Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics.

Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

Yale’s Amir Haji-Akbari, Tristan Geiller, Ian Moult, and Shreya Saxena have received 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.

Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.

A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.

The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for measuring the clustering of hydrogen gas over a large region of the observable Universe.

A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.

An undergraduate seminar taught by astrophysicist Meg Urry adds an artistic dimension to scientific concepts of time and space.

A Yale-led project that aims to develop quantum technology into practical applications has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation.

Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.