Robots that self-improve and machines that print products at home are technologies on the horizon, said Hod Lipson at the 2011 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. (Feb. 21, 2011)
NASA astrophysicist John Mather covered nearly 20 billion years of the past and future of the universe in his Feb. 16 public talk in Schwartz Auditorium. (Feb. 21, 2011)
Computer science graduate student Renato Paes Leme has been awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship to pursue research that may make online advertising a bit more efficient and profitable. (Feb. 16, 2011)
New students entering Cornell in the fall will read and discuss E.L. Doctorow's 'Homer and Langley,' a 2009 historical novel based on the lives of New York City's reclusive Collyer brothers. (Feb. 10, 2011)
A committee of City of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)
Cornell has received a 2011 ENERGY STAR CHP (combined heat and power) Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for the campus's highly efficient CHP system. (Feb. 8, 2011)
Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)
It's not discrimination, but rather differences in resources attributable to career and family-related choices that set women back in science fields, Cornell researchers say. (Feb. 7, 2011)
A research group in Spain has ranked Cornell the No. 5 university in the world for its Web presence, which includes electronic access to scientific publications and other academic material. (Feb. 7, 2011)