News

Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98

Grodzins performed groundbreaking studies of the weak interaction, led in detection technology, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists.

March 29, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Filter by

The man who reinvented the hammer

February 25, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni

Three from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars

February 24, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Alumni, WiSTEM
A deep space image showing a central bright galaxy surrounded by a hazy purple glow, with numerous smaller galaxies and stars scattered throughout the dark background.

How Black Holes Help Stars Form

February 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
man sits in front of physics equipment in lab

Focusing student effort where it matters most by improving Canvas course structure

February 21, 2025
Categories: Profile, Education, Academic Staff

Professor Sarah Millholland and four physics alums named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

February 20, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
photo of Frank Wilczek

Wilczek’s Multiverse | Quantum leaps? The good and bad news about the next big thing in computing

February 19, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

February 18, 2025
Categories: In The News, Plasma Physics

Viewing the universe through ripples in space

February 18, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Quantum-computing technology that makes qubits from atoms wins mega investment

February 13, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
The Phoenix cluster of galaxies has green and purple overlays. The green overlay shows the “cooling gas” and the purple shows “jet-inflated bubbles.

Study reveals the Phoenix galaxy cluster in the act of extreme cooling

February 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Nergis Mavalvala poses in front of MIT dome

Superwomen of Science

February 11, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM
star being torn apart by a black hole

An astrophysicist warns of an unprecedented supermassive black hole: “We’ve never seen this”

February 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
1 2 3 4 … 87