Nine student teams stayed in Ithaca this summer to continue working on their business ideas, in areas such as machine learning and solar energy, through the Life Changing Labs summer incubator.
As methane concentrations increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas, according to new Cornell research published in Biogeosciences.
Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow. Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life, might help uncover hidden biospheres.
Gregory Fuchs, associate professor of applied and engineering physics, has been awarded a three-year grant to develop his pioneering technique for observing tiny magnetic structures, and to apply the technique to explore their little-known properties.
Cornell mathematical physicist Andre LeClair, in research published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, offers a possible path to a solution of the Riemann hypothesis, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
An international team of astronomers led by Cornell’s Lisa Kaltenegger has characterized the first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system.
A new study co-authored by Kelly Zamudio, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, shows that increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in STEM classrooms.
Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has received the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for career achievement, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
