered that children actually desire more types of food on their plates than adults do.

Human harvesting of rockweed has put the ecosystem at risk. Vanessa Constant '14, natural resources, studies the growth of rockweed and the optimal harvesting rate.

Spencer Wells, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor and Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic and Director of the Genographic Project, has adventured to almost 80 countries, ridden ex-Soviet tanks in -70 degree temperatures in far-eastern Russia, traversed the worst part of the Sahara Desert in Chad and crossed mine fields in Bolivia, while on a quest to discover how the human race migrated the globe. 

In an effort to simplify the process of diagnosing diseases caused by such pathogens as tuberculosis, chlamydia, gonorrhea and even HIV, Prof. Dan Luo, biological and environmental engineering, and Prof. Edwin Kan, electrical and computer engineering, have combined inventions from their respective fields to potentially revolutionize the way diseases are detected in the developing world with a new handheld device. Kan and Luo’s work on their joint invention is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Grand Challenge program to develop “point-of-care diagnostics” for developing countries that do not have the laboratory and research space to test and diagnose diseases.

Moti Fridman, a postdoc in applied and engineering physics, and his colleagues, demonstrated for the first time the invisibility of an activity in time, a phenomenon known as temporal cloaking. 

Prof. Xingen Lei and Prof. Charles Greene have discovered a way to use the by-product of the production of algae-based biofuels in animal feeds, making the biofuels potentially more economically and environmentally feasible.

Following centuries of local health practices, Haider Attarwala studied the medical potential of plants in the Dominican Republic that are commonly used in cuisine.

Prof. Greg Graffin, the frontman and vocalist of acclaimed punk band Bad Religion which has been active for over 30 years and has released 15 studio albums, teaches an evolution course for non-majors at Cornell.