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MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 24, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A unique computer chip has red and blue light on grid-like pathways.

Quantum simulator could help uncover materials for high-performance electronics

October 29, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Quantum Information Science
A hand attempts to capture a single droplet of water with a pair of chopsticks, above concentric water ripples.

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

October 29, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Illustration of the proposed AXIS Deep Extragalacitc Survey, a conical satellite with an octagonal heat shield and two solar panels, against a black star field

AXIS mission selected as NASA Astrophysics Probe competition finalist

October 28, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches postdoctoral program to advance AI across disciplines

October 28, 2024
Categories: Education, Students & Alumni
Five people sit before a group discussing Physics, AI and the future of discovery

Physics, AI, and the future of discovery

October 31, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society

October 27, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter Experiment
Bullet Cluster

After Decades of Searching, Are Physicists Closing In on Dark Matter?

October 24, 2024
Categories: Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
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
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