| News Date | News Details |
|---|---|
| July 30, 2008 |
Chaos Made Clear Understand Chaos Theory with This 24-Lecture Series Taught by and Award-winning Professor (advertisement) |
| June 10, 2008 |
India and the United States meet in Åland Rudra Pratrap lives in India. Andy Ruina, in the United States. Together they are writing a book on mechanics. |
| May 8, 2008 |
Cassini images on display in New York City With Cornell's help, a glorious Saturn steps into the spotlight in New York City |
| May 7, 2008 |
Cornell Robot a Record Walker Ranger is small and light, but a marathoner among walking robots. The skinny robot from Cornell University wouldn't last long in a ring with Honda's heavyweight humanoid robot. Honda's robot, ASIMO, can run, shake hands and serve tea. Cornell's Ranger doesn't even have hands. But it can do something ASIMO can't: It can walk five miles without charging its batteries. |
| May 1, 2008 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences names four Cornell academics as fellows This year's class of American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows includes four Cornell faculty members in disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychology. |
| April 7, 2008 |
Cornell Robot sets a Record for Distance Walking We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles -- around the Barton Hall running track. |
| March 14, 2008 |
Genes on the Move Biology class is all about putting living things into categories, based on their differences. And creatures are different because they have different genes. But life wasn’t always like that. Radiolab on WNYC |
| January 25, 2008 |
Six Degrees Chances are you've heard of the 'small world' idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct? The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. The result that entered the public consciousness was that in general it took six steps or fewer to bridge the gap between any two people. But is that result accurate? |
| January 17, 2008 |
The Lure of the Dragonfly Seeking a Quantitative Understanding of Flapping Flight We study general flapping flight as a means to understand the essential mechanisms shared not only among insects, but also among birds, fish, and leaves fluttering and tumbling in the air. |
| October 3, 2007 |
Sputnik Space and me Sputnik Space and me |
