A highly visible dog ear tag to mark and monitor treated and untreated strays is being developed by Cornell engineering and fiber science faculty though the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Cornell Unmanned Air Systems, an undergraduate project team that designs, builds and programs completely autonomous planes, will defend its world championship title at the Student Unmanned Air Systems Competition.
Engineering professor Lynden Archer and graduate student Wajdi Al Sadat have devised an electrochemical cell that captures and converts carbon dioxide while generating electrical power.
Physicists from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania join forces to forge a link between smectic liquid crystals and martensite steel, both of which have an unusual, elegant microstructure.
A team that includes Mike Thompson, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2009 Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International award for North America. (Feb. 1, 2010)
Eight Cornell scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
The Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council has won $500 million over the next five years in New York's Upstate Revitalization Initiative. Cornell will be involved in about $100 million worth of key projects funded by the grant.
Cornell researchers have identified a strong connection between the protein SIRT5 and healthy heart function, which could spawn new methods for preserving heart health and extending healthy life.
Using instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft to measure the wobbles of Mimas, a Cornell astronomer has inferred that this moon’s icy surface cloaks either a rocky core or a sloshing sub-surface ocean.