A Cornell research group reports that a mechanical factor - stiffening of a cancer cell and its matrix - and not a chemical cause could contribute to metastasis in some forms of cancer.
Eric Tan '14, a student in the College of Engineering, was the winner of the eighth annual Cornell Concerto competition, held Dec. 11 in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
Genetically mutated cancer cells grow may help explain why patients with a common form of leukemia develop treatment resistance, according to new Weill Cornell Medicine research.
Some researchers think all problems can be resolved, given a sufficiently large and fast computer. Other researchers believe that computers are inherently inexact, and the results produced by machines cannot be trusted. Somewhere in the middle is a narrow band of academics who fit snugly between these two schools of thought. To explain, Warwick Tucker, the H.C. Wang Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Cornell, will talk on "Using a Computer to do Rigorous Mathematics," at the third annual Mathematics Awareness Month public lecture on Saturday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m. in 251 Malott Hall on campus. The public is invited to attend the talk without charge, and no calculus or advanced mathematics are required for understanding the subject. (March 29, 2002)
Shattering a cornerstone concept in linguistics, an analysis of more than two-thirds of the world’s languages shows humans tend to make the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter what language they’re speaking.
Cornell scientists have helped develop a new method to end life-threatening heart fibrillations with much less pain and potential damage. Their study is published in Nature. (July 13, 2011)
Kwame Amponsah is one of several alumni entrepreneurs to establish businesses in Ithaca. He founded Xallent, a semiconductor device and test equipment manufacturing startup, while doing postdoctoral research at Cornell in 2013.
President David Skorton, Technion President Peretz Lavie, Provost Kent Fuchs, Sandy Weill, Bob Appel and others comment on the Cornell and Technion partnership's winning bid.