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MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

AAAS recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields.

April 3, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

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The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist

April 1, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, Atomic Physics
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings

March 28, 2025
Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

March 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light

March 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

March 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98

March 20, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

A dive into the “almost magical” potential of photonic crystals

March 17, 2025
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025

March 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Education
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MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025

March 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

March 8, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
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These New Planets Aren’t Real, But Science Says They Could Be

March 5, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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