A Brown University physicist is part of an international experiment, newly funded by the National Science Foundation, to learn more about the first stars and galaxies.
The first study of how specialist palliative care consults affect nursing home end-of-life care suggests that they are associated with much less hospitalization and fewer burdensome transitions, at no extra cost to Medicare.
The conference and concurrent multimedia exhibition aim to better understand ways in which increasing incarceration levels have impacted social fabric, culture and democracy — and to explore how Brown might contribute to local efforts to educate incarcerated men and women.
Three students with distinct academic interests but a shared sense of duty are the first to engage in the renewed Air Force and Naval ROTC opportunities, which the University and military leaders announced Friday.
New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.
New research in Nature Communications implicates the protein TMEM219 in a pathway that appears to be important in pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and cancer spread in the lung.
Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychiatric medications appears to increase prescribing, which may be having a mixed effect on the quality of treatment, according to a new review of the very few studies on the topic.
