Spotlights

The growing power of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning (ML), raises ethical and policy issues that might not be apparent. The fact that these issues are not immediately...

Yadong Wang joins the Meinig School in summer 2017 as professor of heart-assist technology. Dr. Wang's research focuses on creating biomaterials that present controlled chemical, physical, and...

When you drop a coin and it falls into a patch of grass near a parking meter, if you are a sighted person you simply scan the grass until you find the quarter, pick it up, and use it to feed the meter...

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao , a Ph.D. student in Professor Erickson’s lab , presented his research on “Application of Smartphone Technology in Food Safety” at the Journey Through Science Day in New York City...

Jeff Rzeszotarski wants to help people unpack complex data so that anyone—even novices—can make sense of it and use what they learn to make their lives better. Rzeszotarski, who joined the faculty of...

Andrej Singer has joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Cornell as an assistant professor after completing a post-doc at the University of California—San...

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao , a Ph.D. student in Professor Erickson’s lab , received Best Poster Award for FeverPhone research at the ACLS International Summer School 2017 in Singapore. ACLS International...

Often when Hollywood directors want to convey the fact that something very scientific is happening, they will dress the actors in white suits that cover them head to toe—including booties, gloves, and...

In the basement of Grumman Hall, an x-ray pulse produced by a hot, dense plasma – an ionized gas – lasting only fractions of a microsecond both begins and ends an experiment. Hidden within that...