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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
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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
Board approves five faculty appointments
Nov. 25, 2020
University News
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A.J. Stewart Smith, five others named AAAS fellows
Nov. 24, 2020
University News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Benjamin Mbau, an Mpala-based research assistant
Princeton and Mpala scholars link obesity and disease to dramatic dietary changes
Oct. 21, 2020
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Professor Stefana Parascho (right) and Isla Xi Han stand beneath a concrete and glass brick prototype
Robots and humans collaborate to revolutionize architecture
Oct. 21, 2020
Engineering
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Engage 2020, new innovation and entrepreneurship conference, is now in progress
Oct. 20, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
University News
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Five scholars join Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Oct. 15, 2020
Humanities Research
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Princeton study suggests that monkeys, like humans, may have 'self-domesticated'
Oct. 15, 2020
Brain and Behavior
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Addressing humanity's environmental challenges
Oct. 15, 2020
Environment
Leslie Schoop
Quantum chemist Leslie Schoop wins 2020 Packard Fellowship
Oct. 15, 2020
Technology
People
Tighter border policies leave migrants vulnerable to effects of climate change
Oct. 12, 2020
Public Policy
Invention sparked by COVID-19 pandemic safely disinfects surfaces continuously
Oct. 12, 2020
COVID-19
Energy
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How exactly do we spread droplets as we talk? Engineers found out.
Oct. 12, 2020
COVID-19
Engineering
Michael Cook
Michael Cook receives Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award
Oct. 9, 2020
Social Science
Awards
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Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Oct. 7, 2020
Energy
Environment
Mohammad (Mo) Seyedsayamdost
Princeton chemist Mohammad Seyedsayamdost awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Oct. 6, 2020
Physical Sciences
Awards
Board approves 16 faculty appointments
Oct. 6, 2020
University News
Filmed movement of breath in front of a person
Research shows conversation quickly spreads droplets more than six feet inside buildings
Oct. 1, 2020
COVID-19
Viruses appear as spheres covered with spike proteins
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
Sept. 30, 2020
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Angelo Campus
Angelo Campus electrifies the renewable energy business with BoxPower
Sept. 28, 2020
Energy
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Princeton researchers report high level of compliance with on-campus health and safety protocols
Sept. 22, 2020
COVID-19
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Long-term COVID-19 containment will be shaped by strength and duration of natural, vaccine-induced immunity
Sept. 21, 2020
COVID-19
Betsy Levy Paluck and Meghan Testerman
Professor Betsy Levy Paluck and librarian Meghan Testerman awarded Data-Driven Social Science Initiative Grant to fund open database of prejudice reduction studies
Sept. 20, 2020
Life Sciences
Awards
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Kang finds keys to control the ‘driver of cancer’s aggressiveness’
Sept. 17, 2020
Physical Sciences
Toxoplasmosis
Novel drug could be a powerful weapon in the fight against malaria and toxoplasmosis
Sept. 15, 2020
Engineering
Biotechnology
Aleksandr Loguno
Mathematician Logunov wins New Horizons Prize
Sept. 10, 2020
Awards
Princeton microbiologist Mohamed Abou Donia
Donia wins Vilcek Prize in biomedical science
Sept. 9, 2020
Awards
Snow and ice melt during a record heat wave in February 2020
Understand the past to understand the future: Climate science at Princeton
Aug. 28, 2020
Environment
Assistant Professor Todd Hyster, graduate student Jacob DeHovitz, and David MacMillan
Hyster and Macmillan report new platform for stereocontrol
Aug. 27, 2020
Physical Sciences
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Princeton plays major role in new $115 million quantum science center
Aug. 26, 2020
University News
Energy
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Tough, timely and team-driven: 50 years of energy research
Aug. 21, 2020
Energy
Row of planets
Princeton researchers join collaboration of NSF Physics Research Center
Aug. 19, 2020
Physical Sciences
A new tool called an OptoBinder
New tools catch and release cellular targets at the flip of a light switch
Aug. 18, 2020
Engineering
Biotechnology
Tilé Nougar, a Kulaale speaking village in Chad
Lionnet awarded National Science Foundation grant to document endangered languages
Aug. 17, 2020
Social Science
Awards
Olga Russakovsky
Russakovsky recognized for fighting bias and advancing diversity in AI research
Aug. 17, 2020
Awards
Data Science
Painting by Henri Rousseau, “Fight between a Tiger and a Buffal
From muddy boots to mathematics: Advancing the science of ecosystems and biodiversity
Aug. 14, 2020
Physical Sciences
Environment

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