Influential literary critic M.H. Abrams is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama announced the honor July 22, the day before the emeritus professor's 102nd birthday.
Cornell physicists have answered a long-standing problem in quantum computing by making a fractional topological superconductor, an exotic state of matter in which emergent quasi-particles perform quantum computations without error.
A new study finds growing racial inequality in the ability to remain a homeowner among African-Americans, due in part to deregulation legislation in the 1980s that have led to the subprime mortgage market.
A pleasant scientific surprise: The North Atlantic right whale population – once projected for extinction – exhibited an unexpected increase in calf production and population size during the past decade.
Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
Scientists have found a link between "broken symmetry"in high temperature superconductors and "density waves" that seem to keep superconductivity from happening at still higher temperatures.
Yimon Aye, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Based on a new composite methodology, the Poets & Quants website ranks Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management the No. 2 undergraduate business program in the nation.
President David Skorton and Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher offered their views on research funding, new approaches and pressing challenges at a summit in New York City.
The Global Innovation Index 2014, a report co-authored by Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta, identifies Europe and sub-Saharan Africa as current centers of innovation.
New York is on the front lines of detecting foodborne pathogen outbreaks, thanks to a partnership between the state Department of Health and Cornell researchers.
A new book edited by human development professor Valerie Reyna tackles the biological origins of economic decisions in the new field of neuroeconomics.
