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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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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

April 25, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Alumni, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science

Two MIT teams selected for NSF sustainable materials grants

April 25, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Xiao-Gang Wen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024

April 25, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
A futuristic quantum computer chip is made of a grid with qubits on the intersections. These red spherical qubits emit flame-like energy between them.

MIT scientists tune the entanglement structure in an array of qubits

April 24, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
The columns of Building 7 are visible through green foliage on a sunny Spring day.

Twenty-three MIT faculty, five from Physics, honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2023-25

April 22, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Olivia Rosenstein stands with arms folded in front of a large piece of lab equipment

The many-body dynamics of cold atoms and cross-country running

April 19, 2024
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, WiSTEM, Atomic Physics

Four MIT faculty named 2023 AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
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Erin Kara named Edgerton Award winner

April 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Physics students to attend meeting of Nobel laureates

April 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, WiSTEM
twin rings of RHIC

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins Run 24

April 15, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of blackboard covered in physics equations

Tracy Slatyer awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

April 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
In the center of a black background is a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments that jolt and weave throughout the structure. The object, which is the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, includes strings of vibrant colors including purple, orange, yellow and blue.

A NASA telescope unlocked the mysteries of black holes. Now it’s on the chopping block

April 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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