Parched land in China has prompted Cornell environmental experts to come up with a simple solution to restore soils in arid areas, using wood chips and compost.

With a dizzying number of ties in our social networks - that your Aunt Alice is a neighbor of Muhammad who is married to Natasha who is your wife's boss - it's any wonder we remember any of it.

Owners of older cocker spaniels, dachshunds, cavalier King Charles spaniels, Malteses, miniature poodles, Norfolk terriers and Yorkshire terriers are invited to Cornell March 22-23 to receive a free canine cardiology screening.

Rendering some of the world's toxic soils moot, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable land.

The search for peace is used as a means to defend the idea of war, vilify enemies or gain political points.

Direct-to-consumer advertising of cholesterol medications may promote overdiagnosis and overtreatment among low-risk populations, reports a new Cornell study, while high-risk consumers do not seem to get the message.

Robots can observe human behavior and - like a human baby - deduce a reasonable approach to handling specific objects.

Cornell physicists can now precisely control how particles in viscous liquids swirl, twirl and whirl.

Stirring an inner Stuart Smalley, Facebook profiles reassure our self-worth, because they offer a place where we can display the personal characteristics and relationships we value most, says a Cornell communication expert in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (March 2013).

If the name fits, grow it: "Iron Lady" is the first tomato to resist three major fungal diseases - early blight, late blight and Septoria leaf spot - plaguing New York's growers for years.

In the race to adapt to climate change, weeds may be the winners. Understanding their well-honed coping mechanisms could inform strategies for ecological management, says a Cornell crop and soil researcher.

Converting all of the state's energy sources from natural gas, coal and fossil fuel to wind, water and sunlight by 2030 will stabilize electricity prices, reduce power demand by about 37 percent and create thousands of permanent jobs, suggests a new report in the journal Energy Policy (March 12, 2013).