The Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo featured 18 teams of elementary school students from upstate New York who displayed their working LEGO models. (Feb. 1, 2010)
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, professor emeritus of chemistry, recounted his work on putting hydrogen under pressure, as part of the Local Legends of Chemistry lecture series, Oct. 6. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Cornell Library is asking other research institutions to contribute to the support of the online arXiv repository of science and mathematics preprints. (Jan. 25, 2010)
The Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration were created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis traveled to Greece this summer to continue spreading public awareness on severe water shortages in the Mediterranean. (Sept. 4, 2008)
The Summer Math institute, launched in 2006 for college students considering graduate school, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for $753,000 over the next three years. (Sept. 4, 2008)
Researchers are making image sensors that give detailed readouts of not only the intensity, but also the incident angle of light as it strikes the sensor. This could lead to after-the-fact focusing. (April 2, 2012)
Paul Alivisatos, the fall 2011 Bethe lecturer, explained the science behind the evidence that human activity is causing global warming, Sept. 28. (Sept. 30, 2011)
Physics, agoraphobia and romance will entwine for an unusual production at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts next week: 'Emergence,' running Sept. 20-22. (Sept. 10, 2012)
At BOOM 2011 March 9, dozens of students showed off their cutting-edge projects, from game software to robotics to autonomous aircraft and submarines. (March 14, 2011)