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15 Points of Advice from Yale Physics Students: About majoring in Physics or the physical sciences at Yale
Three members of the Yale Society of Physics Students, Po-Yi Ho BR ’14, Steven Zwick PC ’14, and Robert Davies DC ’13, offer the following pieces of advice (in no particular order of significance)
Read More »The Next Frontier: Real-Life Invisibility Cloaks
As scientists in the fields of optics and applied physics continue to make strides in temporal and optical cloaking, the eventual development of a real life invisibility cloak has become a distinct possibility.
Read More »A Breakthrough for Quantum Communication
Researchers from Yale University led by Professor Hong Tang have successfully embedded extremely sensitive single-photon detectors on nanophotonic circuits. The advantages of the new single-photon detector include increased detection efficiency, direct integration on the
Read More »2012: Not Quite the End of the World
2012 marked a new frontier for the world of science. The discovery of a subatomic particle, new insight into the function of the human genome, and the extension of quantum teleportation are just a
Read More »3. 2. 1. Blast off…?
Companies like California-based SpaceX have gradually become more prevalent in the United States — a change that indicates progress toward further outer space exploration
Read More »Quantum Teleportation: A More Secure Information Processing Platform
Researchers have broken a distance record for quantum teleportation, a fast and secure communication technology
Read More »Mitchell Smooke Awarded the Zeldovich Medal
Professor Mitchell Smooke has received the Zeldovich Medal for his research in combustion theory
Read More »One of the Many Quirks of Quantum
Yale Professors Jack Harris and Leonid Glazman developed a new detector to settle a decades-old debate about the existence and nature of non-dissipating quantum currents.
Read More »Will a Magnetic Pole Shift Mean the End of the World?
Why a sudden reversal of your compass to point South is part of a natural phenomenon
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