A team of scientists including Princeton’s Guðmundur Stefánsson investigated the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, composed of expanding hydrogen gas (blue) expanding from a central star,…
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Artist’s rendering of a method of measuring and controlling quantum spins developed at Princeton University. Credit: Rachel Davidowitz When atoms get extremely close, they develop…
The “Cold Tube,” is an an outdoor pavilion made of radiant cooling panels, which provide cooling to passersby without cooling the air. Credit: Photos courtesy…
Princeton researchers have refined the manufacturing of light-emitting diodes made with crystalline structures known as perovskites, a more efficient and potentially lower-cost alternative to materials…
The arrows represent the electron spins pointing up from a kagome lattice. The chirality is represented by the counterclockwise circle of fire, which represents the…
A research team led by Princeton University has developed a technique for tracking online foreign misinformation campaigns in real-time, which could help mitigate outside interference…
Study detects the critical point between 2 liquid forms of water. Water, so ordinary and so essential to life, acts in ways that are quite…
While three planets have been detected in the Kepler-431 system, little is known about the shapes of their orbits. On the left are a large…
Princeton-led team trains wild hummingbirds to discriminate UV color combinations. To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their…
Study investigates potential for the intestinal microbial community to alter drug safety and efficacy. Researchers at Princeton University have developed a systematic approach for evaluating…
A team of Princeton researchers led by Prof. Zemer Gitai have found an antibiotic that can simultaneously puncture bacterial walls and destroy folate within their…
The double loxodrome technique is comprised of rows of vertical herringbone bricks that spiral around the dome and are filled in by horizontal field bricks.…
Commentary by Princeton University and Sunnybrook Research Institute highlights eight behavioral challenges to COVID-19. During any crisis, timely, and sometimes life-altering, decisions must be made,…
Philip Warren Anderson, 2013. Credit: Photo by Amaris Hardy, Office of Communications Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era,…
An artist created this illustration of the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b and its star. A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is…
Ant behavior theorists Chris Tokita, an ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student, and his adviser Corina Tarnita found that division of labor and political polarization…
Researchers at Princeton University have made an important step forward in the quest to build a quantum computer using silicon components, which are prized for…
On its first two flybys of the sun, the Princeton-led instrument IS?IS onboard the Parker Solar Probe detected a surprising variety of activities by solar…
People make split-second judgements about a person’s competency based on their own perceptions of the person’s clothing, according to a study led by Princeton University…
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…