Researchers have developed a new method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip for medical imaging, security scanning and wireless data transfer.
The 2012 QS World University Rankings by subject have placed Cornell in the world's top 200 institutions in many categories, ranging from hard sciences to the humanities.
Researchers at the University of Hawaii and Cornell have selected a crew of six for a four-month simulated Mars mission to test food and food preparation strategies.
Melvin (Mel) Goldstein, a member of Cornell's chemistry community for many years, died at age 78 May 13 in Beer Sheva, Israel, after a protracted illness.
Rachel Bean, associate professor of astronomy, is a co-recipient of the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for her work on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team.
