The third annual NYC Health Hackathon, hosted Feb. 8-10 by Weill Cornell Medicine, brought teams together in an attempt to solve myriad medical challenges.
For years, scientists had believed that Mars' carbon dioxide-filled atmosphere helped melt the planet's bountiful ice into flowing rivers, streams and ponds billions of years ago. Now there is doubt.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is installing nearly 560 bus stop signs, redesigned in partnership with systems engineering students and the Cornell University Sustainability Design group.
Cornell goes green by celebrating Earth with Sustainability Month during April. More than 80 events are scheduled, including lectures, films, fashion, art and social justice events.
Cornell will conduct a survey of the sub-terrain on campus and in the towns of Ithaca and Dryden Sept. 21-25, the next step in its plan to implement Earth Source Heat.
The polymer, called polypropylene carbonate, is made using a class of catalysts that was invented in the lab of Geoffrey Coates, and further developed by the Cornell spinoff company Novomer.
A research group led by Poul Petersen, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, reports a chiral "spine" of hydration inside DNA, the first report of a chiral water superstructure inside a biomolecule.
The geologic shape of the shorelines on Mars show that two meteorites triggered a pair of mega-tsunamis, scarring its landscape, which offers evidence of oceans conducive to life.
NASA is calling the Cassini mission’s last hurrah the Grand Finale. After cruising seven years to Saturn and spending 13 years strolling its neighborhood, on Sept. 15 the spacecraft ends its mission by plunging into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, breaking into fiery shards.