Students show off new machines at Sciencenter demo day

Students in Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing visited the Ithaca children’s museum to demonstrate a number of projects.

New approach designs healthcare robots with, not for, the people who use them

A new Cornell Tech-led study invites healthcare workers, long-term care residents, and community members to help design the robots themselves.

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New instrument will map the formation of early galaxies

Cornell astronomers are deploying a new instrument that grants them, for the first time, a better view of the universe’s earliest galaxies, which can’t be observed individually with ground- or space-based telescopes.

High-energy x-ray workshop trains next generation of synchrotron researchers

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) will host its annual High Energy X-ray Techniques (HEXT) School next week, bringing graduate students and early-career researchers together for an intensive introduction to synchrotron science and high-energy x-ray research methods.

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Entropy gives a ‘marriage’ of molecules just enough freedom

Researchers found entropy can help bind certain pairs of molecules faster and more robustly – an approach that could have broad applications in drug development and forming new materials.

Over hill and dale, students’ Internet of Things projects benefit Finger Lakes communities

Students in a Duffield Engineering class are equipping a racing baton and a flying drone with Internet of Things technology to address challenges in and around Geneva, N.Y.

Next-generation telescope science highlighted at April workshop

Presenters at the workshop explained how Cornell's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) promises a leap forward in our understanding of galaxy, star and planetary formation processes.

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New understanding of insect flight points way to stable flapping-wing robots

Researchers created a computational model that shows the effect of insects’ morphology on stabilizing their flight, which could provide a blueprint for designing flapping-wing robots.

Haynes, Levine elected to the American Philosophical Society

Two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences – astronomer Martha Haynes and literary scholar Caroline Levine – have been named to the American Philosophical Society. 

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