A study of black rhinos in Namibia suggests that proper positioning during anesthesia helps the large animals breathe more efficiently, a finding that could limit unnecessary deaths.
In a new paper, Cornell's Steven Strogatz tries to quantify the commonsense concept of “correlated novelties” - that one new thing sometimes triggers another.
Campus is ready for some 3,830 first-year and transfer students will come to campus for Orientation 2014, Aug. 22-25, when dozens of events are scheduled to introduce them to university life.
The design methodology of a new IBM computer chip inspired by the human brain was pioneered by Cornell Tech’s Rajit Manohar. “After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain,” Manohar said.
Striving to achieve safer, longer-lasting batteries for the modern world’s trappings – automobiles, cell phones, computers, autonomous robots – Cornell chemical engineers have added salt to their chemistry.
For a Mars rover, you need a roving eye – and scientists to build it: Cornell's Alex Hayes and Rob Sullivan will help build Mastcam-Z on the Mars 2020 NASA mission.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
Cornell Professor Brian Wansink and colleagues have launched the Slim by Design Registry. It asks slim people to share their tips about how they stay slim.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development, is the 2014 recipient of the Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from The Gerontological Society of America.
Twenty-three Mexican undergraduates joined research labs at Cornell this summer as part of President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, an effort to increase student exchanges with Latin America.
