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When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, instructor Mark Sarvary, Ph.D. ’06, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras.It didn’t turn out as they’d hoped.“Most of our students had their cameras off,” said Sarvary, director of the Investigative Biology...
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Cornell researchers spent the eight months since launch preparing for the craft's landing Feb. 18.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on a journey to Mars since its launch in July 2020 and is set to land on the red planet on Feb. 18. Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy, is a co-investigator for Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z — a set of stereo cameras that will be the “eyes of the rover.”
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Cornell astronomers have estimated that Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane on Saturn's largest moon, is at least 1,000 feet deep near its center.
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Morgan Irons is about to help make space-exploration history – and all she needed was a shovel and some dirt.Irons, a doctoral student in soil and crop sciences, will see the soil she scooped from a Cornell farm organic plot launch into space on the evening of Sept. 29. It will hitch a ride aboard a resupply mission bound for the International...
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Jonathan Lunine, David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and Chair of the Astronomy Department, collaborated with scientists in Berlin to publish work on life detection techniques for solar system ocean worlds”. The press release for these papers appears on the link.
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Undergraduates can now apply for the new Science Communication and Public Engagement (SCoPE) minor, designed to prepare students to be socially engaged scientists and to make science communication a foundation of a STEM education.Students in the new Science Communication and Public Engagement minor will have access to a multimedia studio for...
/news/cornell-launches-science-communication-minorClimate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability by F. Zhu, CSI member Toby Ault, and colleagues; email: tra38@cornell.eduClimate records exhibit scaling behavior with large exponents, resulting in larger fluctuations at longer timescales. It is unclear whether climate models are capable of simulating...
/news/csi-papers-published-climate-models-can-correctly-simulate-continuum-global-averageFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results: I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole by K. Asada, CSI members Shami Chatterjee and Jim Cordes, and colleagues; email: sc99@cornell.eduWhen surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at...
/news/csi-papers-published-first-m87-event-horizon-telescope-resultsAtmospheres and UV Environments of Earth-like Planets throughout Post-main-sequence Evolution by CSI members Thea Kozakis and Lisa Kaltenegger; email: tk543@cornell.eduDuring the post-main-sequence (post-MS) phase of stellar evolution, the orbital distance of the habitable zone (HZ), which allows for liquid surface water on terrestrial planets...
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