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Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched ‘quantum Legos’
Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go – or don’t go – in certain layered materials.
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Light causes atomic layers to do the twist
Using a Cornell-built instrument and Cornell-built high-speed detector, a team of researchers captured atomically thin materials responding to light with a dynamic twisting motion.
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Neurotech symposium explores how brain circuits drive behavior
The 2025 Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium, hosted jointly by Cornell Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences, featured two leading researchers in neuroscience to explore how neural circuitry in the brain directs complex behaviors.
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![A neural implant developed at Cornell rests on a grain of salt. About 300 microns long and 70 microns wide, it’s the smallest neural implant capable of wirelessly transmitting brain activity data.]()
Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain
Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.
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