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Shark Week was every week for megalodon .

New Princeton research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks — the biggest sharks that ever lived — were apex predators at the highest level ever measured, feeding on other predators and predators-of-predators in a complicated food web.

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Princeton mathematician June Huh awarded prestigious Fields Medal .

Princeton University mathematician June Huh has received the 2022 Fields Medal, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics," from the International Mathematical Union. The award was announced July 5 in Helsinki.

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How the decline in pollinators ripples across entire ecosystems

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Garip named to Census Bureau committee on racial, ethnic and other populations

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Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

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An emerging class of solar energy technology, made with perovskite semiconductors

Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power

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Meglodon, a massive shark

Shark Week was every week for megalodon

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How restoring abandoned farms to natural habitats can mitigate climate change

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Fernandina giant tortoise

'Fantastic giant tortoise,' believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos

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Leah Boustan and the cover of her book, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Modern immigrants' children have climbed the economic ladder as fast as the Ellis Island generation

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tunnel of cables

Google, GE, ClearPath have joined a new Princeton research consortium focusing on low-carbon technology

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World Series of Birding title goes to a Princeton student team

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Princeton Research Day returns, fully in-person for the first time in three years

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Female Aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood from a white human.

How mosquito brains encode human odor so they can seek us out

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Students of PACRI partner schools

Princeton partners with UNCF and HBCUs to expand research and innovation

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How to fix Social Security? It's political but it can be done

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marine life at the surface of the ocean

Unchecked global emissions on track to initiate mass extinction of marine life

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Health, environment and imaging are focus of this year’s Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund grants

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Participants get briefed on the chalk line

'High Water Line' project draws the boundary where N.J.'s new coastline will be if climate change persists

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How a program in NYC made a 'huge difference' for poor tenants in housing court

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New scholarly database documents the rise in publicly identifying LGBTQI+ elected officials across the globe

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Princeton research is pursuing a sustainable future for New Jersey and the world

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'A conversation that inspires': Princeton brings landmark discoveries in chemistry to high school students

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NASA image of colliding black holes

Princeton researchers find 10 new black hole mergers hiding in the data from LIGO and Virgo

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A man in a cowboy hat plays a guitar and sings a bird, a stack of money, and binoculars with a herd of cows in the background

What do you see when you listen to music?

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Quantum computing and silicon

A Princeton discovery in quantum computing shows promise for silicon 'qubits'

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celestial cloud formations in a human profile

DataX is funding eight new AI research projects across disciplines

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A Princeton-Microsoft project is tracing the digital fingerprints of disinformation

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What climate choices should cities make? A Princeton data tool helps planners set priorities.

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Green grid goal is practical for New Jersey, Princeton's Jenkins tells lawmakers

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A timeline of innovation and impact at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Study reveals how inland and coastal waterways influence climate

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