Climate Change and Food Production Affected by How Plant Roots Compete for Underground Real Estate
You might have observed plants competing for sunlight — the way they stretch upwards and outwards to block each other’s access to the sun’s rays…
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Astronomers Discover Mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, See the Fate of Binary Stars
Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of…
Closer Look at Quantum Weirdness Through a New Way to Control and Measure Atoms
When atoms get extremely close, they develop intriguing interactions that could be harnessed to create new generations of computing and other technologies. These interactions in…
Monkeys May Have “Self-Domesticated” – Like Humans
It’s not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, or that goats at a petting zoo have shorter horns and friendlier demeanors than their…
Mitigating COVID-19 and Climate Change With Innovative Alternative Cooling Strategies
New radiant cooling technology keeps people cool outside. When most people think of cooling, they automatically imagine air conditioning (AC), or cooling the air in…
Princeton Perovskite LED Breakthrough Enables Next-Generation Lighting and Displays
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are nearly ubiquitous in modern life, providing the brightness in phone displays, televisions, and lights. A new form of LEDs, made…
Princeton Chemists Resolve Origin of Perovskite Instability in Drive for More Efficient Solar Cells
The source of thermodynamic instability found in “rattling” behavior. Researchers in the Cava Group at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry have demystified the reasons…
Scientists Discover a Topological Magnet That Exhibits Exotic Quantum Effects
Magnet’s novel quantum effects extend to room temperature. An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that…
Princeton Has Developed a Technique for Tracking Online Foreign Misinformation Campaigns in Real Time
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…
Strong New Evidence for a Controversial Decades-Old Theory That Explains the Odd Behaviors of Water
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…
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive 100,000 Times Faster
Why don’t planets collide more often? How do planetary systems — like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars — organize themselves? Of…
Hummingbirds See Spectacular Colors Humans Can Only Imagine – Comparatively, We’re Color-Blind
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…
Princeton Researchers Catalog the Gut Microbiome’s Impact on Medications
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…
Dual-Mechanism “Poisoned Arrow” Developed to Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
A dual-mechanism antibiotic kills Gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance. Poison is lethal all on its own — as are arrows — but their combination…
Researchers Discover the Secret of Italian Renaissance Domes: Double Helix of Masonry
In a collaborative study in this month’s issue of Engineering Structures, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Bergamo revealed the engineering techniques behind…
A Discovery That Long Eluded Physicists: Superconductivity to the Edge
Princeton researchers detect a supercurrent — a current flowing without energy loss — at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist. A discovery…
8 Pitfalls That Must Be Addressed to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
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,…
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Philip Anderson Dies at Age 96
Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era, died Sunday, March 29, at Princeton Windrows, age 96. Anderson was the…
