Cornell researchers have created a broadband light amplifier on a silicon chip, a major breakthrough in the quest to create photonic microchips in which beams of light traveling through microscopic waveguides replace electric currents in microscopic wires.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer who discovered pulsars in the 1960s, spoke about that discovery to students and scientists June 27 at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
The Institute for European Studies at Cornell, in partnership with Syracuse University's Center for European Studies, has received more than $500,000 in grant and fellowship funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Ten faculty members from Peking University (Beida) in Beijing will visit Cornell July 6-8 to refine curriculum and expand ideas behind Cornell's China and Asia-Pacific Studies major.
Research Notebook: When researchers use percent of body fat data to assess obesity rather than body mass index (BMI), the huge gap in obesity rates between African-American and white women.
Research Notebook: Evolutionary change can take from decades to millennia, while ecological change can occur over mere days or seasons. However, a new Cornell study shows that evolution and ecology can operate on the same time scale.
Research Notebook: What people desire, hope, fear or wishfully think can influence how they perceive visually ambiguous stimuli, according to a new study by Cornell.
