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Life expectancy drops for Native Americans due to COVID-19
Native Americans have experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease, employment in frontline jobs, and limited access ...
The Sky Is for Everyone: A Definitive Collection of Stories from the Women Reshaping Astronomy Since 1960
David Weintraub’s commitment to equal opportunity in astronomy inspired his latest book, The Sky Is for Everyone. The autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of ...
Scientists reveal distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago
A collaboration led by scientists at Nagoya University in Japan has investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen as they were 12 billion years ago, billions of years further back ...
New Research Collaboration to Explore the “Glue” that Holds the Visible Matter of the Universe Together
The Simons Foundation has announced a new research collaboration to explore the "glue" that holds the visible matter of the universe together.
PPPL launches project to build the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center
PPPL moved forward with plans to build the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), a new state-of-the-art office and laboratory building and the first new building on campus in 50 years. The ...

Leon Rosenberg, trailblazing human geneticist, dies at 89
A former dean of Yale's medical school, he oversaw pharmaceutical research and defended abortion rights. He also chronicled his struggle with bipolar disorder.
Student Film Festival at Princeton Public Library
Princeton Student Film Festival will be held Wednesday, August 3, at Princeton Public Library. Screenings will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Community Room. Many of the filmmakers will be in ...
Females are more prone to depressive symptoms than males: Study
Researchers from the University of California, Davis collaborated with scholars from Princeton University ... said as much. This discovery enabled me to concentrate my attention on the relevance ...
Could machine learning fuel a reproducibility crisis in science?
But the claims in many such studies are likely to be overblown, according to a pair of researchers at Princeton University in ... for follow up — such as drug discovery — are likely to benefit ...
Women more prone to depression than men? Know what this study says
Depression affects the nucleus accumbens which is important for motivation how we react to good things and making friends ...