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Professor Sarah Millholland and four physics alums named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 21, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A Bose–Einstein condensate emerges from a cloud of cold rubidium atoms

Coldest: how a letter to Einstein and advances in laser-cooling technology led physicists to new quantum states of matter

January 2, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Atomic Physics

Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles

December 30, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Four planets in space with one having a thinner atmosphere cloud than the rest

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 28, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Members of a general meeting of SPS meet

MIT Physics Students Win National Recognition

December 22, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
artistic interpretation of brain-like computing

New brain-like transistor mimics human intelligence

December 20, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
student standing in street posing

The science and art of complex systems

December 20, 2023
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates
three students sit at desk with others sitting in gallery

In defense of dark skies

December 18, 2023
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Ronald Garcia Ruiz named a Popular Science “Brilliant 10”

December 12, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Aurora supercomputer machinery

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer to help scientists advance dark matter research

December 11, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

December 8, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There

December 1, 2023
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

High school students gain skills by working on digital learning materials

November 30, 2023
Categories: Education, Alumni, Academic Staff
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