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Physicist Novimir Pablant
Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles, scientists find
Feb. 24, 2020
Energy
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Internet security borne out of collaboration between Princeton and Let's Encrypt
Feb. 21, 2020
Data Science
Andrew Powis
Particle beam could help map Earth’s magnetic field to understand how space weather impacts the planet
Feb. 20, 2020
Energy
Clifford Brangwynne
Brangwynne, pioneer of cell biology, receives Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Feb. 19, 2020
Engineering
Awards
Enzyme Nocturnin
Princeton accelerates innovation through funding of six technologies with potential for societal impact
Feb. 17, 2020
Innovation
Technology Development
Innovation Funding
Intellectual Property Accelerator Award
grid in which electrons can travel
Fast and fragile: Two new studies explain the strange electron flow in future materials
Feb. 13, 2020
Physical Sciences
Technology
nanoparticles
It’s all in the delivery — nanoparticle platform could transform medical treatments
Feb. 12, 2020
Innovation
Biotechnology
Physicist Yi-Min Huang
Investigating the trigger for a sudden explosive process that occurs throughout the universe
Feb. 12, 2020
Energy
Three faculty members
Three Princeton faculty members named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
Feb. 12, 2020
Awards
Bonnie Bassler sitting at a computer screen
Bassler receives Gruber Genetics Prize for discoveries on how bacteria communicate
Feb. 7, 2020
Life Sciences
Awards
Cancer cells
Researchers uncover potential cancer-causing mutations in genes’ control switches
Feb. 5, 2020
Biotechnology
Data Science
Rodney Priestley, Princeton’s inaugural vice dean for innovation
Rodney Priestley, Princeton's inaugural vice dean for innovation, discusses transformation of research into solutions for society
Feb. 5, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
Santa Catalina fox
Microbes linked to cancer in threatened California foxes, report Princeton researchers
Feb. 4, 2020
Physical Sciences
Neanderthaler
New study identifies Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and describes its origin
Jan. 30, 2020
Social Science
Board approves two new faculty appointments
Jan. 29, 2020
University News
Sun flares
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission enters design phase
Jan. 28, 2020
Energy
Floating teacups. Illustration by J.F. Podevin
Quantum computing: Opening new realms of possibilities
Jan. 21, 2020
Engineering
Microtubules
By recreating cell division in a test tube, researchers discover vital role for protein elevated in a quarter of all cancers
Jan. 15, 2020
Biotechnology
Princeton climatologist Michael Oppenheimer on CBS’s “60 Minutes”
Sea level rise is speeding up, says Princeton climatologist Michael Oppenheimer
Jan. 13, 2020
Environment
Historian Kevin Kruse
Historian Kruse revisits the legacy of Princeton alumnus and civil rights champion John Doar
Jan. 13, 2020
Humanities Research
Princeton researcher with baby in the Princeton Baby Lab
Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play, finds Princeton Baby Lab
Jan. 9, 2020
Brain and Behavior
Laurence Ralph
'The Torture Letters': Laurence Ralph explores Chicago’s dark history
Jan. 9, 2020
Humanities Research
Ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Chris Tokita,
Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization, say Princeton researchers
Jan. 8, 2020
Social Science
Giraffe with tracking nodes
AI-based motion-capture system for animals has applications from drug development to ecology
Jan. 8, 2020
Biotechnology
Illustration of the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b and its star.
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Jan. 7, 2020
Physical Sciences
Nickolas Jones, postdoctoral research associate in psychology; Stacey Sinclair, professor of psychology and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Diana Tamir, assistant professor of psychology
No laboratory needed: The Person Project mines social science data with secure online activities
Jan. 7, 2020
Social Science
Scientist at work
Identifying new drugs to cure hepatitis B and E virus infection
Dec. 31, 2019
Biotechnology
Photo and letter
T.S. Eliot letters, among best-known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton after 60 years
Dec. 30, 2019
Humanities Research
Electronic device
In leap for quantum computing, silicon quantum bits establish a long-distance relationship
Dec. 30, 2019
Technology
Bright light
New rules illuminate how objects absorb and emit light
Dec. 23, 2019
Engineering
Technology
Students and professor at table
‘Grow-and-prune’ AI mimics brain development, slashes energy use
Dec. 20, 2019
Engineering
Data Science
Minjie Chen
New technology boosts energy efficiency in data centers
Dec. 19, 2019
Engineering
Energy
Car speeding down road
Novel PPPL invention could improve the efficiency of car and truck engines while reducing pollutants
Dec. 19, 2019
Energy
Technology
Freedman and Singh
Freedman, Singh named fellows of Association of Computing Machinery
Dec. 18, 2019
Awards
Map of the spread of two long-extinct hominin species
Origin story: Rewriting human history through our DNA
Dec. 18, 2019
Social Science
Group of students visiting Red Square
Urban encounters: How to ‘read’ a city
Dec. 16, 2019
Humanities Research
Image of influenza
Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common
Dec. 16, 2019
Biotechnology
Environment
PPPL physicist Elena Belova
Batten down the hatches: Preventing heat leaks to help create a star on Earth
Dec. 13, 2019
Energy
Princeton microbiologist Mohamed Abou Donia
Princeton researchers listen in on the chemical conversation of the human microbiome
Dec. 13, 2019
Physical Sciences
Biotechnology
Romero and Thorne
Civil liberties leader Romero, physics Nobel laureate Thorne to receive top alumni awards
Dec. 9, 2019
Awards
Stone and Sturm
Stone and Sturm named to National Academy of Inventors
Dec. 6, 2019
Innovation
Engineering
Awards
Biotechnology
Monkey sitting on grass
Princeton establishes long-term care program for retiring research monkeys
Dec. 5, 2019
University News
three people standing
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
People standing in a large room
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
tent pitched on snow
Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
Nov. 21, 2019
Physical Sciences
Environment
structure of the foam
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
People on a panel
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
Photo of a lake
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

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