Eisgruber has spoken at events in Princeton, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass., and other cities, and has brought his message to a range of news outlets.

What will be the next blockbuster research to emerge from Princeton’s labs? No one can say for sure, but history tells us research universities “are where the really huge discoveries begin.” A samplin...

Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards, causing billions of dollars in economic loss each year. By 2050, flood-related losses in the United States are expected to increase by 26%, with ...

New research shows that parakeets slowly build trust with strangers and manage the risks of forming new social bonds.

A researcher’s fascination with rare seeds and the people who keep them has inspired a new initiative. Welcome to Princeton University’s Seed Farm.

The accolades for 2025 celebrate faculty novels and short stories, memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction.

The accolades for 2025 celebrate faculty novels and short stories, memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction.

Princeton professor Elizabeth Margulis explains why music has the power to affect our emotions, transport us to far away places and connect us to others.

Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today’s best versions, marking a major step toward practical quantum computers.

Two fast-accelerating trends in how people consume and produce information—in selective exposure to agreeable content and in our ability to generate realistic-looking audio, documents, photos, and vid...

Scientists have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism could transform our understanding of pain and lead to better treatments.

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering. This year’s selected projects focus on small molecule structure determinati...

Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, was “a brilliant scholar, a charismatic teacher and a devoted adviser,” said department chair Wolfgang Pesendorfer. A memorial will...

Researchers have created a revolutionary camera that processes images at the speed of light, reducing power consumption and time.

The most abundant birds are disappearing the fastest. Saving them requires bold, landscape-scale action.

A month before arriving at its destination, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), led by Princeton's David McComas, has already begun to collect science data from each of its 10 i...

AI is being trained to please us, and in doing so, is becoming more indifferent to accuracy.

Princeton University researchers made a major breakthrough in quantum computing with a qubit that delivers coherence times three times better than Google and IBM.

Hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) substitution at electrochemical interfaces can provide insights into fundamental electrochemical processes. Periodic nuclear–electronic orbital density functional theory (NEO-DFT), which treats specified nuclei quantum mechanically on the same level as the electrons, enables such H/D isotope effects to be investigated computationally. Herein, periodic NEO-DFT is applied to OH–/OD– adsorption, H/D adsorption, and H2O/D2O monolayers at a Pt(111) surface. These calculations inherently include anharmonic zero-point energy and nuclear delocalization of hydrogen and deuterium. Thus, they capture structural differences between H/D isotopologues, guide interpretation of experimental cyclic voltammograms, identify favored adsorption sites, and characterize differences in H2O/D2O hydrogen-bonding interactions. Periodic NEO-DFT maintains the favorable computational scaling of conventional DFT, predicts geometric isotope effects, and can be combined with techniques to model an applied potential. Thus, periodic NEO-DFT represents a promising tool for probing the structures of electrochemical interfaces, interpreting experimental isotope studies, and elucidating electrocatalytic mechanisms.

All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements

The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.