Cornell scientists have achieved a "Holy Grail" of materials science -- pure, single crystal growth of any film on a semiconductor substrate, a technique that holds promise to revolutionize electronics.
When the National Geographic Society's hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the "camerawhales" will be tracked by the Cornell Bioacoustics Research program.
Microscopic examination has revealed the defense secret of a tiny millipede that was entangling its enemies millions of years before porcupines and Velcro came along.
Almost 50 years ago, physicists determined the value of one of the fundamental fixed values of physics, the fine structure constant, using quantum electrodynamics theory -- or did they?
Cornell chemists have garnered three of the American Chemical Society's 10 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for 1997, and a fourth member of the chemistry faculty, Harold A. Scheraga, has earned the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University has received a $3 million, six-year grant from the Park Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., to initiate new biodiversity projects.
Chaos. To engineers, it has meant that their systems were at risk, and they did their best to engineer chaos out of them. “It used to be a nuisance. Engineers would avoid it at all costs,” said Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell associate professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.
Cornell scientists report the accurate characterization of a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell using electrospray mass spectrometry – a feat that opens the door to a wide area of basic medical exploration.
