Brown University scientists have successfully mapped the distribution of water across lunar soil.

In the wake of devastating floods caused by hurricanes Irma and Harvey, Brown visiting lecturer Elizabeth Rush explains why residents should consider relocating if their homes are especially susceptible to storms and what the government should do to ease this transition.

With the assistance of Brown University staff members, stargazers at Ballard Park’s quarry meadow will get a chance to get an up-close view of the crescent moon and other celestial occurrences like nebulae, star clusters and galaxies.

To enter the newly installed exhibition titled "Crossing Borders," visitors will need to pass through a metal detector that is reminiscent of the hurdles immigrants go through. The artists' sophistication in embedding issues of immigration in the works is something that might be expected of academic galleries, and appropriately enough, the show will travel to Brown University this fall.

More comments from Dr. Eli Adashi on improving the security measures at hospitals following the deadly shooting at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. A professor of medical science at Brown University, Adashi authored a paper on active shooter incidents at hospitals in 2015 that provided recommendations that could stem the increase of active shooter threats.

Maureen Phipps, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, commented on the importance of screening for cervical cancer. The task force, which began taking public comments, recently published draft recommendations that give women more flexibility in choosing the screening they want in order to detect cervical cancer at its earliest stages.

With the City of Newark expected to take over the reins of its public school system soon, Kenneth Wong, chair of Brown's Department of Education, commented on the present number of school districts that are under some form of state control.

A republished article that appeared in the latest issue of Science includes a quote from Brown psychiatrist Walter Brown. He expressed skepticism regarding the potential of transcranial magnetic stimulation to curb drug addiction.

Iceland’s banking crisis—which in terms of failed assets vs. GDP was the largest banking crisis on record—produced several important lessons for international regulators, according to an article co-authored by Brown economist Gauti B. Eggertsson. Eggertsson and his colleagues recently provided an analysis on how the Icelandic banking system ballooned to nine times its GDP when it failed in 2008 and where the money went.

With a renewed interest from companies to advance brain computer interfaces, Dennis DeGray is a reminder that the field has been making progress for a long time now. DeGray has been working with BrainGate, a consortium of researchers from Brown and other institutions that are working to give incapacitated humans the ability to engage with the outside world through the power of thought. In recent work done at Brown, David Borton led a team that restored the walking motion of a monkey by implanting electrodes and a wireless transmitter in its motor cortex.

A new study suggests African wild dogs make group decisions through a voting system that involves sneezing. Reena Walker, who led the study and performed the research while she was a student at Brown University, said some sneezes carried more weight if it came from a dominant male or female member because a group would move off with fewer sneezes.

Brown faculty member Rachel Herz is one of two experts to discuss why some people find mayonnaise repulsive.

Timothy H. Edgar, an academic director in Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity program, wrote an op-ed about the implications of Edward Snowden's decision to disclose National Security Agency practices and why any reforms of the NSA's surveillance programs must protect the privacy of all people around the world, not just those of American nationality.

The discovery of other cells in a mouse retina by a group of scientists at Brown University in the early 2000s is cited in an article about more evidence showing that light detecting molecules are found in other places of the body.