Concern about misuse of artificial intelligence has led political leaders to consider regulating the emerging technology in ways that could limit access to AI models’ inner workings. But researchers at a group of leading universities including Princeton caution that such restriction is likely to do more harm than good.

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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.…

Facing competition from cheap natural gas and a growing renewables market, coal-fired power plants are on the decline in the United States. But new research led by energy systems modelers at Princeton University demonstrates that traditional strategies for retiring coal plants based on minimizing costs could be leaving other climate and equity…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

A sensor that detects planet-warming gasses, software to enhance the reliability of artificial intelligence, and a method to improve the nutrition and production of worldwide agriculture are among seven innovations awarded funding this year to help bring these technologies to the world.

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Princeton scientists are peering into the smallest corners of matter using an exceptional collection of sophisticated microscopes — some so big they fill a room. These remarkable instruments have established the University as a world leader in microscopy and led to countless discoveries.

A way to stop cancer cells from metastasizing…