A new Brown study found that ancient Mars may not have been all that warm and wet after all. The Red Planet has widespread deposits of clay minerals, which are formed via the interaction of volcanic rock and water. This fact has led some researchers to suspect that liquid water covered much of the Martian surface for extended stretches long ago — perhaps during the Noachian period, which lasted from about 4.1 billion to 3.7 billion years ago. But the new study suggests that these clays could have formed even longer ago, right after the planet's formation — meaning the Noachian may well have been a mostly dry and chilly time.

Geophysicists from Brown University have shown that tectonic activity is also feasible within Europa’s ice shell. They used a computer simulation to map subduction—where one giant slab of ice is forced under another.

Article quotes Richard Boucher, a former top U.S. diplomat who now teaches at Brown University: “If the president undercuts what he is trying to achieve diplomatically, convinces people that whatever you agree to with the secretary of state will be overturned by the president ... then he is basically neutered."

Podcast Host Richard Aldous speaks with Gordon Wood about his new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Gordon Wood is an acclaimed author, historian, and the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University.

This episode of The Washington Post's "Constitutional" podcast examines the colonial and revolutionary roots of the Second and Third Amendments with renowned historian Gordon Wood—professor at Brown University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.”

Elizabeth McQuaid and Daphne Koinis-Mitchell -- staff psychologists at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals and professors at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University -- will work as the project’s co-principal investigators.

Collectively COBRE (Rhode Island Hospital’s Center for Biomedical Research Excellence) has enabled musculoskeletal and joint research at Rhode Island Hospital along with Brown University to achieve prominence nationally and internationally.

Article on recent Brown study that found that knee dislocations are becoming more common among obese people, and these patients are more likely than normal-weight individuals to develop blood vessel damage that can lead to amputations.

Malle, lead investigator on a project, dubbed ARIES (Affordable Robotic Intelligence for Elderly Support), will add artificial intelligence capabilities to Hasbro’s current Joy for All Companion Pets. On GoLocal LIVE Malle discusses the collaborative project between Brown and Hasbro and how the effort could have an important impact on seniors and their quality of lives.

U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan have cost American taxpayers $5.6 trillion since they began in 2001, according to the new Brown Costs of War study, a figure more than three times that of the Pentagon’s own estimates.

Article quotes Dr. Brett Owens, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School, who says that other joints are at risk as well. People who repeatedly sprain an ankle are at risk, he said. And up to 40 percent of those who dislocate a shoulder get arthritis within about 15 years, he said.

The Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs has initiated the Brown University Veteran Alumni Council (BUVAC), which is geared to keeping military-affiliated alumni up to date with events, announcements and programming on campus.

An Al Jazeera panel featuring Matthew Gutmann, Brown professor of anthropology and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

While deaths from prescription opioids are reaching a plateau, deaths from fentanyl—an illegal drug with 50 times the potency of heroin—have risen 92% over the past year to 22,000 in March. Brandon Marshall, a professor of epidemiology at Brown University, worries that this rise demonstrates the difficulty of preventing addiction.