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A neutron star emitting a radio beam

MIT scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst

The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star.

January 2, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time

May 22, 2024
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
headshots of 2024 Fulbright winners: April Cheng, Ryan McTigue, and Olivia Rosenstein

Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships

May 20, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
closeup of an atom

Scientists Shrunk the Gap Between Atoms to an Astounding 50 Nanometers

May 17, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Jeong Min Park earns 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship

May 16, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment
Milky Way galaxy surrounded by a diffuse halo of stars

Are some of the oldest stars in the universe right under our noses?

May 16, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

John Joannopoulos receives 2024-2025 Killian Award

May 15, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024

May 14, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
The Milky Way galaxy streaks diagonally across the image, glowing with celestial bodies.

MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard

May 14, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

May 13, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
blue and purple highway of electrons

Physicists create five-lane superhighway for electrons

May 13, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
headshot of Darius Bunandar PhD '18

Darius Bunandar PhD ’18 named to Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 for 2024

May 12, 2024
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students, Alumni
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of blackboard covered in physics equations

Tracy Slatyer named 2024-25 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

May 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
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