Wastewater can contain many harmful substances, but a new method enables researchers to purify this water using sunlight and droplets of oil.
Solving a Dirty Problem with Sunlight and Oil
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Droughts Have Minimal Effect on Tropical Tree Growth – but Climate Change Worsening Tree Mortality
20,000 tree ring samples shows remarkable growth resilience to droughts, but tree death could result in equivalent of Germany’s annual CO2 emissions.
New Method to Synthesize Carbohydrates Could Pave the Way to Biomedical Advances
Carbohydrate is a familiar term. It’s the bagel you had for breakfast, the bread in your sandwich, the slice of cake you’re thinking about sneaking later today.
People Who Move to More Walkable Cities Do, in Fact, Walk Significantly More
Study after study shows that walking is very good for those who are able, and generally more is better.
Cornell Chemists Tackle Climate Change
As the need to find climate change solutions becomes ever more urgent, Cornell chemists are leading the way with innovative and far-reaching discoveries, including better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells.
Destructive Cosmic Airbursts Likely More Common than Previously Believed
Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood.
