A technology that generates electricity from the beating wings of birds, bats or even moths could produce enough power to run a device that collects data used by biologists.
Assistant professors Ilana Brito, Iwijn de Vlaminck and Michael Sheehan have all been awarded National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Awards, worth $1.5 million to help fund five years of research.
With a record-breaking number of students unveiling their research at the 31st annual Spring Research Forum, hosted by the CURB, the world’s future looks full of solutions.
Jared Cohon, board chair for the Center for Sustainable Shale Development and president emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, will share insight into incorporating diverse, impassioned opinions to frame effective policy in his talk, “Working Together on Shale Gas Policy and Practice,” April 15.
Princeton theoretical physicist William Bialek will lecture on "More Perfect than We Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life" Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Some Cornell classes are adopting the "Tree of Life" classification system, which explains the diversity of life by matching and mapping relationships on a branching diagram.
A new study by Cornell scientists offers insight on how different "knobs" can change material properties in previously unexplored or misunderstood ways.