Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
STRIP AWAY ELECTRONS FROM THEIR ATOMS and you get a plasma — a collection of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions. But at high energies around compact cosmic objects such as black holes, quasars Continue Reading →
ELECTRONS DART within and between atoms far too quickly for current imaging techniques to observe their motion. To capture fast-moving objects without a blur, a photographer can use a camera flash to light up a Continue Reading →
DENNISSE CALLE FOUND THE TOPIC for her senior thesis along a Havana street in the back of a stall that sells pirated movies and music. Cubans pay the equivalent of a few dollars, insert a Continue Reading →
IN 1890, THE RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN and writer Anton Chekhov traveled across Siberia to document the lives of prisoners sentenced to a remote penal colony on Sakhalin Island. The visit inspired not only a nonfiction exposé Continue Reading →
RACHEL PRICE, an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese who also is affiliated with the Program in Media and Modernity, joined Princeton in 2009. Her scholarship focuses on culture, media, poetics, empire and ecocriticism in Continue Reading →