With the goal of accelerating discoveries across areas ranging from clean energy to advanced microelectronics and fundamental scientific investigations, a task force comprised of leaders from Princeton University(Link is external) and the U.S.…

Every year, the National Institutes of Health selects a handful of researchers performing innovative blue-sky scientific research to receive funding through its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

Nobel laureate John Hopfield, an emeritus Princeton professor whose work…

In July, artists, mathematicians and engineers gathered in Melbourne, Australia, for a quadrennial meeting known as the “Olympics of origami.” Folding paper into ornate three-dimensional designs arose nearly 2,000 years ago in East Asia as a ceremonial practice but has since evolved into a field that blurs the lines between art, science and…

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure.

Why? Because it’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain, with its billions of neurons connected by a hundred trillion synapses, is almost…

A Princeton-led collaboration with Rutgers has been awarded a $16 million federal grant(Link is external) to enhance the understanding of mental health disorders through the lens of computational psychiatry. Spearheaded by Princeton…

A congressionally mandated study led by Princeton's Emily Carter has released a comprehensive roadmap for research and policies to enable large-scale recycling of carbon pollution into high-demand, useful products like fuels and construction materials.

The release follows a 

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will expand its apprenticeship program model nationally, thanks to funding from the DOE’s Office of…

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) research physicist Lan Gao has received a 2024 

Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed a cement-based material that is 5.6 times more damage-resistant than standard counterparts. The bio-inspired design allows the material to resist cracking and avoid sudden failure, unlike conventional, brittle cement-based counterparts.

Project supported by a $3.6 million National Science Foundation grant

A new collaborative research project will provide potential solutions for decarbonizing chemical plants, helping to establish American leadership in “green manufacturing.”

The project is supported by a $3.6 million grant from the…