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Study: The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy

Physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid.

January 30, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

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A computing device with pores, like cheese, is hot on one side and cool on the other.

MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat

January 28, 2026
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Condensed Matter Theory

Study: The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy

January 27, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

January 22, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

January 22, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory
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Demystifying college for enlisted veterans and service members

January 17, 2026
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus
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Anna Frebel Receives Digital Science Communication Fellowship

January 15, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery

January 14, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers

January 14, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Quantum Information Science
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Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27

January 7, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
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A Quantum Leap: How Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10 Is Rewriting the Future of Code

January 5, 2026
Categories: Profile, WiSTEM

To the Skies: Why David Keith PhD ’91 Believes Geoengineering Is a Vital ToolTo the skies

January 4, 2026
Categories: In The News, Alumni
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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

December 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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