Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood.
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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.
Both Flexibility and Persistence Make Some Birds Successful in Human-Made Environments
Across North America, grackles are virtuosos of adaptation.
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.
Niagara County Orchard Helps Grow Cornell ag Innovation
Bittner-Singer Orchards, a 400-acre farm in Niagara County along the shores of Lake Ontario, has been growing fruit for over a century.
Some Young Suns Are Aligned with Their Planet-forming Disks, Others Are Born Tilted
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks, the clouds of gas and dust from which solar systems are born.
