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Turning to the text box: How LLMs are used by first-years taking 8.01

Students and instructors in Physics I (8.01) discuss how AI has impacted how the class is taught

November 27, 2025
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni

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A flowchart showing part of a computational process: four rows of interconnected spheres; a vertical panel of digitized data; a 3-D molecular structure; and four bar graphs stacked vertically.

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials

January 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Alumni, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Physicists measure quantum geometry for the first time

January 12, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
Energy swirls around a black hole, and a white dwarf, like a sphere, trails matter. Blue energy goes toward the center of the black hole.

X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously

January 12, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A black hole surrounded by stars

How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn

January 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
Ground-based radio telescopes, gravitational wave detectors, and a space-based X-ray telescope (right) all measure neutron stars (top left, shown merging), lending insight into the pairing of different-colored quarks in dense matter (bottom left).

Neutron Star Measurements Place Limits on Color Superconductivity in Dense Quark Matter

January 12, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
one graphene lattice rotates above another

New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered

January 11, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Artist's conception of nuclei, blue-colored nuclei made of spherical protons and neutrons with red, green & blue quarks visible

Animation offers a new view of the nucleus

January 9, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
hand holding three playing cards next to graphic showing three layers of graphene with twisted mobius strips on top

Physicists discover—and explain—unexpected magnetism in atomically thin material

January 9, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
graphic of neutron star in the Crab Nebula, as seen in various wavelengths

Drilling into Neutron Stars with Computers

January 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
illustration of two scientists working on a particle accelerator

Small science and the future of particle physics

January 6, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Lens and equipment on the table

Antiferromagnet Magnetized with Light

January 6, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
Red microbes above green background

A new way to determine whether a species will successfully invade an ecosystem

January 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Biophysics
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