Since the solar system formed over 4.5 billion years ago, planets and other objects have been subject to constant change due to heating from the Sun.
To fulfill the first duty of the Hippocratic Oath — “do no harm” — the health care sector must look to its role in reducing carbon emissions, according to a recent study by Brown researchers.
Young minds from the Providence community came to Brown this Saturday for interactive lessons about neuroscience at the annual Brown Brain Fair. Organized and hosted by student group Brown Brain Bee and the Department of Neuroscience, the fair is a public event for community members of all ages to learn ...
With the Fulbright Award’s emphasis on cultural exchange and impact, many Fulbright scholars decide to teach English or pursue work in the humanities. But the scholarship has also created opportunities for Brown alums to conduct STEM research abroad.
Multiple Brown community members contributed to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a quadrennial report released Nov. 14 that synthesizes interdisciplinary research on topics including energy and air quality, community and national responses to climate change and the wide-ranging impacts of global ...
The American Medical Women’s Association — an organization “dedicated to advancing women in medicine and improving women’s health,” according to its website — hosted its Northeast Regional Conference at the Warren Alpert Medical School last Saturday. Attendees heard from women in medical ...
Until recently, researchers believed only one planet in our solar system had plate tectonics: Earth. But in a recent study, Brown University researchers used atmospheric modeling to show that Venus, much of whose geological history is a mystery, once had plate tectonics — the shifting of plates composing ...
Wake Forest University professor and former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry spoke about barriers in higher education at a Thursday lecture hosted by the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Armed with waterproof notebooks and an “underlying assumption that things are worth investigating,” students in a new geology course at the University are traveling to the far edges of Rhode Island to observe, measure and map rocks, according to Eben “Blake” Hodgin, assistant professor of ...
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