Combining artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, researchers at Princeton have simulated what happens at the molecular level when water freezes. The result is the most complete yet simulation of the first steps in ice “nucleation,” a process important for climate and weat … | Continue reading
Princeton researchers studied the Common Eastern Bumblebee to learn how social isolation impacts behavior and brain development. | Continue reading
Princeton Engineering researchers have developed the first perovskite solar cell with a 30-year lifespan. The new device is the first of its kind to rival the performance of silicon-based solar cells. A pioneering new test method will help industry develop consumer-friendly produ … | Continue reading
A new model led by Princeton climate expert Laure Resplandy details how carbon is stored in or transported through inland and coastal waterways, in work with significant implications for enforcing international climate accords. | Continue reading
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was … | Continue reading
A new study from Princeton University shows how the brown anole lizard solves one of nature’s most complex problems — breathing — with elegant simplicity, providing new inspiration for engineers designing advanced biotechnologies. | Continue reading
Princeton computer scientists have helped design an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt that can produce crisp, full-color images. | Continue reading
In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered at Princeton disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers. | Continue reading
In “A.I. Nation,” a new podcast premiering on April 1, Princeton University and Philadelphia public radio station WHYY have partnered to explore the omnipresence of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its implications for our everyday lives. | Continue reading
Princeton neuroscientists have demonstrated that attention and working memory are two sides of the same neural coin. What's more, they have observed the coin as it flips inside the brain. | Continue reading
Princeton Professors J. Richard Gott and Robert Vanderbei, in collaboration with David Goldberg of Drexel University, have designed a two-sided disk that minimizes the flaws of traditional flat maps. | Continue reading
A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for many technological fields of study, especially information technology. | Continue reading
Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected. | Continue reading
While humans have three color cones in the retina sensitive to red, green and blue light, birds have a fourth color cone that can detect ultraviolet light. A Princeton-led research team trained wild hummingbirds to perform a series of experiments that revealed that the tiny birds … | Continue reading
Poison is lethal all on its own — as are arrows — but their combination is greater than the sum of their parts. Princeton researchers have found an antibiotic that can that can simultaneously puncture bacterial walls and destroy folate within their cells — killing like a poisoned … | Continue reading
Princeton researchers are working to chart the future of quantum computing through foundational work in their labs and through collaborations with industry partners. | Continue reading
A team of Princeton biologists found that division of labor and political polarization — two social phenomena not typically considered together — may be driven by the same processes in ant societies. | Continue reading
"We are What We Choose": Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010 at BaccalaureateMay 30, 2010. | Continue reading
Princeton researchers explore how discarded orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest. | Continue reading
The decision to make the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) optional in some departments is among Princeton’s efforts to attract and enroll a wider range of graduate students. | Continue reading
Steven Scott Gubser, a professor of physics at Princeton University and a highly accomplished scholar of string theory and black holes, died as a result of a rock-climbing accident on Saturday, Aug. 3, in Chamonix, France. He was 47 years old. At the time of his death, Gubser was … | Continue reading
What are Yelp ratings really worth? An international team of researchers tested the idea that free online ratings are less trustworthy than those that have some cost to them. | Continue reading
Princeton seismologists found mountains and smooth plains on a boundary layer inside the Earth’s mantle. | Continue reading
Princeton researchers have developed a method to create lower-cost catalysts for fuel cells and hydrogen fuel production. Researchers used plasma to create new catalysts that are much cheaper than and almost as effective as standard, platinum-group versions. | Continue reading
Goro Shimura, Princeton's Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, died on Friday, May 3, at the age of 89. | Continue reading
"We are What We Choose": Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010 at BaccalaureateMay 30, 2010. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity. A major step in this direction is underway at the U.S. Depa … | Continue reading
Princeton University computer science professors Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer will lead a new Google artificial intelligence lab opening in January in the town of Princeton. The lab is expected to expand New Jersey’s burgeoning innovation ecosystem by building a collaborative effo … | Continue reading
Princeton University Library and Princeton University Press join with the University's newly established Brazil LAB to support researchers and replenish resources lost during a September 2018 fire at Brazil's National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. | Continue reading
Molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler and graduate student Justin Silpe found a virus that can listen in on bacterial conversations — and then they used that to make it attack diseases including salmonella, E. coli and cholera. | Continue reading
In his latest book, computer science professor Brian Kernighan offers tips to help readers think critically about the figures they encounter. | Continue reading
Despite the 'illusion' of continuity, human perception pulses in and out four times per second, says Princeton neuroscientist Sabine Kastner. | Continue reading
Scientists in Zahid Hasan’s lab demonstrate quantum-level control of an exotic topological magnet. | Continue reading
Capping decades of searching, physicists trace a long-sought mechanism by which the Higgs particle breaks down. | Continue reading