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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 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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April 11, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics

April 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

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

April 4, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni

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

April 1, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, Atomic Physics
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Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction – Video

March 28, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings

March 28, 2025
Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

March 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light

March 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

March 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

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

March 20, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

A dive into the “almost magical” potential of photonic crystals

March 17, 2025
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
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