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Photo of laser self-injection locking to micro-FP cavity experiment.  Credit: Haotian Cheng.
June 9, 2025
The device known as the Fabry-Perot resonator is indispensable for optical clocks, quantum technologies, and other applications. It’s a structure made of two mirrors that...
Aggressive cancer cells behave differently, spreading and ultimately damaging the tissues they invade.
June 3, 2025
Most of the cells in our bodies don’t move – they stay where they’re supposed to in service to our organs and biological systems. But aggressive cancer cells behave...
May 30, 2025
On May 21, Ananya Rai successfully defended the thesis “Unveiling the Structure of the Perfect Superfluid using Correlation Functions” (advisor: Helen Caines). Rai explained...
May 28, 2025
On May 15, Rachel Cooper successfully defended the thesis, “Individual-Level Large-Scale Circuit Modelling of Human Cortex” (advisor: John Murray). Cooper explains, “...
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May 28, 2025
Just the setup itself is amazing: Three laser beams shooting out from a telescope atop Kline Tower on Yale’s campus, traveling 44 kilometers over Long Island Sound, to be...