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Graduate student researcher hits the lights on cells' development
Dec. 5, 2019
Biotechnology
James Peebles, seated
Cosmology, research and teaching with Nobel laureate Jim Peebles
Dec. 5, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
Sun
Sun's close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
Dec. 4, 2019
Physical Sciences
Diagram of plague
Maybe the first plague wasn’t that bad, say researchers
Dec. 2, 2019
Humanities Research
Physicist Cesar Clauser
Bank on it: Gains in one type of force produced by fusion disruptions are offset by losses in another
Dec. 2, 2019
Energy
Faces in curtains of blue
New modeling will shed light on ways policy decisions affect human migration from sea level rise
Nov. 26, 2019
Environment
Public Policy
Conley and Tilghman
Conley and Tilghman named AAAS Fellows
Nov. 26, 2019
Awards
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Princeton’s annual technology celebration spotlights innovation and societal impact
Nov. 25, 2019
Innovation
Technology Development
Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) on finger
Neuroscientists develop models to identify internal states of the brain
Nov. 25, 2019
Brain and Behavior
A field of peaks including a few red ones
A surprising quantum effect in an exotic superconductor
Nov. 21, 2019
Physical Sciences
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Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
Nov. 21, 2019
Physical Sciences
Environment
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Foam offers way to manipulate light
Nov. 19, 2019
Physical Sciences
Technology
Wind turbines
Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed
Nov. 18, 2019
Engineering
Environment
Mariangela Lisanti
Schmidt DataX Fund supports research projects that harness data science to speed up discovery
Nov. 18, 2019
Physical Sciences
Brain and Behavior
Technology
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Achieving climate goals requires setting a price on carbon, experts say at Andlinger Center meeting
Nov. 15, 2019
Energy
Environment
Princeton President Eisgruber
President Eisgruber honored as innovation leader in New Jersey
Nov. 15, 2019
Innovation
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Researchers find nature’s backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients
Nov. 14, 2019
Environment
Petri dish
How to make better biofuels? Convince yeast it's not starving
Nov. 13, 2019
Biotechnology
Energy
Assaf Naor
Naor receives Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics
Nov. 13, 2019
Physical Sciences
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Nuclear warheads? This robot can find them
Nov. 12, 2019
Physical Sciences
Energy
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Geyman’s published senior thesis research offers new thoughts on how carbonates record global carbon cycle
Nov. 8, 2019
Physical Sciences
Environment
Giraffe facing camera
Study of African animals illuminates links between environment, diet and gut microbiome
Nov. 8, 2019
Life Sciences
Environment
Princeton researchers receive $2.5 million to advance the science of urban food sustainability
Nov. 6, 2019
Environment
Public Policy
Wind turbines and water diagram
Solar and wind energy preserve groundwater for drought, agriculture
Nov. 6, 2019
Environment
Yibin Kang
Yibin Kang awarded American Cancer Society research professorship grant
Nov. 1, 2019
Awards
Biotechnology
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Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds
Oct. 29, 2019
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Environment
Amazon fire
A world without the Amazon? Safeguarding the Earth’s largest rainforest is focus of Princeton conference
Oct. 23, 2019
University News
Environment
Physicists Rupak Mukherjee and Chris Smiet outside PPPL
International honors for post-doctoral fellows helping to bring a star to earth
Oct. 23, 2019
Awards
Energy
Aleksandr Logunov
Mathematician Logunov named Packard Fellow
Oct. 23, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
Faculty research forum
Faculty Research Forum offers community, knowledge for new professors
Oct. 21, 2019
Task Force on Administrative Workload
University News
Professor Sabine Kastner with young children in class
Kastner receives Award for Education in Neuroscience
Oct. 21, 2019
Awards
Brain and Behavior
Weixing Wang
Shake, rattle, roll: Turbulence found to disrupt the crucial magnetic fields in fusion energy devices
Oct. 18, 2019
Energy
Greenhouse gas emissions poster
How Princeton plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2046
Oct. 18, 2019
University News
Environment
Students filming documentary at the Mpala Research Centre.
A delicate balance: Student films examine needs of humans and wildlife in Kenya
Oct. 17, 2019
Biotechnology
Environment
Yellow and green bird
Study helps pinpoint what makes species vulnerable to environmental change
Oct. 16, 2019
Environment
Two scientists
Staircase to the stars: Turbulence in fusion plasmas may not be all bad
Oct. 16, 2019
Energy
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Princeton to take part in new U.S.-Swedish initiative on artificial intelligence and sustainability
Oct. 15, 2019
Data Science
Public Policy
Two students and a stop sign
Protecting smart machines from smart attacks
Oct. 14, 2019
Engineering
Data Science
P. James Peebles
A ‘joy ride’ of a career: Peebles wins Nobel Prize in Physics for tackling big questions about the universe
Oct. 8, 2019
Physical Sciences
James Peebles
Princeton's James Peebles receives Nobel Prize in Physics
Oct. 8, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
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Princeton’s new supercomputer, Traverse, to accelerate scientific discovery in fusion research
Oct. 7, 2019
Data Science
Gold-colored statue in courtyard
Three faculty elected 2019 Fellows of the American Physical Society
Oct. 3, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
Stefan standing with arms crossed
Versatile physics leader Stefan Gerhardt elected an APS fellow
Oct. 3, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
Blue-green screen with bubbles
PEI awards $1.01 million in Water and the Environment Grand Challenge projects
Oct. 2, 2019
Environment
Sarah Kocher and Andrew Leifer
Kocher, Leifer receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards for biomedical and behavioral research
Oct. 1, 2019
Awards
Brain and Behavior
School of fish
Get moving! The mystery of animal group behavior
Sept. 30, 2019
Brain and Behavior
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Colloquium illuminates perspectives, impact of humanistic inquiry
Sept. 30, 2019
Humanities Research
Edmund White
Edmund White to receive Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Sept. 25, 2019
Humanities Research
Awards
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Princeton announces initiative to propel innovations in quantum science and technology
Sept. 25, 2019
Innovation
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Technology
Electric grid
Algorithms could stop an ‘internet of things’ attack from bringing down the power grid
Sept. 24, 2019
Engineering
Energy
Researcher with lab vials
Microbe chews through PFAS and other tough contaminants
Sept. 20, 2019
Biotechnology
Environment
Red blue and green balls representing atoms in a magnetic material
New topological behavior of electrons in 3-D magnetic material
Sept. 20, 2019
Physical Sciences
Technology
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Controlling methane is a fast and critical way to slow global warming, say Princeton experts
Sept. 19, 2019
Engineering
Environment
Jesse Jenkins, Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy
Motivated to decarbonize energy systems: Jenkins speaks out on energy transitions
Sept. 17, 2019
Engineering
Energy
Environment
Teenager smoking
Genes, the social environment and adolescent smoking
Sept. 16, 2019
Social Science
Brain and Behavior
Aerial image of Jamaica Bay, New York
Princeton collaborators bring layered approach to coastal resiliency in New York City
Sept. 16, 2019
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Environment
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New ‘All for Earth’ podcast addresses environmental issues, solutions
Sept. 12, 2019
Environment
Emily Dennis
Diversity in science: HHMI names Emily Dennis one of 15 Hanna Gray Fellows
Sept. 12, 2019
Physical Sciences
Awards
Adebayo-Ige
Promise Adebayo-Ige: Pursuing a lifelong interest in fusion energy
Sept. 10, 2019
Energy
From an acoustic levitator to a “Neutron Bloodhound” robot, hands-on research inspires summer interns
Sept. 10, 2019
Energy

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