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August 16, 2022
Welcome to Pranav Sanghavi who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate from Western Virginia University. He is working with Laura Newburgh in Wright Lab in the areas of...
Emily Judson, right, tests a flight suit designed and fabricated last spring by the students of “The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space,” a course that examines questions connecting architecture, design, and artistry to humankind’s future in space. (Photos by Steve Boxall, ZERO-G)
August 12, 2022
Picture a spacesuit. It’s functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can’t dance in it. While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won’t pirouette or...
August 12, 2022
Welcome to Farnik Nikakhtar who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate from the University of Pennsylvania. He is working with Nikhil Padmanabhan and Marla Geha in Evans...
August 11, 2022
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and...
August 5, 2022
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe. Using data from NASA’s Swift...