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Princeton University joins Facebook initiative to fuel scientific breakthroughs

Princeton University is one of 17 universities that will participate in a new Facebook initiative aimed at developing innovative technologies. The agreement, announced in December, enables ...
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Student engineers' project expands access to clean water in Kenyan village

In 2012, Swahili lecturer Mahiri Mwita approached Princeton University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) with the idea of starting a project in the Kuria District of Kenya where he grew up.
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Savannas, forests in a battle of the biomes, Princeton researchers find

Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by Princeton University researchers to stabilize the two.
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Princeton-Fung Global Forum to focus on lessons from the Ebola crisis

The third annual Princeton-Fung Global Forum next month will bring together researchers, scholars, policymakers and health officials to examine West Africa's Ebola outbreak as a case study of a modern ...
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Quiet 'epidemic' of drugs, alcohol and suicide has killed half a million middle-aged white Americans

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years, representing an overlooked "epidemic" with deaths ...
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Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?

Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name ...
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UPDATE: Nobel Physics and Chemistry Laureates' research has Princeton roots

Recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry can trace their prize-winning work to their time at Princeton University. Arthur B. McDonald, one of the two recipients of the 2015 Nobel ...
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Chemical coatings boss around bacteria, in the bugs' own language

Princeton researchers have developed a way to place onto surfaces special coatings that chemically "communicate" with bacteria, telling them what to do. The coatings, which could be useful in ...
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Ocean currents push phytoplankton — and pollution — around the globe faster than thought

The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in less than a decade, Princeton University ...
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Americans with and without children at home report similar life satisfaction

Americans aged 34 to 46 with children at home rate their life satisfaction at higher levels than those without children at home, according to a report by Princeton University and Stony Brook ...
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Victims want to change, not just punish, offenders

Revenge is a dish best served with a side of change. A series of experiments conducted by researchers affiliated with Princeton University has found that punishment is only satisfying to victims if ...
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New results indicate that particle discovered at CERN is the Higgs boson

New results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the particle detected last summer is looking more and more like the Higgs boson, the particle thought to be essential for giving mass to ...