Time Warp: How Crowding on Public Transit Can Distort Our Perception of Time
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University conducted a study on time perception in a highly realistic setting, using virtual reality simulations of a…
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Small Fish Could Play a Big Role in the Fight Against Malnutrition
According to new research, small, inexpensive fish species caught in seas and lakes in developing countries could help address malnutrition in undernourished individuals, particularly young…
A Surprising Method for Preventing Future Pandemics: Conservation
New research reveals the mechanisms behind pathogen spillovers and a way to predict and prevent them. Preserving and restoring natural habitats could help prevent the…
Do Boycotts and Buycotts Actually Have an Impact? A New Study Sheds Light
The political controversy surrounding Goya CEO’s political statements in 2020 has shed light on the question. The CEO of Goya, a well-known Latin food brand,…
New Study Highlights Quirks of Remote Island Evolution
Research indicates that there is more than one way to build a black bird. Nature often finds a way when it comes to the biological…
New Research Reveals How Genes Turn On and Off
Cornell University researchers have discovered a crucial mechanism in how genes are controlled through the study of yeast, a simple organism that is necessary for…
Gene-Edited Butterfly Mutants Reveal Secrets of Ancient “Junk” DNA
According to new research, butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of…
Signs of Water on Mars Might Actually Be an Indication of Something Else
Astronomers explain Mars’ watery reflections. Bright reflections under Mars’ South Pole’s surface, according to Cornell University astronomers, are more likely to be the result of…
New AI Algorithms Predict Sports Teams’ Moves With 80% Accuracy
New algorithms can predict the in-game actions of volleyball players with more than 80% accuracy. Now the Cornell Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls, which…
The Hidden Cost of Plant-Based Meat
Although plant-based “beef” may reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it also threatens 1.5 million agricultural jobs. The use of plant-based beef substitutes has the potential to…
Scientists Unravel “Hall Effect” Physics Mystery
The search for next-generation memory storage devices unravels a physics mystery. A multinational group of scientists has made progress in the use of antiferromagnetic materials…
Prenatal Supplement Helps Body More Efficiently Use Key Nutrient for Fetal Brain Development
Choline helps the body use an essential nutrient during a baby’s development The nutrient choline has already been proven to have long-term advantages for children…
First-Ever Image of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
Team reveals first image of the black hole at our galaxy’s heart. An international team of more than 300 scientists from 80 institutions has created…
Light-Infused Hybrid Particles Speed Energy Transfer in Organic Semiconductors
Polaritons offer the best of two very different worlds. These hybrid particles combine light and molecules of organic material, making them ideal energy transfer vessels…
New Dog Coronavirus Jumps to Humans, With a Protein Shift
Cornell scientists have identified a shift that occurs in canine coronavirus that points to a possible pattern of change found in other coronaviruses and which…
Mechanism “Splits” Electron Spins in Magnetic Material – Could Enable New Energy-Efficient Memory Devices
Cornell researchers identified an approach to switch the magnetization in thin layers of a ferromagnet by holding the proper material at the right angle —…
COVID Can Infect Pacemaker Cells That Maintain the Heart’s Rhythm, Setting Off a Self-Destruction Process
Are COVID-19-linked arrhythmias caused by viral damage to the heart’s pacemaker cells? The SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart’s rhythmic…
Magnetism Helps Electrons Vanish in High-Temperature Superconductors
Superconductors – metals in which electricity flows without resistance – hold promise as the defining material of the near future, according to physicist Brad Ramshaw,…
