Cornell events this week include a talk with actress Vanessa Bayer; an impeachment law panel discussion; "Some Like It Hot" in a classic American cinema series; and a community concert with the Glee Club and Chorus.
Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute, Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab and Cornell confirm the presence of molecular hydrogen on a Saturn moon - a microbial food source and an ingredient needed for life.
The Cornell Center for Materials Research announces that five New York companies will receive grants through the center's JumpStart program. The projects receive up to $5,000 in matching funds for costs.
Physicist Joshua Frieman will deliver this spring's Hans Bethe Lecture on the Dark Universe Wednesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
As a cosmic dust magnet, Saturn's C ring gives away its youth. Once thought formed in an older, primordial era, the ring may be but a mere babe – less than 100 million years old.
AguaClara, an Engineering Project Team that has built 14 gravity-powered surface water treatment facilities in Honduras over the last 12 years, has begun construction of its first plant in Nicaragua.
Astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine testified before a House subcommittee March 3 to explain rationale for scientific, seafaring journeys to Jupiter's and Saturn's moons.
Instrument maker Anton Paar has loaned Cornell a $500,000 state-of-the-art rheometer; researchers will be able to do complex experiments here instead of having to drive six hours east.
Curiosity regarding the Japanese tree frog led mathematician Steve Strogatz and a student to the study of systems that align both in time and space - which they've dubbed 'swarmalators.'
Steve Squyres ’78, Ph.D. ’81, who has taught astronomy, conducted research and chaperoned two Mars rovers to Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, will retire from Cornell Sept. 22.