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While gene drives have great potential for controlling weeds, seed banks can foil their efforts.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of individual cells, an advance that could accelerate discoveries in development, neuroscience and...

A bubble bath with a constant acoustic sound in the water may be the best chemical-free, gentle method for cleaning agricultural produce.

March 25, 2026 Awards: Undergraduate Students The Bernays Award recognizes Communication seniors who demonstrate outstanding achievement and participation in the area of Public Relations.

The Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) has been selected to help shape a new international effort to reimagine the future of food systems through the CIFAR Arrell Future of Food Initiative.

Researchers have developed a bio-inspired approach to mixing heat and molecules in fluids – findings that could inform future biomedical devices, heat exchangers and soft robotics.

A new Cornell-led project will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years.

Kwesi Joseph, urban garden specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension's (CCE) Harvest New York program, turned his passion for gardening, composting, and the transformative power of healthy soil into a path to community leadership. Through...

The Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures at Cornell University has named five faculty fellows from across three colleges and five departments to its inaugural cohort.

Jinhua Zhao, the David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, has been reappointed for a second five-year term.

Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs' resistance.

Cornell researchers have found that changes or improvements in workplace policy, culture and outdoor amenities could facilitate more time outdoors to aid well-being for staff.

March 18, 2026 Events REMINDER: Join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building. Graduate student Bya Rodrigues will present “ Resisting Networked Misogyny: Platformized Activism, Care Infrastructures and...

Emily Bernhardt, Ph.D. ‘01, the James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry at Duke University, will join Cornell as the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability on Sept. 1.

CCE Erie County encourages corner stores in Buffalo’s food deserts to stock fresh fruits, vegetables and other nutritious options and educates residents on how to take care of their health.

Susan Henry, former dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a molecular geneticist whose breakthroughs in understanding cell metabolism contributed to advances in human pharmaceuticals, died March 7 at age 79.

A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly reduce bias – vital for research involving outcomes that differ by socioeconomics, race, sex and other variables.

Cornell-led research argues that food safety regulations should set evidence-based targets for food that is sufficiently safe rather than aiming for zero risk, which is neither achievable nor desirable.

Led by two Cornell graduate students, more than 300 volunteers are heading out into the rain on warm spring nights to help migrating salamanders and frogs.