Cornell experts in computational biology and bioinformatics have made key contributions to the analysis of the genome of the rhesus macaque. (April 12, 2007)
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice.
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
Maryam Shanechi is bringing brain-machine interfaces to the next level: Instead of signals directing a device, she hopes to help paralyzed people move their own limb, just by thinking about it.
A variety of language-learning programs serve the needs of more than 2,000 Cornell students who traveled to 108 countries in the 2013-14 to study, research or participate in a faculty-led experience.
The Cornell Theory Center announced today plans for a major upgrade to its supercomputing resources that will triple the computational capability that it makes available to the national research community.
At just a molecule thick, it's a new Guinness record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass, so impossibly thin that its individual silicon and oxygen atoms are clearly visible via electron microscopy, was identified in a Cornell research lab.
The Recording Industry Association of America has adopted a new tactic in its ongoing battle against illegal music file sharing: 'settlement letters' that request payment. (March 14, 2007)
When NASA today announced its intention to send two rover exploration vehicles to Mars on its previously announced 2003 space shot, it introduced the ambitious venture with a two-minute, computer-generated video that dramatizes the mission with startling clarity and accuracy.