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A field of stars in the background and in the foreground a colorful cliff-shaped mass of cosmic gases. — NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The paper advances understanding of life in the context of other complex evolving systems. The image shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomy

Nature’s missing evolutionary law identified

10/16/2023 A&S Communications

… of the National Academy of Sciences, describes “a missing law of nature” that recognizes for the first time an … The new work presents a modern addition to “macroscopic” laws of nature, which describe and explain phenomena …

A pink-tinged crescent edge of a planet with a thin blue layer of atmosphere framed against the black emptiness of space — NASA, ESA, CSA, and R. Crawford/Provided Artist’s rendering of WASP-17 b.

Exoplanets

Webb detects quartz crystals in clouds of hot gas giant

10/16/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The quartz crystals are only about 10 nanometers across (one-millionth of one centimeter), so small that 10,000 could fit side-by-side across a human hair.

Mathematics

Students from all majors invited to mathematical modeling contest

10/13/2023 A&S Communications

The competition allows students to work on open-ended real world problems, showcasing the multifaceted nature of applied mathematics.

Grey city buildings look very small compared to billowing steel- and linen-colored clouds filling the sky above — Vlad Tchompalov/Unsplash Gas Works Park, Settle

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Metal organic frameworks turn greenhouse gas into ‘gold’

10/11/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have found an innovative way to handle fluorinated gases as stable solids -- and the same process could someday be used to capture greenhouse gases.

Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Megan Driscoll

10/11/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral student in chemistry and chemical biology with a focus in polymer chemistry from Chelmsford, Massachusetts Driscoll researches new ways to make and upcycle polymers.

Person playing a stringed instrument — Provided Simon Shaheen

Near Eastern Studies

Award-winning Simon Shaheen to perform, lecture on Arab music

10/11/2023 A&S Communications

“Simon Shaheen is widely celebrated as a virtuoso violinist and oud player, incomparably creative composer and master teacher of Arab music."

Painting showing a regal woman in magnificent black dress; a servant holds a red parasol over her — Widner Collection/National Gallery of Art 'Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo’ by Anthony van Dyck

History of Art and Visual Studies

Clothing is key: Van Dyck portrait captures ‘moment in the history of race-making’

10/11/2023 A&S Communications

Ana Howie used her expertise in cultures of dressing and European imperialism to uncover a story tying Genoa’s elite families to globalized material trade – and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.

lots of guitar looking instruments — Provided A sampling of the instruments that Jesse Jones built for the Cornell ReSounds project.

New Frontier Grants

Cornell ReSounds concert features Moog keyboard, new instruments

10/11/2023 A&S Communications

It will be the first time the instrument will be played in public.

Person singing in a brightly colored traditional costume of Mongolia — Long-song vocalist Ganchimeg Badamsuren

Music

Mongolian music comes to campus

10/10/2023 A&S Communications

Concerts set for Oct. 20 and 22 will highlight the musical legacy of composer Byambasurengiin Sharav, a household name in Mongolia.

Two hands (manicured, wearing silver rings) hold a smart phone against a dark backgroun — Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash Desperate for information

Psychology

Israel-Hamas conflict: Fighting misinformation requires better tools

10/10/2023 A&S Communications

“Every time there is some major event and information is at a premium, we see misinformation spread like wildfire," says professor Gordon Pennycook.

Helicopter flies toward a black cloud — Daniel Klein/Unsplash

Government

Cornell scholar: Netanyahu’s policy failures on display following attack

10/9/2023 A&S Communications

The sense of collective shock in Israel is larger than after the surprise attack on the country which started the Yom Kippur War, says Uriel Abulof.

Person speaking at a podium gesturing with hands — Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Author N.K. Jemisin speaks at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4 in in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

10/9/2023 Cornell Chronicle

At the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4, Jemisin spoke on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.