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A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.
Margaret A. Marchaterre/Provided
A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.
Elliot Lowndes/Provided
A male ostracod, about the size of a sesame seed, will dance in harmony with other males underwater at night and secrete a glowing mucus to get attention from females.
Elliot Lowndes/Provided
A male ostracod, about the size of a sesame seed, will dance in harmony with other males underwater at night and secrete a glowing mucus to get attention from females.
Ryan Young/Cornell University
Reduced from polyester fiber, an array of metal-organic frameworks is shown in the Hinestroza lab. Minor changes in the chemical structure can generate a myriad of colors.
Ryan Young/Cornell University
Reduced from polyester fiber, an array of metal-organic frameworks is shown in the Hinestroza lab. Minor changes in the chemical structure can generate a myriad of colors.
NASA/JPL/Provided
Even on future cosmic outposts like Mars, depicted in this artistic rendering, humans must consider closely replicating natural conditions found on Earth, according to a new theory called Pancosmorio.
NASA/JPL/Provided
Even on future cosmic outposts like Mars, depicted in this artistic rendering, humans must consider closely replicating natural conditions found on Earth, according to a new theory called Pancosmorio.
Darren McGee/NYS Governor’s Office
The carved portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be permanently installed at the New York State Capitol's Great Western Staircase later this spring.
Darren McGee/NYS Governor’s Office
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, right, and artist Meredith Bergmann discuss the Ruth Bader Ginsburg portrait that will be installed at the Great Western Staircase in the state capitol.
ABC/Eric McCandless
American Idol's superstar judges all agreed that Amara Valerio '24 is headed for Hollywood.
ABC/Eric McCandless
American Idol's superstar judges all agreed that Amara Valerio '24 is headed for Hollywood.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Ray Halbritter, left, representing the Oneida Indian Nation, and President Martha E. Pollack, sign documents that repatriate ancestral remains from the university to the Oneida Indian Nation.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Ray Halbritter, left, representing the Oneida Indian Nation, and President Martha E. Pollack, sign documents that repatriate ancestral remains from the university to the Oneida Indian Nation.
Cornell University file photo
Peter Gierasch in 2007
Cornell University file photo
Famed Cornell astronomer Peter Gierasch, seen here in 1979, died Jan. 20 in Ithaca. He was 82.
Ryan Young/Cornell University
The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.
Ryan Young/Cornell University
The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Citizen scientists Kevin M. Gill and Fernando Garcia Navarro created this colorful, highly artistic view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, taken from JunoCam on the Juno mission’s close flyby Sept. 29. JPL/NASA released this image on Oct. 6.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Citizen scientists Kevin M. Gill and Fernando Garcia Navarro created this colorful, highly artistic view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, taken from JunoCam on the Juno mission’s close flyby Sept. 29. JPL/NASA released this image on Oct. 6.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Léa Bonnefoy ‘15, a post-doctoral researcher, led a team of Cornell scientists to characterize the Dragonfly mission's landing site on Saturn’s moon Titan. The rotorcraft is expected to launch in 2027 and reach that moon in 2034.
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Léa Bonnefoy ‘15, a post-doctoral researcher, led a team of Cornell scientists to characterize the Dragonfly mission's landing site on Saturn’s moon Titan. The rotorcraft is expected to launch in 2027 and reach that moon in 2034.
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Cornell scientists synthesized the physical characteristics of lava in a laboratory furnace to create a new catalog to help James Webb Space Telescope researchers find volcanic exoplanets.
European Southern Observatory / L. Calçada
In this illustration, exoplanet CoRoT-7b, which is likely five times the mass of Earth, may well be full of lava landscapes and boiling oceans.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Doctoral student Abhinav Jindal, standing in front of a Rosetta mission image of Comet 67P, modeled the evolution of smooth terrain on that frozen world.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Doctoral student Abhinav Jindal, standing in front of a Rosetta mission image of Comet 67P, modeled the evolution of smooth terrain on that frozen world.
Credit: NASA/Provided
Evidence of carbon dioxide was found by the new James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet WASP-39b, which is shown in this artistic rendering.
Credit: NASA/Provided
Evidence of carbon dioxide was found by the new James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet WASP-39b, which is shown in this artistic rendering.
Blaine Friedlander
Projected colors onto a 3D screen conveys a captivating intersection of the arts and sciences, at an exhibit last October at the Soil Factory.
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The Soil Factory, a large, unremarkable warehouse on the southern edge of Ithaca, has become a collaboration center in 2021 for students, scientists, artists, community members and everyone in between.
NASA/JPL/Provided
Scientists have suggested sending an orbiter and probe to Uranus, as their top exploration priority. The voyage would conduct flybys and examine clouds, atmospheric structure, composition, the planet’s rings and moons.
NASA/JPL/Provided
Scientists have suggested sending an orbiter and probe to Uranus, as their top exploration priority. The voyage would conduct flybys and examine clouds, atmospheric structure, composition, the planet’s rings and moons.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Qihao Li, left, Geoff Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry, discuss hydrogen energy.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Qihao Li, left, Geoff Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry, discuss hydrogen energy.
Jack Madden/Provided
With a color catalog based on Earth’s microbes, astronomers can begin to decipher the tint of life on distant, frozen exoplanets, as depicted in this artistic rendering by Jack Madden Ph.D. ’20.
Jack Madden/Provided
With a color catalog based on Earth’s microbes, astronomers can begin to decipher the tint of life on distant, frozen exoplanets, as depicted in this artistic rendering by Jack Madden Ph.D. ’20.
ESA/Rosetta/MPS
A close-up examination of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko reveals dancing gravel, whirling icy debris and transient, movable depressions on its smooth terrain, courtesy of photos from the Rosetta mission.
ESA/Rosetta/MPS
A close-up examination of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko reveals dancing gravel, whirling icy debris and transient, movable depressions on its smooth terrain, courtesy of photos from the Rosetta mission.
NASA-JPL-ASU/Provided
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance poses in a planetary selfie last September with the formation known as “Rochette.”
NASA-JPL-ASU/Provided
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance poses in a planetary selfie last September with the formation known as “Rochette.”
NASA/JPL
An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
NASA/JPL
An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
NASA/JPL
A radar image from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers and tributaries.
NASA/JPL
A radar image from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers and tributaries.
Shami Chatterjee/Provided
The new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, known as FAST, in Guizhou, China, where the 1,652 fast radio bursts were detected.
Shami Chatterjee/Provided
The new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, known as FAST, in Guizhou, China, where the 1,652 fast radio bursts were detected.
ESA/Mars Express
Mars’ south pole – which looks like creamy swirls in cappuccino – is an icy cap with carbon dioxide and other geologic traits. About a mile below the cap is smectite, a hydrated version of clay.
ESA/Mars Express
Mars’ south pole – which looks like creamy swirls in cappuccino – is an icy cap with carbon dioxide and other geologic traits. About a mile below the cap is smectite, a hydrated version of clay.
OpenSpace/American Museum of Natural History
Artistic view of the Earth and sun from thousands of miles above our planet, showing that stars can enter and exit a position to see Earth transiting the sun.
Ursa Space/provided
Dozens of oil tankers and commercial cargo ships line up at Great Bitter Lake to enter the Suez Canal in this early April satellite image
Hu Shih, Class of 1914, from the scrapbook of Lincoln E. Patterson.
An artistic rendering for how the new North Campus Residential Expansion halls will look in fall 2021.
Cornell University
Walter F. LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History.
Jason Koski, Cornell University
Walter LaFeber speaking at the 2016 Dedication of the LaFeber Research Study.
National Park Service
Russian Commander Iurii Lisianskii’s 1804 outline drawing of the Tlingit fort used to defend against Russia’s colonization forces. Cornell and U.S. National Park Service researchers have pinpointed the fort’s exact location in Sitka, Alaska.
