Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.
Giselle Vitaliti '07 began college excited and hopeful, but by the start of her second semester, pressures from her parents to do well at school, the workload and financial concerns resulted in physical illness and…
Researchers using the Arecibo Observatory's powerful radar have made the most detailed observations ever of a binary near-Earth asteroid (NEA) -- two clusters of rubble circling each other -- offering new clues about how such…
Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres will visit Cornell on Nov. 28 to speak about Israel and the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
The talk, "A Conversation with Shimon Peres on Israel and the…
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
"Equality." Just about everyone in an egalitarian society agrees that equality is a positive concept. But beneath that explicit attitude lies the shadow: a matrix of implicit judgments and attitudes cloaked in a subtle scrim of…
Irwin M. Jacobs returned to Cornell Nov. 7 as the 27th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education to talk on "The Incredible Cell Phone: Personal Notes on an Evolving Technology, Business Model, Applications and Global Impact."
The largest single gift in the history of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration -- and one of the largest gifts ever for hospitality education in the United States -- was announced Nov. 13 at a gathering of Hotel School…