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A team of four students – three Cornell University graduate students and one undergraduate from the National University of Colombia – was recently awarded an Upstyle Star Award, taking first prize for their garment concepts using technology and geared toward the fitness and gaming communities.The first Upstyle Award: International Competition for...
An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible?Cornell physicists Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen not only say yes, but they’ve actually built the “muscle” for one.With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has named Yangyang Cheng its 2017 Leonard M. Rieser Award recipient for her April 22 essay “Let science be science again.” in which she wrote "I am the great-granddaughter of women with bound feet, for whom learning to read was a revolutionary act. I am a particle physicist at an Ivy League institution,...
"Knowledge Is PowerThe mission of Oculus Education is to empower communities through VR’s ability to positively impact learning and to support equitable access for all. To accomplish that goal, we need to understand how VR can have the greatest impact on learning outcomes across a variety of scenarios. Beyond our efforts to dig into existing...
Like human social behavior, the behavior of electrons in relation to each other is difficult to predict. In strongly correlated systems, each electron impacts how those around it act, their orientation and movement, and this leads to diverse behavior in the whole. The unpredictability and diversity, says Eun-Ah Kim, Physics, is what makes research...
A cross-campus collaboration led by Cornell engineering professor Darrell Schlom has been awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to transition its groundbreaking research from bold theory, based on extensive calculation, to creating a specific topological superconducting material that could pave the way to quantum computing.“We have...
The search for the superconductor of the future has taken a significant step forward following a breakthrough by six research teams in the US and Europe led by an Irish quantum physicist. A superconductor is a material that, under certain circumstances, behaves like a perfect conductor of electricity, offering no resistance whatsoever to the...
Biophysics is a science of shapes – the shapes of molecules like DNA as they wrap and unwrap around protein cores, for instance. Cornell researchers have unveiled a new method for observing such processes in real time.Professor of applied and engineering physics Lois Pollack and her research group have devised a way to watch dynamic movements and...
Nucleosomes are tightly packed bunches of DNA and protein which, when linked together as chromatin, form each of the 46 chromosomes found in human cells.The organization of DNA in nucleosomes is important not just for DNA packaging; it also forms the basis for the regulation of gene expression. By controlling the access to DNA, nucleosomes help...
Rachel Bean shared some of the most recent discoveries about the history of the cosmos with a packed room of alumni June 7 during Reunion 2014. The associate professor of astronomy also talked about unresolved cosmic mysteries and encouraged young attendees to consider a career studying the heavens.Bean works in the field of cosmology, the study...
Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy, has been named the first senior associate dean of undergraduate education for the College of Arts & Sciences and will begin her position on July 1. The appointment is the next step in a restructuring of the college’s admissions and advising office, which is undergoing a reorganization this year to better...
Searching vast cosmic communities like real estate agents rifling through listings, Cornell astronomers now hunt through time and space for habitable exoplanets – planets beyond our own solar system – looking at planets flourishing in old star, red giant neighborhoods.Astronomers search for these promising worlds by looking for the “habitable...
Lena Kourkoutis, assistant professor and Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow (AEP), has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The funding will be used to develop and apply novel electron microscopy techniques that allow liquid-solid and soft-hard interfaces to be studied at the nanometer to atomic...
Cornell researcher Prof. Kenong Xu, horticulture, and Prof. Lena Kourkoutis, applied physics, were among the 105 researchers honored with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers which will be presented by President Barack Obama, the White House announced Thursday.The PECASE Award is the highest honor the U.S. government...
A first-of-its-kind electron microscope, which will allow materials to be studied in their natural environments using an electron beam focused down to a subatomic spot, is coming to Cornell.The National Science Foundation has given Cornell $2.7 million to acquire a cryogenic, aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope. The...
Forget Rome. Ignore Madrid. Overlook tropical islands. Cash in your frequent flier miles and book a cruise to far-flung, exotic exoplanets.Lisa Kaltenegger, professor of astronomy and director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute, lead author Stephen Kane of San Francisco State University and other scientists have written “A Catalog of Kepler...
Three professors – representing the departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Biological and Environmental Engineering – have been elected fellows by the American Physical Society (APS).The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise – including outstanding physics research, important applications of physics,...
From Nov. 25-29, Associate Professor of Astronomy Lisa Kaltenegger took part in a conference on science and sustainability in Vatican City, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, established in 1603. See the full article here.
Prof Séamus Davis is among 25 Irish leaders who are top of the science and technology world as recently named by SiliconRepublic.com. When we first launched Ireland’s Sci-Tech 100 in 2015, we were struck by the number of sci-tech luminaries from Ireland who were working abroad. At the time, we highlighted just a small selection of our...
Three months ago, without a whole lot of fanfare, an era in particle physics at Cornell came to an end.On Sept. 6, the 26-ton solenoidal superconducting magnet was carefully removed from the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory. This was the last vestige of the CLEO detector, which for nearly 30 years recorded data produced from the collision of...
Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance” – when two photons become entangled so that they respond the same way despite being far apart.Research on entanglement has led to even stranger things, like quantum teleportation, that can be experimentally proven. In this fall’s Hans Bethe Lecture at Cornell, physicist Anton Zeilinger will explore...
Paul McEuen, the John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, is heading Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s new faculty hiring initiative task force on nanoscale science and microsystems engineering (with co-chair Professor David Muller). He spoke to the Chronicle about pushing...
Three professors – representing the departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Biological and Environmental Engineering – have been elected fellows by the American Physical Society (APS).The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise – including outstanding physics research, important applications of physics,...
A collaboration of scientists, led by Cornell University, has been awarded $23 million by the National Science Foundation to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles while lowering the cost of key accelerator technologies. This Science and Technology Center (STC) will contribute to scientific advances in disciplines including chemistry...
Shear thickening – the increase of a liquid’s viscosity through applied force – is a well-known phenomenon. Mix equal parts corn starch and water and you come up with “Oobleck,” a liquid that turns solid the more vigorously you stir it.Thickening fluids have many technological uses – traction control in vehicles and liquid body armor are two...