A NIH-funded project, led by Itai Cohen, professor of physics, will use the fruit fly to study how the brain processes multisensory information involved in flight, possibly offering insight into human neurological function.
A team of Cornell researchers unexpectedly discovered the presence of a “quantum spin-glass” while conducting research designed to learn more about quantum algorithms.
“We will study how many types of viruses, such as flu and HIV, among others, attack cells and what factors can help or hinder this,” said PI Jack Freed.
Through historical research and instrumental innovations – like playing on a seven-string guitar – Michael Poll has developed a framework to "translate" lute and violin pieces for guitar.
In new research, Andrew Campana examines cinema-centered poetry in Japan from the 1910s and 1920s, discovering the ways poetry chronicles lasting human impressions left by “new” media.
“Gas-trophysics Across the Universe,” a July 15 symposium, will celebrate the work and lives of renowned Cornell astronomers Peter Gierasch and Riccardo Giovanelli.
In "The Consciousness Revolutions," Shimon Edelman traces the evolution of consciousness, from the most basic phenomenal awareness of bacteria to the pleasures and pains of human self-consciousness to the political possibilities of social consciousness.
… Jessica Chen Weiss , the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asian Pacific Studies, will use a New Frontier Grant to help launch the Cornell U.S. – China Policy (CUSP) Initiative to bring together academics, … solutions and future trajectories in U.S. policy toward China and the world. CUSP will draw on a wealth of Cornell …
Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.
Comparing Britain, the United States and France with the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Richard Bensel uncovers a paradox at the heart of every modern state founding.
Open now through June 11, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
… 13380 … In Qing Dynasty China (1644-1911), laws favored parents over children – for a … of Wang Dacai, which opens her book “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform.” In 1815, a son’s … said Du, whose research centers on the history of modern China. “And it reveals that Qing law’s upholding of parents’ …
A noted Milton scholar who also worked on modern poetry and American literature, Radzinowicz taught at Cornell starting in 1980, after a 20-year academic career in Great Britain.
Researchers discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b, a ‘hot Jupiter’ orbiting a star comparable to our sun, is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen.
A field experiment investigating how GPT-3 might be used to generate constituent email messages showed that legislators were only slightly less likely to respond to AI-generated messages than human-generated.
The psychology researcher is “one of the most prominent international contemporary scholars in the field of the cognitive and cultural foundations of language.”
A national survey points to theories based on continuity between former President Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos and between the younger Marcos and the older – as well as ethnicity-based voting.
Hübner's winning article from the Journal of the History of Philosophy gives a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing.”
Astrophysicist Wendy L. Freedman will describe the current state of cosmology and her work with the Hubble Space Telescope that has led to some of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant made to date.
“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.
Karen Vogtmann is among 120 members and 30 international members who were elected in 2022, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The Scialog initiative aims to catalyze advances in basic science that will enable technologies for removal of C02 and other greenhouse gases to become more efficient, affordable and scalable.
… at the University of California, Irvine. She studies China as a critical site for theorizing how media cultures … to document the era since 2008 – a time when the rise of China has coincided with global economic, social and …
