For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled. - All plants have a skin, called a cuticle, that covers the above-ground surfaces.

Light-emitting diodes at infrared wavelengths are the magic behind such things as night vision and optical , including the streaming data that comes through Netflix.

For years, researchers have known that obesity, type 2 diabetes and low-level inflammation are linked, but how they are connected has not been well understood.

Whether it's a line from a movie, an advertising slogan or a politician's catchphrase, some statements take hold in people's minds better than others.

Research at Cornell has for the first time confirmed key theoretical predictions about how iron-based high-temperature superconductors behave.

Long portrayed as stagnant, the income growth of the U.S. middle class may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists, according to a new study at Cornell.

It's not little green men, but it could be a step in that direction: astronomers, using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, all of which could be hospitable to life.

As the Earth's human population has skyrocketed since the rise of agriculture some 10,000 years ago - to 7 billion people from a few million - so, too, has the number of rare genetic variants.

Sexual orientation is best represented as a continuum that has two new categories - "mostly heterosexual" and "mostly gay/lesbian" - in addition to heterosexual, bisexual or gay/lesbian, according to a new Cornell study.

Boys who reach sexual maturity more rapidly than their peers have more problems getting along with others their age and are at a higher risk for depression, according to a Cornell study published in Developmental Psychology (47:2).

Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy- efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices - which retain information without electric power.

Pregnant women may have added incentive to bulk up on broccoli and eggs: A Cornell study has found that more choline during pregnancy can reduce a fetus's response to stress and could cut the child's chances of developing hypertension and diabetes later in life.

The social pain of loneliness produces changes in the body that mimic the aging process and increase the risk of heart disease, reports a recent Cornell study published in Psychology and Aging (27:1).

Bees and other insects that pollinate plants in the United States have suffered in recent decades from mites, pesticides, pathogens, land development and habitat fragmentation.