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$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

Gift from the Leinweber Foundation will drive discovery, collaboration, and the next generation of physics leaders.

May 28, 2025
Categories: Education, Labs & Centers

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$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

May 28, 2025
Categories: Education, Labs & Centers
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First-of-its-kind measurement may help physicists learn about gluons, which hold together nuclei in atoms

May 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? Scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
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MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a magnet

May 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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Using a fermionic neural network to find the ground state of fractional quantum Hall liquids

May 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
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Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe

May 20, 2025
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms

May 5, 2025
Categories: Atomic Physics

Krishna Rajagopal receives the 2025 Arthur C. Smith Award

May 2, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
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Hippies, Bell tests, and a career studying quantum entanglement

May 1, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory
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Martina Solano Soto wants to solve the mysteries of the universe, and MIT Open Learning is part of her plan

April 24, 2025
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus
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Obituary for Edwin F. Taylor

April 22, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Academic Staff

Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

April 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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