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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.

January 1, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

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Professor Sarah Millholland and four physics alums named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

February 19, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Quantum leaps? The good and bad news about the next big thing in computing

February 18, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

February 17, 2025
Categories: In The News, Plasma Physics

Viewing the universe through ripples in space

February 17, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Quantum-computing technology that makes qubits from atoms wins mega investment

February 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
The Phoenix cluster of galaxies has green and purple overlays. The green overlay shows the “cooling gas” and the purple shows “jet-inflated bubbles.

Study reveals the Phoenix galaxy cluster in the act of extreme cooling

February 12, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Superwomen of Science

February 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM
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An astrophysicist warns of an unprecedented supermassive black hole: “We’ve never seen this”

February 6, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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The double helix of science and democracy

February 6, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
The quarks and gluons in short-range correlated nucleons may be distributed differently

Correlated Nucleon Pairs Predict Quark-Gluon Distributions

February 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

3 Questions: What the laws of physics tell us about CO2 removal

February 5, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene

February 4, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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