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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators

MIT physicist seeks to use award to study magnetoelectric multiferroics that could lead to energy-efficient storage devices.

October 12, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Room-temperature non-reciprocal Hall effect

Room temperature electrical control could heat up future technology development

October 23, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
screenshot from Visualizing the Nucleus video of a proton (middle), with an electron (left) and anti-neutrino (right)

Video: Visualizing the nucleus

October 22, 2024
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
Illustration of a black hole at the center of a galaxy in the process of consuming a nearby star, which looks like an orange blob. A second, more regular, star appears at a distance.

Physicists discover first “black hole triple”

October 22, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero holds up example of what moiré quantum matter looks like

The discovery that stuck — 20 years of graphene

October 21, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
An artist's depiction shows how a quasar, which is the extremely bright core of a galaxy, unleashes torrents of energy from its central black hole.

Webb telescope spots extremely bright objects. They shouldn’t be there.

October 21, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Dilution refrigerators

Quantum scaling recipe: ARQUIN provides framework for simulating distributed quantum computing system

October 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
Skyrmion Chern band (SCB) models.

Quantum Computing with a Twist

October 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
Thousands of galaxies appear as tiny bright lights, and one is circled in red.

Astronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins

October 16, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Riccardo Comin stands in his lab, filled with cables and large equipment.

An exotic materials researcher with the soul of an explorer

October 15, 2024
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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THE EXCHANGE: Sasha De Sola and David I. Kaiser on the illusion of time and exploring social questions through ballet.

October 13, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero in his lab

Video: Pablo Jarillo Herrero – Citation Laureate 2024 in Physics

October 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event.

Black Hole Tears Star to Shreds, Flings Its Guts Toward Another Star Nearby

October 9, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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