It's possible that one day all the cooling power of a noisy, bulky household refrigerator will be available on a small device that is lightweight and has no moving parts. And the same device, when given a heat source like a car's exhaust pipe, could be used to generate electricity.
In the 19th century, fundamental discoveries were made by unlocking the chemistry of carbon, but wide exploitation of these major discoveries came slowly. It took some years, for example, before this knowledge led to the development of new drugs and synthetic fibers.
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have for the first time detected light from confirmed planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. (March 23, 2005)
Native Americas, the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has launched its electronic version: Native Americas Online.
A Cornell study may have the last word on whether a reform of New York workers' compensation program would save money and ensure quality medical care. The pilot program requires employees of participating companies who are injured at work to seek medical care from a managed care organization rather than from their family physicians.
Asian-American/Asian students, especially males, are under unique pressures to meet high expectations of parents by succeeding in such traditional predetermined careers as medicine and engineering, said Dr. Henry Chung '84, assistant vice president for student health at New York University, speaking on campus April 13. (April 19, 2006)
A new study portrays the paths of asteroids in the inner solar system as a vast Los Angeles-style traffic system crisscrossed with superhighways along which are hurtling huge, rocky projectiles.
Medical researchers who want to study the microscopic distributions of key proteins, DNA, messenger signals, metabolic states and molecular mobility have a new tool that can show the activity and behavior of living cells under a variety of conditions.
Medical researchers who want to study the microscopic distributions of key proteins, DNA, messenger signals, metabolic states and molecular mobility have a new tool that can show the activity and behavior of living cells under a variety of conditions.
Far above Cayuga's waters -- hundreds of miles, in fact -- NASA astronaut and Cornell University alumnus Ed Lu reached out today (Sept. 4) and spoke via shortwave radio directly to fellow Cornellians for 11 minutes. Lu was aboard the International Space Station some 240 miles above Earth as it passed over North America. It was the first time Cornell students had spoken to an astronaut in space. "This is really exciting, this is great and it all worked," said Chase Million, a Cornell junior from Hagerstown, Ind., who is president of the Cornell Amateur Radio Club. As a physics major, Million plans on a career in the space industry after he graduates. "Today was more than just a hands-on experience, we actually got to talk to a guy who is on the space station." (September 04, 2003)