June 2023 News

Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy. (Credit: Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)
June 30, 2023
A quintet of new studies offers the first direct evidence of a gravitational wave background, confirming standard models of black hole growth. Researchers have found the...
June 23, 2023
Crystals that can freely conduct electrons, but not heat, hold great potential for numerous applications. A team of researchers has developed a method for discovering and...
June 16, 2023
With a dramatic boost in computing capability, a team of researchers has solved a decades-long mystery about whether optical waves can be trapped in three-dimensional...
two pictures side by side including one of inside of Daya Bay reactor and a headshot.
June 16, 2023
Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, chair of the physics department, and director of Wright Lab; and his collaborators in the Daya Bay collaboration have...
June 15, 2023
On May 18, 2023, Xu Xiao successfully defended the thesis “A Diagrammatic Method to Compute the Effective Hamiltonian of Driven Nonlinear Oscillators” (advisor: Michel Devoret...