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As a finalist in the international Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Ellen Jannereth ’25 is making quantum physics more accessible to general audiences and is vying for a $250,000 scholarship in the process.
Recognized by splotches of green spilling over the surface of water, harmful algal blooms have once again cropped up on Cayuga Lake — indicating worsening trends over the nearly seven years of the seasonal phenomenon.
While human mothers received elaborate bouquets or harried text messages for Mother’s Day, the other mothers of the animal kingdom dealt with the threat of predators and scrounged for food to feed their young.
Muhammed Sameed ’11 is peeling back the curtains of the subatomic world to learn more about matter’s elusive counterpart — antimatter.
The operations research and information engineering teams — who have worked since the summer on the reopening plans — have continued to adapt based on added data from the fall semester.
As COVID-19 cases continue to spike across the United States and the rest of the world, several pharmaceutical companies have reached their final lap in the race to approve and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine — a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech received emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11, and the FDA is expected to authorize Moderna’s vaccine by the end of the month.
Cornell astronomers played a key role in developing the instrument responsible for discovering the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon this past October.
As COVID-19 continues to dominate the political backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, the candidates’ plans for promoting public health and eventually distributing a vaccine have taken on outsized importance as voters head to the polls.
The Amazon River Basin is under threat, largely at the hands of humans. To help change that, Prof. Carla Gomes, computer science, Prof. Alexander Flecker, ecology and evolutionary biology, and Rafael Almeida, postdoctoral researcher with the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, designed an interdisciplinary research project to inform policymakers of the environmental consequences of human actions.
Each October, Americans honor their loved ones battling breast cancer with charity fundraisers, pink clothing items and ribbons. Breast Cancer Awareness Month often comes as a somber reminder of lives lost to the devastating disease and all that researchers have yet to understand. But what exactly is breast cancer, and how can it currently be treated?