A group of Cornell physicists led by Michael Niemack has joined a group that will use two new telescopes to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background, the universe's earliest measurable light.
A multidisciplinary design and research team, assembled to tackle the environmental problem of post-consumer textile waste, has developed a unique fabric-shredding machine called the Fiberizer.
President David Skorton delivered Cornell's 143rd commencement May 29, welcoming about 6,000 new graduates to the global Cornell family. (May 29, 2011)
A celebration is in order: Thirty years ago, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University opened its doors, ushering in a new era in higher education for black students and scholars. The center's creation remains one of the remarkable, lasting accomplishments of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s and 1970s.
Three Cornell physicists will discuss new evidence about faster-than-light travel in an open forum Nov. 17 in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments are at 7 p.m.; the forum will begin at 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Engineers devise, atom-by-atom, a room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic out of lutetium iron oxide, a discovery that could lead to advances in computer memory technology.
Cornell physicists have answered a long-standing problem in quantum computing by making a fractional topological superconductor, an exotic state of matter in which emergent quasi-particles perform quantum computations without error.