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Countdown: NASA launch date for student space project nears

March 23, 2017

In 2018, NASA will launch into orbit a small satellite designed and built by a team of Brown undergraduates over the past six years.

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Medical school graduates celebrate Match Day 2017

March 17, 2017

Balloons dropped and champagne popped at the Warren Alpert Medical School when the clock struck noon and students found out where their medical careers will begin.

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New grant extends IMSD across all sciences

March 16, 2017

The Initiative to Maximize Student Development, which has increased the diversity of doctoral students in the life sciences and supported student achievement, will expand to serve physical sciences, engineering and mathematics.

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Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

March 6, 2017

By enabling them to ask a question when they’re confused, an algorithm developed at Brown University helps robots get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.

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Brown computer scientist awarded Sloan Fellowship

February 28, 2017

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

February 27, 2017

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

February 16, 2017

The discovery suggests that Ceres could once have had habitable environments.

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Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials

February 9, 2017

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

February 7, 2017

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

February 2, 2017

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

January 27, 2017

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

January 26, 2017

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

January 24, 2017

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

January 4, 2017

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?

December 21, 2016

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

December 21, 2016

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

December 10, 2016

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

December 9, 2016

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

December 5, 2016

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

December 1, 2016

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

November 30, 2016

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

November 30, 2016

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

November 29, 2016

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

November 21, 2016

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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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee tackles data privacy and national security

November 17, 2016

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

November 17, 2016

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

November 8, 2016

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

November 7, 2016

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

November 1, 2016

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

October 27, 2016

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

October 27, 2016

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

October 26, 2016

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

October 25, 2016

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

October 24, 2016

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

October 14, 2016

A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.

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Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use

October 11, 2016

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

October 11, 2016

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

October 6, 2016

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

October 4, 2016

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

October 3, 2016

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

September 30, 2016

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

September 26, 2016

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

September 23, 2016

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

September 20, 2016

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

September 15, 2016

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

September 14, 2016

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

September 13, 2016

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’

September 12, 2016

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

September 6, 2016

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

August 30, 2016

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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