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Group of people in an equipment room, a table of parts — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Britney Schmidt, center, and research team members

Climate research

Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

2/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.

Clock tower in foreground, snowy college campus in the distance, seen from above in low light

Sloan Research Fellowships

Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

2/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.

Smoke rising from a landfill — Collab Media/Unsplash Milner's project aims to use renewable electricity to achieve low-cost capture of methane from various streams, including landfills.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Milner wins Scialog award to advance methane mitigation

2/14/2023 A&S Communications

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.

Silhouettes on a wall show a gun aimed at two hands held up in surrender; a scene of nighttime crime

Moral psychology

I, Judge and Jury

2/13/2023 Cornell Research

How do you decide if a person in a difficult situation has acted criminally or not? John Doris reveals patterns in our moral judgments.

Light shines through gossamer fabric of a large, inflated balloon against a dark sky — NASA/Dartmouth/Alexa Halford/Creative Commons license 2.0 A high altitude research balloon, launching in 2015

Unidentified flying objects

In an age of drones and UAVs, why balloons are having a moment

2/13/2023 A&S Communications

Countries have long used balloons to extend intelligence collection though more sophisticated technologies have replaced them in recent years, says drone researcher Paul Lushenko.

Music

GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24

2/10/2023 A&S Communications

Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.

city lights on a river at night — Moscow

History

Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine

2/9/2023

In a New York Times guest essay, Nicholas Mulder considers why the Russian economy has proven relatively resilient under sanctions.

A diagram of green lines making a path among blue and red lines — Sunghoon Kim As the experimentalists changed the electric field, it is likely that different parts of the material underwent the metal-to-insulator transition at different values of the electric field because of a small number of inherent imperfections. Consequently, the flowing electrons must find a path through these “islands” of insulating regions, embedded in a “sea” of metal.

Physics

Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures

2/9/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In the experimental metal-to-insulator transition, even a tiny amount of imperfection plays a key role in revealing the universal physics.

Two images of boggy land; people digging in it — Nuria Rodríguez/Provided Fieldwork and sampling in Tirez lagoon, central Spain, when the lagoon was still active (left) and after drought and desiccation, with only salt crusts remaining (right).

Astronomy

Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Alberto G. Fairén led an inaugural study of a dynamic analogous Earth environment where changes can be analyzed over many years.

Sociology

Same-race reviews reduce inequality in Airbnb bookings

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.

Dry landscape featuring a hill and partly cloudy sky — John Marston The researchers scrutinized tree ring samples recovered from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.

Archaeology

Rare drought coincided with Hittite Empire collapse

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary collaboration used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought in an already dry period.

A police vehicle at night, red and blue lights reflecting off wet pavement

Government

Reforming police culture across nation a ‘shared responsibility’

2/8/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Joseph Margulies says that while President Biden was right to call for police accountability in the State of the Union address, we all share responsibility for police culture.