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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...
January 12, 2026
Welcome to Ivan Rojkov who comes to us as a postdoctoral fellow, on a Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, who will be working at YQI with Steven...
January 6, 2026
Congratulations to Ray Jayawardhana ’94—one of Yale’s standout astronomy and physics majors of the early 1990s who has been named the 10th president of the California...
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December 22, 2025
In a Q&A, Yale’s Charles Baltay discusses his work on a groundbreaking project that is creating a 3D map of the universe — and could answer longstanding questions about...