Xiaohang Quan ’09 was working on her senior thesis when she found a miscalculation in a detector attached to the world’s largest particle accelerator.

Former University provost and current Penn president Amy Gutmann was appointed chair of President Obama's new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues on Nov. 24.

The number of cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections has increased by more than 90 percent over the last decade, according to recent research led by University scholars.

Some men may view scantily clad women as objects rather than as people, a recent study found. The research, conducted by Princeton psychology professor Susan Fiske, Mina Cikara GS and Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt GS, was performed on 21 undergraduate male students at the University who identified themselves as heterosexual.

The Princeton Physical Science-Oncology Center was launched Monday after the National Cancer Institute awarded $15.2 million to a group of researchers from the University and four other institutions to study the evolution of cancer, the University announced Monday.

Spongebob is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish for 12 hours,” Squidward the Octopus exclaimed in an episode of the animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Squidward clearly has not heard of John Dabiri ’01, who is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.

The University will invest more than $40 million over the next 10 years to reduce utility usage by at least 25 percent as part of its Energy Master Plan, according to the Report on Sustainability released on Tuesday.

In a breakthrough discovery, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Emily Carter and physics graduate student Chen Huang have solved an 80-year-old physics problem.

A partial transcript of my roommate Alexis’ late-night session with psychotherapist ELIZA:ELIZA: Hello, I am Eliza.ALEXIS: Hello, I am Alexis.ELIZA: Do you believe it is normal to be Alexis?ALEXIS: Yes.ELIZA: I see.ALEXIS: You’re not very helpful.ELIZA: We were discussing you, not me.ALEXIS: Okay.ELIZA: Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.ALEXIS: I really ...

Who would do better on your midterms: you or your laptop? Well, your laptop would have instant access to billions of pieces of useful information — the dates of every Civil War battle, the conjugation of the German verb for “to bleach,” the most stable conformational isomer of trans-1-ethyl-2-methylcyclohexane — ...

Watching an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Scrubs” gives the impression that today’s doctors-in-training and their supervisors devote about 98 percent of their time to styling their hair, sleeping with their coworkers, sleeping with their patients, talking to their coworkers about sleeping with their patients, talking to their patients about ...

There’s a British joke from the 1960s about the Irish airline Aer Fungus offering its first completely automated flight without a human pilot. After the passengers board, the joke goes, a voice comes over the loudspeaker saying, “welcome to the first-ever computerized, pilotless flight. There is no one in the ...

I discovered last week that I can read my columns in German, courtesy of German Google and its automated translator. I don’t speak a word of German — though I have taken a fancy to the translation of my byline as “der technokrat” — but it got me thinking about ...

Ramona isn’t like other robots. Created in 2001 by artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and author Raymond Kurzweil, Ramona is an Aquarius who likes tight clothes, cannoli and Australian sheepdogs, but that’s not what sets her apart from the proverbial robot pack. Ramona is a rock star. Only 7 years old, ...

Current climate legislation laws are based on incomplete emission assessments, according to a study by 13 authors, including two Princeton professors, that was published in the journal Science on Oct. 23.

While most seniors working on their theses lock themselves up in Firestone Library and spend their days scouring the dimly lit stacks for research material, others are looking elsewhere for their primary research material. Sociology, economics and politics majors, as well as psychology majors in particular, are choosing to focus on humans, rather than books, as research material for their theses.