With a a three-year, $450,000 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Francesco Monticone will develop and study exotic materials.
Architect and educator Alfred (Fred) H. Koetter Jr., M.Arch. ’66, whose projects included two Cornell campus buildings, died Aug. 21 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was 79.
The strength of the attraction between molecules in two-dimensional materials, known as van der Waals forces, is dependent on the size of the empty spaces in the material, researchers have found.
The drawn-out process for diagnosing Lyme disease could become a thing of the past – good news for the thousands of people each year who get the tick-borne illness.
A Cornell-led collaboration has created the first microscopic robots that incorporate semiconductor components, allowing them to be controlled – and made to walk – with standard electronic signals.
A collaboration led by Patrick Reed has discovered the right combination of factors to enable a four-satellite constellation that maintains nearly continuous 24/7 coverage of almost every point on Earth.
Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy, is among a team of 27 scientists who won a share of the $3 million 2018 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics Dec. 3.