Events this week include a concert celebrating Cornell composer Karel Husa, a book talk on adolescent brain development, and a lecture and concert by visiting composer-instrumentalist Fred Frith. (Feb. 23, 2012)
After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” as reported in Nature, March 2.
Cornell's Fuertes Observatory has a new museum featuring vintage observatory instruments, many collected in the 19th century by Estevan Fuertes, founding dean of Cornell's civil engineering department.
Cornell President David Skorton and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi signed a memorandum of understanding Nov. 8 making Cornell the California lab’s latest strategic partner.
Madelyn F. Wessel, university counsel at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named university counsel and secretary of the corporation for Cornell University. The first woman to hold the position, Wessel will start May 8.
A study reveals that the material heterogeneity of cancellous bone prevents cracks from propagating and turning into breaks, and could have implications in engineering as well as medicine.
In order to stabilize their flight, fruit flies sense the orientation of their bodies every time they beat their wings – one beat about every 4 milliseconds.
Ian Balfour, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell, will present the lecture 'Romanticism and the Forms of Freedom: On the First Person Among Others,' Feb. 10.