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Two physics seniors awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships

Fulbright US Student Program funds opportunities for research, graduate study, and teaching abroad.

May 24, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni

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Frank Wilczek and Adolfo Plasencia in conversation

‘Physicists Have Always Been Philosophers’: In Conversation With Frank Wilczek

May 23, 2022
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Frank Wilczek on stage at a Nobel Laureate Lecture

Q&A: Talking God, science and religion with theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek

May 19, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
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Two physics seniors awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships

May 19, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni
table of elements in swirl graphic

Is it topological? A new materials database has the answer

May 19, 2022
Categories: Research, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Theory
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Racial and economic barriers kept Carolyn Beatrice Parker from realizing her full potential

May 18, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Alumni, WiSTEM

From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves

May 18, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
Frank Wilczek on stage at a Nobel Laureate Lecture

A mind-blowing explanation of symmetry

May 15, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022

May 12, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Astronomers snap first-ever image of supermassive black hole Sagitarrius A*

May 12, 2022
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize

May 11, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC

May 10, 2022
Categories: In The News
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana.

Astronomers find ‘gold standard’ star in Milky Way

May 10, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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