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MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

AAAS recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields.

April 3, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Primordial black hole forming amid a sea of color-charged quarks and gluons

Exotic black holes could be a byproduct of dark matter

June 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science

Nuh Gedik receives 2024 National Brown Investigator Award

June 5, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Screenshot of graphic of Nergis Mavalvala from video

The World at MIT: Nergis Mavalvala

June 5, 2024
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustrated blue and purple motion-blurred spheres travel a path resembling a highway

Physicists create five-lane superhighway for electrons

June 4, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25

June 4, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Education
collage of 10 student's photos

Ten with MIT connections win 2024 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

June 3, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Graduate Students
The Milky Way galaxy streaks diagonally across the image, glowing with celestial bodies.

Three of the universe’s oldest stars have just been identified — and they’re in our cosmic backyard

May 30, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
Long Ju in his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

May 29, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Sarah Millholland receives 2024 Vera Rubin Early Career Award

May 22, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

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
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