Using the radar systems at the National Science Foundation's recently upgraded radio/radar telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, astronomers have obtained the most-detailed pictures yet of an asteroid.
Philip E. Lewis, acting dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, has been nominated to serve a five-year term as dean of the college beginning July 1996.
Illustration by Carla DeMelloRussian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted his proof to the Poincaré Conjecture on arXiv in three parts. The titles of his submissions are encrypted above in three rebus puzzles created by Carla…
Barbara Hope Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell University, died Aug. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center here. She was 45.
Women students will have a unique opportunity to network with some of Cornell's most distinguished alumnae during a three-day conference on campus sponsored by the President's Council of Cornell Women April 26-28.
Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring?
Cornell's computer scientists and librarians will form an unusual partnership to develop better ways to manage and ensure the integrity of documents and other data in the digital library of the future.
Some corporate recruiters walked away empty-handed from Cornell University this spring. All the graduates in a small, competitive degree program were hired months before commencement.
Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak.
Detailed radar images of the north and south poles of the moon show no evidence of ice in areas of permanent shadow that are observable with earth-based radars, researchers said today (June 6).