After 18 months of deliberation, the Committee on Human Spaceflight – co-led by a Cornell professor – issued a report June 4 on whether Earth-bound humans should continue exploring space. The conclusion: Let’s go red.
Meeting weekly this semester for the Astronomy 6500 seminar, Cornell undergraduate and graduate students are conducting research – with six other universities – to help NASA find a landing site for the Mars 2020 mission.
Computer scientists are among those joining a growing chorus of experts eager to harness the future of artificial intelligence research, while remaining responsibly vigilant to its potential pitfalls.
The Cornell Baja SAE Racing Team, which designs, builds and races off-road vehicles, took first place at an international competition April 22. (April 26, 2012)
Chemical engineers have developed a new method for making large quantities of integral membrane proteins simply and inexpensively, without the use of detergents typically used today.
A Cornell-led international team of researchers has developed a way to harden natural calcite by a factor of two or more through the addition of amino acids aspartic acid and glycine.
There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support complex life, say astronomers, who have developed a new computation method to examine planets orbiting other stars.
Residents of Piermont, New York are facing climate change, as Hudson River flooding begins to encroach their waterfront streets. Cornell students provided concepts at an open house on how to handle it.
A Cornell study offers a comprehensive reimagining of the power grid that involves the coordinated integration of small-scale distributed energy resources.
The team's vehicle, Tachyon, beat out 23 other teams at the 13th annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International competition held July 13-18 in San Diego, Calif. (July 20, 2010)