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Daniel Kleppner, prize-winning physicist, dies at 92

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

July 11, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Daniel Kleppner, prize-winning physicist, dies at 92

June 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
Gray scanning electron microscope image shows a microbial community with empty space, including some that are fuzzy and pill-shaped and some larger that look like balls exuding tendrils.

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

June 16, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Biophysics

Closing in on superconducting semiconductors

June 17, 2025
Categories: Research, Labs & Centers, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
Riccardo Comin stands in his lab, filled with cables and large equipment.

Comin Wins Bessel Award

June 11, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy

June 9, 2025
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, Plasma Physics

Physicists observe a new form of magnetism for the first time

June 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT researchers use Frontier to model the density, pressure inside neutron stars

June 2, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Eight with MIT ties win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

June 2, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, WiSTEM

$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

May 28, 2025
Categories: Education, Labs & Centers
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First-of-its-kind measurement may help physicists learn about gluons, which hold together nuclei in atoms

May 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Far side of the moon

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? Scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
a lattice separates two groups of four electrons

MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a magnet

May 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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