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MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026

The prestigious honor society honors four MIT faculty and 13 additional MIT alumni among more than 250 new members.

April 25, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Three from MIT named 2026 Goldwater Scholars

April 22, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
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Professor Jesse Thaler Honored With 2026 Humboldt Research Award

April 22, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026

April 21, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT Professor Shu-Heng Shao and Alumnus Yifan Wang Awarded 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize

April 20, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinos

April 15, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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MIT Estimates 3 Parameters With Quantum Sensor

April 14, 2026
Categories: Research, Awards/Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics, Quantum Information Science

MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors

April 14, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Multitasking quantum sensors can measure several properties at once

April 14, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics
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How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics

April 13, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

April 7, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
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Experiments dim hopes for sterile neutrinos

April 7, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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Keeping Perfect Time

April 6, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics
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