Press Coverage

Mazin Lab in the media

General Articles

Review of Scientific Instruments cover featuring MKIDGen3 — MKIDGen3 readout on the cover of Review of Scientific Instruments, December 2024.

December 2024: Review of Scientific Instruments Cover and Scilight
April 2023: The New York Times — A Giant Telescope Grows in Chile
July 2022: UCSB Current — Keeping the Energy in The Room
March 2020: Earthsky.org — Will we soon see potentially habitable exoplanets more clearly?

MEC Articles

Subaru Telescope on Maunakea — The Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, home of the MEC instrument.

July 2019: Air and Space Magazine — The First Photograph of Another Earth

DARKNESS Articles

Cold Facts magazine cover featuring DARKNESS — DARKNESS featured on the cover of Cold Facts International, June 2018.

June 2018: Cold Facts Volume 34, No. 3 — Researchers Hunting Exoplanets with Superconducting Arrays
May 21, 2018: NBC News — Camera billed as ‘world’s most advanced’ could boost search for alien life
May 17, 2018: Space.com — World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Camera Will Hunt for Alien Worlds
May 10, 2018: Futurity.com — World’s most powerful camera can spot planets drowned by starlight
May 2, 2018: Photonics.com — Camera Can Differentiate Between Exoplanet Light and Nearby Starlight
April 23, 2018: Universe Today — The Darkness Instrument Will Block Stars And Reveal Their Planets 100 Million Times Fainter Than The Star
April 20, 2018: Vice.com — Scientists Will Photograph Alien Planets With the World’s Most Powerful Camera
April 18, 2018: Popular Mechanics — The World’s Most Advanced Camera Snaps Pics of Exoplanets
April 18, 2018: The Register — Hello DARKNESS, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again… about a 10,000-pixel alien-hunting camera
April 17, 2018: Astronomy.com — The world’s most advanced camera aims to image habitable exoplanets

ARCONS Articles

ARCONS cryostat at Palomar Observatory — The ARCONS cryostat at the Palomar 200-inch telescope.

November 14, 2013: Gizmodo — How a Superconducting Camera Could Revolutionize Astrophotography
November 11, 2013: Sky and Telescope — Will This New Technology Transform Astronomy?
November 11, 2013: IEEE Spectrum — Superconducting Video Camera Sees the Universe in Living Color
July 15, 2013: SPIE Newsroom — MKIDs in SPIE Newsroom