Researchers identified a likely source of activity in a “zombie” volcano that appeared to be dormant for more than 250,000 years: molten rock releasing gas that pushes against the volcano’s upper crust.
In collaboration with farmers, researchers found that emission intensities from New York state dairy farms were lower per gallon of milk than national estimates and among the lowest reported across continents.
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend toward the sun.
Social media app TikTok announced new generative AI avatars of creators and stock actors for branded content and ads on its platform. The company says these new “custom avatars” are designed to represent a creator or a brand spokesperson.
The 2024 spring semester begins with a flurry of activity that will introduce new classes and workshops, showcase exemplary creativity and research, and bring a roster of exciting guests to AAP campuses in Ithaca, Rome, and New York City.
In the U.S., strategically converting a small fraction of land used to grow corn for ethanol to solar facilities could vastly increase energy production per hectare, as well as provide ecological benefits and financial resiliency for farmers.
The Summer Wellbeing Adventure & Photo Contest is returning for its second year. Beginning July 15 to August 5, 2024, Cornell staff, faculty, students and retirees are invited to embark on a three-week journey focused on their wellbeing.
In between classes and extracurriculars, students showcasing their tech-based projects in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Minds could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep. Instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code and create.
Atkinson Hall officially opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 9, realizing its benefactors’ vision of the facility as a home for impact-driven research across grand challenges in sustainability, cancer biology and immunology, nutrition, global health and computational biology.
The Women+ in Health Care Leadership Symposium, organized by students in the Sloan Program in Health Administration at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, featured a diverse panel of women for their speaker series.
