Author Archives: Kim Heatley

A Quantum Leap, With Strings Attached

Physicists engineer ferroelectricity into well-known family of semiconductors

Q&A: Stuart Schmill on MIT’s decision to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement

Vibrations and Waves

Ukraine@MIT

NASA Bets on an Asteroid Killer, a Venusian Balloon, and More New Tech

A strange monopole observed in diamond: When string theory inspires quantum simulation

For MIT astrophysicist Josh Borrow, he’s just trying to figure out how the universe works

Correcting Our Errors About Errors

How a Nobel-winning biophysicist launched the career of the “Queen of Carbon”