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.

To watch DNA unwrap, blank out the proteins

Biophysics is a science of shapes – the shapes of molecules like DNA as they wrap and unwrap around protein cores, for instance. Cornell researchers have unveiled a new method for observing such processes in real time.

Ingested nanoparticles may damage liver

A recently published study shows that nanoparticles injure liver cells when they are in microfluidic devices designed to mimic organs of the human body.

CUAUV again takes top spot at RoboSub competition

The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team took home the top prize at the 17th Annual International RoboSub Competition, July 28-Aug. 3 in San Diego, Calif.

In low gravity, scientists search for a way to sauté

Cornell researchers who conduct space food research have been studying how to fry foods on the zero-G airplane.

Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators

New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.

Ashim Datta to lead food safety simulation project

A $683,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support a project aimed at integrating the power of computer simulation with the teaching of food safety principles.

Lynden Archer receives chemical engineering award

Professor Lynden Archer has received the 2014 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.