News

05/02/2013
MicroGen's nanotechnology based energy harvester – researched and developed by the company at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility – begins commercial scale production this summer.
05/01/2013
Two Cornell researchers are world experts in studies of little-known plant transport proteins that may be key to easing the ever-growing global food needs.
04/30/2013
One-third of Facebook users deactivate their accounts temporarily and 11 percent completely quit, reports a Cornell study.
04/30/2013
Over spring break, 26 Cornell students offered legal education to disenfranchised Panamanians through the student group Global Law Brigade.
04/30/2013
Cornell researchers have developed a new mild onion that has chefs crying – tears of joy.
04/30/2013
Researchers have explained the physics behind why glass breaks differently than seashells or bone.
04/29/2013
New research could help forest managers plan when and where to ignite small controlled burns to reduce dry vegetation and restore the ecosystem.
04/29/2013
A million-year record of several thousand earthquakes in Chile reveals that widely used earthquake modeling may be too simple.
04/29/2013
Visualizing the future enables robots to provide assistance without getting in the way.