A Brown physicist is creating waves around the world with his paper asserting that researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Stony Brook, N.Y., made a fireball that acts like a black hole. However, it only acts like a black hole in what Horatiu Nastase, assistant professor of physics (research) ...
Xudong Qiu held a month-long vigil in a room lit only by red lights and the beam of a microscope. The windows and doors were sealed with blackout paper, and his only companion was a single human kidney cell.
A team of Brown University researchers recently created a stir in the field of molecular biology by discovering a new way that a cancer-causing molecule is activated. This finding explains why current cancer treatments are not always effective and opens the way for creating better drugs to fight the ...
The Georgia trial over stickers placed in a science textbook written by a Brown professor was resolved Jan. 14 when U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ruled the sticker was unconstitutional.
Ten days after Professor of Biology Ken Miller appeared in a Georgia courtroom to explain why he included evolution in a textbook he wrote, residents of Cobb County, Ga., are awaiting the verdict in a trial over a sticker.
People who are paralyzed have been given new hope by stem cell research, championed by the late Christopher Reeve P'02. But researchers in neuroscience are looking at other, less controversial ways of restoring independence to people with disabilities.
At the beginning of the year, the Gate and Josiah's began to stay open until 2 a.m., an hour later than in previous years. Though students say they like the additional hour, student workers with Brown Dining Services have reported problems with the new schedule.
The College Curriculum Council approved the creation of the new multidisciplinary business-related concentration yesterday. The Program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship will be available when current sophomores choose their concentrations this spring.
A new multidisciplinary concentration program in economics, sociology and engineering is being sent for review to the College Curriculum Council on Tuesday.
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