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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators

MIT physicist seeks to use award to study magnetoelectric multiferroics that could lead to energy-efficient storage devices.

October 15, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Close-up of a quantum processor suspended inside a cryogenic dilution refrigerator, showing intricate gold-colored wiring and circular components.

Building a quantum workforce

September 14, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine

September 9, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus
Photo of professors Mohamed Abdelhafez and Peter Dourmashkin drawing frames around themselves with their names using a transparent dry erase board

Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes

September 8, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Academic Staff
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Why it is time for the world to think about the 3 faces of time

September 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos

September 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?

September 3, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment

New particle detector passes the “standard candle” test

September 1, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

August 25, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Junior Peña sits in his workspace

Junior Peña, neutrino hunter

August 25, 2025
Categories: Profile, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
Aerial view of the MIT Dome with Building 13 in front and Boston skyline in the distance

Materials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT

August 19, 2025
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration shows Earth with an array of CHIME antennae. Inset shows a bright radio burst.

Astronomers detect the brightest fast radio burst of all time

August 20, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
screenshot from Visualizing the Nucleus: Mysteries of the Neutrino video of a proton (left), and neutron (right) merging

Video: Visualizing the Nucleus: Mysteries of the Neutrino

August 21, 2025
Categories: Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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