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Nobel Prize recipient and Cornell Professor Emeritus delivered a talk at the University on Wednesday, sharing his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and speaking on the ongoing aggression in Ukraine to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The work done by the self-effacing Dr. Pope helped pave the way for the high-performance electronics displays that are so common today.

(Inside Science) -- Recently, after more than a century of hunting, scientists reported creating the first room temperature superconductor. Now another research team has controversial evidence of what they call the first hot superconductor, in which electricity flows perfectly at temperatures more than hot enough to boil water.

A letter signed by 163 Nobel Prize laureates, and drafted by Cornell Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine and expressed support for the Ukrainian people.

President Pollack says the administration has reached out to both Ukrainian and Russian students to offer support and resources.

Patrick McGovern, a molecular archaeologist who specializes in alcoholic drinks, studies wines and history. Read an interview with him here.

Neil Ashcroft 1938-2021 By Daniel Garisto Neil Ashcroft, a theorist who paved the way for high-temperature hydrogen superconductors and was renowned for his commitment to educating the next generation of physicists, died on March 15 in Ithaca. He was 82. For his work, Ashcroft collected honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bridgman Award for high pressure physics. In addition to his leadership positions, Ashcroft was an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a foreign ...

"Your father was a participant in some military experiments to determine the effects of exposure of nuclear explosions on humans," my mother, Anna Burak, told me many years ago when my dad was stationed at an Air Force base in Neveda. “Dont say anything to him about my telling you this. He might get mad."  Many years later, I was fortunate enough to do a local access tv interview with Cornell Prof. (Emeritus) Hans Bethe, after he went public about his opposition to the nuclear arms race...

May 10, 2021 Roald Hoffmann participated in the 1955 Science Talent Search, with his project “Recording and Identification of Nuclear Particles.” Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of  Science News, chatted with Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, an alumnus of the 1955 Science Talent Search, a program of the Society for Science. Hoffmann is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. He is also an accomplished poet ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, an alumnus of the 1955 Science Talent Search, a program of the Society for Science. Hoffmann is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. He is also an accomplished poet and playwright. We are thrilled to share an edited summary of their conversation. Roald Hoffmann Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus, Corn...