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Big but affordable effort needed for America to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Princeton study shows .

The new “Net-Zero America” study maps out state-by-state, sector-by-sector, and decade-by-decade what it would take for the U.S. economy to be fully decarbonized, and provides a blueprint for action in the 2020s.

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Princeton partners on $30 million grant to advance internet infrastructure .

Princeton University researchers will partner on a major initiative with the U.S. government to help shape the next generation of computer networks.

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Minjie Chen discusses his research

New technology boosts energy efficiency in data centers

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Origin story: Rewriting human history through our DNA

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Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common

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Mohamed Abou Donia in his lab

Princeton researchers listen in on the chemical conversation of the human microbiome

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Rebecca Burdine, Aleena Patel, and Stanislav Shvartsman in a laboratory

Graduate student researcher hits the lights on cells' development

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Maybe the first plague wasn’t that bad, say researchers

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New modeling will shed light on ways policy decisions affect human migration from sea level rise

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Dean Knox

Statistics show: Vocal music really is universal

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Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate

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Foam offers way to manipulate light

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Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed

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Researchers find nature’s backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients

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How to make better biofuels? Convince yeast it's not starving

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Geyman’s published senior thesis research offers new thoughts on how carbonates record global carbon cycle

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giraffe eating

Study of African animals illuminates links between environment, diet and gut microbiome

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Solar and wind energy preserve groundwater for drought, agriculture

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Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds

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Faculty Research Forum offers community, knowledge for new professors

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Study helps pinpoint what makes species vulnerable to environmental change

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Princeton to take part in new U.S.-Swedish initiative on artificial intelligence and sustainability

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Protecting smart machines from smart attacks

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PEI awards $1.01 million in Water and the Environment Grand Challenge projects

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Get moving! The mystery of animal group behavior

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Algorithms could stop an ‘internet of things’ attack from bringing down the power grid

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A researcher looks at many bottles of liquid samples

Microbe chews through PFAS and other tough contaminants

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Controlling methane is a fast and critical way to slow global warming, say Princeton experts

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Jesse Jenkins

Motivated to decarbonize energy systems: Jenkins speaks out on energy transitions

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Genes, the social environment and adolescent smoking

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Princeton collaborators bring layered approach to coastal resiliency in New York City

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Solutions to urban heat differ between tropical and drier climes

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