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Material coming from a Princeton research lab is full of holes — but that's a good thing.

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“Streams to the river, river to the sea.” If only it were that simple.

Two Princeton professors, mathematician Charles Fefferman and ecologist Simon Levin, have received Frontiers of Knowledge Awards from the BBVA...

ArrePath, a drug discovery spinout founded by...

Combining questions about a person's health with data from smartwatch sensors, a new app developed using research at Princeton University can...

Princeton scientists are using innovative techniques to visualize electrons in graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon atoms.

Two professors and one Princeton graduate alumnus are among the 11 winners of this year’s prestigious Wolf Prizes.

A preclinical study has demonstrated that a common weight-loss diet could enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

Department of Chemistry assistant professors William Jacobs and Leslie Schoop have each been awarded five-year...

Viruses outnumber humans by about 400 trillion to one, and yet pandemics are rare. Why? Why do a few viruses inflict so much damage, when the vast...

When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot to learn from lizards.

Acarbose is a commonly prescribed antidiabetic drug that helps control blood sugar levels by inhibiting human enzymes that break down complex...

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced that Princeton’s Sarah Kocher is one of 20 early-career researchers to be awarded a 2021 Packard...

Taylor, a professor of ...

Princeton researchers have developed a new way to make fuel from cellulose—Earth's most abundant organic compound, found in all plant...

Seeking a detailed blueprint for early quantum computing applications, Princeton researchers have joined a multi-institutional effort to develop...

Gabriel Vecchi, professor of ...

Ricardo Mallarino, assistant professor of molecular biology, has been named a 2021 Vallee Scholar by the Vallee Foundation.

P. James Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton, has been honored as a 2021 Great Immigrant by the Carnegie...

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In an investigation that may inspire new ideas about the application of light on ultrafast timescales to study material characteristics,...

Four Princeton Engineering faculty members are among the 2021 recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER awards.

Princeton University senior Nikhita Salgame has been awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as...

With the goal of enhancing and expanding Princeton University’s fundamental commitment to the college success of talented students from first-...

Joshua Rabinowitz looks back over a string of collaborations that have led to today's announcement of a new branch of the Ludwig Institute for...

Six Princeton faculty members and three graduate alumni have received 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Princeton postdoctoral researcher Sofia Quinodoz a 2020 Hanna Gray Fellow, bolstering her...

Princeton University, Sciences Po and Columbia University will launch a major three-year research project on Muslim communities in India with the...

The mission of Princeton University will be brought to life in a new way through Engage 2020, the inaugural innovation and entrepreneurship...

An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that...

Clifford Brangwynne, a biophysical engineer who transformed the way scientists see cell biology, has won the 2020 Blavatnik National Award in Life...

Fernando Codá Marques, a Princeton University professor of...

Monica Ponce de Leon, dean of the School of...

Princeton University researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery in conservation that could influence how natural lands are designated for...

Three faculty members, M. Zahid Hasan, N.

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COVID-19's rapid spread throughout the world has been fueled in part by the virus' ability to be transmitted by people who are not showing...

Three research endeavors aimed at fundamental challenges in health, information technology and water conservation have been selected for funding...

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridization, a new study led by Princeton ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant...

A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton.

Britt Adamson, an assistant professor in the...

Mohamed Abou Donia is one of 15 recipients of an award from the...

Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be passed house to house to reach far destinations.

Nine data-driven research projects have won funding from Princeton University’s Schmidt DataX Fund, which aims to spread and deepen the use of...

Yibin Kang, Ph.D., the Warner-Lambert/Parke Davis Professor of...

Aleksandr Logunov, an assistant professor of...

Princeton postdoctoral research associate Emily Dennis has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

Jo Dunkley, a professor of physics and...

This summer, 14 Princeton students practiced the art of active listening.

Kayothera, an early-stage therapeutics company and Princeton University spinout, is working to give hope to some of the most vulnerable cancer...

As another sign that entrepreneurship is booming at Princeton University, the Slavin Family Foundation awarded undergraduates Matthew Marquardt, a...

In front of a collection of industry representatives, Princeton faculty, staff and fellow students in early June, a new sub-team of the ...

Steven Scott Gubser, a professor of physics at Princeton University and a highly accomplished scholar of string theory and black holes, died as a...

Imagine standing in a lumberyard and being asked to build a house — without blueprints or instructions of any kind.

In spring 2018, the surprising discovery of superconductivity in a new material set the scientific community abuzz.

Rodney Priestley, professor of...

What was the universe like in the moments after its inception?

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded Clifford Brangwynne one of 40...

Two research initiatives that aspire to engineer new biomaterials for unmet medical and research needs have been awarded funding through the...

Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered "junk." Even...

In a study with implications for efforts to halt the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers at Princeton have...

Ricardo Mallarino, an assistant professor of molecular biology at Princeton...

The Simons Foundation has announced that three Princeton faculty members have been awarded 2019 Simons fellowships in mathematics and theoretical...

Princeton University researchers are gaining new insights into the causes and characteristics of diseases by harnessing machine learning to...

In a major step forward for an area of research that earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, an international team has found that substances with...

Princeton University researchers will push the limits of data science by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning...

The Simons Foundation recently featured Princeton University Professor Paul Steinhardt in its web video series, "Four Minutes With."

Ten Princeton scientists have been selected to receive 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive grants given to outstanding young...

Princeton University’s Janet Currie is winner of the...

Slimy, hard-to-clean bacterial mats called biofilms cause problems ranging from medical infections to clogged drains and fouled industrial...

Creating new tools that harness light to probe the mysteries of cellular behavior, Princeton researchers have made discoveries about the formation...

Hispanics make up about one-third of New York City’s population, with many spending half of their income on rent.

Few animals specialize as thoroughly as the mosquitoes that carry diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever.

Mark Zondlo’s research team has tracked...

In an initiative to boost collaborations on subjects too new to fit into existing departments and centers, the...

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced that Mary Caswell “Cassie”...

How should society decide who gets a liver transplant? Should there be marketplaces for data in the near future and how should these markets be...

Two Princeton professors — one who explores the interior structures of cells, and another who mathematically defines thresholds between shifting,...

Hurricane Sandy sent a clear message on climate change, Tammy Snyder Murphy, the first lady of New Jersey, told the audience in her keynote speech...

Using the first year of data gathered by the Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope, an international team of researchers has created and...

Two Princeton nominees, Lucia Gualtieri and Peter Schauss, have both been recognized as finalists in "Physical Sciences and Engineering" by the ...

Princeton chemist Gregory Scholes has been awarded $1,000,000 by the W.M. Keck Foundation to investigate harnessing the wave basis of quantum...

Princeton researchers have developed a new computational method that increases the ability to track the spread of cancer cells from one part of...

For bacteria facing a dose of antibiotics, timing might be the key to evading destruction.

An international collaboration of scientists led by a Princeton University professor of astrophysical sciences ...

Our Foundation Relations team was delighted to work with Professor Sandra Berman...

The John Templeton Foundation recently featured some of the work of Herschel A.