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Scientist at work
Identifying new drugs to cure hepatitis B and E virus infection
Dec. 31, 2019
Bioengineering
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
Bioengineering
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
Bioengineering
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
Bioengineering
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
Bioengineering
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
Bioengineering
Energy
Assaf Naor
Naor receives Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics
Nov. 13, 2019
Physical Sciences
robot with two people
Nuclear warheads? This robot can find them
Nov. 12, 2019
Physical Sciences
Energy
Person standing on beach
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
Bioengineering
cars stuck in water
Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds
Oct. 29, 2019
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Environment
Board approves 15 new appointments to the faculty
Oct. 28, 2019
University News
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
Bioengineering
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
blue pattern against an orange background
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
People standing in front of computer
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

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