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  • Soil is viewed at nanoscale

    ITHACA, N.Y., April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have, for the first time, inspected soil at the nanoscale level to better understand chemical processes that cycle organic matter.
  • Expanded food and nutrition program shows $10 benefit for each $1 spent

    ... (http://www.jneb.org/). Led by Jamie Dollahite, Ph.D., R.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., the researchers performed economic evaluations to assess the costs versus benefits of the New York ...
  • Homer's Odyssey Said to Document 3,200-Year-Old Eclipse [News]

    ... 800 B.C., describes the 10-year voyage of the Greek general Odysseus to his home on the island of Ithaca after the fall of Troy in approximately 1200 B.C. Toward the end of the story, a seer named ...
  • Chemical reduces cows' carbon 'hoofprint'

    ITHACA, N.Y., July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have discovered that cows receiving recombinant Bovine Somatotropin, or rbST, supplement produce more milk.
  • Nanoporous metal self-assembly created

    ITHACA, N.Y., July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex configurations using nanotechnology and polymers.
  • Milkweed's defenses evolve to repairs

    ITHACA, N.Y., July 22 (UPI) -- The milkweed adheres to the adage "Know your enemy" by using fast repair work when its defenses are damaged by hungry caterpillars, U.S. researchers said.
  • Galloping and breathing at high speed

    ... , Norm Ducharme and Jonathan Cheetham, all of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, John Bertram, University of Calgary, College of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, CN, and ...
  • Obese choose speed, convenience at buffet

    ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A study of diners at Chinese restaurant buffets in the United States suggests people who are overweight tend to sit closer to the buffet table.
  • MIT finds young planets stay hotter longer

    ... meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, being held this year in Ithaca, N.Y. The research shows that even after the surface magma solidifies, within about five ...
  • Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology

    ... and provide an alternative strategy for managing drug resistance. The researchers from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Gilead Sciences, Durham, North Carolina; and Georgetown University Medical ...
  • New way found to make, pattern nanowires

    ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a method that makes and patterns nanoscale wires and other devices now made with expensive lithographic tools.
  • Precipitation levels may be associated with autism

    ... , but environmental triggers may also be important." Michael Waldman, Ph.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and colleagues obtained autism prevalence rates from state and county agencies for ...
  • Robert H. Foote dies at 86; Cornell researcher laid groundwork for cloning of animals

    ... and who was the last surviving officer of World War II's famed "Go for Broke" 442nd Regimental Combat Team composed of Japanese Americans, died of lung failure in Ithaca, N.Y., on Oct. 27. He was 86.
  • Ocean data predicts climate change

    ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. ecologists say oceanographic data now being used to predict future climate change suggest dramatic changes in the Earth's climate and biosphere.
  • Scientists report a nanotechnology advance

    ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have made a "major breakthrough" by creating a method to test nanoparticles and how they work in various chemical processes.

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