An Ivy League land-grant university whose research runs from quantum materials and crop science in Ithaca to biomedical discovery in Manhattan.
Cornell engineers and battery maker C4V watched protective layers form inside lithium-ion cells as they were made, deriving protocols that cut formation time by up to 60 per cent.
A multicentre study in Neuron finds that patients who undergo neck lymphadenectomy show elevated rates of cognitive impairment, pointing to disrupted drainage of fluid from the brain.
A 7.5 million dollar USDA grant establishes a Center of Excellence for Orchard Robotics at Cornell, uniting seven universities and industry to automate pollination, thinning, harvesting and weeding.
Cornell engineers have built a prototype virtual model of carbon dioxide across Manhattan, giving planners a live platform for spotting emissions hotspots and testing interventions.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers find that prostate tumours rewire amino acid metabolism to keep making cholesterol, a survival trick that may blunt hormone therapy.
Weill Cornell and Birkbeck researchers capture the first atomic-resolution structures of sevoflurane bound to a sodium channel, addressing a question that has shadowed anaesthesia for decades.
Cornell geneticists show that chromosome length alone cannot explain how males and females differ in genetic recombination, overturning a decades-old model of meiosis.
A compound that releases low, controlled doses of carbon monoxide reduced metastatic tumour growth in preclinical models of pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer.
In a phase 3b trial reported in Nature Medicine, patients who switched from injectable GLP-1 drugs to the oral medication orforglipron maintained most of their weight loss over a year.
A Cornell-built gripper with stretchable fibre-optic sensors assesses strawberry ripeness through its fingers, then twists the fruit free rather than pulling it.
Cornell researchers find that milkweed species have repeatedly evolved a structural modification to their toxins that defeats the monarch butterfly's famous chemical tolerance.
Swarms of magnetically driven discs just 300 micrometres across can collectively generate fluid flows strong enough to turn gears and transport objects, Cornell researchers report.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers isolated the rare reservoir cells that make HIV incurable, showed immune cells can wear most of them down, and found a drug that sensitises the holdouts.
The first mission in NASA's Astrophysics Pioneers programme, with Cornell astronomer Nikole Lewis on its science team, will disentangle starlight from the signals of planetary atmospheres.
Cornell engineers find that at extreme deformation speeds the celebrated Hall-Petch effect reverses: fine-grained metals soften while coarse-grained copper grows harder.
Cornell researchers mapped how tiny sacs secreted by embryonic stem cells shield other cells from oxidative stress, keeping them dividing when untreated cells grind into senescence.
Interviews with autonomous vehicle safety staff reveal that crash data stays locked away as competitive advantage, and point to practical routes for turning safety lessons into public knowledge.
A state-by-state analysis in Nature Sustainability projects the carbon and water toll of AI infrastructure by 2030, and shows how siting, cleaner grids and efficiency could cut it dramatically.