A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions, and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate

Ever-increasing food waste represents an emerging threat to the economic and environmental sustainability of the US food system

The use of natural gas has grown in recent years, bolstered by improved efficiency in shale gas extraction and the perception that natural gas is a less dirty fossil fuel

Cornell geoscientists have discovered the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth’s mantle transition zone can percolate to the surface to form volcanoes

The new system can efficiently erase long stretches of DNA from a targeted site in the human genome

Cornell engineers have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things

Researchers located the taste center using functional magnetic resonance imagingand a new method of statistical analysis

A case study shows that a new approach to smart temperature control can reduce energy usage by up to 10 percent

The system helps prevent food contamination and human exposure to pathogens through tainted food

There is a surprising champion of land mine detection: the African giant pouched rat

This is the first time modular robots have been demonstrated with autonomous reconfiguration and behavior that is perception-driven

This test marks a major improvement over semen analysis, the standard diagnostic tool for male infertility 

Once inside a home, pesticide residues accumulate in dust and degrade at a lower rate than they do outdoors

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

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