For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
ST. LOUIS -- If mastering flight is your goal, you can't do better than to emulate a dragonfly.
With four wings instead of the standard two and an unusual pitching stroke that allows the bug to hover and even shift into reverse,…
Cornell's Office of Web Communications has created a central clearinghouse for Cornell multimedia, with video and audio presentations of major campus news and events.
Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) will host an open house for prospective freshman students Saturday, Oct. 5.
Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations is involved in the most comprehensive survey on health and safety issues ever done in the steel industry - and perhaps the most comprehensive in industry altogether.
The assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering studies the nanoparticles emitted from cars, trucks and power plants, and his latest 'lab' is Olympic city Beijing. (May 1, 2008)
Researchers who work with the incredibly small have long used the scanning tunneling microscope to make pictures of surfaces with such precision that individual atoms appear as bumps. With it, tiny structures can be built by moving one or a few atoms at a time.
A world that is too small to see is going to seem a bit bigger when visitors get a chance to interact with, build, play and watch molecules in an interactive exhibit, "Too Small to See," at Epcot's Innoventions at Walt Disney World.