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

The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.

April 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

September 9, 2024
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A golden fluid streams across horizontally in front of a green undulating wall.

Atoms on the edge

September 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Nurturing success

September 3, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled Moiré Superlattices

Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled moiré superlattices

September 2, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
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A new way to build neural networks could make AI more understandable

August 30, 2024
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students
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President Kornbluth welcomes the Class of 2028

August 27, 2024
Categories: In The News
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of blackboard covered in physics equations

What If We Never Find Dark Matter?

August 20, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
Dominika Ďurovčíková stands outside with MIT buildings in background.

When the lights turned on in the universe

August 16, 2024
Categories: Profile, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Two scientists in hard hats working on the 2x2 prototype detector for the DUNE near detector.

DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab

August 12, 2024
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Joseph A. Izatt PhD ’91 (1962-2024)

August 5, 2024
Categories: In Remembrance, Alumni
Minh-Thi Nguyen smiles holding her pigtails

‘Total effervescence’: Princeton community remembers Minh-Thi Nguyen ’21

August 4, 2024
Categories: In Remembrance, Graduate Students, WiSTEM
Molecule with six atoms. Nickel is labeled at the center of each, and two are highlighted with red arrows that say

Physicists report new insights into exotic particles key to magnetism

August 1, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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