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Princeton geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery .
Bridgett vonHoldt found a single genetic key that unlocked beak size in a central African finch species.
Houston's urban sprawl increased rainfall, flooding during Hurricane Harvey .
Princeton and University of Iowa researchers found that Houston's urban landscape directly contributed to the torrential rainfall and deadly flooding of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The results highlight the human role in extreme weather events and the need to consider urban and suburban development when calculating hurricane risk.
Merging memory and computation, programmable chip speeds AI, slashes power use .
By shifting a fundamental property of computation, Princeton researchers have built a new type of computer chip that boosts the performance and slashes the energy demands of systems used for artificial intelligence.
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Celeste Nelson (center), a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, worked with a research team including Victor Varner and Mei Fong-Pang to examine how fluid pressure helps control the rate of development of embryonic lungs.
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