By mimicking nature, a Cornell University chemist has found a seemingly efficient way to create a new plastic material. It would be either biodegradable or able to react with water to convert into nontoxic materials, and it would have properties such as impact resistance.
Native writers, storytellers and filmmakers from across the country will meet at Cornell University April 2-3 for the third annual Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Conference.
Eberhard Bodenschatz watches 100 million years of geological time pass in an hour. He sees transform faults being created, rift valleys opening and spiral structures called microplates forming.
In real life machines that analyze DNA are about the size of a refrigerator. Cornell researchers are working on a "biochip" -- an "artificial gel" made of silicon -- that might be a step toward the science fiction dream.
From the folks who brought you the world's smallest guitar, now meet the nanoharp, this new "stringed instrument" plays the real music of science, serving as a platform to study the physics of very small vibrating systems.
Researchers at Cornell are testing devices that could form the basis for a potential ultrasmall computer data storage system that could gather up to 100 times as much information in the same space as present-day magnetic data disks.
During Cornell's spring break a group of students will be a part of a project called Alternative Spring Break, sponsored by the Cornell Public Service Center.
An exhibition on the history of the printed book, drawn from Cornell University Library's rare book and manuscript collections, is now on display in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library.
The South Asia Program at Cornell University has announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature, made possible through a generous gift.