A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow. Read more
A new mathematical method developed by Cornell researchers aims to inject fairness into the fraught process of political redistricting. Read more
Associate Professor Guy Hoffman's 2019 paper won the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE. The paper is titled "Evaluating Fluency in Human-Robot Collaboration." Read more
"Our best knowledge continues to suggest that we have a clear & still large say in how our future looks," says Flavio Lehner, assistant professor in EAS, in response to claims that Earth "is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming." Read more
The large Cornell-designed telescopic ‘ear’ at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which listened for the enlightening crackle of the cosmos for nearly six decades, now hears silence. Read more
Olivia Graham joined five-dozen scientists on four continents to create a marine biology first: a global map to show where the ocean’s mid-sized predators are most active in a climate-changing world. Read more
Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Mars’ Gale Crater equator around 4 billion years ago – a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there. Read more
Years before COVID-19 turned into a global pandemic, biomolecular engineer Susan Daniel was already looking for ways to defeat it. Now she’s expanding her coronavirus studies, blending engineering with virology and data science. Read more
The Cornell Energy Systems Institute (CESI) has announced that C. Lindsay Anderson will be the Institute’s Interim Director, effective immediately. Anderson is an associate professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE) and the Norman R. Scott Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, as well as the Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director for Energy with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. CESI’s mission is to “develop and deploy cost-effective energy systems that take advantage of innovations in materials, technology, and systems design to lower humanity's carbon... Read more
ACS Central Science article highlights professor Shaoyi Jiang's development of zwitterionic coatings as a safe, economic alternative for mitigating the centuries-old problem of ship fouling. Read more
