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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 22, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

August 14, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Fourteen MIT School of Science professors, seven from Physics, receive tenure for 2022 and 2023

August 8, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, URM STEM, Biophysics, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Wolfgang Ketterle receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

August 7, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
SPT2215 relaxed galaxy cluster in composite image by Chandra, Hubble, and other space instruments

Secrets of the early universe are hidden in this chill galaxy cluster

July 28, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Artist's depiction of a time crystal.

What is a time crystal?

August 4, 2023
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Atomic carpet moved by scrambled spins.

Scientists discover unusual ultrafast motion in layered magnetic materials

August 2, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Samuel Ting awarded Bhabha Award for AMS work

August 3, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
astronaut pulled toward a black hole

Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

August 2, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
A closeup of the laser equipment shows metallic rods, a circuit board, wires, and lenses, all in a green glow.

Sensing and controlling microscopic spin density in materials

August 2, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
Schematic of a superconducting diode.

Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing, among other important applications

July 27, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015.

The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics

July 27, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
A rectangular vector map with hexagons distorted on the left by squeezing and on the right by stretching, showing how charged particles are directed to the top or bottom edge of the map.

New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential

July 25, 2023
Categories: Research, Condensed Matter Experiment
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