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Fast-spinning black holes narrow the search for dark matter particles

Certain ultralight bosons would be expected to put the brakes on black holes, but new results show no such slowdown.

April 20, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Fast-spinning black holes narrow the search for dark matter particles

April 14, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Muon g-2 Experiment

The Miraculous Measurement of the Muon

April 13, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Nine MIT students awarded 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

April 13, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, Biophysics
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Entropy measurements reveal exotic effect in “magic-angle” graphene

April 7, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
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School of Science announces 2021 Infinite Mile awards

April 6, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Admin Staff
Image of three exoplanets.

If astronomers see isoprene in the atmosphere of an alien world, there’s a good chance there’s life there

April 5, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Women in STEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Sara Seager with a telescope in her yard

Why ‘The Hunt for Planet B’ Is An Impossible Task – But One That’s Already Changing Our World

April 2, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Women in STEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Provoked by Zeno’s Paradoxes

April 1, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty

Achieving the Endless Frontier

March 30, 2021
Categories: In The News, Education, Students & Alumni
A cluster of JCVI-syn3.0 cells, showing spherical structures of varying sizes(scale bar, 200 nm).

Artificial life made in lab can grow and divide like natural bacteria

March 29, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Students & Alumni, Biophysics
Ion beams shooting at proton clouds.

Physicists flip particle accelerator setup to gain a clearer view of atomic nuclei

March 29, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Mission to Jupiter’s icy moon comfirmed

March 28, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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