Student draws on experience to transform assistive communication

At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak - now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he's using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate. 

Cornellians lead Lancet special issue on improving planetary diets

Cornell’s Food Systems and Global Change group coordinated a special issue of The Lancet Planetary Health, which advocates for transforming food systems to ensure sustainability and healthy diets for everyone. 

Around Cornell

Knitting machine makes solid 3D objects

A multicollege team has developed a prototype of a knitting machine that creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts of the object.

How biodiversity startups raise capital

Biodiversity startups raise less capital than other startups but attract a broader coalition of investors, according to a new analysis that used machine learning to sift through venture capital databases.

The do-gooder dilemma: to disclose or not to disclose

People say they would feel worse telling others about their charitable acts than if they kept the news to themselves, or told others about their personal achievements, the study found. 

First WCM-Q AI Hackathon drives health care tech innovation

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar hosted its first AI Hackathon – a collaborative, interdisciplinary event that brought together medical and computer science students to develop AI-driven solutions for pressing clinical challenges.

Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.

Startup bets their superfast microbe can rewrite biotech 

Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.

Right or left, low-quality news links popular on social media

The spread of dubious headlines on social media isn’t just a right-wing thing – it's a social media thing, according to new research from David Rand ’04, professor in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and at Cornell Bowers.