News & Highlights

February 2, 2022
Preliminary planning has begun on the Physical Science and Engineering Building (PSEB), a new more-than-$350 million facility earmarked for completion in 2027 that will focus...
February 16, 2021
Yale is a key partner in the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum (PROSPECT) experiment, a prominent neutrino detection collaboration located at the High Flux Isotope...
April 10, 2018
Deep below a mountain in Italy, in the coldest cubic meter of the known universe, scientists are hunting for evidence that ghostly particles called neutrinos act as their own...
July 28, 2017
“The general sentiment is that there is a need for new experiments,” Anna Hayes, first author on a new analysis posted on the arXiv preprint server from Los Alamos National...
June 20, 2017
The Daya Bay Collaboration reports that sterile neutrinos probably aren’t behind a puzzling deficit in detected antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
April 5, 2017
A new study from the international Daya Bay neutrino experiment in China may have found an answer for why there appear to be fewer neutrinos from nuclear reactors than...
January 11, 2017
New searches for sterile neutrinos, hypothetical particles that do not directly “talk to” any particles in the Standard Model, significantly narrow the remaining regions...