Cornell hosted more than 180 middle and high school students from across New York state for the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 25-27.
As part of the “CROPPS-in-a-Box” hackathon — an intensive, weeklong event hosted by the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems — students in engineering, computer science and plant biology collaborated to build a working prototype that could detect when a plant is in distress.
A combination of artificial intelligence and data analysis techniques can help doctors to better predict a patient's risk of thyroid cancer, and may one day prevent unnecessary surgeries.
Provost Kavita Bala and professors Anurag Agrawal and Dr. M. Virginia Pascual have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on April 23.
For Exhibit Columbus - a prominent stage for emerging designers - Michael Jefferson and Suzanne Lettieri used chromakeyed colors to create an "urban cinema screen" at a downtown plaza.
A new study from Cornell on AI writing assistants finds these tools have the potential to function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by generating generic language that makes them sound more like Americans.
In between classes and extracurriculars, students showcasing their tech-based projects in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Minds could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep. Instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code and create.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated that, by zapping a thin film with ultrafast pulses of low-frequency infrared light, they can cause its lattice to atomically expand and contract billions of times per second, potentially switching its electronic, magnetic or optical properties on and off.