Cornell Plantations, 92nd Street Y host educational lectures

Cornell Plantations has partnered with New York City's 92nd Street Y for its 'Changing Earth' lecture series. The seven-part series began in November and will take place monthly through May 2012. (Nov. 29, 2011)

Structured English brings robots closer to everyday users

Making robots understand and execute English commands is the goal of a project led by Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. (Nov. 22, 2011)

Physicists: Did neutrinos break the speed of light?

Physicists discussed the revolutionary news that an experiment measured particles traveling faster than the speed of light at a physics department forum in Clark Hall Nov. 17. (Nov. 22, 2011)

Campus researchers get a private cloud

The Center for Advanced Computing has launched an on-demand research computing service available by subscription. (Nov. 14, 2011)

Aerosols make fixing climate change even costlier

Remediating long-term effects of fossil fuel combustion and other human-driven processes will be even costlier than previously thought, the Cornell earth scientist is claiming in a new study. (Nov. 10, 2011)

Switching light on and off -- with just a few photons

Cornell researchers have demonstrated that the passage of a light beam through an optical fiber can be controlled by just a few photons of another light beam. (Nov. 8, 2011)

Graphene to propel mechanical device technology forward

The single-layer carbon sheets' stellar qualities are only just being understood in all their capacities, the researchers say in a review article about the material's past and potential. (Nov. 8, 2011)

Mason Peck named NASA's chief technologist

Peck will serve as the agency's principal adviser and advocate on matters of technology policy and programs. (Nov. 8, 2011)

Library digitizes interviews with international mathematicians

Eugene Dynkin recorded his talks with mathematicians around the world for more than 50 years. The library has digitized, organized and curated the information on a new website. (Nov. 8, 2011)