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Illustration of silhouettes walking near shore line
Despite sea-level rise risks, migration to some threatened coastal areas may increase
Feb. 17, 2021
Physical Sciences
Environment
African researchers with masks
True toll of coronavirus on sub-Saharan Africa may be obscured by tremendous variability in risk factors and surveillance
Feb. 17, 2021
COVID-19
Life Sciences
Large conical ceramic vats at excavation site in Egypt
Archaeological team co-led by Princeton’s Vischak identifies world’s oldest industrial-scale brewery at Abydos, Egypt, ca. 3000 BCE
Feb. 16, 2021
Social Science
Map of the earth
Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, 'radically different' way to see the world
Feb. 15, 2021
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Illustration silhouettes of police and civilian
Diversity in policing can improve police-civilian interactions, say Princeton researchers
Feb. 11, 2021
Social Science
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Say again? AI provides the latest word in clearer audio
Feb. 11, 2021
Engineering
Collaboration with Industry
Man wearing a mask, in winter landscape
Adherence to health precautions, not climate, the biggest factor driving wintertime COVID-19 outbreaks
Feb. 9, 2021
COVID-19
Environment
Doyle Lab creates open-source software to optimize reactions
Feb. 3, 2021
Physical Sciences
Cityscape
Princeton researchers at forefront of national plans for technological and social transition to net-zero emissions
Feb. 3, 2021
Life Sciences
Dewdrops on a spiderweb
Dewdrops on a spiderweb reveal the physics behind cell structures
Jan. 29, 2021
Engineering
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Susan Leggett
Postdoc Susan Legget awarded fellowship to study aggressive cancer
Jan. 29, 2021
Engineering
Marcus Hultmark
Revolutionary, dirt-cheap sensors will replace $10,000 instruments
Jan. 29, 2021
Innovation
Engineering
Professor Chris Tully tests a network of the first group of controllers
Beyond ventilators: Princeton engineers design, build and program a noninvasive breathing system for COVID-19 patients
Jan. 29, 2021
COVID-19
Physical Sciences
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Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk
Jan. 28, 2021
Environment
Photos of Frances Arnold and Robert Hampshire
Two Princeton engineering alumni take science and tech leadership roles in Biden administration
Jan. 27, 2021
University News
ventilator prototype
Engineering and artificial intelligence combine to safeguard COVID-19 patients
Jan. 26, 2021
COVID-19
Technology
Princeton researchers Paul Chirik and Megan Mohadjer Beromi
Chirik discovers “transformative” route to recyclable plastics
Jan. 25, 2021
Physical Sciences
Two Yellowstone wolves with mange
Mange in Yellowstone wolves reveals insights into human scabies and conservation biology
Jan. 25, 2021
Life Sciences
Environment
Multiple photos
Princeton researchers study the many impacts of COVID-19
Jan. 20, 2021
COVID-19
Virus illustration
COVID-19 Reduced U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations
Jan. 15, 2021
COVID-19
Cityscape at night
Princeton partners on $30 million grant to advance internet infrastructure
Jan. 14, 2021
Engineering
Atomically thin insulator
Discovery of quantum behavior in insulators suggests possible new particle
Jan. 13, 2021
Physical Sciences
2020 top PPPL stories collage
A dozen not-to-be-missed 2020 stories
Jan. 12, 2021
Physical Sciences
Frick, Chemistry building
Rabitz Group links control and variational quantum algorithms
Jan. 7, 2021
Physical Sciences
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Four Princeton faculty members awarded NEH grants
Dec. 21, 2020
Humanities Research
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Big but affordable effort needed for America to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Princeton study shows
Dec. 15, 2020
University News
Energy
Environment
Closeup of a metasurface
Super surfaces use terahertz waves to help bounce wireless communication into the next generation
Dec. 14, 2020
Technology
Close up of graphene
‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states
Dec. 14, 2020
Physical Sciences
Approaching hurricane
Forecasting the next COVID-19
Dec. 14, 2020
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Public Policy
The diatom species, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis is a floating algae that is abundant in the Antarctic Ocean
What caused the ice ages? Tiny ocean fossils offer key evidence
Dec. 10, 2020
Biotechnology
Physical Sciences
Princeton Medical Center nurses wear face-and-neck covers designed and built by Princetonians
In pandemic, Princeton graduate students and faculty raced to create innovative protections for hospital staff
Dec. 7, 2020
COVID-19
Multiple plants root systems
How plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production
Dec. 3, 2020
Physical Sciences
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Math enables custom arrangements of liquid “nesting dolls”
Dec. 1, 2020
Physical Sciences
Michael Mueller
Agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory formalizes research exchanges for clean energy development
Dec. 1, 2020
Technology Development
Large green sphere
Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun’s fusion
Dec. 1, 2020
Physical Sciences
A T cell attacks a cancer cell
Computing empowers immune cells to kill cancer
Nov. 30, 2020
Biotechnology
Data Science
Plastics, shown as green particles
Plastic pollution is everywhere. study reveals how it travels
Nov. 30, 2020
Engineering
Environment
Red graphic
COVID-19 shutdowns disproportionately affected low-income Black households
Nov. 30, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
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Basketball on the brain: Neuroscientists use sports to study surprise
Nov. 25, 2020
Brain and Behavior
Smith
A.J. Stewart Smith, five others named AAAS fellows
Nov. 24, 2020
University News
bacteria
Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprint patterns
Nov. 23, 2020
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
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Graduate School expands sixth-year funding program to support Ph.D. students during the pandemic
Nov. 20, 2020
University News
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A new ERA in Princeton research administration
Nov. 19, 2020
Task Force on Administrative Workload
University News
Cliff Brangwynne in front of whiteboard with equations
Clifford Brangwynne to lead Princeton Bioengineering Initiative
Nov. 18, 2020
Engineering
University News
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
Nov. 18, 2020
Physical Sciences
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Nov. 17, 2020
Physical Sciences
People in developing countries eat less wild game as they migrate from rural to urban areas
Nov. 16, 2020
Environment
Tom Barron, Class of 1974
Currie Barron and Tom Barron ’74 establish research fund to preserve biodiversity
Nov. 16, 2020
Environment
Engage 2020, a three-day innovation and entrepreneurship conference
Princeton announces new programs to expand innovation and entrepreneurship for societal benefit at Engage 2020 conference
Nov. 16, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry
Cava brings materials expertise to Quantum Consortium
Nov. 9, 2020
Engineering
People social distancing and mask wearing
Large, delayed outbreaks of endemic diseases possible following COVID-19 controls
Nov. 9, 2020
COVID-19
Environment
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Princeton Innovation video series
Nov. 9, 2020
Innovation
Particles
Strange quasi-particles reveal new magnetic behavior, verify nearly century-old prediction
Nov. 5, 2020
Engineering
Protein structure
Software for determining the 3D structure of proteins
Nov. 3, 2020
Physical Sciences
Quantum computing. Artist's rendering by Rachel Davidowitz
A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness
Oct. 30, 2020
Engineering
Robert Prud’homme
Robert Prud’homme named first recipient of Princeton’s Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation
Oct. 30, 2020
Innovation
Engineering
Awards
Crew retrieving an ocean-monitoring robotic float
Princeton project expands to create a worldwide fleet of robotic floats to monitor ocean health
Oct. 29, 2020
Physical Sciences
Environment
Princeton's small commuter line, "the Dinky"
Princeton’s “Dinky” train helps nuclear arms control researchers
Oct. 28, 2020
Engineering
X-ray
New technique could help repair nerve damage
Oct. 27, 2020
Biotechnology
Deana Lawson
Princeton Professor of Visual Arts Deana Lawson wins Hugo Boss Prize, first photographer to be awarded the prize
Oct. 22, 2020

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