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On April 8, members of the CLASSE and CHESS communities gathered at Cornell Cinema for a private screening of The Accelerator, a new documentary chronicling the life and legacy of physicist Robert R. Wilson. 

While the particle accelerator buried beneath Cornell’s soccer field typically hums along 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the spring down period offers a rare and essential pause in operations. For two weeks, the synchrotron powers down—giving CHESS technical staff, scientists, and engineers a valuable window to dive into hands-on work that’s impossible when the machine is running.

Just as a snowflake’s intricate structure vanishes when it melts and transforms when it refreezes, the microstructure of metals can change during the 3D printing process, resulting in strengths or weaknesses in the printed product.

Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

A new technique transforms symmetrical semiconductor particles, producing films with extraordinary light-bending properties.

With the global poultry feed market projected to reach $238.9 billion by the end of 2025, the broiler feed industry could benefit from a nutritionally advantageous ingredient that also happens to be more affordable because it comes from a waste stream.

Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.

Cornell engineers and research staff have made a significant leap in materials characterization for mechanical engineering with the development of a new Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction (EDXRD) detector system at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).