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Panoramic orbital view of Earth's curved horizon illuminated by a green aurora layer, with the Canadarm2 robotic arm extended from the International Space Station in the foreground.

From Montgomery Blair High to space: Chris Williams, PhD ’12, reflects on his path

Categories: In The News, Alumni
Man posing with arms crossed looking straight at camera stands on left of image. On right is image of two rectangular particle detectors one on top of the other. The top one is yellow, the bottom is blue. The blue one has a light that is lit.

Making the Invisible Visible

Categories: In The News, Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment
MIT Dean Nergis Mavalvala standing at a podium presenting to a large lecture hall filled with students and faculty, with a slide displaying MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss on a screen behind her.

Astrophysicist Dr Nergis Mavalvala explains how scientists ‘listen’ to the universe

Categories: In The News, Faculty

Podcast: SHASS’s special sauce

Categories: Interview/Q&A, In The News, Faculty
Two slightly rotated black hexagonal lattice sheets creating a moiré pattern over a white background.

Twisting 2D nanomaterials unlocks exotic quantum phases of matter

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
3D digital illustration showing glowing electron spheres forming pairs over a wavy, luminescent quantum field between two metallic blocks.

‘Vacuumtronics’ could help make better superconductors

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

New artist residency program at MIT expands views of the cosmos

Categories: In The News, Labs & Centers, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
merging black holes at different spins and sizes

‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Headshots of Srinivasan Arunachalam, Zhang-Wei Hong, and Irene Ko

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Quantum Information Science
A blue and white visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and colleagues.

How the Advanced Light Source Is Accelerating Our Quantum Future

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
This image traces the orbital paths of all known stars orbiting the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. One of the stars, S301, approaches the black hole very closely. At its closest approach, the star travels over 15,000 miles per second.

This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A vibrant cosmic visualization showing a swirling vortex of glowing blue and orange plasma contained within a complex, warped geometric wireframe grid against a dark, starry background.

Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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