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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In summer at sea, adventurous student continues a personal academic journey
Driven by a love of marine life and the memory of his grandfather, Peter Baek set out this summer on a six-week sailing voyage to study a delicate ecosystem south of the Equator.
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Declining fishery production in critical African lake pinned to climate change
Warming water over the past 150 years is causing declining fish stocks in Lake Tanganyika, a large freshwater lake that supplies food for millions of Africans.
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Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma
Using a laboratory device that can deliver concussive impacts to cell cultures and image the aftermath in real time, researchers from Brown are gaining new insight into how brain cells react to trauma.
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Process could make key biodegradable polymer stronger and longer-lasting
The creation of a new polymer morphology in a material called PLA could lead to better medical implants and drug-delivery devices.
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Asteroid that formed Moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized
The research, published in Nature, has implications for our understanding of the early solar system.
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GAGA may be the secret of the sexes — at least in insects
Without simple repeating sequences of the DNA “letters” GA on the X chromosome, distinct genders could never have evolved, at least in flies and mosquitoes.
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Tiny ‘racetracks’ show how bacteria get organized
The new research sheds light on the surprisingly complex collective movements of bacteria in confined spaces.
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Researchers develop key power-splitting component for terahertz waves
The new device could be useful in future terahertz communications networks, which would have a much higher data capacity than current cellular and wireless networks.
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Research uncovers spleen’s role in shaping blood cells
Computer models developed by Brown University mathematicians help to describe an underappreciated function of the spleen.
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Research bolsters case for a present-day subsurface ocean on Pluto
An updated thermal model for Pluto suggests that liquid water beneath the dwarf planet’s ice shell may not be frozen yet.
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Technique could help climate models sweat the small stuff
Research led by a Brown University physicist reveals a way to include small-scale dynamics into computer simulations of large-scale phenomena, which could make for better climate models and astrophysical simulations.
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Software turns webcams into eye-trackers
Developed by computer scientists at Brown, the new software could help web developers to optimize content and make websites more user-friendly.
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NIH awards Brown $11.5M for computational biology research
Brown University will launch a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Computational Biology of Human Disease to expand its research using sophisticated computer analyses to understand and fight human diseases.
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Study finds that protein puts the brakes on melanin
Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made – that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein called TPC2.
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Student’s senior thesis becomes Gates Foundation-funded project
Wilson Cusack, a senior computer science concentrator, developed a text-message-based trading platform that helps connect farmers and buyers. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he’ll pilot the project in the West African nation of Ghana.
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Where meter meets mainframe: An early experiment teaching poetry with computers
A recently unearthed film from 1974 documents an early foray into the digital humanities by two Brown professors.
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For botanist, road to White House led through Peruvian desert
The same scientific quest for which Erika Edwards won recognition from President Obama on May 5 had two months earlier led her and 12 students up dusty mountainsides in the world’s driest desert.
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Advance could help grow stem cells more safely
Nurturing stem cells atop a bed of mouse cells works well, but is a non-starter for transplants to patients – Brown University scientists are developing a synthetic bed instead.
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Flipping a chemical switch helps perovskite solar cells beat the heat
A simple chemical conversion could be another step toward making cheap, efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.
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Fast and Furiosa: Student engineers off to the races at Michigan International Speedway
Having spent the last eight months designing and building their own racecar, an interdisciplinary team of Brown undergraduates is about to put their 115-mph racer to the test.
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