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July 7, 2023
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is designed to create a 3-D map of the sky that will allow researchers to measure the effects of dark energy on the expansion...
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...
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 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...