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Spent brewers’ grain could be big business as chicken feed
With the global poultry feed market projected to reach $238.9 billion by the end of 2025, the broiler feed industry could benefit from a nutritionally advantageous ingredient that also happens to be more affordable because it comes from a waste stream.

CHESS receives $20M from NSF for new X-ray beamline
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) nearly $20 million to build a new precision X-ray beamline for research on biological and environmental systems.

Wild blue wonder: X-ray beam explores food color protein
A natural food colorant called phycocyanin provides a fun, vivid blue in soft drinks, but it is unstable on grocery shelves. Cornell’s synchrotron is helping to steady it.

Summer Students: Live and In-Person
CHESS Summer students came together last month for their first - and only - in-person meeting of the summer. The group of students have been working remotely with their mentors since the start of the program on June 6th due to Covid-safety precautions.