Hunting Season for Primordial Gravitational Waves

The BICEP Array radio telescope has started an observing run that will break new ground in detection sensitivity.
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads

Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.
Guenette Awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council

For a proposal of a background-free experiment to discover the nature of neutrinos based on single Barium Atom Light Detection.
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane

From crumpled paper to termite mounds to three-sided coins, L. Mahadevan has turned the whole world into his laboratory.
A cool first for Harvard

By slowing polyatomic molecule, scientists open new paths of quantum study
Harvard partners with national labs to advance quantum computing

DOE creates 5 new quantum information science research centers, 3 with Harvard Physics groups
NSF Awards $20M to Launch Artificial-Intelligence Institute

Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts to explore use of AI in fundamental physics
A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research

New innovative algorithm analyzes NMR readings using quantum computers

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