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CHIME, the large radio telescope.

CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation

Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.

June 19, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Detail from Johann Bayer's 1603 star atlas Uranometria

A primordial merger of galactic building blocks

June 14, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of roulette wheel

The Power and Poetry of Random Digits

June 10, 2021
Categories: Wilczek’s Universe, Faculty
sky map of FRBs based on CHIME detections

Hundreds of mysterious fast radio bursts detected in space

June 10, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
CHIME, the large radio telescope.

CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation

June 9, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22

June 8, 2021
Categories: In The News, Academic Programs
False-color image of the sun.

Stars Made of Antimatter Might Be Lurking in the Universe

June 7, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
digital fibers on green fabric

Engineers create a programmable fiber

June 3, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory

Accelerating AI at the speed of light

June 2, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment

Could antiferromagnetic chips replace silicon?

June 2, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Entrance to Building 10

Three physics majors named 2021 Burchard Scholars

June 1, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM

Professor Emeritus Gordon Pettengill, radio astronomy pioneer, dies at 95

June 1, 2021
Categories: In Remembrance, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Taking an indirect path into a bright future

May 28, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni
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