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,…
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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…
Princeton University researchers have found that nature has developed a backup method for converting atmospheric nitrogen into the nutrient form critical to plant growth and…
Study explores how superconductivity forms in iron-based materials. An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has directly observed a surprising quantum effect in…
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica — the oldest yet recovered — that provide the first direct observations of prehistoric…
In a combination of chemistry, physics and materials science, Princeton researchers found that a type of foam can selectively block light, which is important for…
Using drought-prone California as a case study, a research team shows that increased solar and wind energy can reduce the reliance on hydropower, especially during…
Depiction of fusion research on a doughnut-shaped tokamak enhanced by artificial intelligence. (Depiction by Eliot Feibush/PPPL and Julian Kates-Harbeck/Harvard University) Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch…
An artist’s impression of a quasar. A supermassive black hole sits at the center, and the gravitational energy of material accreting onto it is released…