Physicist J.C. Séamus Davis wins 2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

Davis won the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for his pioneering research into quantum materials research and experimental physics.

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Cornell semiconductor sets record for widest bandgap

Cornell engineers have developed a semiconductor material with a record-setting bandgap and turned it into working devices, opening the door to electronics that handle much higher voltages while wasting less energy.

Six-layer graphene displays superconductivity and orbital magnetism

A new study presents rhombohedral hexalayer graphene as a promising quantum materials platform for studying electron interactions and developing technologies.

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Two flavors of superconductivity: Material has right ingredients for a twist

Cornell researchers have demonstrated that uranium ditelluride can exhibit both flavors of superconductivity at once, setting it apart as a leading candidate to be a topological superconductor.

Hundreds of students attend new startup career fair

The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food.

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Professors defend their disciplines in apocalypse debate

Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save in the annual Apocalypse Debate, sponsored by Logos, the undergraduate philosophy journal and club.

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Student unlocks potential in juvenile detention centers with STEM ed

Emily Cho ’28 has grown the nonprofit she founded as a 13-year-old into a national network of volunteers giving incarcerated students access to education.

Real-time view inside batteries leads to faster, cheaper battery production

Cornell researchers, working with an upstate New York battery company, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improving one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery.

Cornell astronomy researcher to head planetary science workforce survey

Julie Rathbun, an astronomy researcher in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, is leading the 2026 Planetary Science Workforce Survey to assess demographics, career trends and workforce diversity.

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