Cryo-electron microscopy sheds new light on batteries

A collaboration involving researchers from physics and engineering used a new cryogenic microscopy technique to study the solid-liquid interface in lithium-metal batteries.

Campaign aims to bring climate science to every US high school

The Paleontological Research Institution and the university’s Sea Grant program raising funds to bring climate change science to every U.S. high school.

Former Cornell Provost Robert Plane dies at 90

Robert Plane, a professor emeritus of chemistry who served as the university’s provost during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, died Aug. 6 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90.

Summer research programs intrigue diverse students

Visiting students representing the next generation of physicists got a taste of life as a researcher during a pair of eight-week summer programs hosted by the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education.

On-demand polymers may yield designer materials

The lab of Brett Fors, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has proposed a novel technique for creating designer polymers on demand. 

‘Toolkit’ aids sustainable manufacture of medicines

A new technique that combines electricity and chemistry offers a way for pharmaceuticals to be manufactured in an easily scaled-up and sustainable way.

‘Strange metal’ superconductors just got stranger

Research co-authored by assistant professor of physics Brad Ramshaw sheds new light onto the unusual properties of the high-temperature superconductor strontium lanthanum copper oxide. 

Cell-free DNA may be key to monitoring urinary tract infections

A new method for testing urinary tract infections yields more information than what conventional methods can offer, according to new research.

Exoplanet detectives create catalog of ‘light-fingerprints’

Researchers have created a reference catalog using calibrated spectra and geometric albedos of 19 of the most diverse bodies in our solar system.