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New map of the universe’s cosmic growth supports Einstein’s theory of gravity
April 12, 2023

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.  Read more here.

Spider launches!
Dec. 22, 2022

 Spider is the Cosmic Microwave Background polarimeter, which last flew from Antarctica in 2015. SuperBIT is like the Hubble Space Telescope, but smaller aperture and flies from a balloon. The experiment is run by Prof. Bill Jones and his team.

https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon7/flight727N.htm

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Sanfeng Wu receives the 2023 AFOSR YIP award!
Dec. 21, 2022

For more on the award, please click here.

Elisabeth Rülke named Schwarzman Scholar
Dec. 7, 2022
Elisabeth Rülke

Rülke is from London. She is a physics concentrator and is also pursuing a certificate in applied and computational mathematics.

After serving as a research assistant with NASA at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, in summer 2021, she became interested in space technology and entrepreneurship. In…

A new experiment pushes the boundaries of our understanding of topological quantum matter
Nov. 17, 2022

A new experiment pushes the boundaries of our understanding of topological quantum matter

By Tom Garlinghouse

New research conducted by Princeton physicists is delving with high resolution into the complex and fascinating world of topological quantum matter

New collaboration to probe physical reality’s ‘glue’
Nov. 11, 2022

New collaboration to probe physical reality’s ‘glue’

By Tom Garlinghouse for the Department of Physics

An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the “glue” that holds the universe together – the strong nuclear force.

“One of the fundamental forces of…

Scientists discover exotic quantum state at room temperature
Oct. 26, 2022

Scientists discover exotic quantum state at room temperature

By Tom Garlinghouse

For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature.

 

Researchers at Princeton found that a material known as a topological…

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