A&S Media Report - 7/17/2026

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STATS AT A GLANCE:
106 external media stories tracked
5 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Cornellians stories
1 A&S website stories
8 X posts
5 Facebook posts
2 Instagram posts, reels and event stories
5 LinkedIn posts

Sciences and Math

Making the Invisible Visible: $100 Device Detects Cosmic Particles Passing Through You

SciTech Daily
Related People: Natasha Holmes
Related Department or Program: Physics

Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth's, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice

Space Daily
Related People: Alexander Hayes
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

Quanta Magazine and 38 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death

Ars Technica and 21 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Christopher O’Connor , graduate student
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

AI Agents Ported Tao’s 27-Year-Old Math Code in Hours and Found Two Bugs He Had Missed

Tech Times
Related People: Allen Knutson
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

How a Cornell startup scaled to $1.3 billion in battery tech

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Héctor D. Abruña , Siyu Huang, Ph.D. ’12, MBA ’14, Alex Yu, Ph.D. ’14
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell-founded battery company Factorial Energy debuts on Nasdaq

FingerLakes 1
Related People: Héctor D. Abruña , multiple alumni
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Buzzing With Excitement: This Student Group is a Hive of Activity

Cornellians
Related People: Thomas Seeley
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Puerto Rico Upgrades Remote Microgrid With Clean Hydrogen

IEEE Spectrum
Related People: Héctor D. Abruña
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Social Sciences

The Case for Wobbling, It Isn’t Failure, It’s Progress

Psychology Today and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

The richer get richer – not just materially, but socially

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park , Nan Feng, Ph.D. ’24
Related Department or Program: Sociology

AI romance scam impersonating Dubai prince ensnares victims

AFP and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Rand
Related Department or Program: Psychology

More grist for Mamdani’s tax the rich debate

Politico
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Retail inflation rises to 4.38 pc in Jun, surpasses RBI’s median target level

The Print
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

The 'spotlight effect' was measured at Cornell in 2000, where students wearing an embarrassing T-shirt guessed twice as many people had noticed it than actually had — we consistently overestimate how closely others watch us

Silicon Canals and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Humanities and Arts

Munich Chords: The Valkyrie Rides Again

CounterPunch
Related People: David Yearsley
Related Department or Program: Music

When the Male Gaze Turns on Men

New York Times and 10 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Stubborn Norway fan refuses to do Viking Row at World Cup because it's factually inaccurate

CBC and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Oren Falk
Related Department or Program: History

Your July 2026 Reads

Cornellians
Related People: Alice Fulton , multiple alumni
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Cornell University Press Book Sheds Link on Punk’s Diverse History

Ithaca Times
Related People: Judith A. Peraino
Related Department or Program: Music

Sandwell wins prize for book on South African anti-apartheid movement

A&S Communications
Related People: Rachel Sandwell
Related Department or Program: History

Swiss National Councilor invests in private city-state alongside Peter Thiel (German)

Republik
Related People: Raymond B. Craib
Related Department or Program: History

Classics professor plays guide to ancient Pompeii’s daily life on TV series

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Caitie Barrett
Related Department or Program: Classics

Want More of the Odyssey? Read These Books Next

New York Times
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: History

Classics Prof Teams Up with ‘Loki’ Actor to Explore Pompeii on NatGeo

Cornellians
Related People: Caitie Barrett
Related Department or Program: Classics

Check out scenes from 'Pompeii: Beyond Time', a Disney+ miniseries about the eruption of Vesuvius (Portuguese)

UOL
Related People: Caitie Barrett
Related Department or Program: Classics

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Trump’s Board of Peace is all hat, no cattle, to no one’s surprise

The Hill and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Legal scholars reveal flop project that sums up Trump's all-bark-no-bite presidency

Alternet and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures funds 2026 graduate student research projects

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jamila Michener, Musckaan Chauhan , Raul Armenta, Osman Alp Cibikli, Joël Simeu Juegouo, Mariah Thompson, Zhipeng Zhou, graduate students
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Government, Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Trailing Hochul, Blakeman Bids for Attention with Colorful Claims

Newsday
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math, Social Sciences

Academic ‘boot camp’ helps veterans build college confidence

Tompkins Weekly
Related People: Glenn Altschuler, Shami Chatterjee , Baird Bankovic, graduate student
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Astronomy
 
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