Professor of physics Peter Lepage has won the$10,000 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for his inventive applications of quantum field theory to particle physics.
Astronomers have found that the Cornell-discovered fast radio burst FRB 121102 – from 3 billion light years away – passes through magnetized plasma, causing the cosmic blasts to “shout and twist.”
In the shadow of Saturn’s hulking planetary mass, astronomers can confirm that Titan’s liquid methane seas seem a bit choppy, as they say that an observed transient feature seem to be surface waves.
A new lightweight and stretchable material with the consistency of memory foam has potential for use in prosthetic body parts, artificial organs and soft robotics.
A group led by physics professors Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen has made nanometer-scale machines from graphene and glass, which could be used for sensing, interfacing with electronics and more.
Eight faculty members from four colleges were honored recently with awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, allowing them to expand courses or add teaching assistants.
Natasha Holmes is the first researcher who focuses on educational practices hired within a discipline as a tenure-track professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and her team will redesign all lab courses for two introductory physics sequences.
The Clinical and Translational Science Center, in collaboration with the medical student group Tech-in-Medicine, hosted its first hackathon, the 3-D Printing Innovation Challenge, over the course of several days in May.
Doctoral students in Cornell Engineering’s Commercialization Fellowship are developing tools to compress laser pulses, separate blood plasma and 3D print living tissue.