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Dan Meyers/Unsplash Fence with warning signs, rural Idaho
International politics

Plan to conduct nuclear tests comes with enormous risks, says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Where and how the tests will happen are important questions, says military historian David Silbey, as last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992.

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Government

SNAP benefit lapse: U.S. ‘officially losing’ war on poverty

A&S Communications

The loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits November 1 if the government shutdown holds benefits will have profound repercussions for democracy, says government scholar Jamila Michener.

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Asian studies

Indonesian women created a political voice through gendered care work

A&S Communications

In "Domestic Nationalism," Chiara Formichi argues that during the 1920s to 1950s, Indonesian women’s domestic activities contributed to nation-building as a political project.

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Jordan Picket, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/Provided Benjamin Anderson, associate professor of history of art and visual studies, surveys the walls on the acropolis in Sardis, Turkey.
Archaeology

The long, deep dig: Collaboration excavates the ancient city of Sardis

Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between Cornell and Harvard has continuously excavated the ancient city.

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Patrick Shanahan Cornell historian Corey Earle shared stories of remarkable women throughout Cornell’s history during an Oct. 25 brunch as part of the Trustee Council Alumni Meeting.
Cornell history

TCAM brunch highlight’s women’s history at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell historian Corey Earle shared stories of remarkable women throughout Cornell’s history during an Oct. 25 brunch as part of the Trustee Council Alumni Meeting.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Provided WASP-18b, a gas giant known as an “ultra-hot Jupiter"
Astronomy

Now in 3D, maps begin to bring exoplanets into focus

Cornell Chronicle

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones – one so scorching that it breaks down water vapor, a team co-led by a Cornell expert reports in new research.

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Cornell University Library A digitized image from Cornell University Library’s Ithaca House Press Publishing Files collection.
Cornell University Library

New digital collections preserve, examine Cornell history

Cornell Chronicle

Newly published digital collections at Cornell University Library explore areas of Cornell history. Freely accessible online, the three new collections were digitized from materials held in Cornell University Library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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Literatures in English

Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy

Cornell Chronicle

A new book by Shirley Samuels examines the story behind today’s divided America in literature and art created during and soon after the Civil War.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

New view of electrocatalytic intermediates could boost hydrogen production

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used single-molecule super-resolution reaction imaging in the study.

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Jackson Phillips/Provided The Pacific tailed frog tadpole is lungless and sucker mouthed and is found in the Pacific Northwest in clear, cold mountain streams where they cling to rocks.
Ecology and evolutionary biology

Once tadpoles lose lungs, they never get them back

Cornell Chronicle

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it advantageous.

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Philosophical debate

Which discipline should survive the end of the world?

A&S Communications

Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.

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Economics

Hidden markets unveiled in talk by Wharton economist Nov. 4

A&S Communications

Wharton economist Judd Kessler will pull back the curtain on the hidden markets that determine who gets what in everyday life.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope
Alumni

Your October 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include short stories, a fantasy book for tweens, and a scholarly look at Carmen adaptations – all by Arts & Sciences alumni and faculty.

Sanae Takaichi
Cabinet Public Relations Office, Cabinet Secretariat/Creative Commons license 4.0 Sanae Takaichi, 2025
History

Election of Japan’s first female PM isn’t a win for women, says Cornell historian

A&S Communications

Sanae Takaichi’s election may seem surprising in a country that ranked lowest among OECD nations in women’s political representation as recently as 2023, but it is not a victory for gender equality, says professor Kristin Roebuck.

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Devin Flores/Cornell University Quantera founder Terry Bates, Ph.D. ’23, explains the operation of the startup's spectrometer to undergraduate interns Nick DeMayo ’26 and Alexis Sherman ’26, both from Cornell Engineering.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

New Cornell startup targets faster, cheaper greener testing

Cornell Chronicle

Newly admitted into the Praxis Center business incubator, Quantera aims to improve scientific sample collection.