Physical Sciences
Earlier this week, the new research was published in the journal Physical Review X. The paper is a follow-up to previous work, in which the authors also studied axions and neutron stars, but from a completely different point of view…
Princeton University professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."
He shares the prize with Geoffrey E…
Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter.
In an article published June 27 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, they report that by…
Robert Knowles has been named a Ross Brown Investigator, a relatively new honor that celebrates distinguished mid-career faculty and supports their curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics.
Knowles is one of eight investigators named to the 2024 class. He receives the five-year grant for his proposal to explore a novel…
The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence are coming together at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics…
Marking a watershed acquisition for Princeton’s campus, the Department of Chemistry’s new solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ssNMR) instrument—funded through an ambitious partnership with the Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean for Research, and Princeton Materials Institute (PMI)—is…
Not all magnets are the same. When we think of magnetism, we often think of magnets that stick to a refrigerator’s door. For these types of magnets, the electronic interactions that give rise to magnetism have been understood for around a century, since the early days of quantum mechanics. But there are many different forms of magnetism in…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has established a new associated faculty program with Princeton University, a transformative initiative that strengthens the partnership between both institutions while forging bonds for even more powerful research…
Electrons—these infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms—continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, physicists at Princeton University have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of these minute particles by visualizing, for the first time, direct evidence…
