99th KILOMETER MARKER, ISRAEL/JORDAN BORDER -- Flying over this 150-acre speck in the desert, it is possible to imagine a near-perfect circle ringed by two green arcs. Approach by land, and imagine the arcs enlarging to groves of olive trees, a spiraling tower behind them. After it is completed, in about five years, the tower eventually will be home to the world's most advanced database, the Library of Life. The entire complex itself, called the Bridging the Rift Center (BTR), will be a symbol in the desert between Israel and Jordan, seeking, as its name indicates, to create a bridge between two divided societies. (March 16, 2004)
Steven Squyres, science team leader for the Mars rover mission and Cornell professor of astronomy, announced the powerful evidence found in recent days that Mars once had a watery environment.
Step aside, Cookies-n-Cream. Move over, Neapolitan. It's time to hit the (Rocky) Road. For their winning project in Food Science 101, eight Cornell students have developed an ice cream flavor with an evocative name, Sticky Bunz.
Events on campus this week include Maple weekend, CSA Fair, Reimagining Cornell, student mental health, Seder dinners, Don Randel, Literary Luncheon, Sir Richard Jolly, Bailey Hall concert.
This year, for the first time ever, the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series will be an interactive teleconference between two of the leading architectural design programs in the United States: Cornell's Department of Architecture, which manages the series, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
A $1.1 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to a Cornell University-based group may mean a fast, inexpensive and satisfactory resolution to a range of employment disputes throughout the United States.
After more than 5,000 years of human-feline cohabitation and enough elaborations on "meow!" to fill a dictionary, cats still haven't mastered language. But a Cornell University evolutionary psychology study - analyzing people's reactions to feline vocalizations - shows that cats know how to get what they want. (May 20, 2002)
Brimming with confidence and armed with improved versions of last year's winning robots, eight Cornell University students left today for Australia, where the Big Red team will defend its title in the fourth annual World Cup of robotic soccer, known as RoboCup.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Lynn worked his way through college hustling for tips as a waiter, then turned the study of tipping into an academic career. This latest study finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there remains an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance.