Jesse Silverberg grad and Matt Bierbaum grad study the similarities between gas particle motion and the collective motion of heavy metal fans dancing in mosh pits.
Three-photon imaging developed by Prof. Chris Xu '96, applied and engineering physics, improved on past technology to allow better imaging of the brain.
This week in Science, we turn to Cornell physicists and particle scientists to explain the Higgs Boson discovery and why this half-century long search is a crowning achievement in physics.
Dale Corson, the University's eighth president, was under investigation in part because, from 1944 to 1946, his name had appeared on a list of members of the American Soviet Science Society, Inc.
Earlier this month the university sponsored a lecture titled: The Physics of a Flying R2-D2 and Other Interesting Ideas. Featured speaker Rhett Allain blogs about physics for Wired Science.
Light dazzles and incises at LUX, an amalgamation of art installations and science lectures that celebrates light. Tom Moore '14 is fascinated but worried.
In her course Physics 1204: Physics of Music, Prof. Kathy Selby, physics, explains the mathematical relationships that help determine why some musical tunes are enjoyable and others are perceived as unpleasant.
When Dale Corson became Cornell’s eighth president on Sept. 5, 1969, he inherited a university rife with tension, torn by new demands to include women and minorities on campus. Eight years later, at the end of his tenure, Cornell was virtually unrecognizable, faculty and administrators said.
After the death of former University president Dale Corson Saturday, members of the Cornell community reflected on Corson’s extensive contributions to multiple scientific disciplines.
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