Physical Sciences
The sun never sets in the Antarctic summer, which is quite convenient for solar powered science. Susan Redmond, who has spent the last three months helping to launch a solar powered balloon the size of a hockey arena into space, is one of those scientists relying on the endless sunshine of the southernmost continent.
“It’s pretty wild…
Top officials of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Feb. 10 to discuss the Lab’s primary mission to develop fusion energy as a clean, green and carbonless energy source.
In spite of many efforts over the years to diversify the landscape of various STEM fields, women remained stubbornly underrepresented in software. According to a 2022 report on gender diversity in software engineering, women accounted for only 21 percent of…
A pair of grants from the Offices of the Provost and the Dean for Research (DfR) will transform materials science, synthesis, catalysis and chemical biology research across campus through the acquisition of a powerful new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy tool and an extensive facility upgrade, headed for the Department of Chemistry…
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, led by Princeton’s David McComas, recently crossed a vital threshold. On Jan. 27, NASA officials reviewed all aspects of the mission design and approved the mission to continue toward launch, currently…
Physicists are increasingly using ultracold molecules to study quantum states of matter. Many researchers contend that molecules have advantages over other alternatives, such as trapped ions, atoms or photons. These advantages suggest that molecular systems will play important roles in emerging quantum technologies. But, for a while now,…
The first laboratory realization of the longstanding but never-before confirmed theory of the puzzling formation of planets, stars and supermassive black holes by swirling surrounding matter has been produced at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). This breakthrough confirmation caps more than 20 years of experiments at PPPL, which…
Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Marissa Weichman has been awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the “glue” that holds the universe together – the strong nuclear force.
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have found a way to turn your breakfast food into a new material that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics from seawater.
The researchers used egg whites to create an aerogel, a lightweight and porous material that can be used in many types of applications, including water filtration, energy…