On Friday, July 13, at 10:20 a.m., astronauts aboard the International Space Station will deploy EQUiSat, a small satellite designed and built by Brown students, into orbit.
Gently compressed stacks of graphene form sharp crinkles that carry an electric charge, which could be useful in nanoscale self-assembly and other applications.
The senior capstone class in Brown’s biomedical engineering curriculum starts with real-world problems in medical practice and challenges students to come up with unique, often marketable, solutions.
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface.
By measuring how heat is conducted in an exotic matter state, researchers show evidence for the presence of ‘non-Abelian anyons,’ particles that could store quantum information without need of error correction.
Brown University chemists have shown a technique that can identify regions in a liquid crystal system where molecular order begins to emerge just before the system fully transitions from disordered to ordered states.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sat down with Brown President Christina Paxson in Chicago to discuss the role of higher education in fueling economic prosperity in the 21st century.
An Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft launching to the International Space Station on Sunday morning will carry Brown's first student-built satellite.
New research shows that a surprising amount of water survives simulated asteroid impacts, a finding that may help explain how asteroids deposit water throughout the solar system.
