With key contributions from a team at Brown University, the EXCITE telescope will fly tethered to a high-altitude balloon to study ‘hot Jupiters,’ giant exoplanets that orbit surprisingly close to their host stars.
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Breakthrough from Brown University engineers could enable energy-efficient microchips for AI
Brown University researchers developed a technique to make ultra-thin multiferroic materials that retain their functional properties, offering a potential path toward low-power microchips for AI.
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A new partnership between Brown’s School of Public Health and Rhode Island Medicaid is informing local community members about recent and upcoming Medicaid changes to help them keep their coverage.
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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From lab to launch: How Brown research inspired a breakthrough in sustainable building
Derek Stein’s biophysics research at Brown, work with students and support from the University helped him launch Adept Materials and its award-winning new product, the Lilypad paint and primer system.
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Researchers found that naloxone use did not increase relative to the number of overdoses as deaths have fallen since 2023, suggesting that other factors may be driving the national decline in overdose deaths.
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Hunger may play a role in alcohol addiction, new study finds
Brown University scientists conducting experiments with fruit flies found that hunger drives cravings for alcohol, providing context for understanding similar processes in the human brain.
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Structural biologist Nicolas Fawzi will direct Brown’s role in a multi-institution project to transform the understanding of cellular protein dysfunction in the earliest stages of neurodegenerative disease.
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Researchers from Brown University’s School of Public Health say the surge in for-profit training raises questions about the programs’ oversight and quality.
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All-electrical imaging offers innovative alternative for tracking cell movement
Brown University engineers developed a microchip that tracks cell movement using electrical capacitance rather than optical lenses, which could aid in understanding processes such as cancer metastasis, wound healing and immune response.
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By pairing a retina-like sensor with a spiking neural network, a new technique with potential applications for self-driving cars, search-and-rescue drones or medical imaging can reveal objects invisible to standard cameras.
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During Rhode Island Startup Week, faculty and student entrepreneurs pitched emerging technologies to investors, industry leaders and potential partners to move research discoveries toward real-world solutions.
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A study provides new details about how the brain’s motor cortex reacts when people watch actions by agents that may appear more human, or less.
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Across U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, LinkedIn, TIME and other higher education guides and rankings, Brown earned top marks for academic innovation, student experience, affordability and workplace excellence.
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Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist who leads Brown’s National Science Foundation AI research institute, discusses AI doom scenarios, the frontier labs’ “slowdown” and how to make AI safer.
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New findings on how neurons find their targets during development provide a potential step forward for understanding how to repair broken neural connections.
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Researchers reveal warm heart of Mars, with help from gravity and orbiting spacecraft
Using a technique developed by researchers at Brown, scientists have discovered a strange warm spot deep in the interior of the Red Planet.
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A study led by Brown University researchers provides evidence that younger military veterans should consider getting screened for elevated PFAS levels and related health conditions.
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In a private teleconference from the International Space Station, Brown alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir answered students’ questions about space exploration and the path that led her to explore the stars.
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With five years of renewed federal funding, a third phase of Advance RI-CTR will expand research innovation and collaboration to benefit people and patients in Rhode Island.
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New interactive tool tracks private equity investments in healthcare across U.S.
The Private Equity State Tracker from Brown University public health researchers allows users to explore private equity activity in hospitals and physician practices across all 50 states.
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Through the generosity of the Starr Foundation, Brown University and Brown University Health are partnering to advance treatment for age-associated diseases and extend healthy lifespan.
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LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter
LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate — but researchers need more data to confirm.
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When the director of the Cape Verdean Museum in Rhode Island received a souvenir piece of turf from one of the tournament’s most memorable games, he knew just who to call.
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The Brown University mathematician fully embraces AI as a means to answer questions that have eluded humanity for centuries.
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‘Little Rhody is about to become big Rhody’ when it comes to biotechnology
Members of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology convened in Providence to learn about biotechnology capabilities and potential at Brown University and partner organizations across the state.
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Supported by a U.S. Department of State scholarship, the Brown University doctoral student is spending the summer in Taiwan, sharpening his Mandarin skills to advance research on Indigenous language revitalization.
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Brown University students updated a census of rare plants as part of a summer internship organized by the Brown University Herbarium and the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
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Findings by scientists at Brown University help explain declining malaria drug susceptibility and highlight the urgent need to track mutations and improve current therapies.
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Why do people’s pupils dilate when they’re surprised? Brown researchers explain
Spikes in physical alertness are a sign that the brain is hitting the “refresh” button to help it better process new and unexpected information, according to a new study.
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Brown University mathematicians Georgios Daskalopoulos and Benoît Pausader spoke at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, an honor akin to a hall of fame induction.
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Massachusetts high schools struggle to balance supporting mastery of English and progress toward graduation for immigrant newcomers, according to a new report led by researchers at Brown.
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Birds’ flying ‘V’ formation saves energy with flatter flaps, new research shows
A study by Brown University researchers provides new insights, which could have implications for engineered systems, into the aerodynamic advantage birds experience when flying in a “V” formation.
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New workflow developed by Brown University researchers compresses hours of manual lab labor into a single automated process, unlocking reliable genetic sequencing for local public health labs.
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In her new book “Crime Fictions,” Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve analyzes the factors that contribute to wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system.
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Studying the same metabolite from different angles, researchers from Brown and U.T. Southwestern collaborated to discover a mechanism that plays a key role in a rare genetic disease.
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With an eye toward exploration, researchers map Moon’s regolith thickness
Researchers from LunaSCOPE, Brown University’s NASA-funded lunar science collaboration, have mapped the thickness of the loose dirt and rock layer that could help or hinder lunar explorers, depending on the task at hand.
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Brown’s formal comment to the government says the proposed rewrite of the framework governing federal grants would threaten the longstanding federal-university research partnership that has made the U.S. a global leader.
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Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.
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Providence high schoolers help design a health program built for them
Through a partnership between Brown researcher Kristine Durkin and Providence nonprofit Young Voices, local teens are shaping an adolescent health program while gaining firsthand experience in research.
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A team of international researchers, including from Brown University, made new discoveries about the molecular mechanisms of an infection usually fatal in people with severely compromised immune systems.
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By baking fundamental physical laws into neural networks, researchers have created a model that predicts drug-release timelines using a fraction of the usual lab data.
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Shifting tectonic plates gave Alaska’s Aleutian Islands a later-life lift
Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island archipelago driven by a rotation of the Pacific tectonic plate.
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Speaking before the Joint Economic Committee, Brown University public health researcher David Meyers offered policy options to improve Medicare Advantage integrity and reduce waste for taxpayers.
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A cognitive researcher at Brown University is leading the Rhode Island team in a multi-city initiative, called the HEAD study, focused on detecting tau to speed Alzheimer’s diagnoses.
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Study suggests shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk
A study led by Brown University researchers found that older adults who received the shingles vaccine currently used in the U.S. were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia within four years.
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With a course offered this past spring semester, professors and students alike have begun grappling with the role automated AI agents have in teaching students the basics of software development.
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Using data from FIFA, Brown epidemiologists developed a tracking tool aimed at assisting public health experts in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.
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In a potential nanoscale breakthrough, scientists at Brown reveal 80-atom boron ‘buckyball’
Chemists at Brown University have shown the first experimental evidence that carbon buckyballs, which launched the nanotechnology revolution, have a cousin made from 80 atoms of the element boron.
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Researchers found that postoperative delirium was strongly associated with long-term cognitive decline, highlighting the long-term impact of delirium on brain health.
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