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Coe College will cut tuition about 45% to $31,850, below the more than $40,000 in aid its average student received in 2023-24. Its revenue now depends on whether a lower posted price brings in families who used to stop at the sticker.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James now oversees the Cornell fraternity rape case in which a district attorney filed no charges in 2024. The review now turns on what police passed to prosecutors, a question Gov. Kathy Hochul has asked in public.
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Cornell researchers give the first anatomical account of how each of the oarfish's hundreds of fin rays spins on its own in a full circle. A co-author plans to copy it in a quiet ocean robot whose effect on fish only a prototype can show.
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Cornell's WildFin team found standard vision models still misread fish behavior after tuning on nine hours of reef video that took about 2,000 hours to make. The team blames scarce wildlife footage in model training and is asking ecologists to release their field video, a remedy this study has not yet tested.
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Cornell researchers analysing 1.5 million Change.org petitions found its AI writing tool made them longer and more alike but did not improve early support. Change.org's staggered launch made it a natural experiment, and the result cuts against lab work finding AI-written text persuasive.
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Cornell researchers who interviewed 27 food industry leaders found that trust, more than technology, keeps companies from pooling safety data for AI. The evidence is what executives told interviewers, so whether removing those barriers would free up the data is still an open question.
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Rice and Cornell statisticians merged four years of top-100 lists from five outlets into an MLB consensus ranking that reports how certain each placement is. The design carries over to any team pooling partial, disagreeing rankings, though its real-world test covered just 55 baseball players.
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Cornell researchers found nearly 60% of trees damaged in poor, racially diverse areas of 29 US cities, against 17% in the whitest, most affluent ones. Aerial canopy counts cannot see that gap, so they likely overstate the shade poorer residents actually get.
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Cornell scientists report in Science that BC200, an RNA gene abundant in human neurons, jumped twice into a poxvirus about 100,000 years ago. The team says it is the first human gene seen both moving and in cellular use, though what it does in neurons is still poorly understood.
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OpenAI's careers page now lists 27 robotics openings, up from 11 in May, with published base pay running from $177,000 to $500,000. The top of that range attaches to data infrastructure work, and the robotics software job tops out at $325,000.
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String-breaking, the moment a stretched bond between two building blocks of matter snaps and new particles appear, has now been observed on a trapped-ion quantum simulator at Duke. Two other groups saw it on different hardware.
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A Quanta survey traces jumping genes from Barbara McClintock's speckled corn kernels to the retrovirus-like sequences that make up much of the human genome. It treats host and transposon as long-term coevolutionary partners.
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Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its model research and development under human supervision, and it wants other labs to publish comparable figures. The labs count different things.
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In PNAS, Kyle Shen's Cornell group dosed thin films with cesium and measured them without regrowing the sample, and the dome tracked imperfections in the crystal lattice more closely than the electron count.
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Fertilizer quality only becomes visible in the plant months after purchase, so farmers lean on the seller's reputation as a stand-in. Illinois researchers put annual dealer entry at 33% and exit at 17% in Tanzania's Morogoro region.
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Daniel Jabaraj's Forbes column pairs Gartner's abandonment forecast with MIT's zero-return finding to argue that AI programs fail on business framing. One study counts projects and the other counts companies.
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OpenAI says tens of thousands of agents solved a 90-year-old problem carrying a $1 million prize. The solution still needs independent verification, and a rival pair of mathematicians has a claim on the credit.
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The fight over data center water is argued in milliliters per query, while the most cited US projection says the deciding variables are which plant fills the power contract and which basin the campus sits in.
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Rather than wait for experimental libraries to fill, the Cornell and BTI tool indexes a chemical space roughly a thousand times wider. What a query returns is a candidate structure rather than a confirmed one.
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White House staff settled the question in the 1980s by reasoning that genomes are made of chemicals, a stopgap that has outlasted every product category it captured. Biotech operators building risk models tend to leave that durability out of the calculation.
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