Light-up skin stretches boundaries of robotics

A Cornell team led by assistant professor Rob Shepherd and graduate student Bryan Peele has developed a stretchable electroluminescent skin with a variety of potential applications in soft robotics.

New book aims to guide undergrads to college success

In his new book "How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning," Cornell English professor Daniel Schwarz draws on 48 years of teaching experience to offer advise for college success.

Surf's up on Saturn's 'geologically active' moon Titan

In the shadow of Saturn’s hulking planetary mass, astronomers can confirm that Titan’s liquid methane seas seem a bit choppy, as they say that an observed transient feature seem to be surface waves.

Sifting Cornell data, astronomers find repeating bursts

After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” as reported in Nature, March 2.

In staving off climate change, social landscape adjusts

At the intersection of activism and academia, a climate change and clean energy panel Feb. 26 gave details of environmental urgency and impending social refinements.

Faculty reveal life-changing creative works

Cornell faculty will share the impact of a work on her or his life and career as part of the “Transformative Humanities” series of talks and brown bag lunches that starts Friday, March 4.

'Function after failure' in bone translates to engineering strategy

A study reveals that the material heterogeneity of cancellous bone prevents cracks from propagating and turning into breaks, and could have implications in engineering as well as medicine.

Study explores new tool for genome editing

A new study breaks down key mechanisms that may one day be used to correct genetic disorders.

NEH chair calls for the restructuring of academic humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities Chair William Adams spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall Feb. 24. He said this is a moment of increasing pressure for the field.