X-ray imaging sheds new light on bone damage

Researchers have uncovered cellular-level detail of what happens when bone bears repetitive stress over time, visualizing damage at smaller scales than previously observed.

Bethe lecturer to discuss matter in the extreme

Professor Gordon Baym, Cornell's 2013 Hans Bethe lecturer, will discuss the terrestrial experiments that explore extremes of matter in his public lecture March 27.

'New face' of engineering works on Cornell Tech

The American Society of Civil Engineers has named Abena Sackey Ojetayo '07, M.Eng. '09, an engineer with Cornell Facilities Services, to its list of 2013 'New Faces of Civil Engineering.'

Mosh pits can shed light on panic situations

Moshers' behavior, like flocks of birds or gas particles, can be predicted with simplified theoretical models, physicists say.

Physicists crack science of ice formation

For a variety of common cryoprotectants, the time for ice to form has a simple exponential variation with concentration.

Bean to help steer U.S. role in Euclid mission

Rachel Bean, an associate professor of astronomy, has been chosen to play a key role in a mission to better understand how the universe has been expanding and of what it is made.

Close look at iron-based superconductor advances theory

Cornell researchers have resolved a long-standing theoretical debate about the electronic structure of iron-based superconductors by directly observing it at the atomic-scale.

Book offers broad view of 3-D printing's future

A new book by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman explores the promises and perils of a technological revolution: 3-D printers that can quickly and cheaply make anything from bicycle parts to low-fat foods.

Blame Barney: Students' perception of T. rex is outdated

Students' perceptions of the Tyrannosaurus rex anatomy is still stuck in the early 1900s, according to a Cornell research team.