ITHACA, N.Y. -- The sea may soon concede more of its seismic secrets. In this week's journal Science, university researchers report that a network of instruments will soon be deployed and placed on the ocean floor, giving humanity a precious tool to predict and track tsunamis in real time. Tsunamis -- giant seismic sea waves, sometimes as high as a five-story building -- can crash against coastal communities, kill thousands of people instantly and devastate property. They are produced by undersea earthquakes, or landslides or volcanic eruptions.
Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Electronic Packaging Program at Cornell University will support the design and construction of a novel fabrication and characterization tool for industry -- a PICT (precision interconnect cluster tool) capable of attaching integrated circuits with at least 10 times more connections than today's most powerful chips.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has topped off a successful fund-raising campaign for its new facility with a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Steven D. Tanksley, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, has been named the 1998 recipient of the prestigious $15,000 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.
This month, science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast will get the chance to be part of the exploration of space. Cornell and the Ithaca Sciencenter are hosting a NASA-supported workshop.
An international team of eight "satellite hunters," astronomers who pluck tiny specks of light out of the distant solar system, has discovered four new outer moons of Saturn orbiting at least 15 million kilometers from the surface of the giant planet.
Members of the Cornell Wind Ensemble returned Jan. 21 from their nine-day tour of Costa Rica, where they performed for public and private audiences. The tour was a successful educational and service experience as well.
A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.
David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.