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Astronomy

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Cornell Chronicle

Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow.Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their radiation could trigger a protective glow from life on exoplanets called biofluorescence, according to new Cornell research.

Education Research

NSF funds two discipline-based education research projects

NSF funds two discipline-based education research projectsThe National Science Foundation has funded two discipline-based education research (DBER) projects in the College of Arts & Sciences, contributing to Cornell’s growing DBER profile. Both grants are about $300,000 and three years in length.

English

Literary icon Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, dies at 88

Cornell Chronicle

Nobel Prize-winning author and alumna Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, died Monday, Aug. 5, in New York City. She was 88.

Sociology

Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech

Cornell Chronicle

Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive language.

Student summer experiences

Students fight violence, support NYC artists during summer experiences

A&S Communications

Students can use Summer Experience Grants to cover living and travel expenses when they take unpaid or minimally-paid positions.

Artist’s Impression of WASP-121b
Astronomy

Hubble Uncovers 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

A&S Communications

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed magnesium and iron gas streaming from a strange, football-shaped world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b. The Hubble observations represent the first time that so-called "heavy metals"—elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—have been spotted escaping from a hot Jupiter, a large, gaseous exoplanet very close to it star.

Chemistry & chemical biology

Baskin wins young investigator award for lipid research

Cornell Chronicle

When chemical biologist Jeremy Baskin played piano as a child, his parents noticed something unusual: He loved to improvise.

Mathematics

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

The New York Times

Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz, author most recently of "Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe," explains the latest mathematical Twitter upset in a New York Times op-ed.

Physics

Two on A&S faculty awarded DOE early career grants

Cornell Chronicle

Two College of Arts & Sciences faculty members were awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Jared Maxson, Ph.D. ’15 and Brad Ramshaw, both assistant professors of physics, will receive at least $750,000 over five years to support their scientific endeavors.

Mathematics

Geometric Cut-and-Paste Problems

Cornell Research

A common approach to problem-solving is to split a problem into smaller sub-problems, solve each of the smaller problems, and assemble the answers into a solution to the original problem. This last step is often very difficult, as there are multiple ways of gluing the pieces of the solution together. The mathematical area of K-theory studies the different ways of putting such solutions back together, as well as the relations behind differently-assembled pieces.