Cornell will celebrate the achievements of physicist Watt W. Webb, June 16. Webb is co-inventor of such breakthrough imaging technologies as multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. (May 21, 2008)
Severe winter weather outbreaks are more likely due in part to the seemingly far-off problem of melting sea ice in the Arctic, according to Cornell earth scientists.
After more than a decade of planning, NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory completed its first three science flights Nov. 30, Dec. 3 and Dec. 7, carrying the Cornell-built FORCAST infrared camera. (Dec. 9, 2010)
After eight years of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania, residents still have mixed feelings about it, report researchers at Cornell's Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference, Dec. 13. (Dec. 14, 2011)
New research offers a clue into the underlying causes of atherosclerosis in terms of how the cells that line the blood vessels, called endothelial cells, behave as the vessels stiffen with age. (Dec. 7, 2011)
AguaClara's dose controller research group won the cash prize, which will support water treatment technology development, from the Environmental Protection Agency's P3 Competition. (May 3, 2010)
The assistant professor of computer science plans to use his $200,000 grant either to bring in a new postdoctoral collaborator or to host an interdisciplinary symposium in his research area. (May 1, 2008)
Cornell researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. (Sept. 10, 2009)
Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool, the CheShift server, to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein. (Sept. 9, 2009)