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Photo of Jonathan Pelliciari in a lab, wearing a face mask and holding onto a large instrument with many metal knobs and wires.

Physicists uncover secrets of world’s thinnest superconductor

First experimental evidence of spin excitations in an atomically thin material helps answer 30-year-old questions.

June 22, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Photo of Jonathan Pelliciari in a lab, wearing a face mask and holding onto a large instrument with many metal knobs and wires.

Physicists uncover secrets of world’s thinnest superconductor

June 21, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Venus photographed in ultraviolet light by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Pioneer 12) spacecraft, Feb. 26, 1979.

Constant Wonder Podcast: Evidence of Life on Venus

June 21, 2021
Categories: In The News, Podcast, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

A year after #Strike4BlackLives/#ShutDownSTEM, Part 1: What’s been done?

June 19, 2021
Categories: In The News, Education, URM STEM
Pair of Black Holes

Tests of general relativity with gravitational waves can go awry

June 18, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
LIGO optics technicians examining one of LIGO's mirrors.

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

June 18, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
3D drawing of a tunable coupler, which features two + figures plus a number of lines and graduated gauges.

Clearing the way toward robust quantum computing

June 16, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
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
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