The dramatic increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma since 2009 is likely attributable to subsurface wastewater injection at a handful of wastewater disposal wells, finds a study published in the journal Science July 3.
The perception that many minerals, such as copper and aluminum, are becoming scarce is challenged in a new report that also highlights the environmental and social keys to unlocking future resources.
If you're expecting to hear now from aliens from across the universe, it might be a while. Cornell astronomers say extraterrestrials likely won’t phone home – or Earth – for 1,500 years.
A Cornell engineering team has received a $100,000 starter grant from NASA to develop a soft, swimming robot suitable for exploring the harsh conditions of other worlds, notably Jupiter's moon Europa.
As sea levels rise, the Coney Island peninsula may become uninhabitable. Cornell landscape architecture graduate students wrestle with the island’s tenable, livable resilience as nature aims to reclaim it.
"Cognitive Computing and Beyond: Cornell Meets Watson," held Feb. 8 in Manhattan highlighted the latest research in Computing and Information Sciences and the College of Engineering.
Using a chemical "toolset" it developed, a Cornell group reports the ability to track a single protein's response to a chemical, which has implications in the emerging field of precision medicine.
David J. Thouless, Ph.D. '58, and former postdoctoral researcher J. Michael Kosterlitz share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in topological phase transitions of matter.