The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-research/)
With summer in full swing, some Cornellians are using their break to participate in Cornell Cooperative Extension research internships, where they study a variety of subjects from pesticides to language acquisition.
As reducing and reusing have a more positive environmental impact than recycling, research institutions should support labs in lowering their plastic consumption. They can even go so far as to ban plastics. Leeds University and University College London have pledged to eliminate all single-use plastics on campus by 2023 and 2024 respectively. Institutional action will be key in reaching these goals.
“The purpose is to try and make U.S. poultry production more sustainable and more profitable for the producers,” said Prof. Xingen Lei, animal science, one of the co-principal investigators on the project, explaining that the project stands to disrupt one of America’s largest and most ubiquitous consumer markets.
According to Cornell University’s Department of Agriculture, the eastern broccoli industry is currently valued at around $90 million, and is projected to meet the goal of $100 million in the next year. Bjorkman said that the goal is to have locally-grown broccoli eventually comprise 25 percent of eastern U.S. broccoli consumption.
A new Cornell Tech study shows that news headlines might not matter as much as we think. Prof. Mor Naaman examined how much previously held political beliefs affected how much Americans trusted headlines.
Many STEM majors choose not to study abroad because of their bulky course load and career anxiety. This is one of the main reasons Professor Sarvary so passionately pursued the creation of this program.
Cornell Tech Fabian Okeke grad designed an app that vibrates every 5 seconds while a user is on social media.
The retracted publication is the food researcher’s fourth full retraction this year, along with at least eight corrections published or forthcoming and a slew of misconduct allegations facing at least 50 of Wansink’s studies.
A new podcast series led exclusively by Cornell faculty and researchers — each episode fewer than three minutes long — brings together pockets of wisdom from experts who study what it really means to be human being.
Imagine having the ability to edit the mutations out of your own genes. Genetic diseases like Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs and cystic fibrosis would become a thing of the past; this ability would change the face of medicine. The potential applications of gene editing are far-reaching — and new research from Cornell might get us closer to making these applications a reality. A recent study may have uncovered another mechanism of a new gene editing technique. Prof. Ailong Ke, molecular biology and genetics, has been leading research on the structure of Type I Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) systems, which have the potential to be more specific than current gene editing techniques.