Hovering drones adapted for photo lighting

Small flying robots can replace light stands for a photo shoot, automatically adjusting their position for the best effects.

'Robo Brain' mines the Internet to teach robots

A giant database gathered from the Internet will help robots function in the human world.

For a healthier you, let your smartphone call it in

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to a multidisciplinary group of Cornell researchers who are developing a device to help you track your health right in the palm of your hand.

Cornell Tech's Manohar helps design IBM 'brain chip'

The design methodology of a new IBM computer chip inspired by the human brain was pioneered by Cornell Tech’s Rajit Manohar. “After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain,” Manohar said.

To bolster lithium battery life, add a little salt

Striving to achieve safer, longer-lasting batteries for the modern world’s trappings – automobiles, cell phones, computers, autonomous robots – Cornell chemical engineers have added salt to their chemistry.

Cornell Tech's Levitt says boost K-12 computational literacy

Cornell Tech in New York City is a graduate campus, but promoting computational thinking and doing for much younger students has, from its inception, been part of Cornell Tech’s core mission, said Diane Levitt, Cornell Tech's K-12 education director.

Exotic state of matter propels quantum computing theory

Cornell physicists have answered a long-standing problem in quantum computing by making a fractional topological superconductor, an exotic state of matter in which emergent quasi-particles perform quantum computations without error.

'Not by STEM alone': Panelists survey state of higher ed

President David Skorton and Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher offered their views on research funding, new approaches and pressing challenges at a summit in New York City.

BEST program gives Ph.D.s insights into nonacademic jobs

The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which offers career resources about non-academic jobs, is now available to all Cornell Ph.D. students and postdocs.