January 2026 News

Refrigerator-magnet–inspired design reveals quantum materials under magnetic fields.
January 30, 2026
With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material’s electron energy-momentum relationship,...
January 26, 2026
Welcome to Allic Sivaramakrishnan who comes to us as an asssociate research scientist working in Ian Moult’s group. Allic received his undergraduate degree in physics...
January 23, 2026
The recent $550 million sale of Yale startup Quantum Circuits Inc. strengthens the quantum tech ecosystem in Connecticut and underscores the value of Yale’s investment in...
Scientific cartoon
January 21, 2026
Long thought to operate at the physical limits of sensing, E. coli chemotaxis turns out to be constrained not by fundamental physics, but by cells’ own noisy signal...
High-mass haloscope. Graduate student Heather Jackson at work on a prototype metamaterial plasma resonator for the ALPHA collaboration at UC Berkeley. Novel designs such as ALPHA's plasma haloscopes and the MADMAX collaborations' dielectric haloscopes are pushing axion searches into parameter space inaccessible to traditional designs. Credit: A J Gubser
January 14, 2026
Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a promising new niche. The section below is from...