For exemplary work in planetary science, Cornell astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine will be awarded the prestigious Jean-Dominique Cassini Medal by the European Geosciences Union, the group announced Oct. 13.
Kip Thorne, founder of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, will give a talk on black holes and gravitational waves April 6, at 5 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund.
A group led by physics professor Frank Wise has proposed a method for locking different modes of laser light together to create short pulses with a variety of spatiotemporal profiles.
On the brisk autumn morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1997, Cornell students, faculty and staff strolling by McGraw Tower noted an unusual sight: a large pumpkin impaled on the spire 173 feet up. The question remains: Whodunit?
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have improved an imaging method they developed in order to better track activity of a cell signaling enzyme that plays a role in cancer cell metastasis.
The Cornell Center for Materials Research held a symposium to explore using origami to create machines at the micron scale using atomically thin materials June 16-17.