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Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste

October 16, 2018

Virtual reality shows how people's perception of real food can be altered by their surroundings

Marker May Help Target Treatments for Crohn's Patients

October 16, 2018

Researchers report that levels of a single molecule predict whether a patient has subtype 1 or subtype 2 of the disease...

Viruses Discern, Destroy E. Coli in Drinking Water

September 28, 2018

Rather than sending water samples to laboratories and waiting days for results, this new test can be administered locally to ...

New Radiocarbon Cycle Research May Alter History

June 6, 2018

Archaeologists revealed variations in the radiocarbon cycle at certain periods of time, affecting frequently cited standards&...

Coloring That Can't Be Beet: New Food Process Replaces Synthetic Dyes

April 16, 2018

A team of Cornell food scientists has discovered a way to process natural beet juice so that it maintains its bright red colo...

Breakthrough Made in Atomically Thin Magnets

April 6, 2018

Discovery is an important one for the future of electronics

Spider's Web Inspires Removable Implant That May Control Type 1 Diabetes

January 3, 2018

New method for implanting insulin-producing pancreatic cell clusters into a patient was inspired by the way water beads on a ...

Engineers Program Tiny Robots to Move, Think Like Insects

December 15, 2017

While engineers have had success building tiny, insect-like robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects...

Sea Salts Bring Potentially Harmful Mold to the Table, Researchers Find

October 5, 2017

Among those molds were important food spoilage molds like Aspergillus and Penicillium, and even some notorious producers of m...

Engineering Team Images Tiny Quasicrystals as They Form

August 21, 2017

Atoms in quasicrystals are arranged in an orderly but nonperiodic way, unlike most crystals, which are made up of a three-dim...

A Fresh Role for Nitric Oxide

July 20, 2017

Cornell University chemists have uncovered a fresh role for nitric oxide that could send biochemical textbooks back for revis...

New Data Unearths Pesticide Peril in Beehives

April 24, 2017

In 17 percent of colonies analyzed in a recent Cornell study, the bees' food stores revealed the presence of acutely high lev...

Weill Cornell Brain Image Printed in 3-D for Franklin Institute Exhibit

July 18, 2014

As our brain develops, we go about our daily lives without giving the process a second thought. Developing a man-made replica...

Newly Discovered ‘Scarecrow’ Gene Might Trigger big Boost in Food Production

January 31, 2013

With projections of 9.5 billion people by 2050, humanity faces the challenge of feeding modern diets to additional mouths whi...