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…

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…

The Princeton Catalysis Initiative (PCI) hosted its sixth annual symposium this year, with research flash talks that drew Princeton faculty from a variety of fields as presenters and audience members, and attracted industry attention. …

In the quest to achieve a net-neutral climate impact, many companies seek to buy additional power from clean energy sources in an attempt to eliminate the emissions otherwise generated by operating on today’s fossil fuel-heavy grid.

Yet some of the most common strategies for purchasing clean energy have little impact in cutting long-term…

Peter Schiffer, a professor of applied physics and physics at Yale University and the director for strategic projects at Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named Princeton’s next dean for research. His appointment will take effect Aug. 28.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $52.66 million grant to fund a major infrastructure upgrade to the Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Upgrades are expected to take about five years; the resulting facility will be known as the Advanced Simons Observatory (ASO).

ASO’s principal investigator is Mark Devlin of…

A new project has been awarded the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations. This fund supports research collaborations between industry and academia with the goal of fostering basic research that has the potential for leading to products, technologies, or services for societal benefit. The award provides University…

For the past year and a half, a small fleet of semi-trucks has been roaming the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico. To the untrained eye, these trucks run by Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, look perfectly ordinary, no different from the thousands of others that pass through this transportation hub every day. But look…

Worldwide, over two billion people lack reliable access to clean water. And one potential solution for meeting that need works a lot like a sponge, soaking up clean water while leaving contaminants behind.

Researchers at Princeton University have developed the next generation of their solar absorber gel technology, a device that could be…

Applying academic research to help accelerate low-carbon innovation, Princeton’s ZERO lab has created a new coalition, bringing together corporations and researchers focused on scalable clean energy technologies. The consortium, aligned with the corporate membership program Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, includes founding members Google, GE…