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Astronomers now have some new places to search for life! 👀 In a new paper today, Carl Sagan Institute fellows have identified 45 potentially Earth-like worlds More at Cornell A&S: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0… Interactive images: gillislowry.com/rocky-hz-catal… 🧵(1/4)

New @CornellAstro research co-authored by an undergraduate and two recent alums will help scientists pinpoint the most likely places to look for life in the universe, out of more than 6,000 exoplanets. @KalteneggerLisa as.cornell.edu/news/where-fin…

Milkweed v. monarchs: @CornellEnto researchers report that milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs’ resistance. @PNASNews @NSF news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

A very happy first day of spring from Cornell University! It won't be too much longer until campus looks like this again. 🌸 🌷

If the Middle East conflict is prolonged, short-term economic pain in Egypt could become a broader political and economic crisis there, @cornellgov professor Alexandra Blackman says in @usnews, “more challenging for the regime to manage and control." usnews.com/news/world/art…

Misfits find a home: @CornellCAS professor Judith Peraino explores the outsider spirit of punk, and how it has been documented, in “We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond.” @Cornell_Library @CornellPress news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

Cornell dance students will present “Penumbra: 2026 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series,” a performance of original dance work hosted by @CornellPMA March 20 & 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Flexible Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. as.cornell.edu/news/spring-da…

Some people argue that A.I. has the potential to envelop the entire economy, @nytimes columnist Thomas Edsall writes, quoting research by @STSCornell graduate student Jai Vipra and a collaborator on AI and market structure. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opi…

@CornellPhysics @arxiv @sciam Ginsparg and collaborator Alexander Alemi created the study to test how easy it is to get LLMs to create articles to submit to arXiv, which has been overwhelmed with a surge of submissions over the past few years.

All major LLMs can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models by Paul Ginsparg, @CornellPhysics professor and founder of the preprint repository @arxiv has found. reported in @sciam scientificamerican.com/article/hey-ch…

Prof. Sarah Kreps (@CornellBPP @CornellCAS) researches technology, international politics, and national security. CCSS support in 2024 helped catalyze a proposal leading to a $3M US DOD award on semiconductor supply chain security. bit.ly/4pr91BG @CornellRsrch

The total amount of Gulf oil production that’s currently locked up due to this war is much bigger than it was in the 1970s, @CornellHistory professor Nicholas Mulder says on @CNN, about 20 million barrels versus about 4 1/2 million in 1973. cnn.com/2026/03/15/eco…

Agree to disagree: A new class, Disagreement, co-developed by @CornellCAS Dean Peter John Loewen (@PeejLoewen), helps students learn how to confront and move through disagreements at work, at home, in their communities and in society. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/0…

“Campaigns seem like they’re starting to treat synthetic media less as something covert…and more as something that can be used openly as long as viewers are told what they’re seeing,” @cornellgov prof @sekreps tells @CNN of a Republican AI deepfake ad us.cnn.com/2026/03/13/pol…

Archimedes' mathematical calculation around 250 B.C. showed that pi was "between three and one-seventh and three and 10 seventy firsts,” Cornell math professor @stevenstrogatz told NBC in 2015. Happy Pi Day! 3.14 nbcchicago.com/news/national-…

Your March 2026 reads from @WeCornellians This month’s featured titles by A&S alumni and faculty include an evolutionary look at dating, a Christian work on inner peace and a queer love story. as.cornell.edu/news/your-marc…

THANK YOU! 🐻⭐️❤️ For a tremendous #CornellGivingDay March 12. Thank you for coming together to support the College of Arts & Sciences and the experiences that shape student life. We are grateful to everyone who helped made this day such a success. givingday.cornell.edu/organizations/…

Photos of the Week @Cornell for the week of March 9. news.cornell.edu/picture-cornel…

We made the match ...Twice! Generous #CornellGivingDay donors have completed two challenge matches for the A&S Annual Fund. This means support directly to our students, programs and world-class research efforts. And there's still time to give. givingday.cornell.edu/organizations/…

A new 'ethnic unity law in China "makes it clearer than ever that in Xi Jinping's PRC non-Han peoples must do more to integrate themselves with the Han majority, and above all else be loyal to Beijing," @cornellgov professor Allen Carlson tells @BBC bbc.com/news/articles/…