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June 11, 2026

Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease...

May 21, 2026

Amid concern about democratic backsliding globally, the center will mobilize scholars to strengthen democracy through rigorous research, democratic education and public...

May 13, 2026

Cornell-led research linking poverty and disease – and a promising path out of both – faces an uncertain future as federal science funding comes under...

April 29, 2026

After delivering on ambitious first-year milestones for projects in quantum and semiconductor technologies, researchers in the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering have helped secure millions of dollars in additional federal funding for the Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub, also known as NORDTECH, to continue its work in strengthening U.S. technological and defense needs. NORDTECH is...

April 20, 2026

Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then pick them without causing any...

April 9, 2026

Exostellar, a startup born from Cornell research, has achieved an outcome many entrepreneurs dream of – acquisition by a Fortune 500 company. Qualcomm acquired Exostellar, launched in 2018 by computer science professors Hakim Weatherspoon and Robbert van Renesse and former postdoctoral researcher Zhiming Shen, Ph.D. ’17, in...

April 7, 2026

A proof of principle study in mice, six years in the making, shows how targeting a natural checkpoint in meiosis, the process by which sex cells reproduce, safely stopped sperm...

March 2, 2026

The Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium, March 3-5, will feature experts from across academia and industry engaging in discussions on the use and implications of generative...

February 20, 2026

Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular “gate” that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate blood pressure, brain signaling, and immune defenses. But when levels go unchecked, it can damage cells and disrupt normal...

February 13, 2026

In a recent hackathon sprint, the Cornell Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), successfully showcased a closed loop fertigation system that is controlled by the plants...

February 11, 2026

Muller was honored for his contributions to developing the highest resolution electron microscope in the...

February 11, 2026

High school seniors from Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES stepped into the cleanroom at Cornell’s Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility this January, trading classroom labs for hands-on experience in one of the nation’s most advanced university nanofabrication...