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Brown computer scientist awarded Sloan Fellowship
Assistant Professor Tim Kraska wins a prestigious Sloan Fellowship for his work developing big data tools.
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New studies illustrate how gamers get good
Researchers led by a Brown University computer scientist used data from online video games to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill.
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Dawn mission detects organics on dwarf planet Ceres
The discovery suggests that Ceres could once have had habitable environments.
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Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials
Experiments show how electrons in Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling arrange themselves to make the materials magnetic at low temperatures. The work could help zero in on a more complete quantum theory of magnetism.
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Brown researchers pitch landing sites for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission
A group of Brown planetary scientists will travel to California this week to make the case for spots they think would be ideal for NASA’s next Mars rover.
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Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter
Entropy isn’t well understood in systems that aren’t at equilibrium, but a new experiment shows a non-equilibrium phenomenon that actually depends upon entropy.
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Climate models may underestimate future warming on tropical mountains
By reconstructing past temperature change on Mount Kenya in East Africa, a new study suggests that future temperature changes on tropical mountains might be underestimated.
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Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods
Climate simulations show how changes in Earth’s orbit alter the distribution of sea ice on the planet, helping to set the pace for the glacial cycle.
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Ubiquitous but overlooked, fluid is a source of muscle tension
The cellular fluid in every muscle fiber appears to play a key but previously unacknowledged role in the mechanics of muscle stretch, according to a new study by Brown University biologists.
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Sea sponges offer clues to how human-made structures can resist buckling
Brown University engineers looked to nature to find a shape that could improve all kinds of slender structures, from building columns to bicycle spokes.
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Are Uber drivers entrepreneurs?
A case study created by Brown undergraduates as part of an entrepreneurship class investigates the entrepreneurial aspects of the ridesharing platform’s driver model.
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RNA pathway plays key role in health, lifespan, fly study shows
The piRNA pathway was thought to be most active in the reproductive organs of animals, but researchers have discovered in the common fruit fly that the pathway also operates in a non-reproductive body tissue, playing a vital role in maintaining health and lifespan.
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Celebration in Stockholm: Kosterlitz receives Nobel Prize
Brown physicist Michael Kosterlitz stood on the most revered stage in all of science to receive his medal for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Research offers clues about the timing of Jupiter's formation
The new study shows that Jupiter had probably reached its present day size by about 5 million years after the first solids in the solar system formed.
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New compound targets TB bacterium’s defense against the immune system
Developed by chemists at Brown University in conjunction with colleagues at MIT and Cornell, the compound could enable a new drug strategy for treating tuberculosis.
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Video: Kosterlitz meets with President Obama in the Oval Office
Obama congratulated four American 2016 Nobel Laureates on their "amazing work."
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Brown’s influential biomechanics X-ray technology grows ever more powerful
Two recent papers describe the latest ways that XROMM technology, which has spread to dozens of similar research facilities worldwide, enables studies of human and animal motion in previously unseen detail.
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Quantum obstacle course changes material from superconductor to insulator
The research could help scientists better understand how defects can affect the quantum behavior of materials.
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Nobel Prize festivities to kick off with D.C. event
A week before heading to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize, Brown physicist and 2016 Nobel Laureate Michael Kosterlitz will meet President Obama and participate in a discussion at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Scientists reconstruct formation of the Appalachians
A new study finds that the process that built the Appalachian Mountains 300 million years ago is similar to the process building the Himalayas today.
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Seny Kamara, a computer scientist at Brown, is part of a committee that will explore the tradeoffs between data privacy, encryption, national security and law enforcement.
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Study reveals workings of immune response to deadly fungal infections
Now that scientists understand what triggers key steps in the immune response to menacing fungi such as Candida albicans, they hope to develop ways to make it work better.
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Brown planetary scientist elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor Jim Head is honored as a foreign member for his decades of contributions to planetary science.
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Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures
Metal-oxide films with wrinkles and crumples transferred from graphene templates have improved properties as catalysts and electrodes.
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Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
The new approach combines personal sleep analytics with recommendations based on the scientific sleep literature.
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Fun with physics: Brown’s new Nobel Laureate talks theory
Michael Kosterlitz, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, met with students from the physics department during a town hall event.
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Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon
The Moon’s Orientale basin is an archetype of “multi-ring” basins found throughout the solar system. New research reveals how those rings were formed.
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As competition concludes, ‘bio balloon’ team has reached great heights
An undergraduate team of emerging synthetic biologists from Brown and Stanford prepares to culminate a global competition this weekend after a productive nine months advancing the science of an entirely biological balloon.
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Brown launches new Data Science Initiative
The initiative, which includes a new master’s program, will bolster research that integrates data in new scholarly contexts and prepare students to be leaders in a data-enabled society.
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Study yields rich dossier of cancer-linked protein’s associates
By developing an atomic-scale picture of how the cancer-linked enzyme PP2A binds to other proteins, Brown University researchers have developed a new list of nearly 100 of its potential partners.
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Ladd Observatory to celebrate 125 years
A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.
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Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use
The new heat-stable RNA ligase could be useful for a variety of applications including in vitro diagnostics and sequencing.
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Machine learning technique helps identify cancer cell types
The new technique could be useful in early testing of cancer drugs and in understanding drug resistance.
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New grant to aid design of data-sharing platform
Brown researchers will share nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a project to help encourage big data research.
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Brown’s J. Michael Kosterlitz wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Professor of physics awarded "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
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Environmental change drove diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids
Researchers show that periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification.
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Startup@Brown connects students with startups
The second annual Startup@Brown conference, to be held this weekend, offers entrepreneurial students a sneak peak at the startup world.
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Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems
Sea surface temperatures dipped dramatically during a period from 7 million to 5.4 million years ago, a time of massive global ecological change.
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Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean
A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet’s past offers new insights into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.
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Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on
A Brown University physicist is part of an international experiment, newly funded by the National Science Foundation, to learn more about the first stars and galaxies.
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Simulation posits why legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness
New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.
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Researchers make better sense of incoherent light
A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.
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Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve
William Jordan filled his childhood with books, but college was more of a goal than a given — now he’s a doctoral student who hopes his example will make that path more apparent for others than it was for him.
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Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides substantial new evidence that health becomes endangered when aging cells lose control of rogue elements of DNA called transposons.
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Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging
A new multi-university research effort will seek to determine whether rogue elements of DNA promote or even cause aging and whether interventions against them could help people live longer and more healthfully.
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Mitosis study finds potential cancer target
By drilling down to the atomic level of how specific proteins interact during cell division, or mitosis, a team of scientists has found a unique new target for attacking cancer.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun
With a passion for problem-solving, the engineering concentrator is focused on the fundamentals of light and playing a role in promising research on next-generation solar cells.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Nari Lee
A progression of summer experiences with faculty has left the rising senior with an expanding set of research skills and medical school aspirations.
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For planetary science students, a summer of science in space with NASA
For Brown planetary science graduate students, a “mission-planning bootcamp” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena offers an insider’s view of how to conduct research in space.
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Mathematicians, police join forces on the mathematics of crime
Researchers used real data from the City of Providence to look for interesting trends and patterns that might help police analyze criminal activity.
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