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Twisting 2D nanomaterials unlocks exotic quantum phases of matter

Twisting 2D nanomaterial bilayers into moiré superlattices creates exotic quantum states like superconductivity and fractional charge.

September 21, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Opsin your eyes! Quantum sensors are the colour vision magicians inside our heads

Categories: In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Astronomers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Waking Up

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

The ‘torpedo bat’ is revolutionizing baseball. Is it cheating?

Categories: In The News, Alumni

The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist

Categories: In The News, Alumni, Atomic Physics
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Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction – Video

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings

Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light

Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
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