After cruising for 205 days over 301 million miles, NASA’s InSight spacecraft – to probe beneath the surface of Mars – landed flawlessly Nov. 26. Cornell’s Don Banfield felt earthly relief.
This year's AAAS electees from Cornell include a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, an emeritus professor who studies animal migration patterns, and a food safety expert.
A greenhouse gas may soon get a public relations makeover, as Cornell startup Dimensional Energy has developed a way to add sunlight to carbon dioxide to create an environmentally friendly fuel.
Brett Fors, Karthik Sridharan and Jin Suntivich have been awarded Sloan Foundation fellowships, which support early-career researchers and education related to science, technology and economic performance.
Kirstin Petersen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented art inspired by her research at the New Museum in New York City in a program that pairs artists with technologists and challenges them to create something new.
About three dozen Cornell seniors presented their undergraduate research at the 17th annual Hunter R. Rawlings III Research Scholars Senior Expo on April 17.
A nano-sized guitar string vibrates and crackles in an unexpectedly organized and intricate way, according to researchers who devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time – and then played the Cornell alma mater on it.