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July 22, 2025

A Cornell Engineering team was on the cusp of significant progress developing an advanced laser useful for military and civilian applications, but a stop-work order prevented final experiments from...

July 21, 2025

Cornell has secured a 10-year, $10 million grant renewal to continue work aimed at spurring economic impact and job growth through applied research, development and commercialization of breakthrough...

July 9, 2025

Researchers found that human-caused climate change and air pollution have directly reduced precipitation in the Southwestern U.S., making drought...

June 11, 2025

Cornell researchers have developed a soft robotic device that gently grips and injects living plant leaves with sensors that help it detect and communicate with its environment. The robot can also inject genetic material into the...

June 9, 2025

Gallox Semiconductors, a startup with roots at Cornell University, has had recent success on the international stage, winning the 2025 Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge in the Advanced Computing & Electronics...

June 3, 2025

Company was launched through the Center for Life Science Ventures with technology licensed through the Center for Technology...

June 2, 2025

In a new study, a team of Cornell researchers used canine DNA to uncover more than 15 genes linked to gastric...

May 22, 2025

Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far more chaotic than it...

May 22, 2025

By J. Edward Anthony Marcus Smolka, professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), has been named an associate vice provost in Research & Innovation. His two-year appointment began May 1. Smolka succeeds Hector Aguilar-Carreño, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, who served in...

May 19, 2025

A simulator – with real, hovering spacecraft – would have allowed researchers, companies and government agencies to test crucial space technologies, but a stop-work order from the federal government has halted...

May 13, 2025

By finding the atomic equivalent of a perfect handshake between two types of perovskite, researchers at Cornell have built solar cells that are not only high-performing, but exceptionally...

May 8, 2025

A Cornell-led assessment of vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain and how to mitigate them is on hold after receiving a stop-work...