The Cornell Baja Racing team designs, builds and races an off-road vehicle. We participate in the SAE Midwest Regional competition, which includes events that test the maneuverability, suspension, and acceleration of the car, as well as judge its design and cost. The climax of the competition is the four hour endurance race.
Our team is [...]

BY LOUIS BERGERON AND STEPHANIE KENITZER

Wind farms can be built in mountainous regions, such as in Spain (above), or placed offshore like the one at Middelgrunden (other photo), near Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Wind farms can be built in mountainous regions, such as in Spain (other photo), or placed offshore like the one at [...]

Power is blowing in the wind

Associate Professor Giri Venkataramanan (center) and a team of workers built a wind turbine in the Scottish Highlands. The community there is not connected to the electrical grid. (Large image)

The rolling hills of the Scottish highlands are dotted with small stone houses. Their residents, mostly farmers and craftsmen, enjoy a [...]

by Hilary Parker
As junior Nick Frey sat in his fluid mechanics course last spring, he was thinking about bicycles — but he wasn’t daydreaming.
Rather, the mechanical and aerospace engineering major was conjuring ways to put his newfound knowledge to work in modifications to his racing bike. The reigning national time-trial champion and co-president of [...]

Frontiers of health: Sight for sore eyes
Ultra-short laser pulses may allow easier LASIK
by Hilary Parker
Szymon Suckewer needs eye surgery, but he’s not going under the knife just yet—he’d rather wait until no knife is necessary. Having recently developed an incision-free eye surgery technique, he’s confident that will soon be an option.
 

Szymon Suckewer (center) takes an [...]

With ongoing and trying debates dealing with the issue of stem cell research, it seems that such a future is moments away and yet still too far. The ability to understand certain diseases, clone body parts, and replace amputated or missing parts, are few of the many [...]