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Erin Kara and John Marshall receive postdoctoral mentoring award

Faculty recognized for the exceptional professional and personal guidance they provide postdocs.

November 19, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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

October 7, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks

October 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

MIT-affiliated physicists win McMillan Award for discovery of exotic electronic state

October 1, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld PhD ’24 is awarded for outstanding dissertation in nuclear physics by the American Physical Society

September 29, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Alumni, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Seeking Signs of Life on Venus

September 29, 2025
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Nobel laureate George Smoot PhD ’70, who researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

September 29, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Alumni
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MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope

September 29, 2025
Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Scientists Found the Hidden ‘Edge State’ That May Lead to Practically Infinite Energy

September 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
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Two young physicists win major award

September 23, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

September 22, 3035
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Quilting with astrophysicists

September 22, 2025
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students

Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino?

September 17, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
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