The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Saien Xie, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute, is one of 20 researchers to receive a 2024 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, intended for innovative, early-career scientists and engineers.

The Packard…

The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” drills are aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare is a distant concern for many young adults today.

To make that threat more resonant, artist Smriti Keshari and filmmaker Eric Schlosser ’81 produced an immersive multimedia installation, the bomb.…

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…

Ruha Benjamin, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for “illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces social inequality and championing the role of imagination in social…

As a part of a broad set of investments around artificial intelligence, Princeton University has launched AI for Accelerating Invention, an initiative to achieve faster breakthroughs across engineering disciplines, including biomedicine, robotics and nuclear fusion.

“What we have the…

With the flick of a light, researchers have found a way to rearrange life’s basic tapestry, bending DNA strands back on themselves to reveal the material nature of the genome.

Scientists have long debated about the physics of chromosomes — structures at the deepest interior of a cell that are made of long DNA strands tightly coiled around…

Neuroscientist Ilana Witten, who investigates the brain circuits behind learning and decision-making, has been named a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.

Witten, a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, is one of 26 new investigators from…

PNI graduate student Priscilla Louis, and her advisors, PNI associate director and associate professor…

Since 2011, enormous seaweed blooms have spread across the Atlantic Ocean, spanning over 5,000 miles from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the leviathan — visible from space — has wreaked havoc on environments and economies throughout the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, where unprecedented…

Since its implementation in 2017, China’s clean heating policy has considerably improved air quality.  However, the share of non-fossil sources in China’s urban district heating systems remains low.   According to a Princeton-led study (Link is external),…