August, 2014: KIC member Itai Cohen's research into origami mechanics and reprogammable materials has led to articles this week in Science and the New York Times.

August ,2014: KIC members Darrell Schlom, David Muller, Kyle Shen and Lena Kourkoutis use high-energy electron diffraction, x-ray spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and quantum mechanical calculations to confirm that an extra layer of strontium oxide is needed in order to grow a perfect Ruddlesden-Popper film.  Their discovery was published in Nature Communications, Aug. 4.

KIC member Dan Ralph has partnered with Penn State researcher Nitin Samarth to discover a novel approach to computer memory they call a "topological insulator." Using the spin orientation of electrons their approach could lead to memory devices that are 10 times more efficient than any other known methods. This discovery was described in the July 24 issue of Nature.

June, 2014: KIC members Paul McEuen, Jiwoong Park and Kin Fai Mak have tested molybdenum disulfide as a new semiconductor material, with the potential to create smaller, more efficient computers. Read more in the June 27th article in Science.

June, 2014: Matthew Paszek, KIC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, led an important study on glycoprotein-induced cancer survival, published in Nature on June 25.  The study found that the polysaccharide coating of cancer cells is especially thick and pronounced.

May, 2014: A team of Cornell researchers, including KIC member Seamus Davis, close in on the secret recipe for high-temperature superconductors. Their results were published in the May 8 issue of the journal Science.

April, 2014: KIC members Kyle Shen, Darrell Schlom and Phil King and a team from Cornell and Brookhaven National Lab have discovered a new property of metal oxides that can act like a switch when the material is less than a nanometer thick.  The finding were published online April 6 in Nature Nanotechnology and will appear in the journal’s May issue.

April, 2014: A technology developed by Cornell Scientists prepares proteins for X-ray crystallography has made its way into the world marketplace. The science behind the product was developed in the lab of Sol Gruner, KIC member and John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics.

March, 2014: KIC Member Itai Cohen investigates how flies recover to flight disturbances, concluding that a small group of fly neurons is actually "solving calculus problems."

March, 2014:  A recent article focuses on how the 2013 KIC Science Communications Workshop with Alan Alda enabled scientists to take cues from actors "to keep audiences from snoozing."