As machine learning gains traction in research and industry, one subfield, deep learning, has emerged as a hot area of interest due to rapid development and research, according to Boris Hanin, an assistant professor in Princeton University’s Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

In certain regions of Africa wracked by heavy poaching, people have observed an increased incidence of African elephants without their iconic white tusks, which are prized in the multibillion-dollar wildlife black market. But there has been no direct genetic evidence indicating how this was happening or why this trait…

Within a specially-made box in a lab on the campus of Princeton University, several fuzzy bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) flew through the air while a camera sat over the enclosure, watching and recording every moment. What made these bees distinct, besides their artificially constructed habitat, was that these insects…

To probe the origin and spread of cancers in the human body more effectively, Ben Raphael, professor of computer science at Princeton University, and his research lab created HATCHet or Holistic Allele-specific Tumor Copy-number Heterogeneity, an algorithm that is capable of…