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Icons on a map of Princeton campus are some of the many projects aimed at cutting emissions and improving sustainability
The time is now
April 8, 2021
Environment
With labs still closed, science professors find creative ways to teach
April 5, 2021
Engineering
University News
Hello, World. Princeton and WHYY launch new podcast “A.I. Nation”
April 1, 2021
Data Science
Lake water being purified
Low-cost solar-powered water filter removes lead, other contaminants
March 31, 2021
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
Environment
Women's History Month: Engineering faculty and alumnae reflections
March 31, 2021
Engineering
Physical Sciences
University News
Timothy Buschman
Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin?
March 31, 2021
Brain and Behavior
Diagram showing two figures
Consuming online partisan news leads to distrust in the media
March 29, 2021
Public Policy
Lake Carnegie in winter
Is Lake Carnegie showing a climate trend?
March 29, 2021
Environment
Research specialist Hanna Hillman
“Think like an expert”: Brain scans watch learning in action
March 26, 2021
Social Science
Graduate student Kelly Powderly
Princeton chemists grapple with 'Karma'
March 25, 2021
Physical Sciences
91 Prospect Avenue, Princeton
From the Dean for Research: Letter in support of our Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities
March 22, 2021
Dean Debenedetti
Campus building
President Eisgruber statement: Standing in solidarity with our Asian American community
March 17, 2021
University News
cells
Forward Fest public conversation series continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking
March 16, 2021
Biotechnology
Covid-19 vaccine phials
Princeton technology could help improve COVID-19 vaccines
March 16, 2021
COVID-19
Engineering
blue and green disks
New study provides detailed view of how hepatitis B virus establishes chronic infection
March 11, 2021
Biotechnology
Adam Hopkins and Salvatore Torquato
How do you densely pack a bunch of spheres? Ask an algorithm.
March 9, 2021
Physical Sciences
Yibin Kang and Mark Esposito
Princeton team discovers new organelle involved in cancer metastasis
March 9, 2021
Life Sciences
Bill Dorland with the Stellar high-performance computing cluster
New high-performance computing cluster will greatly enhance PPPL and Princeton University research
March 8, 2021
Energy
Solar cell held in front of Andlinger Center statue
From lab to everyday life: Princeton accelerator fund supports promising innovations
March 5, 2021
Technology Development
Intellectual Property Accelerator Award
Lightning through clouds
High end of climate sensitivity in new climate models seen as less plausible
March 3, 2021
Environment
Muir lab members
Muir Lab profiles histone mutational landscape of human cancers
March 2, 2021
Physical Sciences
Community health symbols like washing hands and wearing masks
How we can use psychological principles to foster collaboration in the fight against COVID-19
Feb. 24, 2021
COVID-19
Life Sciences
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Sixth annual Princeton Research Day goes virtual to celebrate research and creative work
Feb. 22, 2021
University News
Sofia Quinodoz
Cell mapping expert receives HHMI diversity fellowship with eight years of support
Feb. 18, 2021
Life Sciences
Hydrogel
'See-through soil' could help farmers deal with future droughts
Feb. 18, 2021
Innovation
Engineering
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
soundboard
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
Board approves five faculty appointments
Jan. 28, 2021
University News
red and green blotches
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
wind turbines and solar panels
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
research image
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

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