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Multi-colored, uneven bands, some straight, some with curved projections, represent ice layers — NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/JHU This image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ice sheets at Mars’ south pole.

Astronomy

Simulations dampen excitement about liquid water on Mars

6/7/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive – if less dramatic – explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ice cap on Mars’ south pole.

Sociology

Snap elections a ‘political mistake’ for Macron

6/10/2024 A&S Communications

Sociologist Mabel Berezin comments on France's political leaders scrambling to prepare for snap elections.

Classics

In a new book, prof translates ancient advice for the lovelorn

6/12/2024 Cornellians

How to Get Over a Breakup is Michael Fontaine’s latest entry in a series that mines modern wisdom from classical works

Awards and honors

Traverso honored by Autonomous University of Barcelona

6/14/2024 A&S Communications

Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Bart Winokur Professor in the Humanities, has received an honorary doctorate from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Ryan Windhearn

Visiting Lecturer
Linguistics

A mother helping a child with the hood of a parka — Sai De Silva/Unsplash

Neurobiology and Behavior

Mothers’ care is central factor in animal, human longevity

6/18/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The relationship between mother and child offers clues to the mystery of why humans live longer lives than expected for their size – and sheds new light on what it means to be human.